Event Viewer and Performance monitor in Windows RE
How do you run things like scf, perfmon, eventvwr from Windows RE booted from the vista DVD? -- Amgeek...
Performance Defferecne
::I was wondering if anybody had any insights to this (possible Issue). I have to systems both running Vista Ultimate 64...
Performance Problem...(not bedroom related...)
I think I'm trying to optimize my laptop - Gateway MT6821. Reliability and Perfomance Monitor, Diagnostic Results, Warni...
WinSAT for Vista Performance Index fails
At some point, my WinSAT refuses to complete. I have Vista Home Premium SP1, been through numerous alleged registry ...
Performance issue after resume from sleep/hibernate
When my Vista (Ultimate, SP1) PC resumes from sleep mode or hibernate, it resumes OK but the CPU meter is high when idli...
Poor Performance With 4GB Memory
I recently added 2GB of memory to my P4P800 for a total of 4GB, and immediately began experiencing visible performance p...
Copying Files in Vista Performance Question
This question is prompted by two events that I have encountered recently.The first was when I was trying to back up my e...
Audio performance and crash in Vista
About a week ago my Toshiba Protege began suffering serious problems which seem to relate to audio/video and the RealTe...
A reliability and performance update is available for Window
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=952709This update resolves issues that may affect some Windows Vista SP1-...
uninstall ascentive performance center
Hi, I have been trying to uninstall this program. I have uninstalled it from programs and features in control panel but...
svchost (network) causing performance and general problems
here's how it happened. I was helping someone to fix their computer, they wanted to install a air card from at&t wh...
Latest Vista Critical Updates Affecting Performance
I installed the lastest Vista Updates (8) yesterday (6/11) and I have noticed a significant performance degradation inc...
Vista, large zip file, performance non-existant
Vista Home Premium, SP1I have a large zip file in at folder (178mb). It contains about a dozen sub files. I clicked on t...
low performance
hi everybody!i bought a hp pavillion dv6 laptop and i'm using it about 4 months. it has dual core and 500 gb harddisk, ...
FSX/readyboost drive/performance
Hi,My understanding is that a ready boost drive is a usb drive that vista uses to dump data to, rather than a hard disk...
Offline files - destroying my PC performance
I've seen a few threads here and there about this problem but I can't find anything conclusive for a fix.Basically I hav...
How to enable the Performance and Reliability Monitor?
I was just discovering and playing a bit with Vista's performance and Reliability Monitor.To my dismay I had to realize ...
Performance options disapeared
Hi, I have an issue with Vista Ultimate x64 running on an AMD Athlon Duel core 4200+ system This is a brand new fresh in...
vista performance issues with 1GB RAM lenovo r61i
hi guys, my friend's latop comes with vista preloaded and is really slow and slugish. the laptop has only 1GB of ram but...
very slow performance
I know this gets discussed frequently, and I have looked over a ton of older posts. But cannot find enough good info to...
Low performance - High spec
Hi there, I'm looking for ideas why my computer is not fully utilizing the resources. I have a Core i7 920 with 12GB Co...
vista performance
hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a lot of video converting and file copying(from ...
readyboost drives and performance for other files on the dri
Hi,My understanding is that a readyboost drive is a drive that windows dumps data to as its faster than dumping data to...
Partition Performance
I am receiving a new computer this Friday which will be running Vista Business 64 bit. It will contain a 500 gb Sata 2 ...
increased RAM -- but sometimes performance is worse
I increased the RAM on my Compaq Presario SR2002X from 512M to 2G (both old and new are the same speed, PC2-4200). Both...
Performance Issues List
In Advanced Tools under performance Information and Tools, there is a list of performance issues. If I click "rem...
Bad performance when copying EFS-encrypted files
I have found what is probably a bug in Vista and/or Windows 7: when copying EFS-encrypted files to a different computer ...
Mouse and performance probs
Hi... sorry for my english... I've a "big" problem in Vista64Sp1... When i scroll with wheel mouse (e.g. on in...
