If you want to get half decent performance, you can safely disable some
services however expect small backlash in how it looks especially:

Application Experience Lookup Service (Glass goes)
Desktop Windows Manager Session Manager
DFS Replication (if it's a standalone machine)
External memory Devices Management Service
File Replication (as DFS Replication)
Internet Connection Sharing (make sure nobody is sharing your network
connection from your computer though)
Media Center Extender & Reciever & Sheduler & Launcher Service (Media Center
won't work afterwards)
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service
Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider
Offline Files (no offline networking synchronisation)
Parental Controls (make sure no kiddlywinks are using the machine!)
Protected Storage
Quality Windows Audio Video Experience Service
Remote Registry Service
Smart Card
Smart Card Removal Policy
SSDP Discovery Service
Tablet PC Input Service (don't disable if you have a Tablet PC)
Themes (Windows Classic will kick in, no Glass *at all* but saves loads of
RAM)
Volume Shadow Copy
Windows Colour System
Windows Image Acquisition
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service
Windows Search Service

Disable at your own risk - but even on mine, I've tried and tested and
noticed not much difference in how things run, but the machine runs faster
on one of my older machines (Vista rating of 2, so it's not bad performance
now!)

Hope this helps!


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"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>A lot of things account for that such as the Windows Search Service, User
>Experience Service and DWM.
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> "Fraser" <fraserindauk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1D4787BF-5693-44AB-9124-1E38B2F68DD8@microsoft.com...
>> Hi ,
>> I have noticed in my installation of Vista Beta 2 it seems to be working
>> all the time and has to stop and catch up. This means video and audio
>> doesnt play smootly and even the cursor has to stop while some windows
>> open. Has anyone else experienced very poor performance from vista. Task
>> manager reports constant cpu usage of around 6-15% all the time.
>>
>> Running on following spec:
>> Sempron 3100+ (32bit)
>> 120GB SATA HDD
>> 1GB ram
>>
>> Any info apreciated
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Fraser
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