Vista Troubleshooting Tools

[madasahatter]

Interesting article here for Vista peeps

[Rik]

Nice link, Mad. 

[madasahatter]

Cheers Rik - I aim to please 

Don't very often manage it, but I do try 

[Rik]

And we all find you very trying.

[madasahatter]

And we all find you very trying.

Now why did I expect that ? 

[Rik]

I'd have been amazed if you hadn't. Feed me the lines and I'll use them. 

[Lance]

God link - thanks Mad!

[Gary]

Good linky, Mad

[cavillas]

God link - thanks Mad!

Where's the GOD link Lance.  I need a dose of religion at the moment. 

[Rik]

Right here, Alf.

[Lance]

 

[cavillas]

Anything but that.....

[Noreen]

Thanks Mad, that looks interesting.

[Sebby]

Interesting article here for Vista peeps

It's a good article, I've just had a proper read. I can't help but feel that, like a lot of these Vista guides, the information is quite generic and will only help boost performance if something is very wrong. The only thing it doesn't mention is the famous ReadyBoost, which is as good as useless! I know for a fact that none of the issues mentioned in the article existed on my installation, yet the performance was unacceptable.

I'm more than willing to give Vista another go. After all, XP feels quite basic in comparison. But I just don't believe that it'll ever run at a speed that I consider to be good for my system.

[madasahatter]

I'm more than willing to give Vista another go. After all, XP feels quite basic in comparison. But I just don't believe that it'll ever run at a speed that I consider to be good for my system.

That's a pity Sebby. There are obviously some of us on here that are very happy with Vista and have no speed issues at all. I suppose it could be that some hoobs are more easily pleased than others, but I can honestly say that Vista on both my PCs (lappy and desktop) runs fine - just as quick, if not quicker, as XP ever did on my last desktop.

[Lance]

That's a pity Sebby. There are obviously some of us on here that are very happy with Vista and have no speed issues at all. I suppose it could be that some hoobs are more easily pleased than others, but I can honestly say that Vista on both my PCs (lappy and desktop) runs fine - just as quick, if not quicker, as XP ever did on my last desktop.

I'm one of those happy users! My laptop runs Vista quicker than my desktop runs XP, and that is not because my desktop is slow!

[Cookiemonster]

I'm in the same boat. After some initial teething problems i do think its running faster than my old XP set-up.

[Lance]

After installing a load of driver updates (I go through and update everything I can every couple of months), I've just been offered the Vista SP1 via auto update.

I think I'll leave off for now!

[Rik]

Very wise.

[Cookiemonster]

I have had Vista SP1 for a while now and i have had no problems what so ever Lance.

[madasahatter]

After installing a load of driver updates (I go through and update everything I can every couple of months), I've just been offered the Vista SP1 via auto update.

I think I'll leave off for now!

I did my desktop last weekend Lance - no probs whatsoever 

[Rik]

But when are you going to do your computer, Mad?

[Noreen]

My new laptop came with Ultimate Vista SP1 already installed and although I haven't another computer with which to compare it, it seems to me to really whizz along.

[madasahatter]

But when are you going to do your computer, Mad?

[Rik]

My first of the day. 

[Lance]

And no doubt the first of many!

[Gary]

After installing a load of driver updates (I go through and update everything I can every couple of months), I've just been offered the Vista SP1 via auto update.

I think I'll leave off for now!

I had no issue with Vista SP1 lance it works well, I don't take the driver updates off windows update though, I always manually update chipset drivers and network and graphic ones myself, there have been reports of the Windows driver updates causing issues,  SP1 was installed in I would guess 30mins (didn't count) and file transfer etc is faster now, I must admit Vista runs faster on this machine than xp did on my other pc and I was a die hard xp fan. SP1 has brought a degree of maturity to Vista now and is well worth installing, at 66mb on my setup its not huge either.

[Lance]

Right. I've made and validated a TI backup image so guess if it all goes wrong I can just restore to that!

Time to take the plunge!

Looks like a 66.9MB download for me!

[madasahatter]

Time to take the plunge!

 

[Rik]

All together now, "So long it's been good to know you..."  

[Lance]

 

[Gary]

All together now, "So long it's been good to know you..."  

twenty one hard drive salute if all fails Rik?

[Rik]

Power them up, Gary.

[Gary]

Power them up, Gary.

The national grid just took a hit Rik, ready and waiting

[Rik]

All we need is a report from Lance.

[MoHux]

I have been pleased with the speed of Vista SP1 (Business).  It's every bit as fast as XP now, and it is certainly more secure.  Especially if you do as MS suggest and run as 'user' and not as 'administrator'. 

Mo

 

[Lance]

Good news! All is fine! I can't make any comparisons yet as I've only just booted up!

You can power down the hard drives again now, Gary!

[Rik]

We'll stop holding our breath, Lance. 

[Gary]

I have been pleased with the speed of Vista SP1 (Business).  It's every bit as fast as XP now, and it is certainly more secure.  Especially if you do as MS suggest and run as 'user' and not as 'administrator'. 

Mo

 

I use UAC as ms suggest, it was not practicle in XP really but works well in Vista and hopefully does stop system wide access by malware 

Good news! All is fine! I can't make any comparisons yet as I've only just booted up!

You can power down the hard drives again now, Gary!

Drives powered down Lance, glad all went well worth doing a chkdsk as I had some minor freespace errors with the MFT after installation which chkdsk sorted out, always seems to happen with big MS installs even IE7 caused it on my old machine.

[madasahatter]

Good news! All is fine! I can't make any comparisons yet as I've only just booted up!

Excellent Lance  - told you it would be painless 

[Cookiemonster]

See nothing to worry about.....