performance worse than Vista

i found this highly worrying to be quite frank, ive been running Vista Ultimate 32x SP2 for a long time no problems atall including with performance.

over the weekend i VM'ed a win 7 machine through Vista using the same Laptop receorces and it ran ok.

I then thought i might aswell move onto win 7 as vista is no longer the main focus point of compatability

So i formatted my drive fully and installed win 7 ultimate 64x within 30mins.

This is whats getting me though its slower than Vista! startup and log in just takes an age and Idle is at 900Mb with no startup Apps apart from the AV and windows stuff thats essential to start up.

Any ideas as to why its so slow to start up and using so much RAM at IDLE?

JayD said:

I then thought i might aswell move onto win 7 as vista is no longer the main focus point of compatability

Vista has more support than Win 7, infact you end up using Vista drivers for Win 7 in many cases.

Win 7 support will come in time but Vista support aint going anywhere soon, there is SP3 to come.

I don't know if you mean his comment or mines.

I was not comparing just making a statement that the FACT Vista has more support so his comment I quoted is a moot point.

JayD said:

i found this highly worrying to be quite frank, ive been running Vista Ultimate 32x SP2 for a long time no problems atall including with performance.

over the weekend i VM'ed a win 7 machine through Vista using the same Laptop receorces and it ran ok.

I then thought i might aswell move onto win 7 as vista is no longer the main focus point of compatability

So i formatted my drive fully and installed win 7 ultimate 64x within 30mins.

This is whats getting me though its slower than Vista! startup and log in just takes an age and Idle is at 900Mb with no startup Apps apart from the AV and windows stuff thats essential to start up.

Any ideas as to why its so slow to start up and using so much RAM at IDLE?

Hi and welcome

How much ram do you have? win 7 uses memory different than vista did. It takes about half of available memory in cache to speed up requests. Thats a good thing and the way it is supposed toi work. what is the WEI rating?

Kenn J++

Both do the same (be it tweaked as Win 7 is newer), they both can at times Cache ALL your left over (not Physically in use) Memory.

You can adjust this in the Registry or through a Cmd Window, settings are 0 / 1 / 2 / 3.


Increase the FileSystem Memory Cache Size in Vista :: the How-To Geek

here are my screen shots after boot up from cold start

also i had a typo i do have a 7200rpm sata HDD