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    Why vista very slow on my laptop

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by chacritsup, Feb 23, 2008.

  1. chacritsup

    chacritsup Newbie

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    Compaq 301TU, cpu celeron 1.6 Ghz and ram 2 gb run vista very slow :( ......why???????
     
    chacritsup, Feb 23, 2008
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  2. Ithcandos

    Ithcandos Notebook Consultant

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    There could be several reasons as to why it runs slowly. Is it an xp->vista upgrade, when was it formatted last time? When was a Defragmentation run last? How many programs are up and running along with Vista at boot?
     
    Ithcandos, Feb 23, 2008
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  3. frazell

    frazell Notebook Deity

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    Also, what are the rest of the specs? Aero can slow your Vista install to a crawl if on bare bottom hardware...
     
    frazell, Feb 23, 2008
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  4. Flyingraptor

    Flyingraptor Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hm... and a Intel Celeron single core CPU... That might be an issue too...
    An Intel Centrino dual core CPU should give no problem...
     
    Flyingraptor, Feb 23, 2008
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  5. mystery905

    mystery905 Notebook Deity

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    What other software is running? If you have Norton anti-virus, uninstall it, as it is a resource hog.
     
    mystery905, Feb 23, 2008
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  6. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    2008 isn't any more. And it only affects boot time if you have more than 256MB of memory....

    Is that a Celeron M 1.6 or just a Celeron? A Celeron M 1.6 should be enough (Celeron are Pentiums with half the L2 cache btw, like Semprons to Athlons)

    If you didn't do a clean install / updates it's probably the case too.
     
    JCMS, Feb 23, 2008
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  7. Harper2.0

    Harper2.0 Back from the dead?

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    use the NBR vista tweaks guide...that'll get your vista to behave :p
     
    Harper2.0, Feb 23, 2008
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  8. chacritsup

    chacritsup Newbie

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    all thank :eek:
     
    chacritsup, Feb 25, 2008
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