Optimizing Vista for better PC performance

[Dave A]

Bye bye Vista already? Wow!

There were a few ideas there that I really liked - like the locked down kernel.

Maybe much like XP came out of ME, something good might come out of it yet.

[RKS Computer Solutions]

That must be a record of some sorts, dropping their "Wow"-factor baby before it even shipped a Service Pack 1 for it....

[twinscythe12332]

Dave, you forgot the most important one for Vista:
Have a 10K + system.

Vista is a real resource hog. one thing I did notice when I installed it on one of my old boxes (P4 2.66GHz, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, GeForce 6200 DDR2) it did appear to adapt to the machine. it ran aero, but took a measly 300MB of RAM compared to my current system which is a dual core, 2.5GB RAM and 2x8600GTs in SLI config and reading off the handy G15 LCD, I see the number 52% glaring at me =/.

that said, I like vista. it is a fresh looking system. it hasn't crashed nearly as much as when I first got it. the only thing that worries me is service pack is predicted to be 1.2GB , if not BIGGER. now that is effectively a quarter of an updated windows XP system. the bloat-ware is a real turn off for alot of people (along with the high costs for vista + PC)

windows vista has sold over 100 million genuine copies. (http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...0_million.html)

244 of these copies in China (at the time of this article) (http://www.mydigitallife.co.za/index...=710&Itemid=37)

so, as much as I enjoy Vista, it is a bit of a love/hate relationship. when Windows 7 comes out though, you can bet that I'll be going with that (unless it turns into another contorted bloat-ware Windows).

[Dave A]

windows vista has sold over 100 million genuine copies.

244 of these copies in China

Now that is not suspect - it's beserk!

[Chatmaster]

As Dave said earlier, Vista is like ME was. ME was a complete failure but the 2000 Pro was rock solid (still is), so the same here. I am waiting for 7.

[Marq]

My Vista is working fine - I also have had a few problems loading software and quickbooks was a real disaster initially but everything seems to have settled down now.

It is slow at times but that because (I assume) I only have 1gig ram. I run office 2007, dreamweaver, photoshop and few other things but as long as the user account control is off its not too bad.

The only real problem I have is that it is extremely slow when working with my web server which runs server 2003. But thats not a regular feature and there does not seem to be too much difference when I use my other laptop running XP with the server.

I think they have/are slowly fixing and patching as they go with regular updates so a problem today seems to go away the next day. It will make the service pack seem like nothing is really a problem.

One thing about vista is that microsoft are generally very quiet about it and there is not too much stuff on the problems, service packs or its future. Most fixes and thoughts are speculation by outside sources.

[Chatmaster]

Ok, maybe complete failure is taking it a bit far. It has major usability issues. When I worked with a company last year, my Vista pc was simply amazing! I enjoyed every moment working with it. The PC was top spec and their IT manager set Vista up for me. He really knows his stuff and ensured that I had little trouble. But this Toshiba notebook changed my mind about Vista completely. I do not have time to go and look in all areas of Vista to tweak settings and make it work better, so getting rid of something that is completely wasting my time is a better option at this stage.

[irneb]

The only real problem I have is that it is extremely slow when working with my web server which runs server 2003. But thats not a regular feature and there does not seem to be too much difference when I use my other laptop running XP with the server.

That's because since WinNT Microsoft hasn't changed their networking much ... you guessed it ... Vista changed that, it doesn't communicate with earlier Windows that well. We've had to uninstall all Vista from our network of 60+ machines running off a Linux file server. 1GB/s on every machine, we generally get about 30MBytes/s (yes bytes) over the network. As soon as any one of the Vista machines were turned on, that went down to 8 MBytes/s, which we simply cannot tolerate working on 3D graphics workstations with files in excess of 200MB.

[twinscythe12332]

well, I've also found that it has issues with transfers between vista machines as well. a friend of mine was trying to copy a few files off my machine and was getting speeds of 200kb/s in certain sections. now with sata drives and a gigabit connection, that does seem a bit odd, doesn't it. it did fluctuate though, and i believe the highest he ended up getting was approx. 20MB/s.

didn't hamper other people though.

[twinscythe12332]

That's because since WinNT Microsoft hasn't changed their networking much ... you guessed it ... Vista changed that, it doesn't communicate with earlier Windows that well. We've had to uninstall all Vista from our network of 60+ machines running off a Linux file server. 1GB/s on every machine, we generally get about 30MBytes/s (yes bytes) over the network. As soon as any one of the Vista machines were turned on, that went down to 8 MBytes/s, which we simply cannot tolerate working on 3D graphics workstations with files in excess of 200MB.

I've been looking around the net, and found this little article. thought it may help you out, just in case you haven't gotten rid of those vista licenses and want to try something

Vista+Network=Slow

UPDATE:
still looking through. as I find more possibilities to help, will post them under this update section.
ads-links vista-slow-network...
Whirlpool forums

so far, looks like the general comment is:
Came across this under the control Panel

Go to the Control Panel
Open Programs and Features
Click on " Turn windows features on or off" on the left side of the panel
Uncheck "Remote Differential Compression"

and here's a link for more general information on the vista networking changes:
TCP-IP Networking Windows Vista