Re: Which version of Windows?

"Roger Lascelles" <relATaantDOTcomDOTau> wrote in message news:46f3981e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Alan Garny" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46f38116$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I have been using Windows Vista since it has been released and though there are some cool things in it, I cannot help but feel frustrated at its relative sluggishness compared with Windows XP. My (scientific) application runs also slower under Vista than XP, which is somewhat frustrating.

Alan, have you investigated speeding up Vista?

I don't run Aero - in fact, I selected "Classic Windows" interface which looks like Win2000 and I notice faster boot and graphics performance - even faster than the basic vista interface.

I have just switched to Windows Standard (also tried Windows Classic) and my program runs 6% slower than under Windows XP within VMWare on my system (which runs Windows Vista 64-bit). If anything, I would expecpt my program to run slower in a VM and yet it is faster, so there is definitely something about Vista that slows it down.

I have turned off quite a few unwanted services as well. There are plenty of articles like this on the net like this http://www.jasonn.com/turning_off_unnecessary_services_on_windows_xp which tell how to turn off services.

Yes, it shouldn't harm having a go at that. Note, though, that my Windowx XP VM has all the default services on, so I think it's fair to compare it to Vista (if it is for the fact that Vista is indeed more advanced, but then again I run XP in a VM, so...).

I turned off system restore which seems to take out quite a bit of delay. You could also turn off indexing, though I let it run.

Yes, same here.

This report http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/page9.html seems to claim that basic CPU throughput is similar on Vista.

Hmm... I am not quite sure what to make out of that. This is certainly not my experience.

The downside to taking off Vista is that you are losing the current windows version, which your customers are going to be running for the next few years. You willl have to at least test on Vista.

Within VMWare, yes...

Alan.

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