i recently bought a new computer that came with windows vista. after tinkering with it and getting frustrated with how slow it was, i spent some time changing this and that setting, and researching and following a lot of advice on the net on how to speed things up. a few days later, and i was still frustrated, especially after running the vista resource monitor to try to figure out the source(s) of the slowdowns managed to bring my already slow system to a halt, i figured out a very simple and relatively pain-free way to really speed up vista:
step 1: format hard drive
step 2: install windows xp
step 3: there is no step 3!

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