Why is Vista so slow?? It SUCKS

I have used programs from MSDOS to Vista and by far Vista is the worst
program of the lot. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Without exception,
everytime I attempt to open a window, it takes for ever for the progress bar
at the bottom to fillup and more often than not, I have to give up and start
over. It is like it is stuck in a perpetual loop and just can't finish the
requested task. I am paying for a cable modem and getting dial up results
with Vista. This is fleecing of America. I recently had to purchase a new
laptop and of course it had Vista. If the service pack does ever come and
does not fix the issues with this crappy program, I would be in favor of
filing a class action suit for Microsoft to either fix the issues or replace
the program with XP which was great. Does anyone have any idea when or if
there is a service pack coming?

"Bart" <> wrote in message
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>I have used programs from MSDOS to Vista and by far Vista is the worst
> program of the lot. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Without exception,
> everytime I attempt to open a window, it takes for ever for the progress
> bar
> at the bottom to fillup and more often than not, I have to give up and
> start
> over. It is like it is stuck in a perpetual loop and just can't finish
> the
> requested task. I am paying for a cable modem and getting dial up results
> with Vista. This is fleecing of America. I recently had to purchase a
> new
> laptop and of course it had Vista. If the service pack does ever come and
> does not fix the issues with this crappy program, I would be in favor of
> filing a class action suit for Microsoft to either fix the issues or
> replace
> the program with XP which was great. Does anyone have any idea when or if
> there is a service pack coming?

Sounds like you bought one of those marginally ready Vista machines. Vista
takes a lot of juice to run.

You need to have for a Vista laptop:

- 2 cores, 4 when available
- big hard drive, those check points are nasty
- dedicated video ram, treat UMA and shared memory like a 3000 lb dead
weight you don't need
-3 to 4GB memory
- patience

Should run OK after that. You can skimp on memory to 2GB as long as you 1)
don't do anything other than mail, surf and light word processing only and
2) Don't open too many Windows at once.

Join the club. I want XP Pro x64 suitable for a Q6600 and 8GB. Even my
wife hates Vista.

"Canuck57" wrote:

>
> "Bart" <> wrote in message
> news:7BFB5FF7-87DE-4EA2-B17D-...
> >I have used programs from MSDOS to Vista and by far Vista is the worst
> > program of the lot. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Without exception,
> > everytime I attempt to open a window, it takes for ever for the progress
> > bar
> > at the bottom to fillup and more often than not, I have to give up and
> > start
> > over. It is like it is stuck in a perpetual loop and just can't finish
> > the
> > requested task. I am paying for a cable modem and getting dial up results
> > with Vista. This is fleecing of America. I recently had to purchase a
> > new
> > laptop and of course it had Vista. If the service pack does ever come and
> > does not fix the issues with this crappy program, I would be in favor of
> > filing a class action suit for Microsoft to either fix the issues or
> > replace
> > the program with XP which was great. Does anyone have any idea when or if
> > there is a service pack coming?
>
> Sounds like you bought one of those marginally ready Vista machines. Vista
> takes a lot of juice to run.
>
> You need to have for a Vista laptop:
>
> - 2 cores, 4 when available
> - big hard drive, those check points are nasty
> - dedicated video ram, treat UMA and shared memory like a 3000 lb dead
> weight you don't need
> -3 to 4GB memory
> - patience
>
> Should run OK after that. You can skimp on memory to 2GB as long as you 1)
> don't do anything other than mail, surf and light word processing only and
> 2) Don't open too many Windows at once.
>
> Join the club. I want XP Pro x64 suitable for a Q6600 and 8GB. Even my
> wife hates Vista.
>
> Thanks for the information and speedy answer. I seem to have purchased a new computer that is not even close to what you suggested I need. Good old HP and Microsoft had struck again. The American Public is the loser. I will see if this thing can accept any upgrades. It is a dv2432nr, who knows??

"Bart" <> wrote in message
news:7BFB5FF7-87DE-4EA2-B17D-...
>I have used programs from MSDOS to Vista and by far Vista is the worst
> program of the lot. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Without exception,
> everytime I attempt to open a window, it takes for ever for the progress
> bar
> at the bottom to fillup and more often than not, I have to give up and
> start
> over. It is like it is stuck in a perpetual loop and just can't finish
> the
> requested task. I am paying for a cable modem and getting dial up results
> with Vista. This is fleecing of America. I recently had to purchase a
> new
> laptop and of course it had Vista. If the service pack does ever come and
> does not fix the issues with this crappy program, I would be in favor of
> filing a class action suit for Microsoft to either fix the issues or
> replace
> the program with XP which was great. Does anyone have any idea when or if
> there is a service pack coming?


