See if I can sqeeze in one more...

[Rumpelstiltskin]

....Before I have to find another news server. Perhaps even a real news
server, not some infuriating web interface like GG.

Vista Ultimate, sp2, new install, fully updated, all the bells & whistles,
plus Office 2003 Pro (w/o Outlook) but I haven't installed any updates yet.
Next is to update O2003 and then install and update Office 2007.

Here's the problem. Regedit takes *forever*, and I mean many, many minutes,
to run through the Registry on one single Find pass. I'm a tinkerer with an
extreme amount of curiosity and I tend to use Regedit quite a bit, and this
is the worst behavior I've seen since Win98 on my old P-200. Any ideas as to
why? I'm not looking for a Regedit replacement or other workaround, I'm just
looking for an answer to my specific question right now. What would cause
Regedit to be so slow and to suck up so much CPU? It's a 2.3 GHz. Dell 2400
w/ 1GB RAM.

Thanks,
R.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Rumpelstiltskin" <Dazed_&_Confused@TheKeyboard>

| ...Before I have to find another news server. Perhaps even a real news
| server, not some infuriating web interface like GG.

| Vista Ultimate, sp2, new install, fully updated, all the bells & whistles,
| plus Office 2003 Pro (w/o Outlook) but I haven't installed any updates yet.
| Next is to update O2003 and then install and update Office 2007.

| Here's the problem. Regedit takes *forever*, and I mean many, many minutes,
| to run through the Registry on one single Find pass. I'm a tinkerer with an
| extreme amount of curiosity and I tend to use Regedit quite a bit, and this
| is the worst behavior I've seen since Win98 on my old P-200. Any ideas as to
| why? I'm not looking for a Regedit replacement or other workaround, I'm just
| looking for an answer to my specific question right now. What would cause
| Regedit to be so slow and to suck up so much CPU? It's a 2.3 GHz. Dell 2400
| w/ 1GB RAM.

| Thanks,
| R.


That's your problem.
Vista Ultimate on a Dell 2400 with ONLY 1GB RAM

Is that a Dell Dimension 2400 ?

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Yeah, it's Dimension, a Celeron no less. But it seemed to be doing OK
except for Regedit, which was a problem even before I installed Office. Oh
well, if this is a sign of things to come I may have to go back to XP. With
XP, things generally seemed to be OK unless I started multi-tasking too
much. Main reason I want Vista is the improved Remote Assistance (I do the
helping). XP has a real hard time connecting most of the time and it's my
recollection that Vista does much better in this regard. Hey, if all I have
to do is learn to go do something else while the registry is searched, I
guess I can do that.

That or buy another mobo/cpu for that monster in the corner that eats 'em
for breakfast.

Thanks,
R.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Here's the problem. Regedit takes *forever*, and I mean many, many minutes,
to run through the Registry on one single Find pass. I'm a tinkerer with an
extreme amount of curiosity and I tend to use Regedit quite a bit, and this
is the worst behavior I've seen since Win98 on my old P-200. Any ideas as to
why? I'm not looking for a Regedit replacement or other workaround, I'm just
looking for an answer to my specific question right now. What would cause
Regedit to be so slow and to suck up so much CPU? It's a 2.3 GHz. Dell 2400
w/ 1GB RAM.

It's probably not just regedit that's slow. Almost everything will be
slow on a computer running Windows Vista with only 1GB of RAM. Almost
anyone who does much more than just play Solitaire needs at least 2GB.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Rumpelstiltskin" <Dazed_&_Confused@TheKeyboard>

| Yeah, it's Dimension, a Celeron no less. But it seemed to be doing OK
| except for Regedit, which was a problem even before I installed Office. Oh
| well, if this is a sign of things to come I may have to go back to XP. With
| XP, things generally seemed to be OK unless I started multi-tasking too
| much. Main reason I want Vista is the improved Remote Assistance (I do the
| helping). XP has a real hard time connecting most of the time and it's my
| recollection that Vista does much better in this regard. Hey, if all I have
| to do is learn to go do something else while the registry is searched, I
| guess I can do that.

| That or buy another mobo/cpu for that monster in the corner that eats 'em
| for breakfast.

| Thanks,
| R.

Yepper, that's what I thought. It is under-powered for Vista/32.

 

[philo]

From: "Rumpelstiltskin"<Dazed_&_Confused@TheKeyboard>

| ...Before I have to find another news server. Perhaps even a real news
| server, not some infuriating web interface like GG.

| Vista Ultimate, sp2, new install, fully updated, all the bells& whistles,
| plus Office 2003 Pro (w/o Outlook) but I haven't installed any updates yet.
| Next is to update O2003 and then install and update Office 2007.

| Here's the problem. Regedit takes *forever*, and I mean many, many minutes,
| to run through the Registry on one single Find pass. I'm a tinkerer with an
| extreme amount of curiosity and I tend to use Regedit quite a bit, and this
| is the worst behavior I've seen since Win98 on my old P-200. Any ideas as to
| why? I'm not looking for a Regedit replacement or other workaround, I'm just
| looking for an answer to my specific question right now. What would cause
| Regedit to be so slow and to suck up so much CPU? It's a 2.3 GHz. Dell 2400
| w/ 1GB RAM.

| Thanks,
| R.


That's your problem.
Vista Ultimate on a Dell 2400 with ONLY 1GB RAM

Is that a Dell Dimension 2400 ?

Not really

Though of course 1 gig of RAM is no where near enough to run Vista

regedit requires only a tiny amount of RAM.


Vista just plain has a global problem in *many* areas

It's simply a flawed OS.

Now that Win7 is out, Microsoft is not going to even bother
fixing all the bugs in Vista

 

[Tom Ponta]

I have a Dell Inspiron 531 running Vista Home Premium that also came with
only 1 GB of RAM. I've since taken it to 3 GB, and things run much better.
In fact, I'm surprised it ran at all as shipped. It's beyond me why Dell
would ship a system without the RAM required for it to work properly, with
the result that I bought the needed RAM elsewhere.

Buddha

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Tom Ponta" <[email protected]>

| I have a Dell Inspiron 531 running Vista Home Premium that also came with
| only 1 GB of RAM. I've since taken it to 3 GB, and things run much better.
| In fact, I'm surprised it ran at all as shipped. It's beyond me why Dell
| would ship a system without the RAM required for it to work properly, with
| the result that I bought the needed RAM elsewhere.

| Buddha

"Dell Inspiron 531" ?

Are you sure you have the correct model ?

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

They exist:
http://www.dell.com/us/en/dfh/desktops/inspndt_53xs/pd.aspx?refid=inspndt_53xs&cs=22&s=dfh

Unfortunately, this Dimension tops out at 1GB RAM. When I got it, it was
running XP on 256MB. Oh well, what the heck. It was free.

R.