Vista Slowness

I recently purchased a new pc with Vista Premium Home package and noticed
right off the bat that it seems to be slow or clunky.
I noted that the pc has 1 gig of ram and wanted to know if I really need to
add more ram for Vista to work well.
Does Vista need more ram?

"mcannon1964" <> wrote in message
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>I recently purchased a new pc with Vista Premium Home package and noticed
> right off the bat that it seems to be slow or clunky.
> I noted that the pc has 1 gig of ram and wanted to know if I really need
> to
> add more ram for Vista to work well.
> Does Vista need more ram?



Yes, Vista is pretty slow. I have a very fast PC with RAID-0 WD Raptor
drives, and it still doesn't feel particularly fast with Vista. Some of
this slowness may be addressed in the future, with updates.

One gigabyte of RAM is really the minimum you should be running Vista with.
Things will be faster with an additional gig, especially if you have more
than one or two applications running at the same time.

ss.

"mcannon1964" <> wrote in message
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>I recently purchased a new pc with Vista Premium Home package and noticed
> right off the bat that it seems to be slow or clunky.
> I noted that the pc has 1 gig of ram and wanted to know if I really need
> to
> add more ram for Vista to work well.
> Does Vista need more ram?


Rest of the PC specs, please. Provide make and model. Desktop or laptop?
Before considering more RAM, what kinds of software came installed on the
PC, and what starts automatically when you boot?
I'm asking because I purchased a new laptop a while back and spent the first
few hours removing all the "junkware" the manufacturer had installed.

In general, I'd say that an extra Gig of memory would be a good thing,
especially as DDR2 memory is insanely cheap right now.

The IE7 phishing filter slows the loading of websites, but can be turned off
in IE7 tools..

File indexing is initially slow, but gets better as time goes on.. however,
sometimes Vista seems to forget and will inexplicably slow up again on
occasion..

Network file transfer is generally slow, but can surprise now and again..

As with XP, it takes a little time to bed in.. :-)



"mcannon1964" <> wrote in message
news:76F777F4-07E3-404E-98F6-...
>I recently purchased a new pc with Vista Premium Home package and noticed
> right off the bat that it seems to be slow or clunky.
> I noted that the pc has 1 gig of ram and wanted to know if I really need
> to
> add more ram for Vista to work well.
> Does Vista need more ram?

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

Extra RAM will not speed up Vista hard drive operations which are time by
your wrist watch slower than identical operations in XP. This includes basic
chores like installing programs, program startup, moving files, etc.
Extra RAM can not solve Vista's fatal networking flaws.
Extra RAM should help in operations like processing large files in
Photoshop, video editing, games.
More RAM will not make any difference in things like word processing, web
surfing etc unless you have too many background programs running needlessly,
which most people do. Even then the differences will not be startling.

>As with XP, it takes a little time to bed in..

More MVP Vista propaganda? You know everyone who has brains can see right
through you.

Vista is crap and its slow.. XP is far faster on the same hardware...

I think you need a 4 core to get the same response from vista compared with
a single core and XP.



"Mike Hall - MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> The IE7 phishing filter slows the loading of websites, but can be turned
> off in IE7 tools..
>
> File indexing is initially slow, but gets better as time goes on..
> however, sometimes Vista seems to forget and will inexplicably slow up
> again on occasion..
>
> Network file transfer is generally slow, but can surprise now and again..
>
> As with XP, it takes a little time to bed in.. :-)
>
>
>
> "mcannon1964" <> wrote in message
> news:76F777F4-07E3-404E-98F6-...
>>I recently purchased a new pc with Vista Premium Home package and noticed
>> right off the bat that it seems to be slow or clunky.
>> I noted that the pc has 1 gig of ram and wanted to know if I really need
>> to
>> add more ram for Vista to work well.
>> Does Vista need more ram?
>
> --
>
>
> Mike Hall
> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>
>
>

I did see however a chart showing that 2 gigs did have a significant
improvment over 1


"nsag" <> wrote in message
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> Extra RAM will not speed up Vista hard drive operations which are time by
> your wrist watch slower than identical operations in XP. This includes
> basic chores like installing programs, program startup, moving files, etc.
> Extra RAM can not solve Vista's fatal networking flaws.
> Extra RAM should help in operations like processing large files in
> Photoshop, video editing, games.
> More RAM will not make any difference in things like word processing, web
> surfing etc unless you have too many background programs running
> needlessly, which most people do. Even then the differences will not be
> startling.

It does need a little time..

It is not crap but does undoubtedly have issues..

The issues do not affect everything in Vista..

Win 2000 was faster than XP on the same hardware..

Quad core does not improve network transfer rates.. that has yet to be
fixed..

Some can see right through you..


"carl feredeck" <> wrote in message
news:...
> >As with XP, it takes a little time to bed in..
>
> More MVP Vista propaganda? You know everyone who has brains can see right
> through you.
>
> Vista is crap and its slow.. XP is far faster on the same hardware...
>
> I think you need a 4 core to get the same response from vista compared
> with a single core and XP.
>
>
>
> "Mike Hall - MVP" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> The IE7 phishing filter slows the loading of websites, but can be turned
>> off in IE7 tools..
>>
>> File indexing is initially slow, but gets better as time goes on..
>> however, sometimes Vista seems to forget and will inexplicably slow up
>> again on occasion..
>>
>> Network file transfer is generally slow, but can surprise now and again..
>>
>> As with XP, it takes a little time to bed in.. :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> "mcannon1964" <> wrote in message
>> news:76F777F4-07E3-404E-98F6-...
>>>I recently purchased a new pc with Vista Premium Home package and noticed
>>> right off the bat that it seems to be slow or clunky.
>>> I noted that the pc has 1 gig of ram and wanted to know if I really need
>>> to
>>> add more ram for Vista to work well.
>>> Does Vista need more ram?
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Mike Hall
>> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
>> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>>
>>
>>
>
>

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

Depending on what you do, more RAM may help.
Many feel 1 GB is the minimum with 2 GB being necessary for some.
For my desktop, 1 GB is insufficient, but it will run.

Find out what is running at startup.
It is normal for the OEMs to have a lot of unnecessary programs
running at start-up.
Look in the Control Panel by "Programs" and see if there is anything
you do not need installed.
Often the OEMs have many of these running by default.

Do you have Norton AV installed?
If so you will probably see a performance gain if you uninstall it and
install Nod 32 or the free AVG.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"mcannon1964" <> wrote in message
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>I recently purchased a new pc with Vista Premium Home package and
>noticed
> right off the bat that it seems to be slow or clunky.
> I noted that the pc has 1 gig of ram and wanted to know if I really
> need to
> add more ram for Vista to work well.
> Does Vista need more ram?

I have both sitting side by side and I defy anyone to time any appreciable
difference in any operation. My network have no fatal flaws that I have
been able to discern. The only slowness is caused by Virus protectors,
firewalls and unnecessary program loading,

--
Ian

"nsag" <> wrote in message
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> Extra RAM will not speed up Vista hard drive operations which are time by
> your wrist watch slower than identical operations in XP. This includes
> basic chores like installing programs, program startup, moving files, etc.
> Extra RAM can not solve Vista's fatal networking flaws.
> Extra RAM should help in operations like processing large files in
> Photoshop, video editing, games.
> More RAM will not make any difference in things like word processing, web
> surfing etc unless you have too many background programs running
> needlessly, which most people do. Even then the differences will not be
> startling.
>