Is It Vostro Or Vista??

Hey Friends
I Have Got A Vostro 1500 (6 Days Old)- C2d 1.6 Ghz 800fsb, 160 Gb Hdd, 2 Gb Ram, Nvidia 8400m Gs 128 Mb. Running Vista Home Basic.
And One Desktop (assembled, 8 Yrs Old)- Celeron 1.3 Ghz, 256 Mb Ram, Hdd1- 20gb, Hdd2- 80gb, No Dedicated Graphics. Running Xp Professional.
In Only 6 Days I Found Out That My Lappy Is Slower Than My Desktop. EVEN WHILE SURFING NET. What 2 Do? What Is The Reason Behind It? How I Can Increase The Speed Of My Lappy.
I Ve Nt Got Much Idea Abt All This Stuff, Plz Help Me Out.

 

Try installing XP on your Vostro and see if performance increases.

 

THANKS BUDDY
I'M NOT GOOD AT ALL THESE THINGS, WHAT ELSE DO U SUGGEST? IS IT POSIBLE THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH SOME HARDWARE LIKE HDD? HOW CAN I CHECK MY HDD FOR ANY DAMAGES ETC.

 

Yup, Till now VIsta proved sucky

 

Are you using the same browser? If you are using IE 7, turn off the phishing filter (in the Tools menu) for best performance.

Also, your desktop probably is faster in some ways... the desktop's hard drive should be significantly faster. Laptop hard drives are just slow. So the desktop may very well feel snappier, load programs faster, etc. for that reason.

 

Yeah I M Using The Same Ie Provided With Vista N Phishing Filter Is Already Off..

 

Try cleaning up the vista installation, removing spyware and unnecessary applications in the startup.

 

I highly doubt you'll achieve much success with tweaking given that an 8 year old machine is already faster at this point.

Learn how to do a clean install of Vista - or pull out your hair trying to make it marginally faster.

 

I think it sounds like you have to put in battery mode or something?

 

If it started behaving this way after six days of use, which I presume includes significant web browsing, I strongly suspect a viral or malware infection...viruses like virtumonde or vundo are fairly prevalent examples of bad adware that can s l o w the fastest machine into a mutant turtle.

-SD

 

Also, run taskmgr (press ctrl-shift-esc), look at the Processes tab, click on the CPU column (maybe twice) to sort by CPU usage, and see if anything's hogging the cpu.

I don't think there's much bloatware on the Vostros (unless you selected it when configuring) so reinstalling the OS probably won't matter much (although of course you can try it if you like).

 

not sure if you have already checked. but make sure it's in 'Performance Mode' instead of 'Battery Saver' mode.

Do this by clicking on the battery/plug icon down in the bottom right hand corner of your taskbar. it will have all your battery settings. if it's on 'Battery Saver' mode it will decrease your computers performance significantly.

Good luck.

 

ITS HARDLY TAKING 10-15% OF CPU USAGE, INCLUDING ALL RUNNUNG PROGRAMS...

 

ITS NOT RUNNING IN BATTERY SAVER MODE, INFACT ITS RUNNING IN PERFORMANCE MODE. MOREOVER I MOST OF THE TIMES KEEP IT PLUGGED WHILE USING AND MODE DETAILS SHOW PLUGGED IN PERFORMANCE IS ALMOST SAME FOR ALL BATTERY MODES.

 

One More Thing If Anybody Can Please Tell Me...
If I Swipe Off Vista And Load Xp...is It Going To Improve The Performance In Terms Of Speed?? Will It Help Me???

 

Well, without trying it yourself, we can't really tell you that. You could have defective components or it could just be the OS. Maybe check the temperatures of your notebook components? CPU/GPU/Chipset temps?