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On Thursday 19 February 2009 15:43, Julian Hall wrote: > Paul Sutton wrote: > > When I first installed windows XP it ran at a decent speed, by the time > > its been running for a few months, had stuff installed, uninstalled etc > > etc, the speed is nothing like a fresh install. > > Fair comment - my point of comparison was the Vista Beta which ran like > a dog on a 1.1Ghz system with 1Gb RAM (double what we gave Windows 7), > so direct comparison of the two betas gives Windows 7 a definite advantage. But then once you've loaded a couple of programs... Unless MS have completely re-invented their way of doing things. Vista was to a large degree self harming with DRM but I bet 7 is heavily stripped down and when you need a program to do something computational there will be a few hefty DLL's to slow things down. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html