My windows vista is home basic and I have all of the required things to run it.
My pc is now SUPER slow. Even when I type, my text is lagged. What can I do? I Dont have many programs installed. Thanks
2007-02-01 13:33:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
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2007-02-01 14:50:39 · answer #1 · answered by hitechsleuth 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to give us some help here, exactly how is your computer tricked out? What processor/speed, installed memory, hard drive, etc. Vista Basic is the most worthless piece of software available, as it has absolutely nothing of value, Premium would be a better choice. Now, Vista does runs considerably slower then XP, take those minimum requirements and double them. I am running Vista Business with 1GB of memory and I will be adding another 1GB as the performance is awful on it. You should have at least 2GB if not more.
2007-02-01 22:04:43 · answer #2 · answered by villanim 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What kind of specs on your PC? If you are bouncing against the minimums, you might as well give it up.
Why do you want Vista?
Home basic is a pretty well dummied down version of Vista, you would be better off staying with XP, especially if the performance is in the tanker...
2007-02-01 21:38:44 · answer #3 · answered by Photog906 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
vista needs more resources than xp, you better get a larger ram at least 1gb, well right now vista got some bugs that haven't been solve yet and this may cause you a problem... lake with the ie there have been 3 weaknesses which is very vulnerable and that hackers can log your system through it, you better get a good firewall and antivirus...
2007-02-01 21:42:47 · answer #4 · answered by Agent_Double 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i had the same problem as you and im sorry to break it to ya but windows vista is full of problems.. its one after another! And it just gets worse lol. I just recently switched back to XP.
2007-02-01 21:39:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
All of the things? You have 2 GB of RAM? You have an Nvidia GeForce 7600 (or better) with 256MB RAM? A dual-core CPU?
2007-02-01 21:37:09 · answer #6 · answered by Linux OS 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I WOULD CONTACT UR PC MANUFACTOR AND SEE IF THEY CAN HELP SINCE VISTA IS SO NEW IF NO WHERE THERE CALL MICROSOFT AND SEE IF THEY WILL HELP ITS THERE PROGRAM I DIDNT TRY VISTA YET SO MY BEST OPION IS CONTACT MICROSOFT IF UR PC PROVIDER WONT HELP AND DEMAND ANSWERS
2007-02-01 21:38:54 · answer #7 · answered by joe G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
upgrade your PC and don't convert to Linux them and that stupid penguin
2007-02-01 23:10:03 · answer #8 · answered by the man the myth the answerer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