Acer Aspire 1640 Laptop Upgrade

> Just updated an Acer Aspire 1644 laptop from Windows XP. The installation
> went smoothly, nothing was lost or messed up. But I noticed that the fan
> on
> the CPU was running constantly. As I had read a number of posts before the
> install I recognized that the CPU was running at 100% (verified in Task
> Manager).
>
> So, based on th posts I stopped indexing. It made no difference and I
> suspect it makes no difference on any computer. And Vista ran slower than
> a
> snail. Doing more research came up blank, just a lot of people claiming
> flaws
> in Vista.
>
> My conclusion was that some software left over from XP was the culprit.
> Carefully watching the task manager sorted by CPU usage uncovered an Acer
> utility called eManager was the CPU hog. I stopped it in the task manager
> and
> the laptop showed CPU usage similar to its XP days. I went to the Service
> Manage and stopped and diabled all the ACER services. I went into the
> registry RUN sections (local and machine) and deleted the startup for ACER
> utilities. A simpler solution for users uncomfortable with this approach
> would be to simply uninstall the ACER utilities)
>
> Now the system is just as responsive as it was in XP and the CPU fan only
> comes on when usage approaches 100%. I also changed the Performance
> characteristics from Balanced to Performance though I did not notice a
> difference in performance.
>
> Oh, I turned indexing back on.
>
> Now if I could only improve my performance index from 2 to ...