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    might be OT: vista speed...

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by starstreak, Oct 9, 2007.

  1. starstreak

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    I'm asking this here in case its some sort of asus setting. I'm using Asus G1s-B1. And running Vista Ultimate. I have 3Gb ram and 1GB nand flash ram. I didn't use Vista till now (I had it b4 but never really used it since I had winxp on the same computer)

    Does vista take longer to open menus from the start bar? Its weird. I go start-programs-accessories... then I get a searching icon for anywhere from 5-20seconds before it pulls up a listing.
    Even opening "classic" view of control panel (granted, alot of icons) will take about 3-8 seonds to open. If its normal then I just need to get used to it.
    If not, then what do you think could be causing the lag?
     
    starstreak, Oct 9, 2007
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    Turn off Aero, it speeds up like no other.
     
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    Hmm, odd, on my G1s its typically really fast. You can't even count the seconds even on Battery Saving mode...its only slow when using it on battery and doing like Photoshop work or such
     
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    theros123- these are mainly menu stuffs I'm talking about. like opening a menu like accessory folder or soemthing. Not even something that should slow down my computer. its weird.
     
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    Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I've noticed sometimes when you open like Control Panel, it might take like 3 seconds, but otherwise 99% of the time its fast...
     
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    disable UAC, it might help sometimes (especially when the UAC window takes 5 sec to boot...)
     
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    I was an XP user up until I received my Asus F9Dc-A1 which came with Vista Home Premium. Did all the updates and tweaked all that I could, but the whole interface still isn't as snappy as XP. In the Start menu for instance, it will sometimes take a sec or two to refresh icons in the menus. Things like that were instantaneous under XP, even on an old PIII/800 laptop with 384MB RAM.
     
    Mobil1, Oct 9, 2007
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