Fixing Windows Vista 3 - Top Troubleshooting Tools
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 7.5.2008
Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing.
And many of those bad reviews were absolutely accurate. My co-authors and I just completed an extensive post-Service Pack 1 revision of our book Windows Vista Inside Out. Over the past year, we installed, upgraded, and used Windows Vista on a broad cross-section of hardware designs from nearly a dozen manufacturers. During that time, we experienced some of those same performance, reliability, and compatibility issues ourselves. What we found was simple: With a clean install on well-supported hardware, everything worked just fine. But toss in an incompatible application or a flaky video, storage, or network driver, and performance could suffer. Badly.
Over the past year or so, we have also observed steady and occasionally dramatic improvements in the Windows ecosystem. Most of the large issues in Windows Vista were effectively resolved by a series of updates delivered via Windows Update, including more than 500 fixes that were rolled up into Service Pack 1. Third-party hardware makers, many of whom were slow to get working Vista drivers out the door, have since released updates that can make a huge difference in the Vista experience.
Today’s conventional wisdom, based on more than a year’s worth of relentless negative publicity, says Vista is hopelessly broken. In fact, my experience says the exact opposite is true. I proved the point in the first installment of this series, where I restored a sluggish $2500 Sony Vaio notebook to peak performance in a few hours. And I think anyone with a modicum of PC smarts can do the same.
In 2008, there is no excuse for a PC maker to ship a Vista-based system that is anything less than fast and reliable. Sadly, many of them still do a terrible job, loading new PCs (especially notebooks) with outdated drivers, crapware, and overbearing security software that can result in a terrible Vista experience.
If you unbox a new PC and it performs like a slug, you’re likely to just live with the frustration (and maybe even blog about it), because everyone knows that Vista sucks. Right?
Wrong.
I believe you have every right to expect excellent performance from Windows Vista, and I’m going to back that conclusion in today’s post, the latest in my Fixing Vista series, with details on how to use Vista’s built-in tools to find and fix the problems that stand between you and an excellent Vista experience. Specifically, I believe all of the following statements should be true:
* On a new PC built with up-to-date hardware, Windows Vista should start up in a minute or less and shut down in 30 seconds or less.
* Video performance and audio playback should be smooth and glitch-free.
* Programs should open quickly and do their work without affecting your ability to perform other tasks.
* File transfer speeds should be limited only by the capabilities of your hardware (disk, controller, and network).
* System crashes should be nonexistent, and application crashes should hang the faulting program only, without affecting other programs.
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found one that actually works for vista 64 and 32.
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"and i think anyone with a modicum of pc smarts can do the same."
the
problem is the average consumer has little computer skills beyond email and surfing the
web. vista may well have been designed for geeks who know how to tweak it and have the
patience to do so.
now if only people would give vista a second look, sooner
rather than later. but vista will definitely catch on, maybe later because of all the
viable alternatives out there.
how mucj=h is microsoft payin g this guy to print this drible ( is ed bott a real person,
sounds more like education bot?) the only way to fix vista is del c:\windows
format
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great article, so true!
vista is great, ati really done their part on my graphic
driver, it has been updated every 3 month!
had vista installed since release day, and it has been fine...
the main issues
are with third party drivers and software, these things are not microsoft’s problem, these
problems are to be fixed by the third party to fix, not microsoft...
i also agree taht vista is great!, i´m no microsoft lover, as i also use other systems
(ubuntu,mainly for server testing purposes, etc...) the big problem is as been said the
third party drivers/programs, for that i ahve foun d 2 main problems in my experience and
all of them were resolved easly doing some conclusions in the performance monitor of
vista! (this is a excelent tool for auditing problems by the way!), its true im not a
exatly a average consumer,but i think all this shitty drivers/programs, should be carefuly
analised by the brand makers of hardwarethey do have most of the blame! - as i was saying
the 2 problems were:
-one:toshiba bluetooh driver (had from time to time put my
explorer down!, causing it to shutdown and restart again! - solution: removed toshiba
driver , installed sp1, and let microsoft driver take the control,(made all the diference!
two:acronis had some incompatibility, removed and all is ok, use the own
windows backup systems, not so good, but still resolves the problem for me!
vista for high end pc
xp for low end pc
windows 2008 workstation is ideal for
both high end and low end pc
installed vista + sp1 clean install + all updates = so far no problem. only it cant
detect my old card reader. other than that, i'm happy i converted to vista :d
while i agree with the articles point, vista was rolled out sloppy in my opinion so when
i see users bashing vista i realize microsoft brought that on themselves as vista has had
issues that i believe could have been avoided if the project wasn't rushed to production
along with too many different versions and high prices.
the author is correct
in stating that most oem providers are doing vista a disservice by installing vista
improperly which reflects on microsoft's os rather than one the person who assembled and
installed windows and the computer.
drivers caused most issues with vista, nvidia is responsible for 40% of blue screens, yes
vista was late and yes it should have come later but if you had problems with it, nothing
prevented you from going back to xp.
i have been using vista64 since the day
it was released and have not had any stability issues whatsoever. i have had some driver
issues with my old 8600gt other than that with an ati card now installed i have absolutely
no complaints.
this guys never used vista!
blizz26: you're an idiot.
xavier: you're an idiot.
betaluva: you're an
idiot.
did i leave anyone out?
me! me! u left me out..me be sad now :(
me! me! u left me out..me be sad now :(
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Finally
By Vista Activator on 08.05.2008 - 01:05