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I upgraded my XP Home to Vista Home Premium and I am very disappointed. The program runs VERY SLOW... I am listing the spec's of my Notebook and would like to know if there is something I can do to speed it up... I have a Averatec/ 3260 notebook with a Sempron 2800+ with 512 MB of ram... :confused:
For starters you have way too little RAM--Vista likes 2 GB.
512MB of RAM is barely fine with XP.
Beside low amount of RAM, there is nothing better, than clean install, no upgrade.
Have you disable and / or uninstalled all the junk the manufactor installed.
I wiped my laptop, Vista Home, jerked the 512 and added 2 of those 1GB sticks ot ram and did a clean install of Vista Ultimate. Made a beautiful difference.
Initially installed my Vista Basic Upgrade with only a gig of ram and after a short time boosted it to two, noticed a definite improvement. Would suggest boosting it to two like everyone else said.
Would also suggest a clean install. Always better. You can clean install your upgrade, see this:
http://windowssecrets.com/2007/02/01...pay-full-price
Works fine, that's what I did.
Then there is turning off some of the cute stuff, that helps.
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Yep, you really need 2GB of RAM with Vista, anything less will slow it down. As a temporary fix, if you have a suitable memory stick try using ReadyBoost:
ReadyBoost