Get Vista to run faster, maybe
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is here but it hasn’t done much to stem the rapidly growing tide of opinion that Vista is a Microsoft mistake. He’s no fan of Vista but the author of this article at Tech Support Alert gives some suggestions for making this sluggish operating system a bit faster. He begins his article:
The Wow starts Now’, was the catch-cry at Vista’s lavish launch early in 2007. The campaign was slick and glossy but it didn’t take long for users to complain in their droves that Vista was as slow as a wet week, a resource hog and painful to work with. The cool aero-glass look wasn’t enough to offset the pain. The verdict: Vista was a cane toad in fancy drag.
Microsoft’s infrequent responses reflected the company’s arrogance with crystal clarity. ‘Frankly, the world wasn’t 100 percent ready for Windows Vista,’ was how one spokesperson put it. Mostly, Microsoft ignored the howls of protest because it knew that Vista would sell up a storm regardless as it go on almost every new PC sold.
By mid-year, the rousing chorus chanting that the Wow had become a mere whisper stung Microsoft into action. A new campaign was launched: ‘100 Reasons You’ll be Speechless.’ The marketing hype took enormous liberties with the truth and failed to mention the heavy slug of the Vista upgrade price or the cost of the extra hardware needed to run it.
After giving Microsoft and Vista these slams and a few more, the author does get down to making suggestions for improving Vista performance. If you have only 1 GB of RAM, my personal opinion is that the best thing to do is to add more RAM. Vista performs better with 2 GB.
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