Vista Versions - Performance Comparison

[Kevin Young]

I'm running Vista Ultimate on a T43 Thinkpad with 2 ghz Pentium M and
1.5 gigs of RAM. Performance is not great and since I have access to
Vista Business I'm curious if I would notice any difference switching
from Ultimate to Business. Has anyone done any performance comparisons
between the different versions of Vista or are they all the same? I'm
just wondering if removing some of the Ultimate bloat might make a
difference in performance?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

All versions of Windows Vista run and perform equally well.
Please define specifically what you mean by "bloat" as that
term is meaningless when used in generalities.

Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
"Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.

Next, perform a Disk Cleanup:

Click on the blue Vista start button and then on the Computer
entry in the Start Menu. Right-click on your hard drive and
select Properties > Disk Cleanup > Files from all users.....
More Options > Clean Up (System Restore and Shadow Copies).


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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I'm running Vista Ultimate on a T43 Thinkpad with 2 ghz Pentium M and
1.5 gigs of RAM. Performance is not great and since I have access to
Vista Business I'm curious if I would notice any difference switching
from Ultimate to Business. Has anyone done any performance comparisons
between the different versions of Vista or are they all the same? I'm
just wondering if removing some of the Ultimate bloat might make a
difference in performance?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I'm running Vista Ultimate on a T43 Thinkpad with 2 ghz Pentium M and
1.5 gigs of RAM. Performance is not great and since I have access to
Vista Business I'm curious if I would notice any difference switching
from Ultimate to Business.

No.


Has anyone done any performance comparisons
between the different versions of Vista or are they all the same?

Performance among the different editions is essentially the same,
assuming that you have the same features enabled

I'm
just wondering if removing some of the Ultimate bloat might make a
difference in performance?

Bloat? The difference between Business and Ultimate is what features
come with each. For example, Ultimate comes with Media Center features
and Business doesn't. However if you don't use those Media Center
features, there is *no* performance penalty involved with having them
available on your hard drive.

 

[Kevin Young]

All versions of Windows Vista run and perform equally well.
Please define specifically what you mean by "bloat" as that
term is meaningless when used in generalities.

Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
"Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.

Next, perform a Disk Cleanup:

Click on the blue Vista start button and then on the Computer
entry in the Start Menu. Right-click on your hard drive and
select Properties > Disk Cleanup > Files from all users.....
More Options > Clean Up (System Restore and Shadow Copies).

Thanks for the suggestions Carey I'll give them a try. By bloat I was
referring to Windows Media Centre which I don't really use all that much
on the laptop. In addition to your suggestions I've also disabled
Bitlocker and hopefully I'll notice an improvement.

 

[Kevin Young]

Performance among the different editions is essentially the same,
assuming that you have the same features enabled




Bloat? The difference between Business and Ultimate is what features
come with each. For example, Ultimate comes with Media Center features
and Business doesn't. However if you don't use those Media Center
features, there is *no* performance penalty involved with having them
available on your hard drive.

Thanks Ken, it was Media Center I was thinking of. I'm trying the
suggestions Carey provided and hopefully they will help.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

If you're not using Media Center, all it does is take up hard drive space.
It does not consume memory, CPU cycles or resources if unused.

Carey's response is spot-on, there will be no real difference in performance
between versions of Vista given the assumption that all are configured the
same.

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks Ken, it was Media Center I was thinking of.

You're welcome. Glad to help.

I'm trying the
suggestions Carey provided and hopefully they will help.

Good!

 

[Pete Stavrakoglou]

All versions of Windows Vista run and perform equally well.
Please define specifically what you mean by "bloat" as that
term is meaningless when used in generalities.

Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
"Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.

I might have posted this in another thread, my apologies if I have. I've
tried to do just what you described but the settings never remain . After
checking the boxes, if I view the properties again they are unchecked. I am
an admin so I din't know why there would be a problem.