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Gets better the longer you use it. I bought a dell inspiron 1520 laptop with vista premium pre-installed. At first it took an age to start up and I nearly thought about going back to XP!
But I started to notice something strange. Everytime I rebooted the PC it took less time than before. The cache system learns what you load and organises programs to start up quickly.
It now takes no longer to boot up than XP used to. Installing service pack 1 improved things further. And after using it for 6 months I honestly think its very... more info
so slow: use xp, linux, dos, anything in preference i have vista on my laptop. i wish i did not. it is so slow. click, wait 15-30 seconds, eventually something happens. this is on new top spec laptop. i give 1 star, as zero is not an option
Thank you Vista... Thank you Microsoft. No really... I installed Vista when it first came out on my HP Desktop. I can't quite put my finger on what irritates me most about Microsofts new OS, but here are a couple of candidates. 1. Speed. With all the eye candy turned on the OS just seems to take an age to respond to simple requests. This is despite my kit being relatively new and, while not top of the range, definitely well above the minimum spec. What's even more irritating is the start up time - I can wait 7 minutes... more info
wow, really good. I've been using Windows Xp for a while now and was cautious about upgrading to this system as Windows Xp seemed to be working fine. However I find myself enjoying using the computer a whole lot more. After installing Vista, windows then detected and deleted lots of spyware (and a virus) that I didn't even know I had. All of my old software seems to work fine on Vista except for one really old one which started working recently after Windows installed a Windows update automatically- it seems all the... more info
