Vista Performamence

[Guest]

Hi All

Please provide info on following

1)After Installation of VISTA in my Laptop, generatin more heat , usally my
battery backup is 4 hours with XP but now around 2hours, Please let me
knowthe reason

2)Runs very slow MS-Word, or MS - Excel take more time to open,
my Laptop is Pentium Core2Duo, T5500, RAM 1.5GB

3)Asking for Driver files every time I connet external hard disk or thumb
drive, Why

4)Cannot detect seagate External drive, Why? I used to work on XP without
any problem, why no plug and play options in VISTA

Thanks

 

[LaRoux]

1)After Installation of VISTA in my Laptop, generatin more heat , usally
my
battery backup is 4 hours with XP but now around 2hours, Please let me
knowthe reason

Assuming you have already loaded Vista drivers from your laptop OEM website,
check the power settings in Vista. It's the little thing in the system tray
that looks like a battery. The generation of more heat and lower battery
life are likely the very same thing, either your power options are set to
best performance (ie use more power) or it's just doing something that is
using up CPU and disk more.

2)Runs very slow MS-Word, or MS - Excel take more time to open,
my Laptop is Pentium Core2Duo, T5500, RAM 1.5GB

This may well be related to #1 in that the system is busy doing something
else (indexing? Virus scan?) and opening these applications takes longer
because it has to split time with the other processes.

3)Asking for Driver files every time I connet external hard disk or thumb
drive, Why

Not sure what this might be. Post the brands and models and maybe someone
can help.

4)Cannot detect seagate External drive, Why? I used to work on XP without
any problem, why no plug and play options in VISTA

Vista has plug and play. Assuming this is a different drive that what you
are referring to in #3, I would suspect some sort of security software. Did
the drive have a password or something in XP? Did it come with a CD to load
or software in a folder on the drive or something? Try loading the software
on Vista.

 

[John Blessing]

I had the same issue. I was playing with dual installs of Linux and
everytime I booted back to Vista it would ask for the drivers for the new
disk drive it had discovered (something to do with the Linux partititions on
my hard disk) - laughable really, everytime I would tell it to look in
windows\system32 and it would find them. You would think it could have done
that for itself. Pretty dumb.

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[Guest]

You may want to check to see if this does not cause any OS activation
cancelation.
But you may need to enable "Plug and Play Aware" in MB Bios.