Slow internet performance
Internet Explorer and Firefox have slowed dramatically. Have to hit refresh in most cases to get screen. Started about ...
Interesting Observation on Vista performance?
Previously, (pre-SP1) I allowed WU to do all the updating, resulting in many individual updates being installed prior ...
Poor network performance
When I try to copy a large file from my Vista machine to a Windows 2003 machine, it goes VERY slowly. There are bursts ...
performance
if I changed the page from automatically and increase the size would it help in the overall performance of the system ...
Geting terrible performance. System chugs on hard drive a f
Got a new Vista laptop last year which was a terrible mistake. I have not been happy with it at all. My problem is th...
Vista SP2 big performance increase?
Hi, Does someone know it the nex version og Windows vista will introduce performance increase?? I am thinking of directi...
Performance Check during install
<rant>Dear Microsoft.It would be really nice to avoid the whole performance check during Vista's installation sinc...
How I do improve my performance score?
Hi, I have an ASUS laptop (see link for specs) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9172851&type=product&am...
Memory use and performance issues
I’m having some memory use or performance issues I think. Let me try to explain.I have a fairly powerful desktop with...
Improving disk performance
My gaming with Windows Vista Ultimate is too slow. The constant disk activity is slowing down my user applications. My c...
logo in the performance windows
I want to put a logo on the performance logo. Please help me to put the LOGO...
Large fize sizes slow performance...
Hi,I'm running vista SP1 and store a lot of VERY large files, 29gb is not unusual.These files are mainly video AVI file...
Performance monitor needs repair
I am usung Vista32 Ultimate and until recently performance monitor was running smoothly. But for reasons unknown it ha...
Performance Help?
Hey guys.Here are the specs:Dell 1720 Windows Vista Ultimate x64 2 GB Memory NVidia GeForce 8600M GT Intel Core 2 Duo @ ...
Performance problem in Vista Windows explorer if /SWAPRUN:NE
I have rather big executables (about 25-35 MB). Because I want my users to easily execute my application, I don't want t...
Random drop in performance.
While doing day to day activities, my computer will slow down to unusable speeds, for about 20 seconds, then go back to...
Vista Defrag Performance Test?
Anyone have a link to 3rd Party comparison tests? I know there is one where some major magazine compared them to the ba...
reliability & performance monitor will not load
I get a window that contains the following: Error: An error occurred while attempting to generate the report. The interf...
task manager (performance)
On the screeen (dual core) for CPU useage there are two CPU useage histories. Which CPU is 'CPU useage' referring to? ...
How does WinSAT measure disk performance
1. Does anyone know how WinSAT measures disk performance ? 2. Is the disk performance machine dependent i.e., if I moved...
Boot and general performance
Hi all,I have a HP laptop that is a C2D 1.86Ghz which is almost 2 years old, has 3gigs ram and the hard drive on it sti...
Major change in performance (for the better) can anyone tell
I have one of those Windows Sidebar Gadgets that show core usage (2), and RAM usage. Recently it changed dramatically ...
Re: vista performance
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:32:04 -0700, marty wrote:hi thanks to all those who replied to my post,using the links sent by j...
Windows Vista Performance Monitor Alerts
Hi, I have a problem with performance and Reliability Monitor into Windows Vista. I created a Data Collector Set with an...
Vista Performance Index for HD4350 512MB DDR2 PCI-E card ?
Hi,The question is as per title : I am thinking of uggrading my Media Centre PC graphics card to a HD4350 based PCI-E c...
Jerky system performance.
Anybody else had this problem? I find that recently, applications running in Vista are jerky; every so often, they stop...
A performance/progress question on Defrag
I located an old hard drive stored on a shelf the other day and connected it to my Vista machine with a USB dongle. I ...
Windows Vista Performance and Maintenance
A performance in performing arts, comprises an event in one group of people behave in a particular way for another group...
M. Russinovich - Windows Vista performance...
In the third installment of the popular Springboard series roundtable hosted by Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russino...
