Normally I would agree with you, and I have experimented with every power
setting that Vista makes available to me. The Laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-TX
series, which has Sony's Power Management software installed and running,
which creates a new "VAIO Optimized" power profile, and the settings on this
profile are identical to those under XP, yet the battery doesn't last nearly
as long as it does on XP. Under XP, the laptop fan only operates at high
speed if the there are some processor intensive processes running, like if I
was doing some 3d rendering or applying effects to a number of images. Under
Vista though I notice in task manager that the CPU is always running between
20-40% even if I'm not even using the laptop, which is causing the fan to run
at high speed, therefore presumably draining the battery faster.
If this was the only problem I had with Vista, I might be tempted to live
with it. Although this is just one of many problems I had. I also don't see
why an Operating System has to consume 15GB of Hard Disk space as opposed to
approx 2.5GB under XP, and why the memory consumption is double that of XP!
It just seems that as hardware is getting faster and faster, software is
getting bloated and slower!
So if I want to go again with Vista, I may have to sit down going through
all the services, startup processes in the registry and removing / disabling
everything that doesn't apply to me.
"AJR" wrote:
> Or course you realize that the XP power settings do not apply to Vista -
> Vista by the way has expanded power options outdistancing those of XP
> (RTFM).
> Check out the microsoft.public.windowsxp.general newsgroup and you will be
> surprised to note that problem posts equal, or exceed, those in the
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.general newsgroup =- in other words - no
> advantage, only a waste of time and opportunity for experience by not
> tackling Vista now!!
>
> "Dan Jason" <Dan (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:54429FD8-43EE-41CE-9486-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Well after getting 2 copies of Vista (one for laptop and deskop), I really
> > tried my best to be happy with vista, but unfortunately I'm having to go
> > back
> > to XP. Perhaps when Microsoft release SP1 for Vista then I'll reconsider
> > putting Vista back on my laptop.
> >
> > Normally my laptop battery lasts 8-9 hours under XP, and on Vista the fan
> > is
> > constantly running at max speed, and I get about 4-5 hours of battery
> > life.
> >
> > And why oh why does it take sooooo long to copy files from one location to
> > another?!?
> >
> > This list goes on......hopefully MS will resolve many of the issues in the
> > SP1 release.
>
>
>
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