I'm on a powerful alienware laptop which I bought in June last year, it is not dual core but considering it cost £2500 I'd guess it's meant to be quite powerful, but still it never runned fast, it took 3 minutes to get to the log on screen, and then a further 2 to start up my user, and all I have on startup is MSN, Trend Micro and a couple of other small progs. I guess a format might help, so I would back up everything, but wondering what the best OS for me to go to would be?
Currently I'm on Media Center, I can buy Vista, or go to Win XP (Not sure which is faster Pro or Home)
Thanks.
2007-02-01 06:19:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Media Centre is XP. Wouldn't get Vista until the first update comes out in a couple of months.
2007-02-01 06:23:43 · answer #1 · answered by Barry G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a £2500 laptop that takes 5 minutes to start up, it needs a bit of a health check. You need to check what else is starting up when it boots up. Run msconfig and check the startup tab.
I agree with those who say don't try Vista yet. If you're on Media Center I take it you mean XP, should be faster than that.
2007-02-01 07:42:02 · answer #2 · answered by alanprogrock 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are having trouble with the PC's speed, just move down to Windows XP, try also to go into the bios and tell it only to check the harddrive as a boot device, also most m/b's have a fast boot options that you could activate to speed up the boot time
2007-02-04 08:51:23 · answer #3 · answered by gerard mcmanus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stick with Xp. You'll just be beta testing Vista if you buy it when it's out and it's going to be a holy pain for ages until they fix all the bugs and security issues that all new windows systems have
2007-02-01 06:31:45 · answer #4 · answered by agrivar1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a lot of folks wont like to hear this but windows 2000 pro with all the updates is the safest and most secure version of windows microsoft makes. it just does not break down
i have been using it for the past 3 years on multiple machines with no problems of any kind.
look into it.
2007-02-01 06:30:45 · answer #5 · answered by fatguy11 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stay with XP. Vista won't be usable until SP1 at least.
2007-02-01 06:22:13 · answer #6 · answered by Kenneth H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
windows xp
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