My Windows Vista is SOOO Slow

Hey Webman I'm surprised it's you asking for help! I thought you were one of the most computer savy persons here! LO! Like you I got a new laptop top last October and I wanted XP but the best deal I could find was loaded with Vista, and it has such a bad reputation I was scared, but to my surprise it's awesome and I haven't had a problem at all and it's fast! But I did tweak it by getting rid of some of the programs that I was sure I'd never use. First if you go to Iobit.com there you'll find two free great programs to download there's a maint. program there I've been using for over a year. You'll find a start up utility there and I'd suggest shutting down half of the useless stuff that starts at boot up and you don't need them, they just slow you down. There's a smart ram also included and I run that all the time it really keeps thing fast. Give this a try and looking through the program you'll find things to help you. Have you heard of Kim Kamando? Check out her site she's an awesome resource for all kinds of things! Good Luck my friend, I'm sure you'll nail it soon! tdemex

Windows vista interface is quite attractive and have various new features but these features make OS heavy and make it slow to run....to run smoothly either you need an optimum hardware requirement or you need to change your OS back to XP. Vista is very slow since it have various process running at backend of vist which makes it slow......so I just suggest you either you upgrade your hardware such as add good graphic card, and add more ram.

I would not use Vista with a Celeron processor, even if the clock speed is pretty fast. There are other things in Celerons that make them slower than a P4 of the same 'speed' and definitely slower than a Core or Core 2.

I too had the same problem with windows Vista and finally i had to shift back to windows xp , well i think you to shift back to windows XP or just scan your system may be some virus may have some due to which is is slow

If you want to run Vista on your Pc, make sure you have a faster than 2Gz processor. It should either by @ghz core 2 due or 4Ghz P4. Your RAM is sufficient to run Vista smoothly. Vista uses a lot of disk space, RAM and needs fast CPU. Make sure you have plenty of free disk space on your hard disk as well - atleast 2GB should be available. You can try uninstalling software that you dont use. Remove items from the Windows startup list - use msconfig (not sure what is the command in Vista, you can try msconfig though).

When I bought my laptop, it had a Vista pre installed. I thought everything was wonderful especially the graphics and the way it looked. At first i didn't notice how slow it was. Then I realized that the system was crashing very often and that I couldn't carry out the same tasks I used to do on the other pc. I had to decide to downgrade to XP. When I talked to the technician, he said that Vista is too powerful and that even though the Windows were pre installed by the company, the computer couldn't handle them... I try to stay away from Vista now..

windows vista generally perform slow as compared to other OS because of huge memory requirement generated via different applications installed , i will suggest you to switch to windows XP professional with any service pack you prefer for smooth and fine working environment

well this should not happen when you have 2gb of ram and a speed of 2 GHz , i too have a pc of such configuration but it is not at all slow . i think you should try reformatting it , it may have lodes of viruses in it . or you should reinstall your XP home for better performance.

2 GB of RAM is quite awesome already! I think it's more than enough to run Windows Vista in a reasonable speed. My cousin's laptop is doing fine with Windows Vista and the laptop is only 1 GB RAM.

Mine seems to be running ok for part. I have a desktop with xp on it and my laptop hs vista on it. Vista is hard to get used to, and I think that microsoft released it to soon, as it was buggy, It seems to be better now though, at lest it is for me. I like vista, and I didn't think I would. I am having more problems with internet explorer 8 than anything. It is running slow. Of course it oould be the website slowing it down. It has been running slow all day, and I just defragged, so I really don't get it. Hopefully, it will be better later or tomorrow. Well, take care and happy mylotting.

You have a hardware impediment. Your processor is short for Vista and your Ram is short too (I have a Duo Core 2.0GH and 4Gb of ram and Vista is slow too) Vista is the worse operating system that i have seen (sorry, Windows millenium is worse than vista)

even though you have 2GHz you have a "old" prosessormodel celeron i think that is main problem here and not the ram (but it might be worth to upgrade to 3-4) but i would focus on the prossesor. But why don´t you don´t use Xp and add some system parariace software to have it look like Vista (if you like the look of vista)

I'm using vista too but it is currently running quite fast. I guess it's just because i bought it a few months ago. My friends are using vista too and their pc are running slow too. Vista need to be updated and it can't hold too many files. It easily get condemned and slow. Try deleting stuffs that you don't need in your pc and maybe it might help ;) chiao.

THat is true you can turtl in windows vista because of the processor of your computer it is Celeron, and you use 2gig RAM than wont help either because it is not compatible for higher speed when they two work together, you need to change your processor maybe to dualcore or quadcore to work more safer and faster... and you should use a higher videocard to help it though for video interference. THANKS MYLOT.com

Did you update from XP to Vista? mostly Vista is slow once you format XP and get to Vista. I dont like it either... everything is too new and I just dont know how to use it really. try to reformat it again and save all the work you did on CD or something. see if it works really fast, if you are not sure bring it to someone knows how to fix it.

Vista is a slow system, unless your computer is very strong. Change to XP, you will feel great.

Personally, i have never like windows vista because it use too much space for a windows and is not so performing. There are a lot bugs in it. One main bug is that if your computer shut down during windows update process, it can damage your pc. I recommend you to use windows Xp because it is more reliable and is so light to surf with.

The problem with Vista is that its very graphical, what i mean by this is that it uses alot of memory to display high spec graphics. Even if you are not playing games or watching DVDs it will still be slow as alot goes on in the background. Get a program called Tuneup Utilities, that should sort your problem.