Comments on: Another Windows Vista Speed Tweak?

By: Hoopskidoodle

Hoopskidoodle — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:02:25 +0000

My advise would be not to attempt running Vista on a computer that doesn’t have the horse power necessary for it to run smoothly.

My desktop is a fairly middle of the road quad core affair with 8GB of 800Mhz RAM (RAM is cheap. So there is no reason not to max out your motherboard). Even with Superfetch enabled, it boots snappily.

If your system doesn’t, then use a different OS, Damn Small Linux perhaps.

By: Attendees | Gnomedex

Attendees | Gnomedex — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:12:04 +0000

[...] Another Windows Vista Speed Tweak? October 27, 2007 - 12:00pm “TheDub” keeps coming up with suggestions for making Vista snappier. Far be it from me to keep his findings a secret. I thought I would mention another thing. (...) [...]

By: Rick H

Rick H — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:55:47 +0000

i installed vista and have had no problems with it runs faster than xp ever did on my systems.

on my laptop i installed vista basic because i knew it would not run the premium versions. i got burnt with xp when it came out trying to run it on a system that just did not have the power to run it.

it was a 500mhz with 500mb of ram it came with win98 but xp did not like it at all.

my advice is run the right version of vista for the system your trying to run it on.

By: Josh Swannack

Josh Swannack — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:30:14 +0000

Vista = :(

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:40:33 +0000

Yep its much better thanks a lot…
I noticed a substantial speed reduction when I upgraded to vista
from XP and I agree with you on your thoughts about leopard and vista,
Vista feels like XP just with a different visual theme but more power hungry and pricier.
We should already be seeing improvements in speed and efficiency if this has taken 5 or 6 years to “complete” and especially with all that error reporting that’s in the XP, wouldn’t they have at least some user point of view?

By: Requiem Dsouza

Requiem Dsouza — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:18:19 +0000

Tweak Vista?? What crap…
I installed Vista Ultimate on my Toshiba Satellite A120(which said vista ready) With a gig of Ram and 2Ghz Duo, it took me on an average of 1 minute 15 seconds to boot. Alt-Tab took around 25 seconds!!!!.. yeah 25 seconds…. that`s crazy. Immediately after, i moved to Ubuntu 7.04 (Fiesty Fawn) and i love it. I have the lastest ubuntu 7.10 gutsy on my machine. Havent booted into windows for like 3 months though i have it on my machine …:-)… I use a voip client to get in touch with my family in the US, that`s the only time when i need windows as the client is not available on ubuntu yet. I just fire up VirtualBox (a virtualisation software that i downloaded for free), where i have windows xp installed as an image (windows xp runs just like an application on Ubuntu). I`m impressed with ubuntu.. have been using it for the past 3 months and i love it. Installing software is so easy .. no need to worry about licensing. just select software you want to install on in the add/remove manager and click on install. It downloads all the cool free software and installs it in a jiffy (depending on your internet connection).

So just wanted to mention that i`m no more looking for those stupid “speed up vista” tweaks no more…:-).. happy with ubuntu..:-)))

Requeim.

By: Jason Frankel

Jason Frankel — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:04:28 +0000

Yup – I disabled Superfetch too. Tried for a long time to leave it running but finally after enough procmon sessions I finally dumped. Haven’t looked back since.

After a lot of tuning Vista is running faster for me too but I suspect that with the same amount of effort put into tweaking XP would be running around the same. If you haven’t seen process tamer you may want to take a look. It’s one of my favorites for boosting performance.

By: seiUnPirla

seiUnPirla — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:19:32 +0000

ma quanto sei idiota chris pirillo? Una persona più imbecille di te che va a disabilitare il superfetch… che pirla!