vista woes

Electroshadow · 29 Oct 2008 at 13:07

hi

after putting together the following build below:

Neo2-FR iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 1000MHz/PC2-8000 Memory REAPER X EDITION ENHANCED BANDWITH CL5
Quad Q6600 @ 3.1ghz
8800gt ultra
2 x 500gb western digital drives

vista 32bit seems to run slow which makes the computer seem slow although all programmes and games run fine maxxed out. Im just fed up of seeing that whirling blue circle whilst waiting for vista, surely the above system should be able to run vista??

the system gets a vista rating of 7...

does anyone else have this problem or is there anything i can do to tune up the system for vista? i am running Kasperkey for full protection but i did'nt think kasperkey was system hungery?

Frositay · 29 Oct 2008 at 13:31

There's your problem right there, Vista. I, personally don't like Vista, seems slow and sluggish to me. XP has worked great for me since its release, have you tried running XP and seeing how it goes?

~Divine~Wind~ · 29 Oct 2008 at 13:41

not had any problems with vista, and I was highly opposed to movin from xp.

Are there any specific programs that are slow? Or just vista as a whole?

defragged, reg cleaned and ccleaner since install yet?

I once had this with XP, turned out the gfx driver wasnt installed correctly and for some reason made everythin slow.

Electroshadow · 29 Oct 2008 at 13:45

good idea might do the defrag etc when i get home.

oh how do you stop the welcome browser opening on start up?

Fanatic · 29 Oct 2008 at 13:53

Tickbox bottom left of the Welcome window

nightmare99 · 29 Oct 2008 at 13:55

the system gets a vista rating of 7

Thought it only went upto 6?

fobose · 29 Oct 2008 at 16:42

With your spec it should run smoothly. I dont find vista slow at all, barely see the spinning blue circle. When do you see it most? Have you installed SP1?

Snakedoctor · 29 Oct 2008 at 16:44

nightmare99 said:
Thought it only went upto 6?

5.9 at present. Was supposed to be increased after 18 months.

As fobose says, where does this occur?

PaulyD · 29 Oct 2008 at 17:30

Would only be getting 3.2gb RAM as well as he stated Vista 32bit, but should still be nippy at that.

I barely find any issues with Vista itself, find it personally rather quite quick!!

As above, defrag, give it a clean out and check for old/conflicting drivers

Davy644 · 29 Oct 2008 at 17:32

Frositay said:
There's your problem right there, Vista. I, personally don't like Vista, seems slow and sluggish to me. XP has worked great for me since its release, have you tried running XP and seeing how it goes?

From windows98 to XP and now to Vista, No problems here,tho it is reccemended to use the Vista Hardware tool to scan your Pc for hardware problems first,It will give you an idea of problems you might run into using older Hardware

slowrunner · 29 Oct 2008 at 17:57

Didn't notice any difference in speed when I went from XP home to Vist HP64 on my rig, even when it only had 2GB of ram.

dazzerd · 29 Oct 2008 at 18:58

Hi m8 I find vista very quick, I think the key is, turn off indexing, it hammers the harddrive and has a nasty habit of reindexing things which were supposed to be already indexed!

fobose · 29 Oct 2008 at 19:03

I've not had any problems with indexing since SP1 was installed.

RizlaKing · 29 Oct 2008 at 19:11

Some people have reported slowness with 32bit vista when using 4gb of ram because don't forget your gfx card memory is also taken into account in the 3.4gig limit 32 bit can use. Since i started using vista hp64 i have found it to be great a lot more stable then my old xp install ever was and i don't notice it being that much slower either.

There are websites that have guides to optimising vista to get the best out of it though i havn't had the need to use one so no addresses for you but a quick google should help out with that.

Stevev · 29 Oct 2008 at 19:22

dazzerd said:
Hi m8 I find vista very quick, I think the key is, turn off indexing, it hammers the harddrive and has a nasty habit of reindexing things which were supposed to be already indexed!

Instead of turning indexing off, just set it to index the start menu only. It use to try and index over 3k files, now only does 199.

Nanobot · 29 Oct 2008 at 23:08

When do you find the 'whirling blue circle' happening? I would expect the programs and games to slow down too if it was an overall Vista problem.

Electroshadow · 30 Oct 2008 at 10:10

i get the blue circle from anything from opening explorer to opening the calculator... there just seems to be a 10sec delay on everything.

and yes your right it only has a rating of 5.9 the rating of 7 was on another programme i was given to rate my machine for vista. soz for the confusion there

fobose · 30 Oct 2008 at 16:51

Something doesn't sound right. Those things should load instantly. I would do a hard drive benchmark to see if thats causing any slowdown.

aproctor · 30 Oct 2008 at 21:22

Frositay said:
XP has worked great for me since its release, have you tried running XP and seeing how it goes?

You obviously did not use it on release then, it was dog and took over a year to run smoothly.

RizlaKing · 31 Oct 2008 at 01:27

Lmao yeah i remember how well people took to xp on it's release "fisher price os" anyone. Fact is no matter what ms release os wise there are many with an agenda to slam it and criticise it before actually trying it. While vista may have been a dog now it is a perfectly good os now and for many like me vista 64 is the only realistic choice of os.

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