Windows Vista is by and large the slowest Windows that there has ever been released. Microsoft are notorious for making a good operating systems one year and then the next absolutely destroying everything that worked in the previous release. Windows XP, the predecessor to Vista was considered to be the fastest and most dependable system on the market. It is still used today by computer people who refuse to upgrade to the more crash prone Vista. Vista is extremely slow and prone to crashing. It just didn't work.
Many people are stuck with Vista because of the cost it requires to upgrade to Windows 7. People trusted Microsoft to make a good product and immediately invested in their latest system only to realize that Windows 7 was coming out almost immediately after Vista. Windows 7 is considered to be faster and more stable than Vista and some even prefer it over XP.
For those that are stuck with Vista there are a few ways to speed up your system. The stability part of Vista has been fixed with a few patches that Microsoft put out so you don't have to worry about that. However, they never got around to fixing the speed of Vista and that puts us here. The most important thing that you need to remember is to keep your hard drive as clean as possible.
When you click on a piece of music you're telling your hard drive to search out that music and boot it up. Your hard drive spins into action and the magnetic spindle reads the 1's and 0's off of a platter spinning at speeds of up to 10,000 RPM. This may sound like a fast process, but when compared to the processor and RAM it's extremely slow. Your hard drive is the bottleneck of your system no matter the specs. You can get 16 gigs of ram and a quad-core processor only to have a slow system because of a slow hard drive.
Keeping your hard drive clear of things that you don't need can dramatically speed up your system. Consider defragging it as well. The defrag option is in the system tools in the smart menu of Vista. Defragging makes the hard drive conglomerate all of the information on it and squish it together. This means the hard drive can access the information faster because it has less to sort through. You now have a faster system!
Many people are stuck with Vista because of the cost it requires to upgrade to Windows 7. People trusted Microsoft to make a good product and immediately invested in their latest system only to realize that Windows 7 was coming out almost immediately after Vista. Windows 7 is considered to be faster and more stable than Vista and some even prefer it over XP.
For those that are stuck with Vista there are a few ways to speed up your system. The stability part of Vista has been fixed with a few patches that Microsoft put out so you don't have to worry about that. However, they never got around to fixing the speed of Vista and that puts us here. The most important thing that you need to remember is to keep your hard drive as clean as possible.
When you click on a piece of music you're telling your hard drive to search out that music and boot it up. Your hard drive spins into action and the magnetic spindle reads the 1's and 0's off of a platter spinning at speeds of up to 10,000 RPM. This may sound like a fast process, but when compared to the processor and RAM it's extremely slow. Your hard drive is the bottleneck of your system no matter the specs. You can get 16 gigs of ram and a quad-core processor only to have a slow system because of a slow hard drive.
Keeping your hard drive clear of things that you don't need can dramatically speed up your system. Consider defragging it as well. The defrag option is in the system tools in the smart menu of Vista. Defragging makes the hard drive conglomerate all of the information on it and squish it together. This means the hard drive can access the information faster because it has less to sort through. You now have a faster system!
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