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windows xp or vista
Disco Matt:
Have you checked for viruses/spyware and cleared all the temporary files out recently? Windows has always been pretty hopeless at waste disposal. I use CCleaner and Avast! antivirus (both free).
TechnoTurkey:
I would go for XP still personally, Vista is just too 'heavy' for my liking.
As the next version of Windows is likely to hit the streets next year I will be skipping Vista. However I use Linux more than Windows at home now anyway!
muddyjames:
--- Quote from: Disco Matt on November 03, 2008, 15:09:42 ---Have you checked for viruses/spyware and cleared all the temporary files out recently? Windows has always been pretty hopeless at waste disposal. I use CCleaner and Avast! antivirus (both free).
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have avast as well and windows defender runs when I have the time to leave the pc for a few hours as when it is running I can do nothing else. I can tell when it starts by its self at about 5pm and usualy stop it within 3minutes of it starting!
Temp files cleared once a fortnight ish and defrag once every 2 months but nothing makes much difference.
carbore:
IF you have not done a re install for over 12 months then id do that. Make sure you back up and know all you passwords that get remembered for you etc and driver discs or such like for HW and printers.
Once you have done that look at www.blackviper.com for some very good well explained system tweeks. You can turn off a lot of rubbish and save lots of space etc.
Also if you have things that get loaded at startup get rid of them, coz I use a lot of printers at different office I had all sorts of help centers and supplies monitors, get rid of everything but the driver.
Get alll the junk off your desktop, especially any files.
I also ditched adobe PDF for fox it pdf reader, got rid of office pre loader and most of the resient stuff that sits there consuming ram just so it loads quicker IF you decide to use it.
hobbit:
--- Quote from: thermidorthelobster on November 02, 2008, 11:55:37 ---UAC is User Account Control; it's that thing that annoyingly nags you a dozen times every time you want to do a simple freaking task. Disable it like this.
Aero is the fancy graphical interface that they put in to try to make Vista look / feel like a Mac. Unfortunately, it just makes it feel like a piece of crap, because Microsoft just don't get it at all*, and it also has the same effect on the speed of the computer as cracking it in the kneecaps with a baseball bat would. Disable it like this.
Vista does have some benefits over XP (I find the wireless networking less unstable than XP, and it also has a much better tablet interface for us tablet users), but by doing these 2 things at least you're removing some of its most hideous features.
* This is cargo cult user interface design. Microsoft see the Mac planes landing, so they lay out the landing strip in the dirt, make the little control tower out of palm leaves, put on the little bamboo headphones, and just can't understand why the cargo doesn't come in.
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Thanks for the links, makes vista better than before, quite a noticeable speed up :D
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