Got my brand new thinkpad, and its extremeley slow! Why?

I just got my thinkpad, with really high specs ( 7300 duo 2.0, 2 gig ran, nvidia 140m)

and the first few times I ran it I was disappointed, it took forever to boot up to vista, then all the additional junk and stuff took forever to load.


Is this because its brand new and not "broken in" yet?

 

New computers regardless of brand come with lots of junkware now as advertisements for other companies. AOL, Norton, Google, etc.

Read the the ThinkPad Clean Install Guide in my sig. That will get rid of crap slowing down your computer.

 

It's full of "bloatware". Lenovo has a bunch of programs that you don't need installed on your laptop. They do this to help reduce the cost of the laptop by pre-installing a bunch of crap from other companies. They cannot be fully and properly removed just by using add/remove programs. Have a look at the clean install guide (link in my sig). After a clean install you boot time should be <60 seconds.

EDIT: No that wasn't intentional johnny. We were typing at the same time.

 

Then I type much faster.

 

Whose Clean Install Guide is better?

 

Better not to ask this question, check out both guides, decide which one you like more, and not bring up your opinion on which is better.

 

Different stroke for different folks. I think my guide is probably a more traditional approach the other guide is more automated. End result is probably the same. My guide (and probably the part 2 or part b, whichever it is called, in playmakers guide) will allow you to switch from 32-bit to 64-bit if you so choose.

Edit: Yes, you type faster. And yes, who's is better?... probably should be left alone. They are just different.

 

Using a Windows disk to do a clean install allows more flexibility indeed.

Quoted for truth

 

I see. Well I'll read both when my T61 arrives.

 

Can't I reformat it without making disks? Isn't everything on the hard drive partition? ( I don't have any blank discs, hahaha)

I read the manual which has like a few lines on recovering and it said to hit the think vantage button to do it. I said nothing about making discs, it said making discs will like make them easier to lose or something, thats why everything on already there.

 

I think I answered this question already. Use the Base Software Administor option I described in the guide. You use the hard drive recovery partition on your drive to do a clean install. And you can make those discs, your hard drive recovery partition doesn't change.