Actually Vista Boots faster than XP!

Vista installs faster too!  and it has most of the drivers for motherboard devices.

There are about 12 services you could stop or disable.

Also use 2 GB of virtual ram on your HD.

Christopher C. Charles
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:32:03 -0600
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] XP Vs Vista
> 
> 1.  Benchmarks that I have seen indicate that Vista was about five
> percent slower than XP on average.  I read this about a year ago, so
> Vista may have become better since then.
> 
> 2.  I suggest that you get Vista unless you have a good reason not to,
> since it is the operating system of the future.  You will probably want
> to upgrade sometime, but that is not a sure thing.
> 
> 3.  Of course, Vista is not free form all bugs, etc. now!!!!!!!!!!!   It
> never will be, nor will XP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> If you are buying a completely new system, then Vista is probably the
> way to go.  However, some hardware and software will not work with Vista
> and will work with XP.  For example, my HP computer would not work with
> Vista.  HP did not have Vista drivers for it and said that they would
> not support Vista on that "older" computer.  (Not all that old!)  My
> "Starry Night version 5" software would not work on Vista - I had to
> upgrade to version 6.  So, if you have a piece of hardware or software
> that you want to use, then you need to find out if it will work with
> Vista before you make your purchase.   Software "should" work with Vista
> if it was written to Microsoft Specs, but cowboy programmers may have
> cut corners to accomplish some task.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Dean Kukral
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jagpal S Tiwana" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 3:50 AM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] XP Vs Vista
> 
> 
> Our local vendor s sells XP as well Vistas too.
> I hv heard complaints about Vista. They say it is slower than XP.
> 
> Sould I go for XP or Vista operating system ? Is Vista free from all
> bugs etc now.
>   Plz advise
> 
> Jagpal S Tiwana
> Dartmouth, Canada
> 
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