Windows 7 performance whoops Vista and XP

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Garbage

God of Mistakes...
Thats good news...

/me is searching for someone who can send me Win7 Beta (pre-release) DVD. :p ;)
 

chandru.in

In the zone
I don't understand, why people are worry about RAM requirement. 2 GB RAM cost is just around Rs. 1500/-
It is not about RAM's cost. Many laptops having 2 GB RAM start dragging like a pig with Vista and AV hogging most RAM. Applications have very little RAM left. Most professional applications are heavy leading to great productivity hit when RAM is unnecessarily lost to OS and necessary services like AV.
 

fabler

Journeyman
Hi guys..

I've installed windows 7 build 6956..My GMA 900 driver was installed successfully. But when I open any full screen application my computer just get freeze.. so anybody have any idea how to fix it? I've also try windows update. but no luck.. anybody having problem like this? But it is working well on my friend's computer without any problem. He has 965 chipset and I've 915 chipset.
 

gxsaurav

You gave been GXified
It is not about RAM's cost. Many laptops having 2 GB RAM start dragging like a pig with Vista and AV hogging most RAM. Applications have very little RAM left. Most professional applications are heavy leading to great productivity hit when RAM is unnecessarily lost to OS and necessary services like AV.

Ahem...what???? Slow, where?

I m using a C2D E6550 with 2 GB RAM & Use professional application which u r talking about with Windows Vista. There is no performance penalty that I see compared to Windows XP. oh! I m also not using any anti virus software. Just Ad muncher & IE with IE 7 pro.
 

Ecko

Wandering In Tecno Land
What Micro$oft did introducing SP3 was ,lowering its performance...!!!
This seems a pre-planned stratergy to me after they got a worst response of Windows CR@Pista in the market.
This will surely help Windows 7 :D
See my siggy....!!!
 

zyberboy

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It is not about RAM's cost. Many laptops having 2 GB RAM start dragging like a pig with Vista and AV hogging most RAM. Applications have very little RAM left. Most professional applications are heavy leading to great productivity hit when RAM is unnecessarily lost to OS and necessary services like AV.

Wrong,2Gb ram is more than enough for vista to run beautifully.for example vista requires only 600mb ram for os. With an additional anti virus+firefox+nero+Adobe+VS2008 express+Urban terror(game) loaded there will be still more than 900 ram left.
 

fabler

Journeyman
What Micro$oft did introducing SP3 was ,lowering its performance...!!!
This seems a pre-planned stratergy to me after they got a worst response of Windows CR@Pista in the market.
This will surely help Windows 7 :D
See my siggy....!!!

I'm totally agree wid ya..
 

desiibond

Bond, Desi Bond!
Wrong,2Gb ram is more than enough for vista to run beautifully.for example vista requires only 600mb ram for os. With an additional anti virus+firefox+nero+Adobe+VS2008 express+Urban terror(game) loaded there will be still more than 900 ram left.

Totally agree. I ran vista on my 3yr old PC. It was running well and was blazing fast when I upgraded ram to 2Gig. Seriously, the performance can be attributed to the most widely used h/w that I picked and hence didn't face any driver incompatibility etc.
 

chandru.in

In the zone
Wrong,2Gb ram is more than enough for vista to run beautifully.for example vista requires only 600mb ram for os. With an additional anti virus+firefox+nero+Adobe+VS2008 express+Urban terror(game) loaded there will be still more than 900 ram left.
I have told about this enough. I'm telling this from many of my friends experience with Vista pre-installed laptops. I'm not interested is re-iterating the whole story.
 

Kl@w-24

Slideshow Bob
I have told about this enough. I'm telling this from many of my friends experience with Vista pre-installed laptops. I'm not interested is re-iterating the whole story.

Manufacturers often ship loads of utilities and additional programs bundled with the OS, which keep running in the background. More often than not, these potentially unwanted apps are the cause of slowdowns and not Vista which came pre-installed with the laptop.
 
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adithyagenius

I WANT MORE FPS!!
Manufacturers often ship loads of utilities and additional prograns bundled with the OS, which keep running in the background. More often than not, these potentially unwanted apps are the cause of slowdowns and not Vista which came pre-installed with the laptop.

Totally agree with you. My HP laptop was too slow. Tried all kinds of tweaks and defragmenting utilities. Tried uninstall everything, reinstalled vista using restore discs. Then finally, I used untouched copy of vista from torrent and installed using my OEM CD key. . I had to call MS to get it activated. I told the MS guy that I am using pirated disc to install. He didn't care. I was rewarded for my effort. It is as fast xp in most of the tasks except gaming. (200 points drop in 3d mark 06). My laptop was more responsive than xp in multitasking. It is actually faster in vmware. But now can only run 1 vmware with good performance as opposed to two on xp. But I wanted only 1 that was faster. Lower battery time though. But my laptop exceeded the vista requirements.
core 2 duo 1.8ghz, 945gm
Geforce 7600 GO & 17" 1440*900
2*80GB HDD, 2*512MB 667Mhz

I used to hate vista because of loss of eax and control over sound in many apps, RAM + VRAM sharing address space, for being slower than xp. Now I use vista 64 and used Realtek 3d soundback and alchemy. I am pretty happy. I dont have xp installed anymore.
 

gxsaurav

You gave been GXified
I have told about this enough. I'm telling this from many of my friends experience with Vista pre-installed laptops. I'm not interested is re-iterating the whole story.

This is where you are wrong. You are comparing OEM installed Vista which generally comes with many ads with a newly & custom installation of Linux/Windows XP.

What I stated, was a clean Install of Windows Vista, & some tweaking which you can even read in a guide I wrote. Since Vista is slow for U for some reason beyond my understanding, it doesn't mean it will be slow for everyone.

It seems you still don't understand how Vista manages memory or about Superfetch but just need something to blame vista for.
 
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