"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"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

Well, now that user skipped:

Win 98
Win Me
W2000
XP
Vista

Yep, 4 generations of OS with hardware on 10 years or so, it had better be
faster.

You are very correct, 98% of the users, the computer is an expensive
toaster.