kaled - 9:18 pm on May 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

aj113,

Disable real-time anti-virus - that will probably help considerably. Also, as mentioned before, a clean install is always best and ditch the crappy security software for something that doesn't kill performance (assuming that is the problem).

zafile,
I have a Windows Vista sticker on my Dell Laptop and I have a legal copy of Vista, so I guess it should be perfect - but it isn't. To be fair, I haven't suffered stability issues under Vista, but then I haven't suffered any under XP either (on the same hardware) and with almost identical software. But, no matter how I compare the two, Vista simply isn't "better".

The bottom line is that the same software on the same hardware typically runs slower on Vista than XP. Often, the difference is unimportant but it is apparent. And many of the changes in Vista are simply not improvements, for instance, the file confirmation dialogs are just awful.

Kaled.