Vista speed! It’s not an oxymoron, or it doesn’t have to be. vistaI only have 2G of memory in this new system and my video card is not top of the line, so I wasn’t surprised that Vista felt ‘heavy’ with the visually dynamic ‘aero’ interface enabled. Though I do love the look, I felt that a brand new quad processor and twice as much memory as I had in my old five year old XP machine should mean a boost in performance. Arthur told me that I will see the difference in the future, with programs yet to be written that will take advantage of the new processor and bus speed… But I wanted a taste of speed myself… now.

Enter five quick Windows speedup tips from CNet. You’d not believe how light and fast my machine now feels. I highly recommend this article to anyone disappointed with Vista’s sluggishness!