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by rovoco

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While we are waiting for Windows Vista SP1, does anyone have some safe, solid suggestions as to how to get rid of the Vista "bloatware", to streamline the OS, make it operate faster and keep the client happy?

Is opting for the "classic" mode the only thing we can do at this time?

Would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks!

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by wancona

Hopefully this helps. Try downloading Easy Vista Manager. Hopefully it helps.

by rovoco

Can you provide us with a web site address for your recommendation?

Thanks!

by oh smeg

I'm not sure what you want to do here but if you mean remove all the unnecessary to business System Hogging Resource eating Eye Candy available in Vista you can either turn it off or strip out Vista and install XP.

XP on Vista Hardware if it is properly configured will fly where the Vista install crawls.

SP1 is basically just a bunch of Hot Fixes and not much more so what do you want to do?

Col

by rovoco

In addition to choosing "classic view" it has been suggested that disabling HDD search indexing and superfetch will speed things up. Also disabling Aero in Advance Settings, Performance should make Vista run a bit more like XP. Do you concur?

Thanks for responding so quickly.

by oh smeg

But as Vista is so new and completely different to it's predecessors I really think you can only make minor improvements around the edges with Vista. No matter what is done its still going to be Big & Slow compared to the Older XP Pro and the Slated Windows 7 .

Currently there is only 2 things that I've seen that are improvements over XP and that is the Search Function and the Power Saving while on Batteries for NB's. Both of which combined are not even close to a good enough reason to consider testing Vista for a Business Environment yet.

I'm still supplying XP Pro on all new computers and have no plans to move to Vista in the Foreseeable future. There are still way too many Good Reasons not to consider Vista for Business where Down Time is expensive and not to mention Mission Critical Business Applications that are currently not supported.

As things stand at the moment I couldn't give away a copy of Vista to any of my customers and I have a couple of them here gathering Dust as well as my personal Volume License Copy which is yet to be installed Full Time on anything. There is no way that it's even close to ready yet.

Col

by oh smeg

Look here

http://tinyurl.com/39vv3w

Just a side note if you have your Vista Computer Set to Autodownload Windows Updates SP1 for Vista will be coming down now or very soon as it's now available.

Just think about what you are planing before deploying it as any thing that gets broken will require a OS Install to recover from.

[b]Think Very Seriously[/b] about Testing this before Deploying.

Col

by rovoco

Thanks for the cautionary note. I'll watch carefully what I chose to do.

Feedback from anyone who has downloaded and installed Vista SP1 would be appreciated.

by oh smeg

I'll throw Vista Ultimate onto it and apply SP1 but it's not a High Priority as I don't use Vista.

For Business it's not there yet just like XP wasn't there yet at this stage of its development at the 14 Month Mark.

I'm not even sure if Vista will be considered as the noise M$ is making about Windows 7 may relegate Vista to the same position as ME was when 2000 came out so soon afterwords.

Col

by sue t

here is the link that will explain how to uninstall Vista sp1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948537
I like Vista and find it to be faster then XP and even installed in on teacher computers last summer, they love it and we haven't had any problems. I believe some people just don't want to take the time to learn a new OS. Wasn't much of a learning curve but does have some good diagnostic tools and the new event viewer is great. Which ever you choose enjoy it and don't worry what other people think. PS - we also run Mac OS and Vista is faster and less problems.

by dumphrey

I have had issues with Vista. It was the only os listening to an arp-proxy response on the lan over the actual machine arp response..."Vista has a "smarter" network stack".... :\ Also, on many routers (cisco included) the sliding "smart" mtu aspect of the vista tcp/ip stack causes bad corruption in data and connections when passed through NAT/PAT. Disableing this "feature" fixes all the problems.
That being said, Vista is not so bad for a new OS. I will not be using it over XP atm, since it offers absolutely nothing for me that I do not already have on XP (and 99% of the time XP is faster).
In what ways do you find Vista faster then XP? My laptop boots faster with Vista then XP, but then tends to perform slower for web and video related tasks. As none of the software I use was designed for dual core, I have no ability to speak to the efficiency of dual core processor usage compared to XP. And is this on the same hardware? Im actually curious, as my Vista experience is limited to 5 machines, 4 of which are laptops.

by msusman

I BETA tested win 7 and RC1, try to get your hands on the WINDOWS 7 RC1, no key required until June 2010

WIN 7 IS FASTER THAN FAST...it smokes

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