windows vista help

**webster13045** · May 10th, 2008, 10:36 am

i got a new laptop and it has crappy vista on it

does anyone know of website that i can get info on that will speed vista up?

i mean the laptop is brand new has 512MB ram 2GHZ

and it is still slow as hell

my desktop is only 1.8GHZ with 512MB ram and it fly with xp

**Hurley4540** · May 10th, 2008, 10:39 am

Well one of the reasons it's probably slow is that I'm pretty sure that the recommend ram for vista is 1 gig..

**webster13045** · May 10th, 2008, 10:40 am

seems like compaq would not install vista if the pc could not handle it?

**Hurley4540** · May 10th, 2008, 10:41 am

Well it CAN handle it.....its just slow as hell as you found out lol... switch to XP or upgrade RAM.. i doubt theres anything to just magically speed it up...

**webster13045** · May 10th, 2008, 11:10 am

ok thanks for info

**Hurley4540** · May 10th, 2008, 11:10 am

Yeah no problem

**webster13045** · May 10th, 2008, 1:41 pm

im going to install service pack 1 as it was said it does help however i am going to get a 2GB stick that should do the trick i hope

**Hurley4540** · May 10th, 2008, 2:18 pm

I can not stand Vista, its on my laptop and none of my games or anything work.. sick of it!

[MENTAL]vista sucks![/MENTAL]

**webster13045** · May 10th, 2008, 5:07 pm

..ok so i did a search on my version of vista for requirements

Windows Vista Home Basic
Recommended system requirements

* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 512 MB of system memory
* 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory
* DVD-ROM drive
* Audio Output

so i do have suggested to support it however it runs slow so all i can do is get more memory and see what it does

**stada** · May 15th, 2008, 7:01 am

Try to set to high performance, this will disable aero

**Steve** · May 15th, 2008, 7:20 am

http://www.geek2.net/speed-up-window...?p=549#post549

**zeus** · May 15th, 2008, 7:29 am

Originally Posted by Hurley4540

I can not stand Vista, its on my laptop and none of my games or anything work.. sick of it!

[MENTAL]vista sucks![/MENTAL]

I agree...

**classact** · May 15th, 2008, 2:46 pm

Originally Posted by webster13045

i got a new laptop and it has crappy vista on it

does anyone know of website that i can get info on that will speed vista up?

i mean the laptop is brand new has 512MB ram 2GHZ

and it is still slow as hell

my desktop is only 1.8GHZ with 512MB ram and it fly with xp

You need at _least_ 1 GIG to run Vista and it's better if you upgrade to 2 GIG.