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hey all,
i just installed vista beta 2 (i know it's an old version but it's all i
have right now) but it's going really slow and i'm on a virtual pc with 1GB
ram. Is this normal?

thanks,
rodchar
 
rodchar said:
hey all,
i just installed vista beta 2 (i know it's an old version but it's all i
have right now) but it's going really slow and i'm on a virtual pc with
1GB
ram. Is this normal?
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Well it depends how you define slow. Will it be slower than on a real
machine? Yes. Will it be slower than XP? Yes. Will it be slower than
RC2? Yes.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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This not a Vista newsgroup. Try asking your questions here

microsoft.public.windows.vista.general or one of the other vista specific
groups.
 
Yes!

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
you should post your question to the vista news-group:

microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

or

microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
 
rodchar said:
hey all,
i just installed vista beta 2 (i know it's an old version but it's all i
have right now) but it's going really slow and i'm on a virtual pc with
1GB ram. Is this normal?
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Are you using Virtual PC 2004? If so, then yes this is normal. VPC 2004 is
not optimized for Vista. After you get Vista installed (I've heard install
times anywhere from 3 hours to over 12 hours for Beta 2 in VPC 2004) adding
the VPC additions will help some. If you use the additions that are
included with the latest version of Virtual Server, available for download
from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/software/default.mspx,
that will perform a little better. You might also consider using Virtual
Server for your virtualization technology over Virtual PC.

Even better yet is to go to https://connect.microsoft.com and see if you can
get into the Virtual PC 2007 beta as that is your best MS virtual platform
for running Vista for the typical home user.

But again, beta 2 is missing many optimizations so don't expect a dramatic
increase in performance, but it will be better than what you are currently
experiencing.
 
rodchar said:
hey all,
i just installed vista beta 2 (i know it's an old version but it's
all i have right now) but it's going really slow and i'm on a virtual
pc with 1GB ram. Is this normal?
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Yes. I found that running beta versions of Vista under VPC was so slow as to
be unusable.
 
One other issue that i found was that it took 8GB of space is this how big
vista is going to be?
 
rodchar said:
One other issue that i found was that it took 8GB of space is this how big
vista is going to be?
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About that. It is recommended you not install it on any partition smaller
than 20 GB.
 
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