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Re: very slow system, no immediately obvious reason (to a novice)

i have a dell workstation with 2 ghz ,zeon chip and 512 meg ram and it runs Vista ok ,I'm just using it for surfing righ now .
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Re: very slow system, no immediately obvious reason (to a novice)

http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...y.htm#wp999869

Guide to how to remove RAM and install new
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Re: very slow system, no immediately obvious reason (to a novice)

Ram is considered a "user upgradable" part, even on laptops. It's enver more than a couple screws away. But I don't know about "running towards vista" even balmer has accepted that people are better off to wait for windows 7. Besides, even if Vista were the best operating system for this user, it's just not the right OS for this computer, it wasn't designed to run on old hardware and I would NEVER install it on my laptop running similar specs (Celeron M [Dothan with 1mb cache] and 1GB of ram.)
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When it comes down to it, this system is running too slow, even for Vista on a slow machine. There must be something wrong, but since this laptop shouldn't have Vista in the first place installing XP will fix everything.
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Installing XP fixes almost everything
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windows 7 wont be faster than vista, it still uses the NT 6 kernel
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On a kernel level it wont be faster, but according to everything I've read and the demos I've seen (on the web in general, and from Microsoft) it's going to be less "bloated". The problem with vista has nothing to do with the efficiency of it's Kernel, it's the resource requirements of the rest of it's components. It's designed to better utilize resources (which vista was very bad at), it will even run on NETBOOKS!!!

Look at Linux, virtually all versions recent Linux distributions use the 2.6 kernel but some perfrom better than others, or use less resources, depending on what's inclued and how well it performs.
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Thats because they are basing it on server 2008. server 2008 comes by default with hardly anything enabled and you need to add everything as roles/features. But server 2008 + the desktop experience feature = exactly the same in speed as vista.
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