How bad was Vista? Let's find out.

Recently, someone gave me a pretty nice looking Dell Inspiron 530S to fix it's extremely slow setup.

I immediately realized you need a keyboard (See why) and that it takes 5 minutes to startup:


Besides that being extremely annoying, that's not much of a problem. Then I noticed the shutdown time, which should be a few seconds. Instead, I timed it to 8 minutes, 50 seconds!

After CCleaner, Malaware Bytes, Speed My PC, and updated hardware drivers and bios, I realized this computer needed much more then just that.

I backed everything up and did a fresh install of not Vista, but Windows 7. I myself am a linux and Mac addict but it was not my computer. Now, the computer runs at perfect speeds for it's amount of ram. I ordered RAM and it will be just like new, actually better!