Why does Vista

Why does Vista sit there for ages after pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del , and
entering username and passwords. Its just says "Welcome" with a spinny
circle. 2-3 minutes later the desktop arrives!
Nothing in the event log, same laptop with XP installed does the
applying/loading personal seetings in about 10-15 seconds.

Why does Vista when on the logon screen change the "Logon to" part from the
domain the local PC name when i type "Administrator" in the box? Does not do
it on any other account!, very annoying having to type domain\administrator
on the main logon screen.

Why does Vista take 4x longer to install anything than XP does on my laptop?
XP installed the standalone flash player in less than 10 seconds. Minutes
later i'm still waiting for Vista to get on with it.

Why when i open our shared area thats on our 2003 server does Vista take
more than 5 minutes to load it, when XP does it in less than 1 second? No
matter which hardware i try Vista on, same result.

Think somebody needs to start selling XP again, it works.

It sounds like DNS is misconfigured. Please post the results of ipconfig
/all from the Vista computer and the domain controller it authenticates to.?

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



"David Lawton" <> wrote in message
news:E7D1EBDD-FBFB-4784-9E59-...
> Why does Vista sit there for ages after pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del , and
> entering username and passwords. Its just says "Welcome" with a spinny
> circle. 2-3 minutes later the desktop arrives!
> Nothing in the event log, same laptop with XP installed does the
> applying/loading personal seetings in about 10-15 seconds.
>
> Why does Vista when on the logon screen change the "Logon to" part from
> the
> domain the local PC name when i type "Administrator" in the box? Does not
> do
> it on any other account!, very annoying having to type
> domain\administrator
> on the main logon screen.
>
> Why does Vista take 4x longer to install anything than XP does on my
> laptop?
> XP installed the standalone flash player in less than 10 seconds. Minutes
> later i'm still waiting for Vista to get on with it.
>
> Why when i open our shared area thats on our 2003 server does Vista take
> more than 5 minutes to load it, when XP does it in less than 1 second? No
> matter which hardware i try Vista on, same result.
>
> Think somebody needs to start selling XP again, it works.

Sounds to me like your laptop isn't up to the job of running Vista. Stick
to XP.

SteveT

"Steve Thackery" wrote:

> Sounds to me like your laptop isn't up to the job of running Vista. Stick
> to XP.
>
> SteveT
>
>
Sounds more like a DNS problem.

Installing service pack 1 will minimise the log-on delay period as well as
reduce the time taken to browse network shares.

"David Lawton" <> wrote in message
news:E7D1EBDD-FBFB-4784-9E59-...
Why does Vista sit there for ages after pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del , and
entering username and passwords. Its just says "Welcome" with a spinny
circle. 2-3 minutes later the desktop arrives!
Nothing in the event log, same laptop with XP installed does the
applying/loading personal seetings in about 10-15 seconds.

Why does Vista when on the logon screen change the "Logon to" part from the
domain the local PC name when i type "Administrator" in the box? Does not do
it on any other account!, very annoying having to type domain\administrator
on the main logon screen.

Why does Vista take 4x longer to install anything than XP does on my laptop?
XP installed the standalone flash player in less than 10 seconds. Minutes
later i'm still waiting for Vista to get on with it.

Why when i open our shared area thats on our 2003 server does Vista take
more than 5 minutes to load it, when XP does it in less than 1 second? No
matter which hardware i try Vista on, same result.

Think somebody needs to start selling XP again, it works.

Vista is the worst piece of trash ever pushed on the public...I uninstalled
it returned to xp pro and put the $130.00 vista disk in the shredder....

"Hiren" <> wrote in message
news430BDFD-C792-4CDD-8E35-...
> Installing service pack 1 will minimise the log-on delay period as well as
> reduce the time taken to browse network shares.
>
> "David Lawton" <> wrote in message
> news:E7D1EBDD-FBFB-4784-9E59-...
> Why does Vista sit there for ages after pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del , and
> entering username and passwords. Its just says "Welcome" with a spinny
> circle. 2-3 minutes later the desktop arrives!
> Nothing in the event log, same laptop with XP installed does the
> applying/loading personal seetings in about 10-15 seconds.
>
> Why does Vista when on the logon screen change the "Logon to" part from
> the
> domain the local PC name when i type "Administrator" in the box? Does not
> do
> it on any other account!, very annoying having to type
> domain\administrator
> on the main logon screen.
>
> Why does Vista take 4x longer to install anything than XP does on my
> laptop?
> XP installed the standalone flash player in less than 10 seconds. Minutes
> later i'm still waiting for Vista to get on with it.
>
> Why when i open our shared area thats on our 2003 server does Vista take
> more than 5 minutes to load it, when XP does it in less than 1 second? No
> matter which hardware i try Vista on, same result.
>
> Think somebody needs to start selling XP again, it works.
>

jrt is the worst piece of trash ever to post on the newsgroup...I wish I
could "uninstall"
him and put him in the shredder....

"jrt" <> wrote in message
news:#...

> Vista is the worst piece of trash ever pushed on the public...I
uninstalled
> it returned to xp pro and put the $130.00 vista disk in the shredder....

"jrt" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Vista is the worst piece of trash ever pushed on the public...I
> uninstalled it returned to xp pro and put the $130.00 vista disk in the
> shredder....
>

Then you're an idiot.

Gordon wrote:
> "jrt" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Vista is the worst piece of trash ever pushed on the public...I
>> uninstalled it returned to xp pro and put the $130.00 vista disk in
>> the shredder....
>>
>
> Then you're an idiot.

Very classy response Gordo. While I'm not a fan of Vista and wouldn't put
it through the shredder, perhaps it performs so poorly for some that this
act offers satisfaction. Note to jrt: Had I shredded the purchased Vista
disk I would have at least mailed it back to MS.