To answer your question about Vista being slow:
No. Vista is not slow in most applications or on the internet if your
machine is cleaned up. I have a Sony laptop. It connects to the internet
within 5-6 seconds after I turn on the wireless switch. There's something
inside your Toshiba that's causing Vista to act sluggish.

BTW: I have a Toshiba laptop, a couple years old, cost less that $800, has
XP. After I cleaned out the bloatware, the Toshiba has been a fast and sturdy
machine for me. It never crashes.

cheers,

oscar



"lox2869" wrote:

> I have toshiba satellite 2gb ram 160gb harddrive vista home premium. I
> turned on my old desktop the other day - it has 128ram 3gb hard drive and
> windows ME (the worst Ive heard) and it performs 10 times faster than my new
> one. I have read lots of blogs on vista about it being slow but is it this
> slow or is something very wrong? I thought some of the problem was with dial
> up but i now have broadband and is no better. I dont know what programs etc
> to turn off as I dont know which ones are needed and which ones arent...am
> not very computer savvy when it comes to all that stuff.
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> alo25mol23