I was "racing" my brother's computer with mine. His processor is a 3.2ghz intel dual core, with a 1.5 gb/s hard drive, and 1gb of RAM. My computer's processor is a 2.4ghz intel quad core. with a 3.0 gb/s hard drive, and 2gb of RAM. I turned them on both at the same time, and when we logged in, my computer stalled at "Welcome", and his loaded in like 5 seconds. I have also been noticing some lagging in vista. Shouldn't my computer be faster than his? Could this be a driver problem? thx in advance...
if the pcs arent the exact same specs and operating system (Vista vs XP) then you will see a difference. It could also be startup programs, to many programs loading at startup.
yea, i got a few more programs than him, but we both got vista...i think i am gonna switch back to XP cuz i have not had good experiences wit vista so far.
I would probably make sure you have no issues with your system first. As sam said within your startup there could be a few system resource hoggers, and applications loading may not be utlized for Vista. Just double check everything is ok before reverting back ;o)
Stopping at the welcome page is a software issue. However, if his CPU is a Core 2 Duo, it will load windows faster than yours, since windows XP won't use four of your cores loading the OS, so his higher clock speed wins out. If its a pentium D though, there's no excuse, they're slow as hell, no matter what the clock speed.
yup, double checked everything...finally fixed the problem. I disabled a whole bunch of useless Java programs in the start up programs, and disabled some old barely-compatable programs wit vista. Now, it loads in a blink of an eye (literally) and by the way, i got an asus p5n-e and my bro has some abit motherboard...dont know wut model # i will be upgrading soon. thanks for the help
