I hate my Vista computer

I hate my computer. I went out and bought what I thought was my "Dream
Machine". I've had this computer for almost one year. It's constantly "doing
something". Everything about it is so slow. I have a 2.4 Centrino Duo x64. I
hate that my work requires windows-based software. I'm not a Linux advocate,
I've never used a Mac. I think my Windows 3.1.1 desktop brought up
applications faster than this computer. If my hardware manufacturer had all
the drivers for XP, I would switch back.

Mike Benton wrote:
> I hate my computer. I went out and bought what I thought was my "Dream
> Machine". I've had this computer for almost one year. It's constantly
> "doing something". Everything about it is so slow. I have a 2.4
> Centrino Duo x64. I hate that my work requires windows-based
> software. I'm not a Linux advocate, I've never used a Mac. I think my
> Windows 3.1.1 desktop brought up applications faster than this
> computer. If my hardware manufacturer had all the drivers for XP, I
> would switch back.

Surely you can get XP drivers for a machine thats over a year old!
What are the specs?

--
Regards
Mark Dormer

How much memory is installed? Is it slow on everything, or just certain
things? How many things do you have running at startup? There are a lot of
reasons it could be going slow, and with a processor like that, and if the
other components are up to par, it should run pretty fast.

And there should be drivers available for XP if you do decide to downgrade
to XP.

--
Dustin Harper

http://www.VistaRIP.com | Vista Resource & Information Page


"Mike Benton" <> wrote in message
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>I hate my computer. I went out and bought what I thought was my "Dream
>Machine". I've had this computer for almost one year. It's constantly
>"doing something". Everything about it is so slow. I have a 2.4 Centrino
>Duo x64. I hate that my work requires windows-based software. I'm not a
>Linux advocate, I've never used a Mac. I think my Windows 3.1.1 desktop
>brought up applications faster than this computer. If my hardware
>manufacturer had all the drivers for XP, I would switch back.

Dual boot it with xp and try to find alternative drivers...

Dont even buy XP before you try this.. install XP from any old disk and dont
activate, it will work for 30 days,

then if you find all the generic drivers or alternative ones and its
running, go buy an OEM version of XP

or you can get perhaps a DOWNGRADE XP Disk if you have BUSINESS or Ultimate

Ask the guys that sold it to you, if you upgrade to ULTIMATE can you get the
free DOWNGRADE XP disk?

My thought is simple, instead of paying for XP OEM, you UPGRADE Vista to
Ultimate to get the FREE downgrade XP disk



"Mike Benton" <> wrote in message
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>I hate my computer. I went out and bought what I thought was my "Dream
>Machine". I've had this computer for almost one year. It's constantly
>"doing something". Everything about it is so slow. I have a 2.4 Centrino
>Duo x64. I hate that my work requires windows-based software. I'm not a
>Linux advocate, I've never used a Mac. I think my Windows 3.1.1 desktop
>brought up applications faster than this computer. If my hardware
>manufacturer had all the drivers for XP, I would switch back.

The prob started in late 2006 when vista was let out to the OEM manufacturers
like Dell, HP, etc.
From then a lot of the new motherboards do not have XP drivers , only vista
drivers, written for them.

"Mark Dormer" wrote:

> Mike Benton wrote:
> > I hate my computer. I went out and bought what I thought was my "Dream
> > Machine". I've had this computer for almost one year. It's constantly
> > "doing something". Everything about it is so slow. I have a 2.4
> > Centrino Duo x64. I hate that my work requires windows-based
> > software. I'm not a Linux advocate, I've never used a Mac. I think my
> > Windows 3.1.1 desktop brought up applications faster than this
> > computer. If my hardware manufacturer had all the drivers for XP, I
> > would switch back.
>
> Surely you can get XP drivers for a machine thats over a year old!
> What are the specs?
>
> --
> Regards
> Mark Dormer
>

Mike Benton wrote:

....hehehe...yeah it proly hates you too!!!
Frank

kreg wrote:

> Dual boot it with xp and try to find alternative drivers...
>
> Dont even buy XP before you try this.. install XP from any old disk and
> dont activate, it will work for 30 days,
>
> then if you find all the generic drivers or alternative ones and its
> running, go buy an OEM version of XP
>
> or you can get perhaps a DOWNGRADE XP Disk if you have BUSINESS or
> Ultimate
>
> Ask the guys that sold it to you, if you upgrade to ULTIMATE can you get
> the free DOWNGRADE XP disk?
>
> My thought is simple, instead of paying for XP OEM, you UPGRADE Vista to
> Ultimate to get the FREE downgrade XP disk
>


Shut up you moron. All he needs to do to make it faster is to go into
his BIOS and stop the Centrino stepping from happening so that his CPU
is functioning at it highest speed all the time.
Frank

I was looking at laptops a while back and noticed some manufacturers were
selling laptops with old 4200 rpm disk drives at firesale prices. A slow
disk drive will make your laptop appear to run slow.
"Mike Benton" <> wrote in message
news:5CF3FD7B-D4BD-4953-A4EC-...
>I hate my computer. I went out and bought what I thought was my "Dream
>Machine". I've had this computer for almost one year. It's constantly
>"doing something". Everything about it is so slow. I have a 2.4 Centrino
>Duo x64. I hate that my work requires windows-based software. I'm not a
>Linux advocate, I've never used a Mac. I think my Windows 3.1.1 desktop
>brought up applications faster than this computer. If my hardware
>manufacturer had all the drivers for XP, I would switch back.

its already disabled

so now whats your excuse for vista?


"Frank" <> wrote in message
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> kreg wrote:
>
>> Dual boot it with xp and try to find alternative drivers...
>>
>> Dont even buy XP before you try this.. install XP from any old disk and
>> dont activate, it will work for 30 days,
>>
>> then if you find all the generic drivers or alternative ones and its
>> running, go buy an OEM version of XP
>>
>> or you can get perhaps a DOWNGRADE XP Disk if you have BUSINESS or
>> Ultimate
>>
>> Ask the guys that sold it to you, if you upgrade to ULTIMATE can you get
>> the free DOWNGRADE XP disk?
>>
>> My thought is simple, instead of paying for XP OEM, you UPGRADE Vista to
>> Ultimate to get the FREE downgrade XP disk
>>
>
>
> Shut up you moron. All he needs to do to make it faster is to go into his
> BIOS and stop the Centrino stepping from happening so that his CPU is
> functioning at it highest speed all the time.
> Frank

Ron wrote:


....did you forget what your name is capin' crunch?
Lamer!
Frank