Thinking Of Going Back To XP Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Thinking Of Going Back To XP in the Windows Vista forums; 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 ...

[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,

[dazzlin]

RAM upgrade would probably do it, though that isn't free and may not be cheap either. But when I added more RAM, the speed increased a lot.

[Mustangman76]

Hi

but with xp it ran fine...why wouldn`t it run fast on vista...all the themes and extras are disabled and it still runs like crap... :S

[lefteris62]

look...if you really want to use vista u have to upgrade your computer. my previous config was: p4 @2.53 MHz/1GB RAM/256 video card ATI/250GB HD and the system with vista was simply not usable!! while xp was fast.
now I upgraded to core 2 duo 6300/2 GB RAM/256 MB DDR3 ATI card and it is very nice (vista).
of course with this config if I go back to xp will be veeery faaast!! but I like vista so much...I'll stay here

vista is a very demanding os

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

Lefteris62 I don't like the words "u have to" and upgrade being used together I am on 512 ram and its as fast as Xp. PS welcome!

[Snuffy]

Originally Posted by Mustangman76

Hi

but with xp it ran fine...why wouldn`t it run fast on vista...all the themes and extras are disabled and it still runs like crap... :S

You are using the largest version of Vista available...and the memory you have is only fit for Vista Basic... please read the requirements for all versions of Vista...

[Mustangman76]

Hi

is there anyway to make ultimate smaller but with most of the features..??..hope so

[lefteris62]

@joshW02: what can I say? I said earlier that I had 1 Gb RAM and it was REALLY slow....if it worked ok for you it's fine!

[Mustangman76]

Hi

with 1 mb of ram its going to be slow..even xp will be...unless u ment 1 gb

[felix8406]

Originally Posted by Mustangman76

Hi

is there anyway to make ultimate smaller but with most of the features..??..hope so

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.