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entwisi · 29-08-2008, 06:45

It will be slower than XP anyway as 2 gig is teh minimum RAM to run vista in any real form. If you can afford and it has space, uppping this to 3 or 4 gig will help dramatically. there are a lot of other tweaks that you can do to stop it anoyying the hell out of you.

UAC - this is the pain in the backside thing that keeps asking you if you are sure you wnat to do this that and teh other. it was designed to stop newbies doing things they shouldn't but in reality just gets in teh way of doing a lot of things.

Superfetch - another thing desigened to 'speed up' your work but has the exact opposite effect

Aero - teh wizzy interface uses loads of RAM and CPU to do pretty pictures, unless you have decent graphics chip turn it off.

There are a load more but as I really don't want to spend any longer than necessary in Vista I'll leave it to teh windows boys and girls(accyman? onlyme? etc) to help you further.

If you want Linux installed to have a play with give me a shout. it won't affect the vista install apart from grabbing a bit of disk space ( 10 gig max)

29-08-2008, 06:45	#19
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Laptops It will be slower than XP anyway as 2 gig is teh minimum RAM to run vista in any real form. If you can afford and it has space, uppping this to 3 or 4 gig will help dramatically. there are a lot of other tweaks that you can do to stop it anoyying the hell out of you. UAC - this is the pain in the backside thing that keeps asking you if you are sure you wnat to do this that and teh other. it was designed to stop newbies doing things they shouldn't but in reality just gets in teh way of doing a lot of things. Superfetch - another thing desigened to 'speed up' your work but has the exact opposite effect Aero - teh wizzy interface uses loads of RAM and CPU to do pretty pictures, unless you have decent graphics chip turn it off. There are a load more but as I really don't want to spend any longer than necessary in Vista I'll leave it to teh windows boys and girls(accyman? onlyme? etc) to help you further. If you want Linux installed to have a play with give me a shout. it won't affect the vista install apart from grabbing a bit of disk space ( 10 gig max) __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?