[Iron Monkey]

If you recall, I had a problem with my first pass of Vista Ultimate (borrowed from a friend, only to discover later it was the 64-bit edition running against a 32-bit CPU).

Wife brought home Ultimate 32-bit, install went fine (though the load screen took 20 minutes to get going the first time, which I dismissed 'cos I'm running on a P4-3.4 Prescott, 1Gb 533Mhz, 250Gb SATA. Load time now, after all updates, unloading services and drivers, is about 10 minutes. Once loaded, it runs fairly smooth (though I really need to add memory for sure).

I've dug and dug, and I can't find anything relating as to why the slow load time. Note that I'm not hung-up on Ultimate, that happened to be the version I was given. I have done a boot log, but that's green as grass. System/App logs show nothing out of the ordinary nor errors.

After reading all the stuff about SP1, I figured I need to get up to speed on Vista.

[Wayward]

I was the first trial here at work of Vista and I got the Ultimate version.
It ran o.k. when I first put it on, course I couldn't upgrade I had to install clean.
But it booted slow as hell. Talking like 12 minutes from the time I powered up until the time I was totally logged in and running everything.
I had several other problems with Vista over the year, NIC not loading aqt startup etc, and when it was time to rebuild my work pc I switched back to XP.
Here it is a year later and they still didnt' have a good reliable driver for my motherboard chipset.
I am running an amd 4200+ dual core with 4gb of RAM at work.

Can't wait to get a new quad core, thank god I am next on the rotation.
I was told I will not be forced to have Vista so I probably never will, it's a pain in the ass.
Especially being a person that has to remote admin the Print server, which means I have to keep an installation of XP on my system to fully test drivers.
I cannot upload xp drivers to an HP PSA with Vista.

Machines built designed to run Vista seem to run it about 300% better that a machine that was designed for XP either being upgraded or installing clean.

There is a reason if you look at Dell's site certain drives say Vista on them and others dont when you are looking for parts.
Because if they don't certify it for Vista they won't support it, that and you have like a 50% chance of having problems with it.

If you are going ot run Vista, ONLY run Vista certified components.
This is just my opinion but I can say we don't support upgrading in our College here at WSU because of the problems we have encountered.

There is just no "reason" to go from XP to Vista in my opinion.

Anyways off my soapbox hehe.

[Wayward]

For now that is the planned time for killing XP but I sure as hell hope not.
At least wait until Longhorn comes out before you kill XP.

[Iron Monkey]

The termination date for XP is half the reason I'm trying to work with Vista. If I can make it work on an old XPS Gen 3, then I can do anything!! I haven't a clue about half the services, functions, screens, etc.

Oh, 'n Wayward...TESTIFY BROTHER! TESTIFY! (singing in the Choir)

Your'e definitely preaching to the choir here....if I didn't have the rig just sitting around looking pretty, I wouldn't bother. Nope, it's definitely not on the list for Vista 't all...yet, I've found tons of posts by Vista users with the exact same hardware, though they don't complain about the slow-boot. Which means it's a challenge, which means I'm going to kick it in the teeth and find out why!

All my clients XP through and through...no upgrades unless an app forces my hand. Even then...no joy.

Ah well...I'm thinking of getting 2Gb for this monster (3GB is all that it'll handle)...it's only $45, fairly cheap, and worth it even if I head back to Ubuntu land