Minimal Windows Vista

[crawlerbot]

You see, I have a 3 GHz hyper threading P4 processor and it rates my processor as 4.2. The Pentium M single core will have an experience Index rating of below 3 which is not worth using Vista, unless you prefer on using Vista Basic GUI. Vista recommends Dual Core CPUs. A 1.6 GHz Dual Core CPU will have a better rating than mine. If I were you I'd stick with XP.

After reading this thread i see you have a tendency to promote your own system so much and typically be a bragger

This is really below me but i must slash your hope and dreams

^ok maybe a little over the top but.... meh??

I have a Single core AMD +3700 @2.8 ghz (2.2Stock)

and i score a 4.4 CPU rating

Vista Sys req off the box

for Home Premium

1ghz 32 or 64 bit possessor

1GB of ram

128 mb DX9 gfx card with SM2.0

15Gig HDD space

DVD-ROM

[dmd3x]

:huh:

It depends on how you look at it, but it's not pointless. If you just prefer the maximum amount memory available to applications that you only currently have open, then you want superfetch disabled.

If you want faster application launch times, and don't mind the extra memory usage, then superfetch should stay enabled.

Personally, I want the minimal amount of things to be in memory as possible, so all resources are available to currently open applications. It is a specific preference and I'm sure many prefer to leave it enabled, the minimalist in me just doesn't want it. :p

Sigh.

Freeing up cached memory is one of the fastest things your operating system can do. It's not like it has to page any of it back to disk, it just has to drop it.

The moment an application makes the request to allocate memory, it's given up. There should be no performance loss involved in having Superfetch enabled when an app goes to allocate some memory. You're only going to hurt performance with it off by going to your hard disk more often. Your hard drive seek time works in milliseconds. Your RAM works in nanoseconds. That's about 5 orders of magnitude of difference.

Dude, I know that. You totally missed/ignored what I said... :blink:

You see, I have a 3 GHz hyper threading P4 processor and it rates my processor as 4.2. The Pentium M single core will have an experience Index rating of below 3 which is not worth using Vista, unless you prefer on using Vista Basic GUI. Vista recommends Dual Core CPUs. A 1.6 GHz Dual Core CPU will have a better rating than mine. If I were you I'd stick with XP.

After reading this thread i see you have a tendency to promote your own system so much and typically be a bragger

This is really below me but i must slash your hope and dreams

^ok maybe a little over the top but.... meh??

I have a Single core AMD +3700 @2.8 ghz (2.2Stock)

and i score a 4.4 CPU rating

Vista Sys req off the box

for Home Premium

1ghz 32 or 64 bit possessor

1GB of ram

128 mb DX9 gfx card with SM2.0

15Gig HDD space

DVD-ROM

:laugh: This, along with being funny also helps goes to show that hertz can have different meanings depending on the architecture. :yes:

Edited August 4, 2008 by dmd3x

[dmd3x]

I have been able to slim the Vista memory usage down to that of my XP install!!! (250MB after boot up) (Y)

now I am going to try again after doing an SP1 install (since I used a vLite installation, it wouldn't let me install SP1 without making a new image).

I will keep everyone posted!