Re: Vista
- From: Alistair <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:06:39 -0800 (PST)
On 1 Jan, 21:28, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Alistair" <alist...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 31 Dec 2007, 00:11, LX-i <lxi0...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alistair wrote:
On 25 Dec, 23:46, LX-i <lxi0...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
XP is so perfect that MS has released XP SP3 RC 1.
XP is a very good Operating System. The fact that service packs are being
released for it doesn't change that. It shows it is being well supported.
The core functionality of it is not being updated, and even if it were,
there is nothing wrong with making a Good Thing better.
Heh - I said *near* perfect. Especially comparatively. Besides, SP32 am fixes: happy days.
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.
That's just sad. There was nothing "happy" about it. It simply reflected bad
management and bad programming. And it usually caused more problems than it
ever fixed...
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?
I have the December updates installed and noticed no change. What else has
been installed recently? You might try turning off the System Restore
function; this requires a huge amount of disk access during boot. If you
REALLY need this cuddle blanket (and image copy backups are probably a
better solution) then try allocating less space to it so that there are
fewer restore points saved. (It takes time to look through restore points
when adding new ones...)
Then defrag.
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.
It says: "...this bulletin affects users of Microsoft Windows Vista and does
not affect users of Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2" so you would not expect
a problem from this.
Indexing and anti-virus are the most likely candidates for resource
hogging...
It now looks as if the anti-virus and/or firewall (AVG and Zonealarm)
may be responsible. More investigation needed.
.
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