Posted October 19, 200717 yr How does the laptop run in Safe Mode? In Normal Mode, run msconfig and disable everthing. How is the performance after reboot? Restore one or two checkmarks in Msconfig, then assess system performace. Do this untl you can identifiy the one or two applications slowing you down. Disable all antivirus and antispyware utilities. Notice any difference? In the end, this is going to be a slow and methodical march to the solution OR you could reinstall the OS and ONLY!!! a few absolutely necessary applications from the Restore DVD, instead of restoring everything to the fat factory defaults. I had perfectly fine performance with a DELL with 512MB of RAM, until I upgraded to 1GB. At 512MB, Vista dumbed itself down to the hardware. After memory upgrade, it loaded more of itself - like Aero, Widgets, etc. Whatever problem you are having is due to everything except Vista, otherwise we would all be having problems with it. "frustrated vista user" wrote: > I recently bought a laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed on it. At first > it was okay. But then I started encountering small problems with it. For > instance, I couldn't launch my Media Player at all, then I resolved this by > using the run as administrator option in the right-click menu. then I > launched Internet Explorer, and I couldn't run games in Flash or Java. The > same solution fixed that. Now my computer is acting extremely erratic. I > tried backing up my files and performing a system restore, and it didn't > help. After exhausting option after option, I finally chose to do a full > restore to factory default, and now I cannot even log into the system without > it taking ages to finally load. I cannot even restore my files I backed up > because the DVD drive doesn't run. This operating system, in my opinion, > totally sucks, and I would rather roll back to windows XP, but I can't even > do that because of the wacky permissions of Vista still controlling the file > system. I know that XP had problems when it was first launched, as well as > other systems, but nothing like what I'm experiencing. I don't think that > even after the service packs are released that I will ever like or even > purchase Vista again. I've had too many problems with it and I'm about to > purchase a new drive for my laptop and install XP on it. If there is anyone > who can help me with this very serious problem that I'm having, please email > me because I am at the end of my rope and I'm about to take a sledgehammer to > my laptop.
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