- Mar 15, 2003
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So I gave Vista Ultimate a spin for a week (Dell sent me an "express upgrade") and loved the way it looked but hated how sluggish things were.
Vista was a huge memory hog and used 80% of my resources IDLE. I'm guessing Aero has a huge system overhead. So i reinstalled XP and installed some add-ons that installed my favorite vista features - Flip 3D, sidebar, and the general look. The end result is that I got a very similar look (there's an actual vista theme but I like the one I used better) all while being MUCH faster.
Some pics:
Desktop with sidebar
Flip 3D
With all of these addons running, cpu and memory use is still SO much less than Vista
Vista was a huge memory hog and used 80% of my resources IDLE. I'm guessing Aero has a huge system overhead. So i reinstalled XP and installed some add-ons that installed my favorite vista features - Flip 3D, sidebar, and the general look. The end result is that I got a very similar look (there's an actual vista theme but I like the one I used better) all while being MUCH faster.
Some pics:
Desktop with sidebar
Flip 3D
With all of these addons running, cpu and memory use is still SO much less than Vista