Re: Vista

Alistair wrote:
On 25 Dec, 23:46, LX-i <lxi0...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael Mattias wrote:

As an aside - you missed snipping this line. :) I wrote the part you quoted.

I don't know - I remember, in the NT line, that 4 was quicker (and had
that spiffy new UI) than 3.51, and Windows 2000 was even better than 4.
I know that Pete's praised XP as a near-perfect OS, and I'll have to
say that I somewhat agree.

XP is so perfect that MS has released XP SP3 RC 1.

Heh - I said *near* perfect. Especially comparatively. Besides, SP3 will help immensely. What everyone is running right now is SP2 + hundreds of add-on updates. What SP3 will do is integrate their fixes into the libraries themselves. It's sort of like going back and modifying the "2am fix" to standardize it with the rest of the code.

Incidentally, since
installing the XP December updates from MS I noticed that the machine
has slowed significantly. A friend has reported the same slowing on
his XP box. I have switched searchindexer off and it still runs slow.
Any ideas?

Hmm. Not really - I don't use XP anymore. :) Below is a link with a synopsis on what was changed...

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9832347-7.html

The MS07-063 may have something to do with it. Check through your networking settings and make sure that there isn't anything extra there. Sometimes, if it's continually looking for something in the background, other processes can be slower.

Of course, the code is written by humans. Especially dealing with the DRM fixes, it could be that someone left an inefficient tight loop in one of the libraries. Maybe January will fix that.

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