Thinking Of Going Back To XP Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Thinking Of Going Back To XP in the Windows Vista forums; Originally Posted by Mustangman76 Hi All since i installed windows vista ultimate..and before that home preium..i`ve had nothing but problems and speed loss with vista...right now ...

[Znod]

Originally Posted by Mustangman76

Hi All

since i installed windows vista ultimate..and before that home preium..i`ve had nothing but problems and speed loss with vista...right now it takes for ever to boot..to open things...to do anything...with xp it was a bit slugish but not this bad..i have recently installed xp home sp2 on anther pc of mine...and i really like the speed of it...the other pc is a p4 1.80ghz,40gb,256mb,nvidea 64 mb..... and it runs faster than my laptop which has more ram and a bigger hd....is there anyway (posably Free or Cheap way) i can speed my laptop up to the same speed as my p4...if not i`m probley going to end up putting vista into the clostet and going back to faithfull xp...help is apreated


My laptop specs are Pentium M Centrino,512mb ram,100gb HD,ATI Radeon Mobility X300 64MB,

I missed whether or not your laptop has slowed down after having used Vista for a while. If so, then I would repair startup using your Vista DVD. If things don't improve, then I would do a repair install.

Whether or not your laptop has not slowed down, you can delete your hibernation file, set your power settings to best performance (even when on battery), enable "advanced performance" on your hard drive, and use ReadyBoost (but, don't bother unless you have a flash drive that is enhanced (or is it optimized?) for Vista). Doing these things may produce a noticeable difference. They are the only vista performance "tweaks" that I have any confidence in. At the extreme, you could set your laptop for maximum performance if you don't mind loosing a lot in the way of appearance.

[Mustangman76]

Hi

yea i`ve had vista for a month...and it hasn`t been getting any faster...it seems slower then when i first installed...i`m useing ready boost...and i have set everything to max performance..and still slow

[Znod]

Try not using ReadyBoost. I know for a fact that ReadyBoost can sometimes slow things down.

[Mustangman76]

Hi

ok i will try that...

[Snuffy]

Originally Posted by felix8406

No as far as I know. With XP you could remove some utilities, including games, background images and such. I have not seen that option on Vista.

You might check Home Premium if you want a smaller Ultimate.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ns/choose.mspx

[Mustangman76]

Hi

yes i had home premium...but i didn`t come with the bitlocker...and i need that...

[Znod]

You can disable some Vista features using Programs and Features--which might contribute a tad to performance.

[Mustangman76]

Hi

ok will try that now

[Znod]

Good luck. It is hard to speed Vista, or, for that matter, any OS, up appreciably without a hardware change.