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Vista overall sluggishness

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by korby

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I know this has been a topic touched on several million times by now, but in reality has anyone really found a solution? I seem to see turn off Aero, turn off indexing, turn on the sidebar, and so on. However that still doesn't do it, I'm not talking about Vista running slow on a P4 system with 1gb of ram, I'm talking about Vista running slow on systems that have more than enough hardware capabilities for the os. I find vista almost painfully slow at times and my vista systems specs are as follows:

Dell Studio 1735 Laptop
2.16Ghz Core 2 Duo
4GB Crucial Ram
160GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drive
ATI Radeon HD 3650 w/256MB Dedicated
2gb Sandisk SD card being used as readyboost.
Vista Ultimate SP1 (Clean install without Dell Bloatware)

I actually really like the vista search feature, it's the only feature that keeps me from going back to XP. I just wish we could find some real information on how to actually get this os to perform better. I had hoped Microsoft would address these issues with SP1 but since that didn't happen I guess it's up to the consumers to fix the product.

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by jmgarvin

However, my guess is that the new search feature is still indexing your drive. That can really eat into performance.

However, if you posted some more information (in questions) it might be more helpful.

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