Vista and XP What dont we need?

[swany]

That little gateway is my way of using my backup pc as an example. It does from time to time, I use it at home for testing music and once in a while for my primary show, the other a HP with 250GB will be at arms reach. So far the gateway had a few startup problems, this is what I was trying to resolve, most often once it did start proper ran without a hitch all night long. I'm now using all but 42gb, with the recommended services turned off. I deleted a bunch of prgs and it now starts a lot faster, THANKS MY FRIENDS. So my bantering has resolved a few doubts I had at removing prgs. I am going to use it as my primary for a couple of weeks and see how thing go. So far it has not failed me ever, just brings the blood pressure up when it don't start right away.

When I weigh into some of the problems folks have here and they sound like an echo of what I'm expieriencing and mayhaps resolved already it is usually my first Vista expierience the Gateway. I don't know how much read this will get in the future but hopefully along the way others will not have to go through the "hoops" Again thank you all. Ed

[billyo]

my first computer was a gateway ( 7 years old ) with a 60gb hhd space, still got the floppy disc slot in it,dual tray cd/dvd , 5 usb port, and it's an inhouse pc ( i wont let no one use my other pc's ) it became so slow that no one wanted to use it, even turning it on/off takes forever, so one day ,i just decided to removed everything, re-installed xp from scratched , now its running like it's brand new..and we use it just browsing the internet, and some other things..

[swany]

I hear you, I'm thinking about picking up a Wal Mart special with XP in it while their supplies last use it just for online use and take this one off line semi permanent. My first office pc an HP with xp is still working well for my daughter and her family.

[ddouglass]

All of the Microsoft operating systems tend to save a lot of junk in your login profile. When you sign in, it has to load that profile in with the system. I found one of the biggest start up speed savings was to take the all documents out of the profile and put them in another location. I never save anything to My Documents. The other thing is to keep the "Local Settings" temporary files down to minimum. This area is one of the biggest reasons computers tend to slow down the longer we use them. Stripping it and reloading the operating system is one way to fix it (drastic) since you escentially start over with a clean profile.
Of course the second biggest is stopping processes that are not needed such as the indexing.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by swany

I hear you, I'm thinking about picking up a Wal Mart special with XP in it while their supplies last use it just for online use and take this one off line semi permanent. My first office pc an HP with xp is still working well for my daughter and her family.

or you can use it as a host comp. just like i did, i have my modem and router connected to it for networking..