Vista running very slow

[GlenJohnson]

Friend tried to upgrade vista and it crashed. She called dell, and they couldn't do a thing. She then called M$, and they took remote control, and ended up wiping her system. Dell sent her disks, and she got most of her system back. She's lost her pictures, but has everything else back. Big problem is vista is running very slow. I've looked at it once, but I'm a W2k person. Going back over today, and I've done research, but I could use some help on this. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. (Gonna put system back in classic view and increase the page file. So far thats all I can find.)

Glen A. Johnson
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[GrimR]

What Dell computer? Latitude, Inspiron RAM HDD. Personally I never upgrade, I always reinstall, just to get rid of any problems.

 

[GlenJohnson]

XPS 410, and she was running XP, this was just an upgrade disk that came with xp.

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[linney]

Pick over the suggestions I posted in this XP thread, most of the XP articles mentioned apply equally to Vista.

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Data Recovery.

PC Inspector

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

http://www.restorer2000.com

http://www.runtime.org/hints.htm

Plenty of other recovery software listed here.

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Disk_Management/Error_Checking_and_Repair/

 

[Leibniz]

Well, i had the same problem with windows vista, it was very slow at the begining. The system was so slow that i couldn't use it to do anything at all. These problem however was solved by doing a Bios Update.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Thanks, all. Got it solved. Just did some spring cleaning. Did a full scan checked for virus. All was clean. Installed an external hard drive, backed up what little pics they had left. Started un-installing some of the accounts that weren't used anymore, liked the grandkids. Did a full system backup. Not sure which did the trick, but things are working great now. Thanks for the help.

Glen A. Johnson
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