Vista - Everything Runs Faster Than It Did On XP?
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I hope mine is not an exception to the rule, because this is pretty cool: I’ve been running the release version of Windows Vista on one of my laptop computers since yesterday (one that I use all the time and which does a whole boatload of work), and quite literally everything seems to run considerably smoother and faster than it ever did on XP. Now, I don’t have Aero Glass/WDM on (graphics card doesn’t support it), but Office, Web browsers and all apps are notably better. Especially Outlook. Wow.
The only issue I have found so far is that the Explorer shell seems to hang every now and then. I probably just have a rogue random utility that’s not playing well. I’ll have to look into that. At least when I kill the Explorer process, it’s sending trouble data off to Microsoft for analysis. That’s a good thing. It recovers gracefully, though when the process restarts. While I have not seen this kind of issue since the Windows 95/98 days, the fact that the process comes back gracefully and everything still works is a plus.
I ran all the betas, and I for one am glad they delayed and fixed up some stuff. So far it looks pretty darn good. Some of the dialogs (like the new Start Menu style and file system dialogs) are a little goofy for a power user, but I intend to stick with them and see if I can make them work well. I am, after all, getting older and more set in my ways, so I find I need to allow more time for me to adjust than I used to, heh.
[tags]vista, xp, explorer, app, beta, aero, greg hughes[/tags]
7 Comments
Ate Siemensma
February 2nd, 2007
at 1:39am
How m uch did they pay yoy to write vista is faster than Xp? WOW ;)
Mac
February 2nd, 2007
at 5:08am
Did you install clean or, did you do an upgrade install?
Stan Grzybowski
February 2nd, 2007
at 6:57am
Have the same explorer problem on XP, except it consistently crashes - one of these days I’ll need to re-install. Haven’t been able to find a cause, even working with M/S on it…..
Joe
February 2nd, 2007
at 8:35am
Did you compare the same applications to a fresh install of XP?
Everything runs faster on fresh install of any OS.
Mike
February 2nd, 2007
at 8:38am
Oops…I may have sent this before finishing my thought…maybe Vista would have caught me before I did ;-)
My only point, in the event my previous message was incomplete, is that I have heard good things about every OS version when it first comes out. then what happens is everyone finds tons of tweaks to make it run better, tools are released, everyone gets used to it and then Microsoft ships a new OS forcing everyone to learn more unnecessary tasks (e.g. finding something that you use often buried in a new menu). That’s the kind of “new” things I really don’t care about learning. Making me run around a maze of new menus like a mouse in a science experiment just to do the same task isn’t much of an Upgrade if you ask me.
I’m sure with the proper hardware Vista will be nice for newbies or those upgrading 5 year old systems. For those of us who have XP humming along and are having no issues–what is the selling points of Vista? Not much if you ask me.
Regards..
Mike
John
February 15th, 2007
at 7:33am
I have run some apps on to clean installs. Yep, as much as I’d like to jump on the lets say something negative band wagon, I can’t. Apps are running quicker (at least starting quicker). Just a few things I need to get used to.
All in all I’m glad I switched
Neto
April 22nd, 2008
at 2:54pm
ITS TRUE!.
I bought a cheapo Dell laptop (inspiron 1500) it was slow as hell, of course it was loaded with bloatware and stuff, so i took out the vista disk that came with my computer, reformatted the disk and installed a clean vista, SURPRISE ¡it was working faaaaast! so i tought maybe if i install xp it will run significantly faster, so i took out my xp sp2 disk and installed it, and worked with it for a week, then i decided to install ubuntu in another partition of the drive, but i messed up the xp partition, and i had lost my xp disk, so i installed vista and after 3 hours (after installing drivers and programs) of working i noticed it was faster, but it has not been the same experience on other pcs so i think that if you have the correct hardware, vista will be heaven!