I decided to see what Vista would look like and how it would perform with all the visual enhancements turned off. Program load times are effected in a manner of seconds and screen redraws and menu drops are about twice as fast, but it's the difference between 1/2 of a second and a full second. As for myself, I'll keep the enhancements turned on. If you spend a lot of time navigating your file system and menus instead of actually inside applications, you may get a slight increase by turning them off, but you'd lose a lot of the "Wow" of Vista, including thumbnails and attractive windows and menus.
A video:
Program load times with visual enhancements on:
- IE - 17.5
- Microsoft Outlook - 30.38 seconds
- Windows Media Player - 12.66 seconds
- IE - 15.44 seconds
- Outlook - 28.36 seconds
- Windows Media Player - 15.14 seconds
1 comments:
I couldn't believe your load time for outlook. I just di my own on a HP dv6400nr laptop, with Vista home premium, 2GB of RAM, and most of the enhancements turned off (I still have thumbnails, but no Aero Glass). I have also tweaked it for max performance.
Results: from hitting the Start menu item till the program loads and is fully functional....just under 3 seconds. thats with about 240 contacts onboard and displayed.
SP1 made a difference for the better with snappiness.
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