How many partitions? When you have several partition on one or two drives it will definitely make everything slower because the OS has to keep up with each partition which keeps the hard drive fairly busy.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:19 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Looks like MS is trying to shove Vista down consumer's > throats > > I've just become frustrated with crappy Windows performance in general. > > I don't know how you have your system configured Mary Jo, but I was > suffering similarly with my Win XP Pro box at home. On mine, I have two > hard drives with several partitions on my system. > > I noticed my OS (C:) drive had a relatively small percentage of free > space left. I spent considerable time (I'm still re-installing lesser > used applications) cleaning up the C drive, removing most of the > programs that had installed to the windows "My Documents" folder, moved > all my e-mail, ect. I reconfigured and reinstalled as much as I could > so that my other drives are used for all data and applications and the > C: drive is left solely for the OS. > > I have noticed a considerable improvement in my system's performance and > stability since doing this. > > I'm also not rushing to Vista yet. My wife get a Vista laptop and it > sure is slow. This thread has taught me that I can apparently use the > Vista license with an XP installation, so I well give that option some > thought. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232589 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
