Will Windows 7 improve performance

Souljacker · 18 Jan 2010 at 20:51

I have a spare copy of Win7 thanks to the student offer and I was thinking about installing it on my parent's PC, as it chugs under vista.

It doesn't handle running firefox and itunes at the same time, let alone adding Word into the equation. I've disabled even the aero basic theme and I am using the windows basic theme.

So, will I see a performance increase if I upgrade to win7, or would it be a waste?

The spec:

Athlon x2 4000+ 64
2Gb Ram
xfx 8400gs 512Mb
320 gb HDD

Souljacker · 18 Jan 2010 at 21:45

It's only AVG and there are bugger all processes running. I think I'd be better off getting XP instead.

Souljacker · 18 Jan 2010 at 22:18

About 40.

Souljacker · 18 Jan 2010 at 23:16

That was using firefox and itunes with its helper too.

Might well get rid of AVG - it has about 5 processes of it's own! I use Nod32 on my PC, I believe there is a trial version.

Show me a list of your 30 processes please? I'm interested as to how you have so few - I usually boot up with 36 on my PC (win7), and 37 on my parent's PC (vista).

EDIT: 12 svchosts. Why?

Souljacker · 18 Jan 2010 at 23:28

Well, I don't think I will be overclocking my parent's PC - I am just concerned at how slow the thing runs under vista.

I will perform a malware scan using kapersky and have a look at blackvipers site.

Souljacker · 19 Jan 2010 at 00:35

uv said:
That's not really going to help for Vista though.

Vista natively has many more processes running than XP.

Although that is the wrong OS, there is one for Vista on that website.

Souljacker · 19 Jan 2010 at 00:54

If I do install Win7 I reckon I will do a clean install... will find out tomorrow.

Souljacker · 19 Jan 2010 at 13:45

Installed 7. Seems to run faster even with Aero enabled. Cheers guys!