Acrobat 9.4 + Potstop + Vista = SLOOOOOW

[rickself]

What part of the picture am I missing. I am used to a Mac and things happening NOW.
I am now on a Vista machine with Acrobat 9.4 (came with CS4), trial version of PitStop and 4GB RAM. But Vista is locking up 90% of the time. IS there anything I can do to speed Vista up? Do I need a newer version of Acrobat? Does the trial version of Pitstop speed up when I purchase the license?
Thanks.

[Ultimate]

Change OS. Vista is probably the worst ever OS released (unfortunately) by Microsoft. Move to Win 7 or downgrade to XP Pro, but get away from Vista at all cost.

[rickself]

Change OS. Vista is probably the worst ever OS released (unfortunately) by Microsoft. Move to Win 7 or downgrade to XP Pro, but get away from Vista at all cost.

That was my thought also. Vista seems like a real dog, without insult to all dogs and their owners! I suppose this is why our HP Z3100 takes forever to start printing files. I guess I'm checking into Windoze 7. Thanks, ultimate

[mattbeals]

Dump Vista. But don't upgrade, wipe the drive and install Windows 7. No good will come.of upgrading Vista...

[rickself]

Dump Vista. But don't upgrade, wipe the drive and install Windows 7. No good will come.of upgrading Vista...

If we switc h up to Windoze 7, is that an upgrade or do I need to do a nuke and pave? I'm only a slight bit fearful of nuke and pave with Windoze machines.

[mattbeals]

Nuke and pave. You don't want any bits of Vista lingering. If you have the Vista disc and key you can buy the 7 Business 32 or 64 upgrade. The migration/upgrade/update process may work better than I expect but ibwould rather follow a scorched earth policy. I wiped my XP install instead of upgrading that. If there is an option to "archive and install" that would be good. Just don't upgrade in place.

[gig0]

Have fun getting old printers/drivers to work in Win 7 x64! Once you overcome that, it's smooth sailing. Just make sure your processor can handle it, otherwise turn off the eye candy in the GUI (fading dialog boxes/menus/ drop shadows,etc.).

[mattbeals]

There are a number of things to consider to improve performance but the first one is to turn OFF Windows Aero.