westf27
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| posted on 4/7/07 at 03:53 PM |
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PC running Vista
Bought new pc tower preloaded with vista buts its slow and despite 512mb ram which i am told is not enough i am fed up with it.I assume vista is on a
partition on the hard drive and can get restored or duplicated as necessary.Thinking i'll copy xp onto my drive which should run ok with the
ram.Bit of a dummy so how best to do it or am i wasting my time/cant be done.I have xp restore disks from a previous pc of the same make and also a
full copy of xp professional.Any help appreciated
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RazMan
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| posted on 4/7/07 at 04:11 PM |
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Keep Vista and just stick 1Gb (ideally 2Gb) of ram in there - you won't regret it 
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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mookaloid
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| posted on 4/7/07 at 04:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by RazMan
Keep Vista and just stick 1Gb (ideally 2Gb) of ram in there - you won't regret it
As above
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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McLannahan
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| posted on 4/7/07 at 04:48 PM |
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Have 2 Gig in my PC's running Vista and it's quite good. Price of RAM is so reasonable at the moment. £30 or less will see you upgrading
the laptop to something decent!
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britishtrident
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| posted on 4/7/07 at 05:25 PM |
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Even with Xp Pro 1gb is the norm these days, 2 to 4 for Vista.
Turn down the special effects.
Also if you have Norton installed ditch it for something less resource hogging such as Free Anti-Vir , and check what MS rubbish is running (ie
indexing).
Down load HijackThis run it -- it is good for showing unwanted stuff on a new Pc.
pre-installed
Loading Skype a start up can also put a drag on performance.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 4/7/07 at 05:27 PM |
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Change the theme to windows classic, it'll make it all look like w2000(ish) but it does make a big difference.
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westf27
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| posted on 4/7/07 at 05:44 PM |
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thanks ya all
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