Vista way too slow

[Ricardo]

Just purchased a brand new laptop

Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB

I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

You have too problems. Norton is one of them. Use AVG or Avast in place of
it.

The other is lack of memory. Look to upgrade to 1gb at least.

 

[matt hopkins]

na its not norton its your ram as you only have 512 mb. vista uses lots of
ram as a mininum you should use 1024 mb but this can still runs using over
50% at all times so you maybe better to upgrade to a 2gb ram memmory. there
is a sidebar tool to help you show how much ram you are using if you right
click the sidebar click add gadget and its called cpu meter it has 2
functions one shows the cpu (the big circle) the other shows the ram (the
small circle)

 

[Guest]

I was told the first of the year may have a Vista recall on machines sold.
Hear anything about that. I have plenty of RAM and a big hard drive and the
start up is very slow, wanted XP Pro on my new laptop but couldn't find it.
Vista seems to have a lot of problems & unhappy customers.

 

[Richard in AZ]

Not true. As for a lot of problems & unhappy customers, if you only check hospitals for
information, you will find a lot of sick and unhappy people. That does not be that everyone is
sick.

 

[Guest]

Review the following:

Open Power Options (its in the Control Panel) and then
place a dot next to High Performance.

Next:

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).

Consider installing addition RAM. If you add an additional
512MB RAM, overall performance will increase significantly.
Visit: http://www.crucial.com/ and run the Crucial System Scanner Tool.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

 

[Adam Albright]

Not true. As for a lot of problems & unhappy customers, if you only check hospitals for
information, you will find a lot of sick and unhappy people. That does not be that everyone is
sick.

Conversely if anyone is foolish enough to only listen to Vista fanboys
that constantly praise Vista and make up lame excuses for it when it
does something stupid no matter what... they would think Vista is the
greatest thing since sliced bread.

The truth is somewhere in the middle. Vista isn't as bad as some try
to paint it, but it isn't all peaches and cream either. Vista is after
all just another version of Windows. We all know Microsoft is totally
incapable of releasing any version of Windows that doesn't shortly
after release need patches, fixes and service packs. That's called
reality. Fanboys can't handle that sobering truth.

 

[Stu]

Conversely if anyone is foolish enough to only listen to Vista fanboys
that constantly praise Vista and make up lame excuses for it when it
does something stupid no matter what... they would think Vista is the
greatest thing since sliced bread.

The truth is somewhere in the middle. Vista isn't as bad as some try
to paint it, but it isn't all peaches and cream either. Vista is after
all just another version of Windows. We all know Microsoft is totally
incapable of releasing any version of Windows that doesn't shortly
after release need patches, fixes and service packs. That's called
reality. Fanboys can't handle that sobering truth.

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Just purchased a brand new laptop

Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB

I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.

Although Norton Anti-Virus is a dog, that's not your primary problem.
512MB of RAM is way to little to run Vista. How much RAM you need for
decent performance depends on what apps you run, but most people need
at least 2GB.

 

[Adam Albright]

Although Norton Anti-Virus is a dog, that's not your primary problem.
512MB of RAM is way to little to run Vista. How much RAM you need for
decent performance depends on what apps you run, but most people need
at least 2GB.

Odd, Microsoft say 1 GB is enough. I agree. For most people.

Until recently I ran only 1 GB. I caught a sales on a matched pair of
dual channel DIMS and picked up a couple 512 MB slots for pocket
change. After installing guess what, no appreciable gain in
performance and I'm running a ultra high end system with very high FSB
timing and mostly use high end memory hungry applications. The you
need more RAM BS, is just that, urban myth not born out in real world
testing. I agree 512 is too little, but more than 1 GB often is just
wasted.

 

[Adam Albright]

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True to form, can't factually counter anything I said, so make an ass
of yourself instead.

 

[Thai Berry \(U.S.\)]

vista is more like between horrendous and monstrosity


It stinks so bad that if you place your nose close to the computers fan you
will get a whiff of bad vista


There is an ancient saying that was given from the Babylonians to the
Egyptians then to the Greeks, Romans and it spread throughout the world>>>

Vista is Stupid! (tm)

 

[Frank]

vista is more like between horrendous and monstrosity

And you're somewhere between brainless and brain dead.

It stinks so bad that if you place your nose close to the computers fan you
will get a whiff of bad vista

That's your week old diaper you're wearing that you smell you moron.

There is an ancient saying that was given from the Babylonians to the
Egyptians then to the Greeks, Romans and it spread throughout the world>>>

Yeah, it goes something like this..you're a malakus!

Vista is Stupid! (tm)

It's much smarter than you'll ever be you stupid loser.
Frank

 

[Frank]

Odd, Microsoft say 1 GB is enough. I agree. For most people.

Until recently I ran only 1 GB. I caught a sales on a matched pair of
dual channel DIMS and picked up a couple 512 MB slots for pocket
change. After installing guess what, no appreciable gain in
performance and I'm running a ultra high end system with very high FSB
timing and mostly use high end memory hungry applications. The you
need more RAM BS, is just that, urban myth not born out in real world
testing. I agree 512 is too little, but more than 1 GB often is just
wasted.

You stupid sh*t...so you upgrading your one little screwed up install of
Vista business proves increasing RAM is worthless for everyone.
You're the village idiot...and drunkard.
Frank

 

[dennis@home]

Odd, Microsoft say 1 GB is enough. I agree. For most people.

Until recently I ran only 1 GB. I caught a sales on a matched pair of
dual channel DIMS and picked up a couple 512 MB slots for pocket
change. After installing guess what, no appreciable gain in
performance and I'm running a ultra high end system with very high FSB
timing and mostly use high end memory hungry applications. The you
need more RAM BS, is just that, urban myth not born out in real world
testing. I agree 512 is too little, but more than 1 GB often is just
wasted.

Its not that simple.. some light users will only need 1G some users will
need lots more.
What is needed is for the OP to investigate how much memory his applications
use and then add a bit for spare capacity.

To the OP the performance monitoring tools in Vista will allow you to look
at how much memory is being used when you run the applications you want.
Then you can decide if its worth paying for 1G or 2G (its probably not worth
only buying 512k as its not usually cheap).
www.crucial.com is a good place for memory as it will tell you what is
needed and its not expensive.
Its best to allow some extra for the future as you don't want to have to
throw a memory stick away later.

BTW Adam if you didn't notice a difference between 1G and 2G you are not a
high end user or you are still paging and you need more RAM.
I have a game (civ 4) that is about 100 (yes, one hundred) times faster in
3G RAM than in 1G RAM, he same was true on XP.
You really need to stop paging before you notice a big improvement so not
adding enough RAM doesn't help much.

 

[Thai Berry \(U.S.\)]

There is only one thing I know of that is worse than Vista.. its called

****Frankenvista*****

A genetically engineered techonological terror

A mesh between the stupidest user and the stupidest OS.

 

[Stu]

True to form, can't factually counter anything I said, so make an ass
of yourself instead.

I have no issue to what you say just how often you say it.

I am thinking of upgrading to Vista and visit this forum to read what
problems people are having and what is being said.

Every thread is ruined by you and a couple of others and it just becomes
tedious.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Create a message rule to eliminate them and the world becomes a much better
place..

 

[JCS]

Create a message rule to eliminate them and the world becomes a much
better place..

Unfortunately, their posts still show up within quoted messages.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

That's true, but it cuts down on the amount of completely useless entries
made by the trolls/antagonists..