Vista working very slow

Dear Friends,

I had purchase one Lenovo Y500 just 20 days ago which having windows vista
home basic with it, while purchasing it i had upgreaded Ram from 512MB to 1
GB and after it all my dreams and courage has gone in to vein; when I start
to use it as it's working too much slow, even for an application like in
windows mail when I'm creating new message it`s taking at least 22 seconds to
open it and it's same for other application like forwarding mail etc. I have
not installed any other programs. System rating at present is :-

Processor Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2060 @ 1.60GHz 4.5 2.0
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 0.99 GB 4.5
Graphics Mobile Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset Family 2.0
Gaming graphics 224 MB Total available graphics memory 3.0
Primary hard disk 10GB Free (20GB Total) 4.4

Could anybody of you can help me on this matter, I have spoken to Lenovo
many times who also in turns advise to contact microsoft but their phone
number and email id is not working (so much lengthy)...

Turn Aero off,,,, your graphics are too slow to support that.

Was it slow before upgrading the ram? If not, then likely it is that one of
the sticks is either faulty or incompatible with another or the system
motherboard.

I believe the hard drive is too small.
10GB of free space is not enough for Vista to run at a good speed.
Vista uses the hard disk much more than in any other OS.
Disk Cleanup, Possibly clear some System Restore Points if you think the
risk is worth it or upgrade the Hard-Disk to a higher volume. You really need
at least 30-40GB of free space for Vista to run fast so 60GB+ hard drive
would be best.

See this thread in microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail:

"Emails slow to create and reply" 5/2/2007

Other people are reporting slow performance with Windows Mail, I'd check
that forum for your solution. You may have to wait for a hotfix (or even a
service pack -- ugh!) to get a good solution to the problem. Sadly, there
are lots of folks waiting for lots of hotfixes.

About your machine (and somewhat in contradiction to Gideon CC's reply):

I agree that a 20GB drive is waaay to small for Vista -- but you actually
have a 120G hard drive (that's in the specs for the Y500). And your
processor (a stripped-down almost Celeron-like version of the Core Duo
processors) should be fast enough to give satisfactory performance for most
applications..

However, I recommend upgrading your machine still more: Double your memory
as soon as you can afford it. The scores for memory, graphics memory, and
the Intel 945GM are probably better than the machine deserves. Part of that
1G of RAM you bought is being used by the video card (see
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets...ots/307508.htm ). You might be
disappointed with many modern games that demand a lot from a machine.

But it certainly should be BLAZINGLY fast doing email and lots of other
stuff!

Hello David,

Thanks a lot to you and all who has replied to me for the solution of this
problem. You have pointed out very correctly about hard disk size. But my
problem is not related to only email, whatever application I'm working viz.
creating an email, forwarding an email. Opening any office file. Opening any
image, open network or my computer etc.

Do you really think that by upgreading RAM I will able to solve the problem
in some level, indeed I were thinking same and already ordered one 1GB RAM so
it will be 2GB Ram. Actually I have not operated this system with 512MB ram
and have taken in my hand directly with upgreaded 1GB ram.

I heard that we need to do something in bios to get some good speed, anyone
of you have any idea on it?

Thanking you in anticipation to all.

regards
rohit

A lot of people are having performance problems with Vista. If you do a
search on Google for "speed up vista", you'll find a lot of suggestions.
Use the ones that are suggested by lots of other people.

It may not "solve" the problem, but more memory is /always/ good.

There are some adjustments that can be made in the BIOS on many machines to
adjust a system's performance. However, choosing the wrong settings can
degrade its speed. And on some computers, no such settings exist in the
BIOS. I don't know about your Lenovo machine. Generally, you should assume
that the problem is elsewhere.

The first (and easiest) things that I would look at on your computer are:

1) What programs are starting automatically with Windows? Uninstall or
disable the ones that you don't need. For instance, if you have a lot of
little icons in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, they can be
slowing things down.

2) Some folks have performance problems caused by McAfee or Norton antivirus
software. Try disabling them temporarily disabling them (BUT DON'T GO
ONLINE OR DO EMAIL WHILE IT'S DISABLED) to see if performance improves. If
one of those programs is the culprit, then re-enable it, and get Eset's
NOD32 antivirus software. Reliable sources say it's better (uses fewer
system resources, detects new viruses more reliably, gives fewer false
positives).

There are other suggestions that you'll find from your Google search, such
as disabling unnecessary services, networking protocols, and the like, but
they can require some level of technical understanding of Windows.

Good luck!

[Deco1]

Rohid

I recently upgraded my new Dell machine to Vista and I have not noticed any great drop in desktop performance (opening My Computer Control panel Etc). I have however noticed a significant drop in loading times over XP. In XP some of my Software took 15 seconds to load, but in Vista that time is now upwards of 45-60 seconds. This is very annoying, as My machine is new and quite high spec (5.3 on the Vista Index Score).

Intel Core Duo e6400 2.1 Gz Processors
2gb Ram
NVidia 7900gx 256 graphics
2 x 150Gb hard drives in Raid 0

I do agree with other postings that vista is very hungry when it comes to memory and hard drive usage. I would suggest you download a memory manager ( there are loads of free ones on the web), and this will tell you your Ram usage at any given time. You will need at least 2gb of ram if you intend to use your machine for any sort of medium graphics use( games etc)
Running Vista alone on my machine with no major programmes running (only the usual virus protection Etc) uses about 800Mb Ram, so you will not have a lot left to run anything major. Your machine therefore is using the Page file (Swap File) on the hard drive a lot, and this will make it very slow indeed.
You will also definitely need a much bigger hard drive as 20gb is nowhere near enough to give you a reasonable performance. A memory upgrade on its own will not work very well without a bigger hard drive also (80gb is reasonable nowadays).

In time I hope Microsoft will sort the slow loading problem, but once loaded everything runs very well with very few, if any, problems

Hope this helps

Deco1

I recommend /never/ using a so-called "memory manager". First of all,
Windows always will try to use as much memory as it can. When you have
sufficient RAM (and 2G is good enough for many uses), if you see in some
report (such as Task Manager) that you have very little "free" memory, that
is a /good/ thing. If some utility creates actual free memory, it robs
Windows of its ability to use memory efficiently.
for an excellent description of how Windows uses memory.

Try these:

http://windowsfixup.com/2009/03/five...a-performance/