Vista runs terribly slow

[Guest]

I have RC2 installed (clean install) on my laptop with a 1.8Ghz processor and
2Gb of RAM. If I'm not mistaken this should be able to run Vista fairly
smoothly but it is the exact opposite. Opening most programs, changing
windows, moving files (all which didn't produce that much lag in XP) slow my
PC down considerably. Also startup times tend to run to about eight minutse.
Any suggestions or ideas why this might be happening?

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

I have RC2 installed (clean install) on my laptop with a 1.8Ghz processor
and
2Gb of RAM. If I'm not mistaken this should be able to run Vista fairly
smoothly but it is the exact opposite. Opening most programs, changing
windows, moving files (all which didn't produce that much lag in XP) slow
my
PC down considerably. Also startup times tend to run to about eight
minutse.
Any suggestions or ideas why this might be happening?

Just a guess:

You don't mention your graphics solution. Vista relies heavily on the cpu
and onboard memory of the graphics card for rendering, taking this load away
from the processor and the RAM of the system. If you have an onboard
instead of a stand-alone graphics card, and/or, if your graphics card shares
the system RAM (although with 2GB this should not be the issue) perhaps your
video rendering is being overtaxed.

 

[mikeyhsd]

first thing I always do is delete the contents of the PREFETCH folder and reboot.

gotta be careful with vista and only delete the PF files.



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I have RC2 installed (clean install) on my laptop with a 1.8Ghz processor and
2Gb of RAM. If I'm not mistaken this should be able to run Vista fairly
smoothly but it is the exact opposite. Opening most programs, changing
windows, moving files (all which didn't produce that much lag in XP) slow my
PC down considerably. Also startup times tend to run to about eight minutse.
Any suggestions or ideas why this might be happening?

 

[Guest]

Vista worked quite well on my older laptop with only 512 mB of RAM. I did
have to tweak the performance to get it to run smoothly tho'

What does the performance index rate your system as?

I'd suggest that you lower your display settings to the lowest values,
adjust the performance settings to favor performance, disable the Aero theme,
and check your startups and running processes for anything that can be
eliminated.

If this doesn't make it acceptable, then I'd have to wonder about
compatibility problems.

- John

 

[Guest]

Deleting the prefetch folder's contents is a myth. It really doesn't help
many problems - and while it's rebuilding it actually slows the system down a
bit.

Go to http://aumha.net and read the posts there about prefetch - it'll most
likely change your opinion (it changed mine!).

- John

 

[Guest]

Hi!
I have similar problem. At installation, Vista runs fine. But after 2 or 3
restarts, performance drop a lot; it can take 10 min to start. I have an Asus
motherboard, an M2R32-MVP (ATI Xpress 3200 chipset), with 2G, an Athlon X2
4200, and X1900. I am suspecting a bug with this chipset, more precisely with
the SATA driver.

I have an other -older- computer where Vista runs like a charm: an AMD
Athlon 3500, 1G of memory with a Radeon 9800. When I wake this computer from
hibernation, Vista starts almost instantaneously. Incredible.