Ultimate vs Home Premium: performance?

[Guest]

We have two identical machines that are just over two years old, ran a clean
install of Vista 32bit; one with Ultimate and the other with Home Premium.

Interestingly, we see a noticable difference in general performance between
the two machines most of the time, favoring the machine running Home Premium.

I know there are many small features running in Ultimate such as Shadow Copy
and such, but I never thought it would mean a noticable performance hit.

Is that plausible at all? Anyone experience this?

 

[Justin]

We have two identical machines that are just over two years old, ran a
clean
install of Vista 32bit; one with Ultimate and the other with Home Premium.

Interestingly, we see a noticable difference in general performance
between
the two machines most of the time, favoring the machine running Home
Premium.

I know there are many small features running in Ultimate such as Shadow
Copy
and such, but I never thought it would mean a noticable performance hit.

Is that plausible at all? Anyone experience this?

Depending on the specs of the machine in question, yes, there can be a
noticeable difference. If, for example, this machine was lacking on drive
speed then Shadow Copy could push it over the edge and cause the machine to
run slower.

However this could also mean one of your machines is failing somehow. If
both machines are identical then you could swap hard drivers between the two
of them and see if the slower one speeds up. If not then you have faulty
hardware.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

It may be that the additional services in Ultimate have not had time to
settle down yet. See if the difference is still notable after a week when
both are 'burned in'.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the responses. This was more of a curiosity than an issue.

These two machines aren't state of the art by any means so this perceived
performance delta may well be cause by the 'straw that broke the camel's
back' sort of thing on the machine running Ultimate edition.

Btw, Vista is generally running great but I find it interesting to actually
see the difference of Home Premium and Ultimate on the same hardware.