Vista is going all XP on me..

Hey all,

Anyways, I just reinstalled Vista, which I do every month.. Recently.. it runs ****ty.. I mean REALLY ****ty.. Unresponsive and well..slow. It's not the system, because when I run XP it is blazing fast - then again Vista was always blazing fast to until now.

Anyone else noticing or getting this issue?

I'm probably gonna get flamed with remarks like "haha you suck you stupid fool for even using vista" - to those people, eat me. lol

 

Why in the world would you reinstall your OS every month? Anyways, if it's of of a clean install, it should be running fast, so it sounds like you broke something. I would do all the necessary tweaks and if it still runs slow, it's not Vista.

 

Hahaa I do it because of bit-rot.. XP was prone to crashing, slowing down after time and just circling the drain, on all systems I used it on. I figured Vista over come it, apparently not.

Vista is clean, I have my programs installed, and it's ran perfectly the last 3 times I reinstalled and owned it (3 months..) I can tweak it all to hell if I want, this isn't a performance issue exactly, it's just.. Unresponsive if you know what I mean. Try to open installers and it'll just sit there then they'll pop open 5 minutes later and such. Never did this before - obviously no the system. Because it's doing it both on my desktop and laptop.

Sigh.. Linux and mac os x is looking better and better.. (not gonna buy a mac cuz steve jobs is a ass hat but i'll run his os on my pc's )

 

Wow. And I thought that people who reinstalled their OS every six months was weird.

 

Drivers installed? Vista isn't fast for slower machines, but your machine should handle it.

MS used to recommend (during the days of Windows 98), that you re-install Windows every 4-6 months.

 

I honestly don't see how people go 4 months without a reinstall, but I'm talking about users that do what I do.

Well my desktop has a eVGA 680i mobo, sli'd 8800gtx's/liquid block cooled, core2 duo extreme and 3gb ram. And it's acting exactly the same as my laptop. All the newest drivers on both systems, and I have already rolled back drivers to try.

I'm coming to the conclusion that one of the updates recently installed is the cause of the issues. Either way, I'm border line at the moment to just blast up a new image, and just make this month a two for one reformat deal...lol

 

Why do you reinstall Vista every month? Just tweak it and do occasional defragmenting/cleaning...I actually have never heard of anyone reinstalling Windows...unless its a new OS or clean install on a new computer or because of some virus issue

 

To those questioning the frequent reinstalls: I used to think that too until I came across slipstreaming. All your settings are saved, you can change settings not natively available through Windows install or Windows itself, you can even have it automatically install programs, I am almost up to the point where I can say "go" and an unattended procedure will do everything in less than 2 hours and I can start using the computer the same as before the format, just everything runs faster.

B2TheEYo, has this issue spanned between reformats? If not or you don't know yet, I'm sure one more reformat wouldn't hurt Do you have a separate partition for data and programs? I don't want to suggest the possibility of spyware and other bloat in these partitions that keep infecting your relatively "clean" windows install, but it has to be brought up. Also, consider tweaking aspects of your computer, updating drivers, malicious software scans etc.

This may help:
http://www.tweakhound.com/vista/index.htm

 

if someone reinstalls windows this often, wouldn't it be easier to create an image using Arconis or something of a freshly installed working Vista?

 

What exactly do you do that causes so much grief?? Assuming your hardware and drivers/firmware are current and in order, a good firewall, AV and antispyware apps in place, at least some issues shouldn't exist. CCleaner and, despite what some folks say, a Reg cleaner such as RegSeeker, used carefully, should keep your copy of Windows, be it XP or Vista, running smoothly for quite a while.

 

Heh, heh... must be P-O-R-N!

 

Well first off, Hiker how did you know!.. Not.. But thanks for the nonconstructive advice it really solved all my problems..Not.. lol.. it's all good..

I do tweak, and I do defragment, once a week, frankly after installing any massive program, I give it a quick defrag. I'm highly organized so it isn't clutter what so ever. All my data is separate from the OS partition, just for the reason I've had other OS's fail and completely lock me out of my data so that's why I keep it all separate.

And my reformat obsessive impulse issue has brought me to become good friends with Drive Snapshot, so I just blast a new image up of a fresh install in literally 2 minutes.

Registry cleaners are a big phat NO, used them before on XP because I figured they did good, oh man was I wrong. Used it, rebooted and the operating system crawled like it had a knife in it's back!

I got a lot of software installed, big software, to name a few, All of Adobes CS3 products, 3D Studio Max 9, Maya 8, Maxon Cinema 4D, Solidworks, Modo3d, Softimage, and Particle's Illusion (all legally owned for the record and used day in and day out). Obviously I know more complicated the structure of the OS the more it's prone to this sluggish and unreliable nature. But have not had it all at since moving to Vista 3 months ago.

I'm just curious if anyone has experienced these issues? I'm just gonna blast a new image up I think..

 

I have reformatted my Vista laptop once and didn't experience any of the issues you are describing. I would have to think there must be some driver or software related issue causing the slowdown. You mentioned 5 minutes for a program to load which is unfathomable for the type of hardware you likely have to run the applications described.

Try it again and see what happens.

 

I don't mean to add to the fire, but I agree. Once a month is way overkill. Unless you get frequent viruses and/or spyware, there's absolutely no reason. I usually have a crapload of apps running on my PC for general work - DVD ripping, MP3's, web browsing, MS Office, iTunes, scanner, blah blah blah. And only reformat that once a year possibly.

I do the image capture with Acronis, and that works great. Slipstreaming has caused issues for me and after wasting hours fussing with it, I could have had a full install completed by then anyways.

Registry Cleaners work fine. Not perfect but keeps things at bay.

 

I am sorry, but really cant help it... once a month!!!! OMG... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

Once a month is crazy. That's why your OS runs so slow afterwards. On a fresh install of Vista, it spends the first days of use indexing it's files, and recognizing what you normally do on the computer. After the first week or so of regular use, Vista will fly.

That's been the case with my system. I did a fresh install of Vista after having XP, and at first it was kind of slow, but now, its much faster then a fresh install of XP on this same laptop. I love Vista, and SP1 will make it that much better.

 

Same, I love vista, I don't wanna switch back to XP but oh my god this is frustrating. Good theory but I turned indexing off right out of the box lol.

 

your computer is probably tired of the reinstall os every month, lol. seriously i dont know anyone that would do that. maybe every 6 months but not every month lol.

software related issue or hard drive issue. probably from all the renistalls it scratched itself