Help, please, Vista running very slow

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Uncle Vinnie

Hi.. Using Vista Home Premium.

Is there a way to optimize this? It is running very, very
slow...particularly Word 2000, and PowerPoint 2000.

Thank you!
 
Hi.. Using Vista Home Premium.

Is there a way to optimize this? It is running very, very
slow...particularly Word 2000, and PowerPoint 2000.
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What is the spec of your machine...?
 
Hmm.. brand new HP (we bought it 2 days after release)...
a1700n, 3800+, 1g sdram...
 
Hmm.. brand new HP (we bought it 2 days after release)...
a1700n, 3800+, 1g sdram...
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1GB RAM is fine for running Vista Home Premium on its own, but for running
software like Microsoft Office, you really should be looking at 2GB...
 
Really???
Wow.... it literally takes a few minutes to open one file...

Geez.. I wonder, in retrospect, should we have grabbed an XP model....
 
1GB RAM is fine for running Vista Home Premium on its own, but for running
software like Microsoft Office, you really should be looking at 2GB...
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1GB is fine for running Windows and Office. This sounds like a separate
issue.

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Actually, Vista Ultimate runs Office XP fine on 784 megs of ram. I upgraded
to 1 gig of ram so I can run a 512 meg virtual machine on Vista.

Paul Riemerman
 
Assuming your opinion is different, care to explain why you feel i GB
isn't enough?
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Personal experience - experimentation of running the various versions of
Vista and Office on various hardware specs...
 
Uncle said:
Really???
Wow.... it literally takes a few minutes to open one file...

Geez.. I wonder, in retrospect, should we have grabbed an XP model....
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I guess in retrospect, you should have tried to avoid Vista. Now, if you're
stuck with it, you might consider upgrading to an alternate operating sytem
that isn't so resource hungry and will cost you nothing to do so. Check
out ...

http://www.ubuntu.com

for a popular alternative.

Cheers.


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Uncle said:
Hmm.. brand new HP (we bought it 2 days after release)...
a1700n, 3800+, 1g sdram...
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Have you run a virus scan, have you scanned for any malware or spyware. For
spyware, you might want to check out Ad Aware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ There's a free version at the website called Ad
Aware SE.

How much graphics memoy on your graphics card or is graphics memory shared
with main system memory?
 
does this only happen with office files? if so then you could always
uninstall - restart - install.

if that doesn't help or it happens with all files then do the following,
(which should be done "regularly" anyway:

run virus scans. run spyware/malware scans. (ask if you don't know where to
get them from.)
maybe defragment (but i doubt it needs it yet)
could be a few services that could be disabled - maybe you've installed
other software recently?

report back

steve

(i find 1 GB fine for most things - obviously not superdooperamazing but it
works nicely)
 
Are you running Norton Antivirus by any chance? If you do that might be the
problem. I had a similar issue with Office 2003 and as soon as I deactivated
the Norton office add-in all the office apps started to fly!
 
I believe I uninstalled it- I will double check.. it came with the PC and I
don't care for it.. I installed CA-EZ... I'll check..
 
NoStop said:
I guess in retrospect, you should have tried to avoid Vista. Now, if
you're stuck with it, you might consider upgrading to an alternate
operating sytem that isn't so resource hungry and will cost you nothing to
do so. Check out ...

http://www.ubuntu.com

for a popular alternative.
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I second that. =)

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Hi.. Using Vista Home Premium.

Is there a way to optimize this? It is running very, very
slow...particularly Word 2000, and PowerPoint 2000.

Thank you!
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Run the task manager and check to see what apps are hogging CPU
& memory.

Some of the anti-virus & anti-spyware can really eat up
resources if they are running in real time. If there any virus or
spyware scans running then you won't get anything done.

Also, run msconfig to find out of what's starting up
when you start Vista.

Make sure to run a good anti-virus scan. You might have a trojan.
 
Fixed- thank you!

Looks like Norton was not completely uninstalled- now it is... I had to go
to their website for a removal tool...
CA-EZ is running.. although I didn't install the Spam and the Firewall -
Windows has one.. it seems too much.. 2 firewalls??? Plus my hardware
firewall....

I did notice how much of a hog Vista is.. wow, I will look to add another
stick of memory for sure...

Thank you for all your help!
 
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