Hi everyone.
I installed Vista on my TC1100 as well.
Quite everything works fine, except my battery-time.
It runs about 3 hours with all settings at minimum and the fan is always on.
Anyone here who has the same probs and perhaps an advice for me?

I would keep Vista On it, but with this poor running time I probably switch back to XP.

You can also turn off all indexing. got to indexing options in the control panel and remove all the folders. Also, do not install the desktop search component that Office 2007 wants you to install. it never shuts down, even on battery.

A quick update from me regarding my P1610 now running Vista Basic. WOW!! What a difference this has made. Yes I’ve lost some of the eye candy, that’s a same as I love things like the preview mode (I’ll have to see if I can turn that on). But everything, and I mean everything, seems to be running so much faster and smoother.

Battery life is also reporting approximately 6 hours with wifi and bluetooth on via the side switch. That’s more than I had with Aero running, probably as everything was working harder to make the eye candy work.

This is a good move for me on my ‘Baby-P’ laptop. I can live without Aero if this is the benefit.

Thanks James – got it now. The extra graphics of Aero are very nice but as my P1610 is a business and work device I need it to simply run the best it can.

However I still want it to look like Vista so I’ll give the Basic theme a try.

I know this is taking over the thread a little but has anyone got any other ideas to help reduce some of the system load with Vista… other than going back to XP!! :)

Andrew,

Just right-click on the desktop, choose themes and select Vista Basic. It will turn off all the other stuff.

In terms of turning Aero off what do you really mean? I’m looking at ways to speed up my P1610 running Vista Business and I want to try some of what is being suggested.

So far I have turned the transparancies off to see how that goes. But what do I need to do to try to reduce the 300mb mentioned by Matt? Change the theme to a more basic one? Turn off more options?

Any help is appreciated.

DarrenS, I use Acronis and it works very well.

Mickey, I haven’t tried an external monitor with it under Vista yet, but I will.

@Geert Schoots

Every video card these days does 2D acceleration for rendering graphics in normal windows mode. If you boot to safe mode, you’ll notice a decrease in GUI response, and that is because the graphics are handled by the OS and not by the video card when in that mode.

So, your CPU does not have to “do it” when Aero turned off. Aero actually makes your machine run slower because it takes up over 300MB of RAM.

Thanks for posting all this info … I am going to do it this weekend!! Right now I am looking for some sort of imaging software to backup my Windows TabletPC 2005 install. I think Matt Miller mentioned he uses Acronis. Which is the best solution?