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Vista seems to run pretty well for me, considering it is a Beta, even on a
relatively low-end laptop, 1.5 GHz Celeron M with 1 GB memory. At first
performance was slow, mainly because I installed over an existing XP
installation. After going to msconfig (hit window key and r together and
type msconfig in the dialog), and disabling the unnessary memory-resident
startup programs, performance increased substantially.
One program called FreeRAMXP Pro, was having a major conflict with Vista,
and causing disk paging (i.e. virtual memory) to kick in long before it
should have. I still get a lot of hard-disk drive activity when I don't
expect it (probably some background indexing), but it doesn't bog down the
system like it did with that program.
All in all, it looks like a promising upgrade to the Windows OS, with a lot
of useful new features and a nice new look. The automatic upgrades seem to
be quickly getting rid of a lot of bugs that I had early on (lot of run
DLLasAPP failures and Windows Explorer failures).
I look forward to the release candidates, with optimized and debug pointer
free code, coming out to see how Vista really runs.
relatively low-end laptop, 1.5 GHz Celeron M with 1 GB memory. At first
performance was slow, mainly because I installed over an existing XP
installation. After going to msconfig (hit window key and r together and
type msconfig in the dialog), and disabling the unnessary memory-resident
startup programs, performance increased substantially.
One program called FreeRAMXP Pro, was having a major conflict with Vista,
and causing disk paging (i.e. virtual memory) to kick in long before it
should have. I still get a lot of hard-disk drive activity when I don't
expect it (probably some background indexing), but it doesn't bog down the
system like it did with that program.
All in all, it looks like a promising upgrade to the Windows OS, with a lot
of useful new features and a nice new look. The automatic upgrades seem to
be quickly getting rid of a lot of bugs that I had early on (lot of run
DLLasAPP failures and Windows Explorer failures).
I look forward to the release candidates, with optimized and debug pointer
free code, coming out to see how Vista really runs.