viper opened this issue on May 14, 2007 · 7 posts
viper posted Mon, 14 May 2007 at 7:32 PM
does anyone have any good idea's and or links for maximizing vista performance?
inshaala posted Tue, 15 May 2007 at 1:15 AM
installing XP? ;)
Just get rid of all the fancy visual stuff because when you get down to it, it's just that... fancy. No idea where to find the options because i dont have it but i would imagine under the vista "control panel" and "display options" or whatever they call it.
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PeeWee05 posted Tue, 15 May 2007 at 4:30 AM
Viper - vista has a very Microsoft set base, it's possible to change some settings but is no where never as friendly as XP. Microsoft have taken the user out of this version and put what they want in, if you don't like what you get you've got lots of time to change most features,
I agree with Rich - install XP, it uses less mem and your graphic programs with be using the graphic card not Vista sucking all the graphics RAM in their background processes.
This is all I know from reviews and other ppl's experiences...
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viper posted Tue, 15 May 2007 at 6:05 AM
Thanks guys I have thought about installing xp, but dont want to shell out the money for it as the legal copy I have is part of the dell package and I'm not sure I can install it from the dell discs.
PeeWee05 posted Tue, 15 May 2007 at 6:13 AM
That's one thing I don't like about prebuilt PCs and laptops is you've gotta deal with the software that they give you...
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viper posted Tue, 15 May 2007 at 6:28 AM
yep right there with you, maybe with vista out now I can find me a discounted copy of xp seeing as how it is now "obsolete". Vista is pretty though.
Onslow posted Tue, 15 May 2007 at 11:42 AM
Vista is not only pretty it is also better in many ways.
The initial question is back to front IMHO
It is not a case of how to maximise Vista, but how Vista is going to maximise the performance of your pc.
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