please help me!”

Please uninstall Nokia PC Suite and try the installation again. We are working on fixing this in the final release

System does see snappier and readyboost actually seems to do something now although not sure I need it with 3gb.

One thing though, I never got an option to create a recovery disk and can’t find where to do this in the “maintenance” folder.

Great blog.

The difference between a day 1 installation and Vista performance at the end of day 7 or day 10 can be a difference of 2-10x.

So if you intend on doing any benchmarking of a new installation or testing it for performance, be sure to be using it for several days or things like SuperFetch and other optimization tools will not be working, so you won’t see benefits in terms of performance where Vista does its best work.

This also applies to a SP1 update, as the SP1 update specifically clears all optimizations from the RTM setup even if you have been running Vista on the machine for a year, it will need a few days to rebuild the optimizations after you install SP1 – see install notes.

This is also true of startup speed specifically, as I have seen many reviews test startup speed on a Vista installation the first day it is installed, yet MS specifically says that Vista doesn’t even start to optimize the boot performance until after a few days (giving the user time to install other software and drivers) before Vista digs in and boosts startup times.

For example on the system I am currently typing on, Fresh Install, SP1 Installed, Boot Time Day 1 – 90secs. Tons of applicaitons loaded and equipment hooked up – Boot Time Day 7 – 15secs.

Quite a dramatic difference, especially considering the additional overhead of several drivers and startup programs. The same goes for launching a game I play, Day 1 Launch time 30secs, FPS 40-50. Day 7 Launch Time 10secs, FPS 60-70. (The extra FPS comes from both the data being cached optimally and a few optimizations in terms of what textures it shifts in and out of System RAM, as I run on the highest quality settings.) Next time you see a game review where Vista and XP are not running neck and neck, you can be sure the reviewer did not allow any optimization time on the Vista system.

The day 1 Vista performance difference is also a reason you find a lot of users install Vista, then uninstall it because it seems slow or slower; however, if they ran Vista a few days it would fell significantly faster, and faster than XP.

Just a few thoughts to keep in mind while testing.