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    New T60 w/ Vista performance issues

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Urbanian, May 3, 2007.

  1. Urbanian

    Urbanian Newbie

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    Hi,

    New to the forum, but curious to know if any others have experienced extremely bad performance with Vista and a new T60. Mine is a Duo w/ 2.0 Ghz, 1GB RAM, 120GB 5400RPM and Vista Business pre-installed. My machine takes 10 minutes to startup (out of the box) and most programs and apps load EXTREMELY slow. I tried installing my BlackBerry Desktop and that small program hung and took 15 minutes to install. Tech support told me to diagnose and re-image, which I am doing now. I also ordered another 1GB of RAM but I just can't imagine that Lenovo would let a machine go out the door like this. Am I missing something? Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
     
    Urbanian, May 3, 2007
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  2. dietcokefiend

    dietcokefiend DietGreenTeaFiend

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    Shouldnt be that bad, perhaps a bad hard drive with a ton of bad sectors? My C100 with 512mb of ram running vista wasnt even that slow (pretty peppy actually).

    I think there is a HD scanning utility inside the bios of the T60 that should be able to tell you at least a basic scan of the drive.
     
    dietcokefiend, May 4, 2007
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  3. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Migth want to get rid of some of the ThinkVantage tools you are not using. Ten minutes is too long, even for Vista.
     
    ZaZ, May 4, 2007
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  4. Matt

    Matt Notebook Deity

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    One thing that brings my system to a crawl when booting is my scheduled AVG virus scan. It consumes quite a bit of my memory, leaving little for the other start up programs.

    Try eliminating any start up programs you deem unnecessary.

    Matt
     
    Matt, May 4, 2007
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    Toucan Notebook Guru

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    It should not be that long. First boot of my T60 took a couple of minutes, as it was setting up. Then, it is quite fast.
     
    Toucan, May 4, 2007
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