[Milambar]

I used to have a HP/Compaq Presario with Vista home premium installed by OEM. It ran like a bag of... what comes out of the rear end of a any animal. First thing I did was upped the memory from 512MB to 4GB, and noticed an immediate improvement.

Then I followed a few guides about how to strip out all the OEM installed rubbish, turn off unneeded services, and optimize it. I then lived with it for a good 2 years, quite happily.

Then I built my own PC, based on a core i7, with 8GB ram, and Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit).

Know what? I don't notice any improvements over my old vista in day to day running. Its only when I start gaming, or re-encoding videos that I notice differences.

Vista was NOT the pile of steaming poo people make out, it was usually just badly configured by the OEM's