another vista new user question.. windows menues open slow?

I just moved to Vista Ultimate on my laptop. Does opening things like control panel (in classic mode) and opening sub catagories from the start button open real slow?
Like sometimes I open control panel, and it'll take 3-6seconds before I see all the icons. Or going to start-all programs-accessories-tools(or something to that extent) and I'll get a magnifying glass on the folder and it'll take 3-8 seconds to open that folder and show the icons.

I'm running it on a Asus G1s-B1 laptop. It's a 2.4Ghz dual core, 3GB ram, 1GB turbo memory, Vista Ultimate, 8600GT 256MB vid card.

 

This seems to be the norm with Vista.

On the plus side, the more you use it the quicker the responses get due to caching.

I dual boot XP/Vista on a HP8510w. No question XP is much snappier.

Rumor is that Vista's Service Pack 1 (due spring '08) will address some of these performance issues.

 

The caching thing you talk about gets reset every time I reset to computer? Or gets better the more I use windows?

 

What your describing is not normal and, set up properly, XP isn't close. I have a tweaking article below; take a look. You wil find that it may help you alot.

As far as disk caching, this is set. Vista has something called Superfetch, however, that makes activities that you use most work faster.

 

No, that is NOT the norm at all. My start-all programs-accessories takes a second or less. I have a Sony FZ190 2 ghz with 2gb of ram.

Gary

 

Any idea how to fix this issue? Its weird. Its not like its accessing the harddrive when I click on the folder to open. I tried some of the tweaks menioned above including turning off the indexing but that didn't help.

 

As it's not a "known issue", I can't point you to any magic fix. But in an attempt to try lets get some basic history.

What kind of machine? How much memory? Processor speed? What sort of video display card?

What version of Vista? Preinstalled, semi clean or clean install? What applications have you REMOVED? What processes have you stopped? What antivirus app? What anti spyware app?

That should get us started.

Gary

 

It may be that your HDD is set to ''qiuet'' download note book hardware control & under the HARD Disk tab set it to the highest(254 I think).
Try it then.

 

Original post had this:

I'm running it on a Asus G1s-B1 laptop. It's a 2.4Ghz dual core, 3GB ram, 1GB turbo memory, Vista Ultimate, 8600GT 256MB vid card.
Its a clean install except for NIS2008 and office 2007

Thomas- Actually I checked that, its on loud.

 

I think I figured it out. It was my NIS 2008. Crap. I've beenusing it since windows 95 and this is the first time its screwy. Gonna try and reinstall it.

 

Don't bother it is a resource PIG. Try AVG or any number of other antivirus apps mentioned here regularly.

Gary

 

Well hmm.. something is NOT right. I dloaded CA antivirus suite (Registered of course). Same issue. Menus start to open up really slow. At least with this program I was able to disable active scan or whatever its called (I'm not on that pc right now) and it got rid of about 95% of the slowness. Not it takes like 3 seconds to open control panel with all the icons, and opening the accessory folder from start menu still initialy loads each icon, but its quick. Not like when I had the actice scan turned on. That one would litterally take 2-3 seconds for each icon to appear, with like 10 items, I was waiting like 30seconds before.


I can't see how nobody else is having this issue. Even my home system doesnt seem to have this problem. Then again its a QX6800/2gb/8800gtx. So maybe the slowness is there but the CPU is able to push it.

So to recap, I'm not sure what to shut down in NIS2008 to make it run better, but CA suite I can shut down the auto protect and still have firewall and antivirus and spam protection enabled.

 

Last time I used the CA suite it too was a pig. Take alook at this link:

What slows windows down?

Gary