Vista way too slow

Just purchased a brand new laptop

Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB

I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.

You have too problems. Norton is one of them. Use AVG or Avast in place of
it.

The other is lack of memory. Look to upgrade to 1gb at least.


"Ricardo" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
> Just purchased a brand new laptop
>
> Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB
>
> I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
> an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
> any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
> Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.
>

na its not norton its your ram as you only have 512 mb. vista uses lots of
ram as a mininum you should use 1024 mb but this can still runs using over
50% at all times so you maybe better to upgrade to a 2gb ram memmory. there
is a sidebar tool to help you show how much ram you are using if you right
click the sidebar click add gadget and its called cpu meter it has 2
functions one shows the cpu (the big circle) the other shows the ram (the
small circle)


"Ricardo" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
> Just purchased a brand new laptop
>
> Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB
>
> I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
> an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
> any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
> Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.
>

I was told the first of the year may have a Vista recall on machines sold.
Hear anything about that. I have plenty of RAM and a big hard drive and the
start up is very slow, wanted XP Pro on my new laptop but couldn't find it.
Vista seems to have a lot of problems & unhappy customers.
--
DM


"matt hopkins" wrote:

> na its not norton its your ram as you only have 512 mb. vista uses lots of
> ram as a mininum you should use 1024 mb but this can still runs using over
> 50% at all times so you maybe better to upgrade to a 2gb ram memmory. there
> is a sidebar tool to help you show how much ram you are using if you right
> click the sidebar click add gadget and its called cpu meter it has 2
> functions one shows the cpu (the big circle) the other shows the ram (the
> small circle)
>
>
> "Ricardo" <> wrote in message
> news: ups.com...
> > Just purchased a brand new laptop
> >
> > Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB
> >
> > I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
> > an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
> > any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
> > Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.
> >
>
>

Not true. As for a lot of problems & unhappy customers, if you only check hospitals for
information, you will find a lot of sick and unhappy people. That does not be that everyone is
sick.

"Derek M" <> wrote in message
news:34AD92A6-D8CF-4B91-89F9-...
>I was told the first of the year may have a Vista recall on machines sold.
> Hear anything about that. I have plenty of RAM and a big hard drive and the
> start up is very slow, wanted XP Pro on my new laptop but couldn't find it.
> Vista seems to have a lot of problems & unhappy customers.
> --
> DM
>
>
> "matt hopkins" wrote:
>
>> na its not norton its your ram as you only have 512 mb. vista uses lots of
>> ram as a mininum you should use 1024 mb but this can still runs using over
>> 50% at all times so you maybe better to upgrade to a 2gb ram memmory. there
>> is a sidebar tool to help you show how much ram you are using if you right
>> click the sidebar click add gadget and its called cpu meter it has 2
>> functions one shows the cpu (the big circle) the other shows the ram (the
>> small circle)
>>
>>
>> "Ricardo" <> wrote in message
>> news: ups.com...
>> > Just purchased a brand new laptop
>> >
>> > Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB
>> >
>> > I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
>> > an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
>> > any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
>> > Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.
>> >
>>
>>

Review the following:

Open Power Options (its in the Control Panel) and then
place a dot next to High Performance.

Next:

Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
"Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.

Next, perform a Disk Cleanup:

Click on the blue Vista start button and then on the Computer
entry in the Start Menu. Right-click on your hard drive and
select Properties > Disk Cleanup > Files from all users.....
More Options > Clean Up (System Restore and Shadow Copies).

Consider installing addition RAM. If you add an additional
512MB RAM, overall performance will increase significantly.
Visit: http://www.crucial.com/ and run the Crucial System Scanner Tool.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/



"Ricardo" wrote:

> Just purchased a brand new laptop
>
> Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB
>
> I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
> an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
> any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
> Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.
>
>

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:08:09 -0700, "Richard in AZ" <>
wrote:

>Not true. As for a lot of problems & unhappy customers, if you only check hospitals for
>information, you will find a lot of sick and unhappy people. That does not be that everyone is
>sick.

Conversely if anyone is foolish enough to only listen to Vista fanboys
that constantly praise Vista and make up lame excuses for it when it
does something stupid no matter what... they would think Vista is the
greatest thing since sliced bread.

The truth is somewhere in the middle. Vista isn't as bad as some try
to paint it, but it isn't all peaches and cream either. Vista is after
all just another version of Windows. We all know Microsoft is totally
incapable of releasing any version of Windows that doesn't shortly
after release need patches, fixes and service packs. That's called
reality. Fanboys can't handle that sobering truth.

Adam Albright <> wrote in
news::

> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:08:09 -0700, "Richard in AZ" <>
> wrote:
>
>>Not true. As for a lot of problems & unhappy customers, if you only
>>check hospitals for information, you will find a lot of sick and
>>unhappy people. That does not be that everyone is sick.
>
> Conversely if anyone is foolish enough to only listen to Vista fanboys
> that constantly praise Vista and make up lame excuses for it when it
> does something stupid no matter what... they would think Vista is the
> greatest thing since sliced bread.
>
> The truth is somewhere in the middle. Vista isn't as bad as some try
> to paint it, but it isn't all peaches and cream either. Vista is after
> all just another version of Windows. We all know Microsoft is totally
> incapable of releasing any version of Windows that doesn't shortly
> after release need patches, fixes and service packs. That's called
> reality. Fanboys can't handle that sobering truth.
>
>

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On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:53:01 -0700, Ricardo
<> wrote:

> Just purchased a brand new laptop
>
> Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB
>
> I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
> an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
> any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
> Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.



Although Norton Anti-Virus is a dog, that's not your primary problem.
512MB of RAM is way to little to run Vista. How much RAM you need for
decent performance depends on what apps you run, but most people need
at least 2GB.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:09:09 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<> wrote:

>On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:53:01 -0700, Ricardo
><> wrote:
>
>> Just purchased a brand new laptop
>>
>> Toshiba L30-10V Laptop Intel Core Duo T2080 1.73 GHz 512MB
>>
>> I am running windows Vista basic and it is painfully slow , it takes
>> an age to boot up and any command I try to execute just lags forever,
>> any ideas as to how to resolve this, my guess is its the Norton
>> Antivirus but it all came bundled nothing has been added.
>
>
>
>Although Norton Anti-Virus is a dog, that's not your primary problem.
>512MB of RAM is way to little to run Vista. How much RAM you need for
>decent performance depends on what apps you run, but most people need
>at least 2GB.

Odd, Microsoft say 1 GB is enough. I agree. For most people.

Until recently I ran only 1 GB. I caught a sales on a matched pair of
dual channel DIMS and picked up a couple 512 MB slots for pocket
change. After installing guess what, no appreciable gain in
performance and I'm running a ultra high end system with very high FSB
timing and mostly use high end memory hungry applications. The you
need more RAM BS, is just that, urban myth not born out in real world
testing. I agree 512 is too little, but more than 1 GB often is just
wasted.