Vista x64 and Word 2007 Performance
I'm running a Dell XPS-420 with a Quad Core 2.5GHz processor and 4Gb of RAM. I've recently done a clean install of the...
Vista Home Premium Performance degradation on Partition
Why does Vista run OK on a smaller, slower dedicated HD than it does on a partitioned larger, faster replacement?My (3....
Vista x64 reinstall performance problem
I had to reinstall Vista x64 because I got a bit careless with some disk utility off the web :cry:. I didn't lose anythi...
Increase Vista Game Performance
Found this trick, may help if you have problems running some games or want some more CPU power.http://www.vistaforums.co...
vista performance scan
what and when in the scan is vista checking. I'm wanting 2 know cause my computer locks up on one of the tests and im w...
Price vs. Performance
I am shopping around for an external USB hard disk drive. When I compare several models, most, if not all, specify the...
Reliability and performance
*Hi all iam new to this forum and hopefully iam posting in the right spot. When i open my Reliability and performance mo...
Bizarre performance issue
I've got a three-week-old HP system with a quad-core processor, 6GB of RAM, etc. In other words, it's loaded. (OS: Vista...
Performance issue, MS software
I'm having a problem with my MS Office suite 2003 on my new PC (Belarc analysis below). Two issues that have been comi...
Performance Monitor Problem MCC could not initialize the sna
*I have posted this elsewhere but I do believe it was in the wrong place.* *In* the Reliability and performance Monitor ...
Graphic performance
We had ATi radeon 3450 graphic card in our Windows 64bit Vista Ultimate. We got: Graphics: 3.5 Gaming Graphics: 3.9We b...
Keyboard Performance
I type about 40 words per minute, but when typing on my home computer it does not enter all the keys that I hit. It is...
Vista Business SP1 - Performance Rating missing?
For whatever reason, I have not been able to see the performance Rating information for several months now on my Vista B...
Toshiba/Vista Laptop performance Upgrade
HI Everyone, My Toshiba Satelite laptop is of need of an upgrade to speed performance and was wondering if anybody had ...
old problem, new thread, mmc snap in for performance monitor
Hi There In the Reliability and performance Monitor when I click on performance MONITOR I get this message "MMC cou...
Poor performance with Vista x64
HeyI'm new to a x64 OS, I did have Home Premium (32bit) on my PC but upgraded yesterday. Since upgrading (clean install)...
issues Power plan keep changing to high performance .
Ok my default selected power plan is balanced and for some reason it keep changing to high performance my guess would b...
No performance index
When I open Control Panel->performance Informsation and Tools I get a blank windowI thought I was suppossed to get a...
Poor intermitttent network performance, etc., etc.
We have a 100mps ethernet network with two machines running Vista Ultimate SP1, etc.For some time, both machine have bee...
issues Power plan keep changing to high performance. what's
Ok my default selected power plan is balanced and for some reason it keep changing to high performance my guess would b...
offline files as performance booster?
Is there any way to use offline files to enhance performance when accessing a network share?I'm in the scenario of regu...
Vista 64 Network Performance issues.
I am using a Gateway DX4600-09 Computer: Athlon Phenom X4 9300e processor 4 GB ram Ethernet - cat-5 to a 100 Mb switch. ...
Boot & Shutdown Performance Monitoring
My machine, Dell Inspiron 530, 4GB RAM, hundreds of megs of free drive space, is getting a lot f Diagnostics-Performanc...
How to read hardware performance counters in Windows Vista
Hi,I was wondering how I could read hardware performance counters, specifically the counter storing the number of L2 ca...
will readyboost/superfetch degrade performance on a pc w/o p
I have a vista with 4gb ram and paging file disabled for performance benefits. would using readyboost degrade my perfor...
Ascentive Performance Center
I have had the same problem after getting hijacked by Ascentive performance Center. After days of wrestling with the pro...
CPU Performance Problems
This relates to my experience with Vista Home Premium so I cannot comment on other versions.My experience has been that ...