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Re: MS tricks die-hard XP users into liking Vista
Originally Posted by rickworden
Fair point dangel - but I've got so much software that if I load up the default hardware profile I still get a load of services that seem to slow down boot up. So to disable manually on the fly would take some time. Maybe the difference isn't that much! - I just don't like the fact that every software programmer thinks that as soon as you switch on your PC their application must be running!
If you add more RAM, then vista will use it as a cache and speed up application loading. If you hibernate (or sleep) instead of shutdown that'll also help. Lots of ways and means of doing stuff thesedays  I see your point though
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