Why Vista slows down over time

Posted: 06-30-2006, 05:23 PM

Molly5742

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I have installed Vista now four times, using the DVD 'Custom' fresh install
option. And because I believe Vista installation doesn't 'really' reformat
the hard drive, all four of these times I also used an XP install CD to fully
reformat (slow style) the entire hard drive with NTFS reformat. And only
then have I applied the Vista DVD install -- with a clean whistle, single
partition, fully formated NTFS drive. No XP bleedover or storage packaging
here.

So, each time Vista starts out slowly. I then install Executive Software's
excellent Diskeeper 10 for Vista, and she zooms up to speed. Just as
expected. Everything works fast, and works great.

And then, slowly, despite further defragmentations, Vista interface starts
to sloowwwww down. Getting the full green bar for, say, exploring the C:
drive goes from instaneous to slower, slowwwerrr, slowwwwwwww. Over time.

Does anyone know what the reason for this is? I understand it's a beta
release but something tells me there is more to the story than merely
unoptimized code.

Thanks.

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Jason

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RE: Why Vista slows down over time

Posted: 07-02-2006, 03:21 AM

Mine only did this when I had CA A/V installed... My current "build" has been
operational for 2 weeks with only one reboot (patch day) and has had a web
server (iis7) +php + mysql running the whole time, not to mention web
browsing and other things I do on that system.

It has not gotten any slower for me. I really couldnt explain why it would
for you.

"Molly5742" wrote:

> I have installed Vista now four times, using the DVD 'Custom' fresh install
> option. And because I believe Vista installation doesn't 'really' reformat
> the hard drive, all four of these times I also used an XP install CD to fully
> reformat (slow style) the entire hard drive with NTFS reformat. And only
> then have I applied the Vista DVD install -- with a clean whistle, single
> partition, fully formated NTFS drive. No XP bleedover or storage packaging
> here.
>
> So, each time Vista starts out slowly. I then install Executive Software's
> excellent Diskeeper 10 for Vista, and she zooms up to speed. Just as
> expected. Everything works fast, and works great.
>
> And then, slowly, despite further defragmentations, Vista interface starts
> to sloowwwww down. Getting the full green bar for, say, exploring the C:
> drive goes from instaneous to slower, slowwwerrr, slowwwwwwww. Over time.
>
> Does anyone know what the reason for this is? I understand it's a beta
> release but something tells me there is more to the story than merely
> unoptimized code.
>
> Thanks.
>

pweegar

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Re: Why Vista slows down over time

Posted: 07-02-2006, 04:14 PM

Hmmm.. When your pc starts to slow down, go into the task manager. How much
memory is being used? What's your cpu utilization? Under Processes, is
there anything there that you think shouldn't be? Sort by memusage and make
sure you display processes from all users.

Sounds like a program or programs isn't/aren't giving up memory.

"Molly5742" <Molly5742@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6720E30E-3C67-49B4-84AC-58BF956D0141@microsoft.com...

>I have installed Vista now four times, using the DVD 'Custom' fresh install
> option. And because I believe Vista installation doesn't 'really'
> reformat
> the hard drive, all four of these times I also used an XP install CD to
> fully
> reformat (slow style) the entire hard drive with NTFS reformat. And only
> then have I applied the Vista DVD install -- with a clean whistle, single
> partition, fully formated NTFS drive. No XP bleedover or storage
> packaging
> here.
>
> So, each time Vista starts out slowly. I then install Executive
> Software's
> excellent Diskeeper 10 for Vista, and she zooms up to speed. Just as
> expected. Everything works fast, and works great.
>
> And then, slowly, despite further defragmentations, Vista interface starts
> to sloowwwww down. Getting the full green bar for, say, exploring the C:
> drive goes from instaneous to slower, slowwwerrr, slowwwwwwww. Over time.
>
> Does anyone know what the reason for this is? I understand it's a beta
> release but something tells me there is more to the story than merely
> unoptimized code.
>
> Thanks.
>

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