Computers: old with XP vs. new with Vista!
                   
idmforums.com     Jul 24, 2008          

Well I have two computers, old and new... OLD: Gateway Select 750, AMD Athlon 750 MHz CPU, XP 32bit Home two 5400 RPM hard drives, 256 MB RAM... from 2000-2001 NEW: Gateway GT5622, Intel dual core 1.8 GHz CPU(s), Vista 32bit Home two 7200 RPM hard drives, 3 GB RAM... from this year XP Home (comes with SP2) has just been installed and activated on the old computer, and no optimization tweaks have been applied to it yet, except for disabling disk indexing. Vista Home Premium came preinstalled on the new computer. I have struggled a lot with this new computer to get it optimized for audio. I have disabled lots of services and devices, indexing, and even recently disabled SuperFetch, PreFetch, ReadyBoost, ReadyBoot, and ExecutivePaging. This has resulted in Vista finally overworking the hard drive a bit less, but it's still busy... [read full story]                    


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