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    Vista SP1...S..L..O..W..

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Mike.Stepler, Jun 19, 2008.

  1. Mike.Stepler

    Mike.Stepler Notebook Guru

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    After I installed SP1 my boot times probably doubled and the system seems to run a lot slower than before. Anyone else run into this?
     
    Mike.Stepler, Jun 19, 2008
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    ThunderCat69 Notebook Evangelist

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    What kinda rig u running and what version of vista?
     
    ThunderCat69, Jun 19, 2008
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  3. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    My Vista SP1 is as quick as my XP SP3 on the same machine.
     
    stewie, Jun 19, 2008
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    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    yes we need specs
     
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  5. Mike.Stepler

    Mike.Stepler Notebook Guru

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    Work Laptop...Junkie TL-50 2GB Ram. Anyway it seems to be alright now. I had to restart five or six times before it was correct. Last boot was nice and fast....for this machine anyway.
     
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    ThunderCat69 Notebook Evangelist

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    Open up your task manager and see if any start up program is really sucking the resources. Also, is this a new install of Vista?
     
    ThunderCat69, Jun 20, 2008
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    crash NBR Assassin

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    I didn't have a drastic decrease in performance when installing SP1 but for a few days SP1 ran slightly slower than non-SP1 because Vista was rebuilding its prefetch and superfetch data, creating shadow copies and restore points, and defragmenting (which I turned off and used a 3rd party defragmenter). Since then, however, SP1 has been very snappy and quick. No problems with it.
     
    crash, Jun 20, 2008
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    hymura Notebook Enthusiast

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    I haven't problems with my Vista SP 1 and XP SP 3... it's normally..
     
    hymura, Jun 20, 2008
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    Likely reindexing. Did you or the IT folk run the post-upgrade cleanup program?
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jun 20, 2008
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  10. Mike.Stepler

    Mike.Stepler Notebook Guru

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    I ran vsp1cln.exe like you had suggested. It ran the same after that but now after a few reboots it seems to be fine. I've also read that the version of Vista Glazz I was running is not compatible with SP1 I need the Beta so that's gotta go.
     
    Mike.Stepler, Jun 20, 2008
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