Comments on: Microsoft Vista performance issues

By: Kat Marion

Kat Marion — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:18:27 +0000

Actually, I liked Windows Vista when I installed it on my PC. In the end though, it still slowed down my productivity because I use a lot of OTHER software, and these apps didn’t work with Vista. In the end, I got so frustrtated I just rolled back to Windows XP.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:29:01 +0000

Hi Tom,

I think that is the route I will end up going. Never had problems with the trusty XP. Silly me thought Vista would be the next great OS…

-Jason

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:03:34 +0000

Jason,

avoid RegCure like the plague - it is NastyWare. See http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/regcure-c4155.html for more.

The best way to speed up your system is to uninstall Vista and install XP, or if you can, add more RAM. Lots more RAM. 4gb is prob sufficient. More if you can.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:40:27 +0000

Tom,

What is the most efficient way to increase the speed up my Vista PC? I recently converted from XP to Vista and so far, it hasn’t been a smooth transition.

I’ve been doing some research on ways to speed up my PC and came across a site that says they have software that can help me out. Their top product is called RegCure, but I know nothing about it. Here is the site: http://www.pc-registry-repair.com

Thanks
-Jason

By: Hakan

Hakan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:03:27 +0000

I didnt like Vista’s performance at all

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:17:10 +0000

I agree my mum got a vista laptop over nt advice and its stupidly slow and all of the vista features just work against the system. We dont need random things moving in our window bar or a micro soft presentation fly in window. Theyve finally sent out the update so hopfully it will solve some of her problems.

By: hostyle

hostyle — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:20:55 +0000

I guess I’m a luddite. Still running Windows 2000 at home and very very happy with it. I use XP at work, and its hard to put a finger on it, but everyday OS things just seem slower / harder / to take more time. Could be just my mindset though. I hope to never have to use Vista. It looks awful and theres been far too many horror stories about it.

By: Assa Fetyia

Assa Fetyia — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:30:52 +0000

Tom, my experience is pretty much the same as yours. I do love Vista from a user point of view but only because I’m running it on anew whizzy machine. I know that as the machine gets progressively clogged up over the years, it’s going to be get very slow.

By: Calvin Jones

Calvin Jones — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:10:57 +0000

Hi Tom,

Funnily enough, I quite like Vista. It’s so much better than XP from a user experience perspective, and I haven’t had many issues with stability or performance either.

A couple of my old peripherals became obsolete because there wasn’t any driver support, but that’s about it, and I guess that’s to be expected with any OS update. I’ve been running it for 10 months now, and haven’t really had any stability or performance issues worth talking about.

I guess when you run benchmarking software the performance differential becomes glaringly obvious, but for day to day usage with 2GB of RAM on a 1.8 GHz Core2 Duo I don’t find it noticable at all. Of course other people’s milage will vary considerably.

By: Phone Number Trace

Phone Number Trace — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:58:48 +0000

I think Vista is great. It allows you to do whatever you need in the best possible way.