Vista not seeing my other CPU

I have a Dell Dimension 4600 which has two Pentium 4 CPU's. Vista seems to
only see one and everything is super slow!!! What can I do to speed things
up? I have 1.5 gig RAM, and a rating of 3.8 overall. I can't multitask at all
and am thinking of going back to XP if this is all the faster I can go, even
though I spent over $300 to buy Vista (I have Ultimate coming). Right now I
have Home Premium.

Home Premium does not support dual processors... it does support
dual cores...

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"msmarti58" <> wrote in message
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>I have a Dell Dimension 4600 which has two Pentium 4 CPU's. Vista seems to
> only see one and everything is super slow!!! What can I do to speed things
> up? I have 1.5 gig RAM, and a rating of 3.8 overall. I can't multitask at
> all
> and am thinking of going back to XP if this is all the faster I can go,
> even
> though I spent over $300 to buy Vista (I have Ultimate coming). Right now
> I
> have Home Premium.

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 23:42:07 -0700, msmarti58
<> wrote:

> I have a Dell Dimension 4600 which has two Pentium 4 CPU's. Vista seems to
> only see one


Not Vista in general, but Vista Home Premium in particular (see
below).


> and everything is super slow!!! What can I do to speed things
> up?


Without clarification, I don't know what "super slow" means, but if
things are truly very slow, I would suspect malware infestation,
rather than blaming it on Vista.


> I have 1.5 gig RAM, and a rating of 3.8 overall. I can't multitask at all
> and am thinking of going back to XP if this is all the faster I can go, even
> though I spent over $300 to buy Vista (I have Ultimate coming). Right now I
> have Home Premium.


The Home versions of Vista do not support more than one physical
processor.

Exactly the same is true of XP.

You will get the multi-processor support when you go to Vista
Ultimate. If you go back to XP, you will also not get multi-processor
support unless you go to Professional, not Home.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 23:42:07 -0700, msmarti58
> <> wrote:
>
>> I have a Dell Dimension 4600 which has two Pentium 4 CPU's. Vista seems
>> to only see one
>
>
> Not Vista in general, but Vista Home Premium in particular (see
> below).
>
>
>> and everything is super slow!!! What can I do to speed things
>> up?
>
>
> Without clarification, I don't know what "super slow" means, but if
> things are truly very slow, I would suspect malware infestation,
> rather than blaming it on Vista.
>
How is this possible? MickeyMouse says that Vista is the most secure Windoze
ever!

>
>> I have 1.5 gig RAM, and a rating of 3.8 overall. I can't multitask at all
>> and am thinking of going back to XP if this is all the faster I can go,
>> even though I spent over $300 to buy Vista (I have Ultimate coming).
>> Right now I have Home Premium.
>
>
> The Home versions of Vista do not support more than one physical
> processor.
>
> Exactly the same is true of XP.
>
> You will get the multi-processor support when you go to Vista
> Ultimate. If you go back to XP, you will also not get multi-processor
> support unless you go to Professional, not Home.
>
Cawching ... will that be Visa or Mastercard? MickeyMouse, sucking away the
dollars again.

Save money ... install Ubuntu ... it'll see and use both processors ... cost
FREE. And OP won't be slowed down by malware.

Cheers.

--
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NoStop wrote:

> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
>
>
>>On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 23:42:07 -0700, msmarti58
>><> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a Dell Dimension 4600 which has two Pentium 4 CPU's. Vista seems
>>>to only see one
>>
>>
>>Not Vista in general, but Vista Home Premium in particular (see
>>below).
>>
>>
>>
>>>and everything is super slow!!! What can I do to speed things
>>>up?
>>
>>
>>Without clarification, I don't know what "super slow" means, but if
>>things are truly very slow, I would suspect malware infestation,
>>rather than blaming it on Vista.
>>
>
> How is this possible? MickeyMouse says that Vista is the most secure Windoze
> ever!
>
>
>>>I have 1.5 gig RAM, and a rating of 3.8 overall. I can't multitask at all
>>>and am thinking of going back to XP if this is all the faster I can go,
>>>even though I spent over $300 to buy Vista (I have Ultimate coming).
>>>Right now I have Home Premium.
>>
>>
>>The Home versions of Vista do not support more than one physical
>>processor.
>>
>>Exactly the same is true of XP.
>>
>>You will get the multi-processor support when you go to Vista
>>Ultimate. If you go back to XP, you will also not get multi-processor
>>support unless you go to Professional, not Home.
>>
>
> Cawching ... will that be Visa or Mastercard? MickeyMouse, sucking away the
> dollars again.
>
> Save money ... install Ubuntu ... it'll see and use both processors ... cost
> FREE. And OP won't be slowed down by malware.
>
> Cheers.
>
STFU doris!
Frank

The Dimension 4600 appears to be a Socket 478 machine, supporting a single
P4.

I suppose that the OP has a P4 that supports hyperthreading, and somehow it
wasn't detected when Vista was installed. (Was hyperthreading turned on in
the system's BIOS settings? The Dell P4 machines that I see at work
generally have hyperthreading turned off. Whether it's the default, or
whether our IT department turns it off for maximum compatibility, I don't
know.)

There are methods for changing the HAL in XP, but I know of none in Vista.

I don't know what is messed up in the OP's system. I doubt that having no
hyperthreading would make the machine feel slow most of the time. Vista
might run slightly slower than XP, but not greatly so.

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"Spirit" <> wrote in message
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> Home Premium does not support dual processors... it does support
> dual cores...
>
> http://www.powerdonkey.net/signup3.php
> Compare the Vista Versions
>
> "msmarti58" <> wrote in message
> news:07135552-9660-44DF-B538-...
>>I have a Dell Dimension 4600 which has two Pentium 4 CPU's. Vista seems to
>> only see one and everything is super slow!!! What can I do to speed
>> things
>> up? I have 1.5 gig RAM, and a rating of 3.8 overall. I can't multitask at
>> all
>> and am thinking of going back to XP if this is all the faster I can go,
>> even
>> though I spent over $300 to buy Vista (I have Ultimate coming). Right now
>> I
>> have Home Premium.
>