VISTA is sooo slow.. Anyone can help?

I have a question, I am going to buy a new dell desktop in the coming months and I don't want vista. I have an unsed 64bit XP pro disk. Could I install that, or do I need a 32bit program?

 

why the hell MS made a OS which eats up so of system resources , they should have left some for poor programms

i dont use vista as i think it is a crappy product ,
u can try disabling vista Aero and other flashy things , get unnecessary programs off u r running list
that will help a bit

 

Get XP, It's the best.

 

Most people aren't getting 4gb of ram when the buy a new cpu. If it takes that much to run vista smoothly then we have a problem..

 

Get XP Is Best
But For Me VIsta Rocks

 

Meh, Vista is soooo slow. And It crashes too much.

 

getting 4Gb of Ram nd wasting it on Vista is the least thing that i would advise

 

New service pack is coming for xp very soon, this only tells me that XP is still the king OS at M$, if they are still devoting time to work on an old OS. I personally don't like vista because of all of the windows and boxes that pop up for everything you do. My pc can run vista as quick as it is supposed to run, but XP runs 10x faster.

 

All you need for XP is 512MB. But add 4GB to XP and it will be running faster than Danny Divito to a Buffet table.

 

They said sometime in 2008 they are going to stop the XP updates

 

Vista is doing "Windows updates" about 100 Mo per week here .... I will need to upgrade my Internet connection ;-)
My advice: keep XP

 

use XP til they get sp2 out

 

To run Vista efficiently you need at least 2 Gigs of memory. 3 Gigs is recommended.

I have Vista and 3 Gigs of memory and it runs fast.

 

I wouldn't intasll the 64 bit version yet because hardly no apps work with it.

 

Enhance your hardware,then they will fast

 

Upgrade your video card to one that supports directx 10 also.

 

Yea, Much suggested by me also

 

I don't like vista, in fact I'm using microsoft NT on the laptop and linux on work pc. I have pretty powerful computers though my laptop is DELL xps m1710

 

it's insane how slow vista is, my via c7 800mhz computer runs windows 2000 beater then my new duel core laptop running vista. not to mention file copying, moving, unzipping speeds suck.

i do like the networking in vista though but i hate that they had to re-arrange everything again.

ill wait for the first service pack to see if file transfer speeds improve otherwise im going to install xp.

 

Vista is fine now. My laptop is 2 years old and it has 2 gigs for Ram and it runs very fast. I have the SP1 RC installed and its just perfect. No lags, no blue screens, no nothing, it just runs smooth.