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lespes

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Computer geeky tech knowledge help required

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

Sat May 08 2010 9:25pm

bcp

Member Since: 11 Oct 2005
Location: East of Scotland
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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.

Sat May 08 2010 9:35pm

Kaine

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

Sat May 08 2010 10:10pm

NightFox

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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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Sun May 09 2010 9:24am

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Sun May 09 2010 9:42am

Kaine

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Very Annoyed wrote:
Get a Mac!

along with finding the extra money to buy one

Sun May 09 2010 9:52am

Worzel

Member Since: 27 May 2009
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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.

Sun May 09 2010 2:12pm

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get W7 !
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Mon May 10 2010 6:10am

lespes

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Quote:
Get a Mac!

Is it raining

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

Mon May 10 2010 9:07am

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