Eisboch wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in message
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If your daughter is up to the task, she can ask HP for a free Install Disk
for Vista and do a clean install in the HP. Without all of the junk they
preload in their machines it will run faster,just not as fast as it would
with WinXP. HP might be willing to sell her a XP install disk at a
reasonable price.


My daughter is happy with the new computer and Vista. It replaced a clunky,
very old desktop that was still working, running Windows '98.

*I* am the one that happened to notice that it runs somewhat sluggishly
compared to the older, HP Pavilion that I use (running XP) or my wife's
laptop .... also a HP Pavilion, but the model optimized for "Multimedia".
It also runs XP.

Like Harry suggested, my daughter's new computer may be shy some RAM and may
have a bunch of applications running in the background that slows it down.
But that was not my point.

My point was that for the average computer user who has limited knowledge of
how to optimize a computer, Vista may be somewhat disappointing, even in a
new computer shipped with Vista as the OS. Many people treat a computer
like a toaster. Plug it in and use it. Not all people have the knowledge
of how to optimize it, add memory, etc., nor do they care. They expect it
to work, as advertised.

That's why I think Vista is having a poor introduction.

Eisboch



Actually a computer really should run like a toaster, you plug it in and
it works. One may need to learn how to use specific software
applications, but it should not take a geek to run the computer. I am
sure she has a many applications running in the background that she does
not need, it is common with HP, Dell and others. But you probably have
more applications running in the background than she does, since yours
is an older computer and these new background applications do have a
tendency to grow every time you install a new program.