I hate my Vista computer

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Mike Benton

I hate my computer. I went out and bought what I thought was my "Dream
Machine". I've had this computer for almost one year. It's constantly "doing
something". Everything about it is so slow. I have a 2.4 Centrino Duo x64. I
hate that my work requires windows-based software. I'm not a Linux advocate,
I've never used a Mac. I think my Windows 3.1.1 desktop brought up
applications faster than this computer. If my hardware manufacturer had all
the drivers for XP, I would switch back.
 
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Mark Dormer

Mike said:
I hate my computer. I went out and bought what I thought was my "Dream
Machine". I've had this computer for almost one year. It's constantly
"doing something". Everything about it is so slow. I have a 2.4
Centrino Duo x64. I hate that my work requires windows-based
software. I'm not a Linux advocate, I've never used a Mac. I think my
Windows 3.1.1 desktop brought up applications faster than this
computer. If my hardware manufacturer had all the drivers for XP, I
would switch back.
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Surely you can get XP drivers for a machine thats over a year old!
What are the specs?
 
D

Dustin Harper

How much memory is installed? Is it slow on everything, or just certain
things? How many things do you have running at startup? There are a lot of
reasons it could be going slow, and with a processor like that, and if the
other components are up to par, it should run pretty fast.

And there should be drivers available for XP if you do decide to downgrade
to XP.
 
K

kreg

Dual boot it with xp and try to find alternative drivers...

Dont even buy XP before you try this.. install XP from any old disk and dont
activate, it will work for 30 days,

then if you find all the generic drivers or alternative ones and its
running, go buy an OEM version of XP

or you can get perhaps a DOWNGRADE XP Disk if you have BUSINESS or Ultimate

Ask the guys that sold it to you, if you upgrade to ULTIMATE can you get the
free DOWNGRADE XP disk?

My thought is simple, instead of paying for XP OEM, you UPGRADE Vista to
Ultimate to get the FREE downgrade XP disk
 
M

Mick Murphy

The prob started in late 2006 when vista was let out to the OEM manufacturers
like Dell, HP, etc.
From then a lot of the new motherboards do not have XP drivers , only vista
drivers, written for them.
 
F

Frank

kreg said:
Dual boot it with xp and try to find alternative drivers...

Dont even buy XP before you try this.. install XP from any old disk and
dont activate, it will work for 30 days,

then if you find all the generic drivers or alternative ones and its
running, go buy an OEM version of XP

or you can get perhaps a DOWNGRADE XP Disk if you have BUSINESS or
Ultimate

Ask the guys that sold it to you, if you upgrade to ULTIMATE can you get
the free DOWNGRADE XP disk?

My thought is simple, instead of paying for XP OEM, you UPGRADE Vista to
Ultimate to get the FREE downgrade XP disk
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Shut up you moron. All he needs to do to make it faster is to go into
his BIOS and stop the Centrino stepping from happening so that his CPU
is functioning at it highest speed all the time.
Frank
 
C

Charlie

I was looking at laptops a while back and noticed some manufacturers were
selling laptops with old 4200 rpm disk drives at firesale prices. A slow
disk drive will make your laptop appear to run slow.
 
M

Mark Dormer

Mick Murphy said:
The prob started in late 2006 when vista was let out to the OEM manufacturers
like Dell, HP, etc.
From then a lot of the new motherboards do not have XP drivers , only vista
drivers, written for them.
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I uderstand but I have some newish Dells and can run XP no problem.
Even now they sell them with Vista and allow XP downgrades

I suspect it would be a very narrow set of machines that had changed so much that an old XP driver wouldn't work.
 
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Alias

Frank said:
Translation: alias, our resident liar, troll and bigot is desperate!
Frank
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No, you're a stupid troll who's incapable of anything but posting the
same tired refrains over and over again.

Alias
 
F

Frank

Alias said:
No, you're a stupid troll who's incapable of anything but posting the
same tired refrains over and over again.

Alias
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Wrong! You are the resident linux troll and admitted liar.
Try lying your way of that truth.
Frank
 
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Alias

Frank said:
Wrong! You are the resident linux troll and admitted liar.
Try lying your way of that truth.
Frank
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No need, it's obvious that you are a low class troll no matter where you
post. Trying to put it off on others is one of your "tactics" that
anyone intelligent can see through.

Alias
 

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