Vista Ultimate Problem

[raabhimself1854]

I've been working on a laptop for a buddy of mine whose hard drive recently died. Along with this drive went his recovery partition. So being unable to get my hands on a disc for the originally installed Vista home premium, he bought a copy of vista ultimate from our school. Both versions were 32bit. I installed the copy of ultimate, but its runs really really slow. Web browsers stop responding for minutes at a time, and simple operations like changing the screen saver take forever. I contacted HP tech support and they say its because ultimate needs more resources to run. Im just wondering if this sounds like a legit answer or if its something else.

Can anyone help?

 

[VinDSL]

How much memory is installed?

I've seen Vista (Home Basic) running on a 512MB laptop and it was hideously slow - almost unusable - like you are experiencing. Sticking 2GB in it made a world of difference.

Anyway, sounds like your bud's lappy has hardware issues. First thing I would check is the memory...

 

[bsobel]

Not really unless the machine only had 512mb, then maybe I'd by some slowdown. But not the numbers your stating.

 

[raabhimself1854]

It has 2 gigs of ram, and a 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: raabhimself1854
It has 2 gigs of ram, and a 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64.

HP is wrong. Most likely a bad driver that needs updating. After that I'd consider a HW problem, but if the system was fine (sans HD) before it seems unlikley to be HW now.

 

[raabhimself1854]

i think that may have been it, seems to be running a bit faster since i ran the optional updates for all of his hardware. thanks!