Please list the hardware specs of your computer.

Lang

"Bart" <> wrote in message
news:7BFB5FF7-87DE-4EA2-B17D-...
>I have used programs from MSDOS to Vista and by far Vista is the worst
> program of the lot.

program?


>Maybe I am doing something wrong. Without exception,
> everytime I attempt to open a window, it takes for ever for the progress
> bar
> at the bottom to fillup and more often than not, I have to give up and
> start
> over. It is like it is stuck in a perpetual loop and just can't finish
> the
> requested task. I am paying for a cable modem and getting dial up results
> with Vista. This is fleecing of America.

Phew so long as it's only America. The rest of us can sleep soundly.
Check back to the other thread you started saying exactly the same thing,
you'll find some people are trying to help you.



I recently had to purchase a new
> laptop and of course it had Vista. If the service pack does ever come and
> does not fix the issues with this crappy program, I would be in favor of
> filing a class action suit for Microsoft to either fix the issues or
> replace
> the program with XP which was great. Does anyone have any idea when or if
> there is a service pack coming?

Are you sure it's a Vista thing? If you've got weak hardware then no number
of service packs are going to fix that.

"Jay" <> wrote in message
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> "Bart" <> wrote in message
> news:7BFB5FF7-87DE-4EA2-B17D-...

>>Maybe I am doing something wrong.

> Check back to the other thread you started saying exactly the same thing,
> you'll find some people are trying to help you.

Apologies, you didn't start that thread.... you were replying to it.
Check the thread, I posted a link explaining WEI for you

"Bart" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Canuck57" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Bart" <> wrote in message
>> news:7BFB5FF7-87DE-4EA2-B17D-...
>> >I have used programs from MSDOS to Vista and by far Vista is the worst
>> > program of the lot. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Without
>> > exception,
>> > everytime I attempt to open a window, it takes for ever for the
>> > progress
>> > bar
>> > at the bottom to fillup and more often than not, I have to give up and
>> > start
>> > over. It is like it is stuck in a perpetual loop and just can't finish
>> > the
>> > requested task. I am paying for a cable modem and getting dial up
>> > results
>> > with Vista. This is fleecing of America. I recently had to purchase a
>> > new
>> > laptop and of course it had Vista. If the service pack does ever come
>> > and
>> > does not fix the issues with this crappy program, I would be in favor
>> > of
>> > filing a class action suit for Microsoft to either fix the issues or
>> > replace
>> > the program with XP which was great. Does anyone have any idea when or
>> > if
>> > there is a service pack coming?
>>
>> Sounds like you bought one of those marginally ready Vista machines.
>> Vista
>> takes a lot of juice to run.
>>
>> You need to have for a Vista laptop:
>>
>> - 2 cores, 4 when available
>> - big hard drive, those check points are nasty
>> - dedicated video ram, treat UMA and shared memory like a 3000 lb dead
>> weight you don't need
>> -3 to 4GB memory
>> - patience
>>
>> Should run OK after that. You can skimp on memory to 2GB as long as you
>> 1)
>> don't do anything other than mail, surf and light word processing only
>> and
>> 2) Don't open too many Windows at once.
>>
>> Join the club. I want XP Pro x64 suitable for a Q6600 and 8GB. Even my
>> wife hates Vista.
>>
>> Thanks for the information and speedy answer. I seem to have purchased a
>> new computer that is not even close to what you suggested I need. Good
>> old HP and Microsoft had struck again. The American Public is the loser.
>> I will see if this thing can accept any upgrades. It is a dv2432nr, who
>> knows??

HP implementaions of laptops with Vista are notorious for being
underpowered. In any case, I am running XP on two laptops, one HP of the
dv***nr vintage and a MacBook with VM Fusion...both work great. ((and I will
not get into any wars here, because the Mac screwed up a lot with Leopard
and iLife8!! Fortunately, I got rid of both upgrades...the whole industry
has no clue))

I've an HP machine as well — an a6230n model desktop. It's far from the
high-end version, but it isn't slow, either. The only thing it's not good at
is 3D gaming, which I don't do, and I researched that before I bought. The
WEI rating for that is only 3, and 3.1 for Aero. But for the processor it's
5.3; for RAM, it's 5.9; for the primary hard disk, 5.6. So no, it isn't slow
for what I want it to do, which is MS Office apps and photo editing.

