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G6HJP > VISTA 26.11.07 11:24l 92 Lines 4157 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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>From: EI3DIB@EI3DIB.#TIPP.IRL.EU
>To : VISTA@WW
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>Well having no BB connection in our little village yet all be we are
>prommised, but having relations in Local town with access Etc Etc
>
>I Finaly decided to allow myself the pleasure of a New Laptop as the pre Xmas
>offers were getting rather tempting.
>
>So a 1.5 Gig Intel Duo Core 32 BIT CPU 2 Gig RAM and 160 Gig HD arrived.
>
>It came pre loaded with Vista and of course one of my first moves was to
>visit a friend and using the wirless link, update just about everything I
>could, install AVG Free and update to Vista required version and also install
>Zone alarm plus again the updates for Vista.
>
>Now much of what is currently on the laptop is simular to my Main PC which
>has a 3.2 Gig Intel CPU 2 Gig RAM and 250 Gig paratitioned HD so all in all
>apart from Vista they are simular, that asside the laptop has a few extra
>bits of harware ? Fingerprint recognition, DTV tuner ( not in use ) DVD/CD RW
>and so on again within reason it is simular to my main PC.
>
>Booting a few days after all the update and installation was completed I was
>wondering why was it so busy and what was it doing ? Ah yes it was running a
>FULL scan by AVG, ok so no problem apart from the fact it was taking so long.
>
>My laptop scanned 171,320 objects and took 1Hr 15Min to complete.
>Just out of Interest I set the P4 to do the same.
>My P4 which as I say has XP-PRO scanned 48,854 objects and took just 24 Min.
>
>Given that as far as I am the user and have tried to configure it to have the
>same and or simular software to the P4 then I must conclude that VISTA is
>responcible for the extra 130,000+ files and just under an hour of AVG scan
>time ?
>
>If I was sure I could get drivers for everything I would install XP-PRO onto
>the laptop, so many things have been said about Vista on this mode and so far
>as I can gather the ONLY people who are happy is Microsoft !!!
>
>What a load of rubish, I remember the old days of my C64 and BASIC when the
>BUZZ word for new PCs was " Backward Compatible " Nothing about Vista apears
>to conform to that one.
>
>
>
> Best 73 from John, Sysop @ EI3DIB.#TIPP.IRL.EU
>
After reading your note, I can say that you have fallen for the microsoft
trap, like so many others. The Vista system has been completely redesigned
by MS and a lot of additional 'things' like Aero, UAC and SideBar that one
really requires a lot better machine now to run Vista.
Your comment about the number of files scanned by AVG bears out this
situation, so the only way to get a good ar perhaps a better performance for
Vista is to get a Quad or min DUAL Processor machine!
Wonder if you know that you can opt for XP to be loaded onto the laptop by
the seller? this happened recently due to all the comments like yours
flying about.
Ref ytour test with VG it is not really the best way to compare a machine, as
the files don't match, what one neees to do is run a benchmark program on
both and compare the differences then, once you have decided that Vista is
slower ( not due to number of files it has) then one can turn off the Aero
and additional features of Vista and compare again, I think after turning off
these 'gadgets' you will find an improvement, but albeit fairly small.
My suggestion then is to get your old PC's CD and reload everything on the
new one and abandon Vista, but before you do that, visit the manufactures web
site and download ALL the drivers for your machine!!!
Good luck.
Peter, Sysop - G6HJP @ GB7PFD.#48.GBR.EU
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