My Vista experienced has – improved!<\/p>\n
Yes after a year of living with a sluggish new PC the warranty has expired and I’m free to open the insides and do what I like.\u00a0 It actually expired a few months ago but I just didn’t have enough time to deal with it. \u00a0 So with a free day it was time to see what I could do about getting to to work faster!<\/p>\n
After trying all the various software settings – so may I lost count it was clear that hardware changes was the only way to go.\u00a0 The diehard Window fans will say why not turn off the Aero interface – I say why bother with getting Vista then?<\/p>\n
Opening the computer was easy and you only need to open one side.\u00a0 The internals are neatly arranged and tidy but a bit cramped.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There where 4 memory slots but obscured by the hard drive frame.\u00a0 It has 2 unpaired 512MB memory cards hmmm on the cheap.\u00a0 Anyway I moved them to the most inaccessible slots and put in my single 2Gig memory card in the easy to reach one! It uses 4200PC spec memory BTW.\u00a0 Very cheap.<\/p>\n
So put it all back and turned it one. Still takes a long time to boot up… log in and there you! Checked the specs and it says over 3000MB!\u00a0 Ran the performance progam and the windows index said that there was a change in hardware and I needed to re-run the Index. So I did and a few minutes later and the performance score accounding to windows was 4.7.\u00a0 Previous ly it was 4.5<\/p>\n
So did I notice any improvement in real life? YES watching TV and surfing the internet, running iTunes and other programs work easily without the jerkiness experienced wihout the extra memory.\u00a0 Operations seemed to take a little less time to run.<\/p>\n
So adding extra memory to the computer does make Vista run faster.\u00a0 It doesn’t become obviously fast but its the little things that appear to run without extra waiting time.<\/p>\n
I say that 3Gigabytes of RAM in a PC is definitely required to run Windows Vista properly.\u00a0 Of course you’ll need a fast CPU harrd drive or main board too but that’s a given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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