Have you added ReadyBoost via a USB thumb drive? I don't know if that would
help with your particular problem, but anything is worth trying.

As far as the Internet goes, I'm connected through ADSL, which is usually
slower than cable, and also on a wireless network to a router downstairs in
our home — which slows things down yet again. But the speed is still fine
for most purposes, although downloads take longer than they would on a
direct connection.

Fleecing? Not here. But then, this isn't a laptop.
LesleyO
(who also started on a PC with the DOS operating system, and before that, a
Commodore 64.)

"Bart" <> wrote in message
news:7BFB5FF7-87DE-4EA2-B17D-...
>I have used programs from MSDOS to Vista and by far Vista is the worst
> program of the lot. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Without exception,
> everytime I attempt to open a window, it takes for ever for the progress
> bar
> at the bottom to fillup and more often than not, I have to give up and
> start
> over. It is like it is stuck in a perpetual loop and just can't finish
> the
> requested task. I am paying for a cable modem and getting dial up results
> with Vista. This is fleecing of America. I recently had to purchase a
> new
> laptop and of course it had Vista. If the service pack does ever come and
> does not fix the issues with this crappy program, I would be in favor of
> filing a class action suit for Microsoft to either fix the issues or
> replace
> the program with XP which was great. Does anyone have any idea when or if
> there is a service pack coming?

"Canuck57" <dave-> wrote in message
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>
>
> You need to have for a Vista laptop:
>
> - 2 cores, 4 when available
> - big hard drive, those check points are nasty
> - dedicated video ram, treat UMA and shared memory like a 3000 lb dead
> weight you don't need
> -3 to 4GB memory
> - patience
>

Well I don't know what YOU use a laptop for, mine runs perfectly well
(Office 2007) on 2 core, 1GB RAM and an 80GB HDD. (Though I'm not sure
EXACTLY why you should need a "big" hard drive...)

"Bart" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Canuck57" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Bart" <> wrote in message
>> news:7BFB5FF7-87DE-4EA2-B17D-...
>> >I have used programs from MSDOS to Vista and by far Vista is the worst
>> > program of the lot. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Without
>> > exception,
>> > everytime I attempt to open a window, it takes for ever for the
>> > progress
>> > bar
>> > at the bottom to fillup and more often than not, I have to give up and
>> > start
>> > over. It is like it is stuck in a perpetual loop and just can't finish
>> > the
>> > requested task. I am paying for a cable modem and getting dial up
>> > results
>> > with Vista. This is fleecing of America. I recently had to purchase a
>> > new
>> > laptop and of course it had Vista. If the service pack does ever come
>> > and
>> > does not fix the issues with this crappy program, I would be in favor
>> > of
>> > filing a class action suit for Microsoft to either fix the issues or
>> > replace
>> > the program with XP which was great. Does anyone have any idea when or
>> > if
>> > there is a service pack coming?
>>
>> Sounds like you bought one of those marginally ready Vista machines.
>> Vista
>> takes a lot of juice to run.
>>
>> You need to have for a Vista laptop:
>>
>> - 2 cores, 4 when available
>> - big hard drive, those check points are nasty
>> - dedicated video ram, treat UMA and shared memory like a 3000 lb dead
>> weight you don't need
>> -3 to 4GB memory
>> - patience
>>
>> Should run OK after that. You can skimp on memory to 2GB as long as you
>> 1)
>> don't do anything other than mail, surf and light word processing only
>> and
>> 2) Don't open too many Windows at once.
>>
>> Join the club. I want XP Pro x64 suitable for a Q6600 and 8GB. Even my
>> wife hates Vista.
>>
>> Thanks for the information and speedy answer. I seem to have purchased a
>> new computer that is not even close to what you suggested I need. Good
>> old HP and Microsoft had struck again. The American Public is the loser.
>> I will see if this thing can accept any upgrades. It is a dv2432nr, who
>> knows??

Bart

Is this the model?:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...=41446&lang=en

Better specs than my Compaq laptop and I have none of the problems you
detail. Apart from posting here what steps have you taken?

Check for Malware etc
Speak to your ISP
Speak to Vendor
Speak to HP


You have warranty I presume - exercise your rights - you have paid for them.

I too have migrated all the way from DOS 3.5 and although there are a few
things in Vista I don't like, I've no complaints about its performance.

Bill