Hi folks,

Over the holiday period I have been working with a number of Vista installations. OK, nothing fancy, just setting up, wiring, finding drivers and that for the most part.

What I have noticed in most of these is that it seems rather slow by comparison to Win 2000 and XP. The strange thing to me at least is that this does not seem to be directly related to the hardware specification.

This really hit home when I was asked to help a friend with this new box. OK, not the sharpest tool in the shed, but it is an e-machine with an AMD 64 dual core (2.1Gig), a Gig of some sort of DDR2 and a 7200rpm SATAII drive.

I was fixing his old machine which also has Vista Home Premium. Now this one ended up with 512Mb of PC3200 (DDR 400), has a Radeon 9250 (128Mb) video card, and a 7200rpm PATA drive. The processor is an Athlon single core (K7) running at 1.2Gig.

The old machine does seem quite a bit faster???????????? could it just be all that preloaded junk that you get on store bought computers these days?

The only real hardware difference I can see is that the new box has integrated graphics? Otherwise everything should be superior.

Has anyone else noticed anything similar?