windows vista

[flitty]

i have vista on my laptop and its garbage, i
f i get xp or windows 7 will it erase vista and speed up the computer

[bazwillrun]

Whilst I agree vista isnt the best thing to come out of Redmond how do you know its that which is "slowing" it down .
7 may slow it down even more depending on the spec of the laptop and the operating system setup.
You may have a slow processor and a small amount of memory a low spec graphics card and even XP may struggle.

Whats slow, start up, general use or a specific piece of software.

If you have all the useless aero functions turned on then that will slow things down, drain the battery, maybe its bogged down with adware, maybe you have lots of software all with auto updates turned on all vying for your internet connection .

When I used vista the only thing that was really slow was large file tranfer speeds, but I believe that was sorted out some time ago, 7 has its own set of unique problems but its operating speed doesnt seem any different to any other previous release of windows and I have used them all.

Speed is nearly always down to a combination of hardware spec and setup.

Vista will only be "erased" if you tell the new setup to erase/overwite it with whatever Op/sys you install

[VHG]

I doubt changing your operating system will speed up your computer.

There are a lot of fancy "extras" (like aero and others) that slow down Windows.

If you turn off the fancy extras you will get a performance improvement.

Note, dont confuse your laptop speed with your broadband speed.

If the internet is slow that is more likely down to your broadband speed than your laptop speed.

See here for vista speed up options.

http://www.articlesba...ws-vista-1289413.html

http://www.connectedi...eed-up-windows-vista/

[nightmare]

I would rather have a computer which ran at a snail's pace than any with Windows Vista.
It is an abomination of an OS.

[36TEAK36]

I purchased a new Vista Laptop about 18 months ago, and it was slower than my old XP Laptop even though it was a far better spec. Fortunately I was entitled to a free Windows 7 upgrade, and as soon as it was loaded the improvement in speed was remarkable.

[R1Geezer]

Vista is fine, sounds like you have a load of unnecessary sh1te running at start up. Any OS will struggle with that. No need to get 7 just learn about what you have. 7 to the Casual user is very similar to Vista and XP is soon to be unsupported.