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Here is my first post from IE7 running on Windows Vista Beta 1. Yesterday, I was so knocked out by the wonderful easy setup program (and probably jet-lagged) and I said the perf was “much, much better.” It's not. It still sucks. It even almost verges on usable or so it seemed. I thought to myself that it can't possibly be this bad and it isn't. The first thing I did is invoke the first golden rule of OS performance: DEFRAG the USB 2 drive that you installed on. It turned out that the USB drive was a mess and defrag brought performance up to acceptable figures. I then shut down a few unused services like Pen Input (Why is this on by default???) and increased the paging file to 4 GB. I am bringing over Yukon and Whidbey July before I install the SDK and will report on that experience when they get over.
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