Redo everything?

[wildgene789]

IM thinking about installing Windows 7 RC but i dont know is it worth it if all i do is play video games and surf web? Right now i have Vista running fine with everything installed and i dont know. Also i noticed when i go to install window on my desktop it takes like 20 mins for just the window where u have to accept the licenses or something but on my laptop it loads that right away. Is my cd drive slow on desktop? what could it be i just built this computer this year. Heres my computer
Case- Thermaltake Armor+ MX Mid-T Case Blk w/230 mm Fan
PSU- ULTRA LS600 600W ATX POWER SUPPLY
Mother Board- ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe/HDMI AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
CPU- AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb 3.0GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor Model HDZ940XCGIBOX
RAM- Corsair 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz (2x2048MB)
Video Card- XFX GeForce GTX 285 1GB PCIe w/Dual Link DVI
CPU Cooler- OCZ Vendetta CPU Cooler Multi Socket

 

[Outlander_04]

I wouldnt change to the rc if you already have vista .

You could dual boot and have both OS's but using the RC of 7 does have some risks . Updates and support are being tested . I'd only rely on it for non critical usage . Games fine , doing my taxes : NO .

Is your laptop loading from a recovery partition on the hard drive ? That will be faster than installing a dvd version which typically takes 15 - 30 minutes for older versions of windows [ but I havent done a fresh install of vista ]

 

[wildgene789]

no its a regular install and it makes me think my computer is a piece of *** when it takes that long and an old lenovo is beating it

 

[aevm]

LOL, your computer is actually very impressive. It's Vista that slows it down. Try optimizing it a bit - close Windows services you don't need and so on. There are even books published on the subject

 

[Kill@dor]

Here is a good guide to turning Vista services off to optimize performance ^_^
http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/supertweaks.htm
http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm


Here is an RC 1 too...
http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/servicecfg.htm

 

[wildgene789]

but my main question here is why does it take so long for my desktop to load the install for either vista or windows 7 but my laptop loads it in like 1 min

 

[aevm]

Can you borrow another DVD drive and try it in your desktop?

 

[wildgene789]

the only one i have is an IDE one. idt it could be the drive i got it from best buy and its an LG. Usually best buy dont fail me haha