Re: Microsoft tries to polish a turd


"krw" <krw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelelsen news:MPG.22fe1949a3fccd01989f4b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <48942f36$1$56778$edfadb0f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
frithiof.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

"Martin Brown" <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> skrev i meddelelsen
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> My only copy of Vista came preinstalled and is sufficiently unstable on > a
> Toshiba laptop that I would never recommend anyone to use it.

I actually got Vista to a useable state - meaning: About the same speed as
the old 1.2 GHz Athlon 64 + 1 Gig RAM - But this time on a Dual core 1.8 GHz
Toshiba A300 lapdog with 3 GB RAM!!

Not too surprising, since a 1.8GHz processor isn't all that much
more power than a 1.2GHz, given the memory bottleneck. A laptop
will also be significantly slower than a decent desktop.

It's a dual core should be ~twice as fast.


There is a lot to of things switch off but especially: The service
"Superfetch" whitch sucks away all the RAM and "Readyboost" which I will
never use. Since it is a lapdog one can also set the HDD to use maximum
buffering because we have backup power.

HDD buffering has nothing to do with performance. It's there for
the disk drive, not the computer.

Vista likes to swap, swap & swap - so we want the disk to appear fast!


On "Windows Features" I killed the following:

Remote Differential Compression*, Removable storage management, Servives for
NFS, Print Services, Windows Fax & Scan, Windows Meeting Space, Windows DFS
Replication Service, Indexing Service.

You don't use removable storage? Printers?

Names are misleading: The removable storage management is for legacy handling of NT backups, the print services are for web-printing; No, i do not use any of those.


Anyways:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/remove-optional-and-probably-unnecessary-windows-vista-components/

*responsible for hour-loooong drag & drop Vista Experience via Explorer!!!

Next job is to get dual-boot going!

I tried to get dual boot to work with two 'doze sessions (bringing
up a new drive) but one kept stomping all over the other, turning
both to mush.

It will work with Linux. Unfortunately my WLAN hardware is not recognised when test-booting from a Knoppix CD so there will be work to be done here.


--
Keith

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