How to get the best out of MS Vista?

[WR450_geezer]

Hi,

Just wandering what things I can do to get the best out of MS Vista. Like turning certain things off

Thank for any help

wr
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[california_rookie]

Buy more RAM. Aside from that, it's obviously going to run faster if you disable the fancy Aero graphics. And I've heard you can disable some of the search features for a slight boost in overall speed.
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[JonB]

But the Aero graphics are droolworthy, why would you wanna turn that off?

Since using Vista, XP looks like playschool designs.
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[powelly]

Top tip to speed up vista

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[ncrn]

You know that bar you get on the desktop that you can put gadgets on? Turn that off I found mine was using over 25% of my ram at one point.
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[cagiva gezzer]

GF has vista on a new laptop. Rather worried that it's been installed on a 1GB RAM machine. It's using 800mb+ just to do nothing.

When i say "nothing" i mean "crash" and "stumble".


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[ncrn]

Oh I forgot to mention don't try to use explorer, it will crash more than.. well older versions of windows.
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[JonB]

[cagiva gezzer]

The fact is that XP runs at ~250MB doing the same things.

I can easily add aother 500MB on to that by looking at a thread full of pics, with itunes on, msn running, outlook, word & AV.

Doing more than browsing the web sends her laptop hunting for the pagefile.

Or it could be because it's got AOL on it . . . .
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[Seb]

I run vista on the laptop (Clean OEM install+drivers and apps, the lappy was originally XP), XP on the gaming rig.

Vista is innately more secure than XP and I've never had any troubles with stability from it at all.

On the flipside, even with its mac style app caching vista is just too resource hungry to keep up with XP for speed, and as a side effect, the amount of disk space a vista install can chew through is shocking. Makes it a real pain when doing system backups.

It has its quirks and bugs, but I like it all the same, just I still wouldn't consider playing games on it yet.
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[NSR Mick]

My 1.6 P4m Laptop with 1gb ram runs no slower with Vista than it did with XP.
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[chris-red]

My Vista runs fine as standard.

3.4ghz P4 /w HT
3gb RAM

Mine hasn't crashed and I think it is far superior to XP
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[JonB]

Perhaps I have no problem with Vista cause I have a decent computer?

As for the "Do you use choose one hammer over another because of its looks? The OS is just something to run the real apps." comment, I only have this to say.

I don't look at a hammer whilst I am using it, considering my eyes are staring at the GUI whenever I am using the computer, I don't exactly want it to look ugly.
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[.....]

I think the common theme here is Vista and RAM. You need 2GB at least by the looks of it. I'm running Vista and can't fault it. Not that different from XP really, looks a bit better though. Runs all games fine as well. Does seem a bit quicker and smoother.

[JonB]