[32] Vista upgrade running VERY SLOW
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  1. June 26th, 2008, 08:13 PM #1
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    [32] Vista upgrade running VERY SLOW

    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...
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  2. June 26th, 2008, 08:19 PM #2
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    For starters you have way too little RAM--Vista likes 2 GB.
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  3. June 26th, 2008, 08:58 PM #3
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    512MB of RAM is barely fine with XP.
    Beside low amount of RAM, there is nothing better, than clean install, no upgrade.
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  4. June 26th, 2008, 09:35 PM #4
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    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.
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  6. June 26th, 2008, 11:20 PM #5
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    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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  7. June 27th, 2008, 11:39 AM #6
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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:

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