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It's worth remembering that Vista may appear to be using loads of RAM, but in reality it's simply caching it, which is actually a useful thing to do. For instance, Task Manager shows that at first glance, I'm out of RAM just about (on the laptop here I have 2GB), but when you look more closely, you can see it's cached around 1300MB and is using the rest. At the bottom this is confirmed when it says that physical memory usage is 47%.
What I really like about Vista is that it seems to be able to "compartmentalize" better than previous versions. If you have an unresponsive program in XP, it tends to make the entire OS unusable until said program is closed (and we all know that that can take a while from time to time). Vista seems to be able to deal with this much better: if a program hangs, it's just the program that hangs, and not the entire OS... With SP1, I prefer Vista (without the eye-candy) over XP - it seems faster (but only on Vista-"approved" PC's), and at least as stable as XP.
I took issue with that, as well. I surrendered to the scheduled upkeep that Vista offers (defrag, cleanup) FOR NOW. I would really like to see a fully tested and confirmed registry optimizer/cleaner, disk cleaner, and defragger built specifically for Vista. I've tried some that say that they are "compatible", but don't really cut the mustard when it comes down to performance, IMO. I've pimped iolo tech's System Mechanic here before..but it's really substandard when it comes to integrating with Vista for the time being.Quote:
Originally Posted by nihil
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Hi there O~
Please go here:
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software
Just get the free ones ;)
Now, I didn't tell you guys all the facts when I started this thread......:lildevil:
I found some other junk, and built a second machine............
Athlon XP2400+
1 GB PC 2100
but what about graphics?
Well, I am looking at a pair of 256Mb DDR2 AGP8x cards.......... but the MoBo only supports 4x............
So I grabs this nVidia GeForce2 MX-200 PCI 64Mb card............... yup, an old white socket PCI card......
I insert the Vista (Home Premium) DVD..............
It proceeds to load like a can of worms with an outboard motor......
It tells me that it has loaded a driver for a GeForce MX- 100/200, and that this has an "Aero" rating of 1.9
?????????????????????:confused:
I must get another Vista license to be legal; but this is looking like a cheap OS to me..............................................????????????????
Hmmm, I never tried an outboard motor on a can of worms. How long
you been feelin' this way, nihil? :)
Seriously, I'm running a GeForce4 Ti4200 (agp 8x, 128mb, dual display)
and get the same 1.9 Aero rating. The WEI (Windows Experience Index)
gives this vid card a 1.0 rating on 3D graphics. Kinda goes in the "So
What Category" as far as I'm concerned. I've only seen Aero a couple
of times and it's pretty and all, but who really needs it? I'm bored with
eye candy for computers. I like my eye candy in skirts much better.
I've got Vista booting up to almost 600 mb ram then 'settling' down to
400 mb, which is only slightly more than XP on the same unit. Bear in
mind I'm running no AV in any conventional sense on either, so this unit
is free of that load on either OS. But still, Vista seems slower on most
apps.
I took another look at UAC, thinking that was soaking up a chunk of ram,
but it uses almost none from what I can tell. My impression of the computer
being faster without it apparently comes solely from not suffering through
any its prompts. Negative makes a good point about compartmentalization.
Vista doesn't seem to hang as long as XP when that occurs. The flip side
is the apps that don't run on Vista, especially 3rd-party utilities I got used
to on W2K and XP.
I'm not sure it's a cheap OS in the strictest sense of the word, but it did
recently come down in price after a change to the MSRP. Vista may be
a dog, but in a few years, given MS's monopoly, it's going to be most people's
dog, so we may as well get used to it. I had one friend at HP suggest it
wasn't going to last, which made me chuckle and think MS invested way
too much money into it to give up like they did when they did the 98-ME-
W2K-XP transition before finding their sea legs with XP.
Ugh, this is the stuff that drives me crazy about Vista. I'm running an
HP 1020 printer from it and HP attempts to pop up a window telling me
to add paper. So Vista, with UAC disabled, prevents the popup and warns
me with an "Interactive services dialog detection" window before allowing
HP's popup window. Vista tells me some devices and programs that are
not fully compatible do not display their messages w/o permission. So I
click the "Show me the message" button and go from there. Chit, I loaded
the Vista drivers from HP's CD that came with the printer? MS's compatibility
specs must be a beach.
I miss the old days when I instinctively knew my printed doc was only partial
and simply added paper to Ye Olde LJ6 w/o any prompts from either the
printer or the OS. Now I suffer thru a series of prompts to simply add paper
and finish my document.
Common sense is either dead, or incompatible with newer devices.
I cant delete anything on my desktop. If I try right click Command prompt to run it as admin my explorer crashes.Quote:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: explorer.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6001.17052
Application Timestamp: 474fe367
Fault Module Name: Shelltit.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.7.9.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 469214f3
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000057ec
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6
Locale ID: 7177
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Read our privacy statement:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?link...3&clcid=0x0409
Anyone got any ideas how to fix this :)
Hey Nihil,Quote:
Originally Posted by nihil
I am well aware of the Auslogics products...you introduced me to them quite a while ago, and they work very well.
I still don't have a lot of faith in them, however. I am getting a bit older, and would like a solid product that is fully supported rather than a 3rd party product that is 'kinda supported'. That probably makes me a "get the **** off of my lawn!" type person, but hey...I don't have the time to putz around with my computer that I used to. I have other concerns...
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k5...g?t=1205908169
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ...eature=related
So, there ya go.
K
Edit: This is your brain on the internet (fries egg)
Try disabling UAC and see what happens. You can always re-enable it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cider
UAC was disabled already. Just formatted.