Please keep it simple for me, not to much tech speak.

Had the misfortune to update desktop and laptop when only windows vista was available.

The laptop though a better spec than my old one still runs a lot slower than windows XP and desktop runs about the same as old one but once again is a better spec

So the question is, would I gain a better performance by updating to Windows 7 and ditching the vista

Try increasing your virtual memory. My laptop had really slowed down and this made a real difference. Google virtual memory and there is a MS page.

Vista is inherently slow - in fact an awful operating system. Windows7 will run much quicker - it transformed my laptop when I upgraded

Yes, don't waste time and effort trying to tune Vista for better performance, just upgrade to Windows 7, ideally doing a fresh installation once you've copied all the stuff you want to keep Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1.8::MG Montego Turbo::MGB GT::Rover Sterling::MGF::MG ZT 190+
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Get a Mac!

along with finding the extra money to buy one

Vista is a very slow, resource hogging OS, Windows 7 would improve the performance of the machine.

What specs are the laptop & the pc?

Do u run Mcafee? Norton? Sophos?

All these AV products are memory / resource hoggers...

Run MSCONFIG and remove unwanted startup items that only need to run when you need them.

get W7 !  
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Get a Mac!

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To the rest thanks for the input will look into getting win 7