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I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with Promise drivers for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with this).
Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into Vista everything was EXTREMELY laggy.
I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted, so I waited. It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my computer didnt do anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the control panel it lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but other that that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to 30 seconds. I took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows Classic view and it still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe mode and the lag went away.
Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may have caused this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a gig of RAM.
-Will

Part of the "lag" may be the indexing. let it sit running overnight and simmer. You could also turn off the indexing but then you lose one of the more functional new features.
"Hensley" wrote in message

I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with Promise drivers for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with this).
Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into Vista everything was EXTREMELY laggy.
I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted, so I waited. It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my computer didnt do anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the control panel it lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but other that that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to 30 seconds. I took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows Classic view and it still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe mode and the lag went away.
Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may have caused this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a gig of RAM.
-Will

On 2006-07-13 01:05, Hensley wrote:

I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with Promise drivers for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with this).
Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into Vista everything was EXTREMELY laggy.
I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted, so I waited. It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my computer didnt do anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the control panel it lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but other that that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to 30 seconds. I took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows Classic view and it still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe mode and the lag went away.
Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may have caused this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a gig of RAM.
-Will

A good tool is the Task Manager (press Ctrl + Alt + Del and choose Task Manager), in it you can see all the running processes and how much memory/CPU they are eating. I've always got it running minimized to the system tray, whenever things starts to feel sluggish I check the CPU- utilization and which process(es) are using most of the CPU.
Normally high CPU will not make the system slow, just that specific application, but if the kernel time is high also (above 10%) the system will be slow. Another source of sluggishness is high disk-activity (no good meeter exist that I'm aware of, but one can try to listen), if more than one application needs to real/write a lot to disk they will be slow. Disk-activity unfortunately also creates high kernel-times and thus makes the whole system slow. The third thing that can slow down a system is when the memory-usage exceed the available RAM, then the system will start to page out which leads to disk-activity, plus that you'll have to wait for applications to be paged in before they can be used.
-- Erik Wikström

I will try to let sit overnight and see what happens. I'll also check the Task Manager and see if there is anything in particular that is taking up a lot of resources.
"Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote:

Part of the "lag" may be the indexing. let it sit running overnight and simmer. You could also turn off the indexing but then you lose one of the more functional new features.
"Hensley" wrote in message I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with Promise drivers for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with this).
Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into Vista everything was EXTREMELY laggy.
I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted, so I waited. It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my computer didnt do anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the control panel it lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but other that that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to 30 seconds. I took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows Classic view and it still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe mode and the lag went away.
Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may have caused this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a gig of RAM.
-Will

It sounds like CPU usage is hitting 100% *ctrl+alt+del* to find Task Manager.
It probably is indexing - I wish this was defaulted to "Off" with an option to turn it "On" when the user wished to leave it to run though indexing processes
Hensley wrote:

I will try to let sit overnight and see what happens. I'll also check the Task Manager and see if there is anything in particular that is taking up a lot of resources.
"Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote:
Part of the "lag" may be the indexing. let it sit running overnight and simmer. You could also turn off the indexing but then you lose one of the more functional new features.
"Hensley" wrote in message I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with Promise drivers for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with this).
Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into Vista everything was EXTREMELY laggy.
I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted, so I waited. It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my computer didnt do anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the control panel it lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but other that that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to 30 seconds. I took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows Classic view and it still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe mode and the lag went away.
Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may have caused this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a gig of RAM.
-Will

"Hensley" wrote:

I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with Promise drivers for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with this).
Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into Vista everything was EXTREMELY laggy.
I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted, so I waited. It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my computer didnt do anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the control panel it lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but other that that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to 30 seconds. I took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows Classic view and it still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe mode and the lag went away.
Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may have caused this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a gig of RAM.
-Will

I had the same problem after installing the nVidia drivers from Windows Update. I noticed that even having a 32M card (nVidia FX 5200), I was getting aero glass. So I uninstalled the graphics drivers and it’s now working. In my case, since I have 32M for the graphics I would not get the areo glass. Now Vista works, but my graphihcs are weak.

On 2006-07-15 02:18, deebs wrote:

It sounds like CPU usage is hitting 100% *ctrl+alt+del* to find Task Manager.
It probably is indexing - I wish this was defaulted to "Off" with an option to turn it "On" when the user wished to leave it to run though indexing processes

Or at least some dialog at first startup telling the user that it was running.
-- Erik Wikström

hello all. i have a similar problem. my mouse moves fine, however every click i do and every key i press takes about 15 - 45seconds before it shows up on my screen. my cpu runs about 100% early on, but goes down to 0% - 50% when i run applications. these are the specs of my computer:
amd fx 55 4gb ram 74gb wd raptor x2 (raid 0) ati x1800 crossfire (only one card in, as there are issues with crossfire atm) sb xi-fi xtrememusic
all drivers are up-to-date per manufactures of respective hardware. i believe my system should be able to handle it. i have vista ultimate 64-bit loaded.
any suggestions as to what i should/might be able to do? i have several errors, all of which are related to poor performance, but no answers on corrected them from microsoft when i click on the 'help' link.
thanks,
"Hensley" wrote:

I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with Promise drivers for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with this).
Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into Vista everything was EXTREMELY laggy.
I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted, so I waited. It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my computer didnt do anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the control panel it lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but other that that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to 30 seconds. I took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows Classic view and it still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe mode and the lag went away.
Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may have caused this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a gig of RAM.
-Will