On Nov 1, 9:19*pm, mike wrote:
mike wrote:

IMHO, win7 FEELS faster than Vista, but I think that's just sleight of hand.
Vista takes forever to boot.
Win7 makes the background screen come up faster, but you still can't
do anything. *The CPU is pegged at 100% for another minute or more.
Follow some of the tutorials on shutting down processes you don't need.

The difference between tweaked vista and win7 is insufficient to make me
pay for an upgrade.
But I can say the same thing for XP. *If you can get drivers, run XP.

One other thing. *There's ECC "server memory" that's different. *You
sure you
don't have a board pulled out of a server machine?

Yeah, pretty sure, I have the docs on that system that were
available; 'spose it's
possible that the previous owner tried upgrading with incompatible
memory and
then gave up in disgust - guess I'll try contacting PNY and see what
they can tell
me about the dd2 sticks.

As far as Vista's speed goes, it's a bit better now after defragging
and freeing up
some space on the hdd - still, it seems that there is continually
'background activity'
going on (in task manager), gonna have to read up awhile before using
the thing to
go online and risk catching something.

Thanks for your thoughts,
Mike