Extreem Slow Asus Notebook Met Vista

[Khun Jack]

Received from owner an Asus notebook dualcore cpu with 1 GB, OS Vista home-edition. He couldn't work with it it's to *** slow. Trying to uninstall the installed junk and every item cost me 30 minutes to uninstall. Ordered more memory and see if the service pack does anything to improve speed if not format c:

[paulfr]

For goodness sake ...... Vista does not work well even with the mid range Intel processors.

Why would anyone in their right mind put Vista on any machine ?

That is just incompetence on the part of the seller or whoever decided to install it.

Vista is headed for the graveyard anyway.

MS has announced their new OS to be released mid next year.

Since they have committed to support XP, Vista is a lame duck and nearly dead.

RIP

Edited May 28, 2008 by paulfr

[Khun Jack]

Vista was pre installed and Asus installed the usual crap on it. Found Symantec antivirus and AVG installed! and that killed it.

Removed it after now 2 hours of uninstalling attempts and things are working better, downloading Vista service pack now.

[PattayaDavid]

My ThinkPad notebook is slower than my desktop, however it does have a lower powered processor (Core2Duo 2.2 GHz T7500) and 2 GB of RAM as compared to my destop Core@Duo Quad 2.4 GHZ Q6600 processor with 4 GB of RAM. With that in mine, my laptop is not really that slow using Vista Home Premium 32-bit. The main culprits that slow down my notebook is the preinstalled ThinkVantage software and the Norton Internet Security. My computer slows almost to a standstill when Norton Internet Security is perform a full scan. If you really want to speed up your notebook, install at least 2 GB of RAM and format your drive, reinstall Vista or install XP then load only the programs that you actually plan to use. When my Norton Internet Security expires, I'm going to replace it with Eset Smart Security 3 which I have installed on my desktop. It runs in the background, but uses a minimal amount of system resources to perform it's job. Norton Internet Security is a resource hog and I would bet that a lot of the preinstalled programs and utilities on your computer also add up to put a drag on your resource. I agree with Paulfr that Windows XP would perform better with your processor. I disagree with him that Vista is dead. We will not be seeing a new Windows operating system by mid 2009. We will be lucky to see it by the end of 2009, but with Microsoft's track record, expect it to be released some time in 2010. Also, the new Windows operating system, Windows 7, will more resemble the current Vista program than it will XP so I wouldn't expect it to be a major upgrade to Vista.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Pattayadavid

[siamshot]

Just read today, Win 7 will be based on Vista - good night!

Explore Linux, that saves a lot of headache.

My Mini-PC with 1Gig of ram and 900Mhz is running Ubuntu - not any problems with speed or virus or web or whatever. Just fun!

[Khun Jack]

My ThinkPad notebook is slower than my desktop, however it does have a lower powered processor (Core2Duo 2.2 GHz T7500) and 2 GB of RAM as compared to my destop Core@Duo Quad 2.4 GHZ Q6600 processor with 4 GB of RAM. With that in mine, my laptop is not really that slow using Vista Home Premium 32-bit. The main culprits that slow down my notebook is the preinstalled ThinkVantage software and the Norton Internet Security. My computer slows almost to a standstill when Norton Internet Security is perform a full scan. If you really want to speed up your notebook, install at least 2 GB of RAM and format your drive, reinstall Vista or install XP then load only the programs that you actually plan to use. When my Norton Internet Security expires, I'm going to replace it with Eset Smart Security 3 which I have installed on my desktop. It runs in the background, but uses a minimal amount of system resources to perform it's job. Norton Internet Security is a resource hog and I would bet that a lot of the preinstalled programs and utilities on your computer also add up to put a drag on your resource. I agree with Paulfr that Windows XP would perform better with your processor. I disagree with him that Vista is dead. We will not be seeing a new Windows operating system by mid 2009. We will be lucky to see it by the end of 2009, but with Microsoft's track record, expect it to be released some time in 2010. Also, the new Windows operating system, Windows 7, will more resemble the current Vista program than it will XP so I wouldn't expect it to be a major upgrade to Vista.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Pattayadavid

I see a lot new notebooks with installed with Symantec software and Nero essentials and many installed other bloated software, toolbars, MS live junk. Don't know what the deal is between notebook manufacturer and those software companies but the customer isn't very well off with it.

Sure it would be best to format the drive but the notebook comes a pre-installed OS OEM version and a backup on a recovery partition , when you restore all the garbage is installed again.

About the roadmap for Windows, today was a MS press conference where Bill Gates made a joke about their desire to improve things and Vista gave them the full opportunity for that.

But in short Vista is to heavy loaded, has built in to much relics from the past, a new light more specialized OS is the future.