re: Question about Vist processing speed Friday, November 2, 2007 at 8:03 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by ZoneIII (314 messages posted) Thanks jbm. I did run three or four resource hungry jobs at once and they each used only from 0-1% (at most 2%) while the system sat at about 99% idle. However, I see a partial explanation for that now. One program's settings were defaulting to run in the background. I changed that and now it runs faster. The version I had of that program on my XP machine was older and it probably didn't have that setting. One of the other jobs was the backup built into my PC and maybe that is set to run in the background too, which makes some sense, and I will check that out. On the other hand, I encoded some movies yesterday and they blazed along, taking less than two minutes each when they took probably an average of 15 minutes on my XP machine. So it looks like I just have to see if the slow running programs are set by default to run in the background. At least I now know that when an application is allocated enough CPU, it can run fast. Thanks much. On Friday, November 2, 2007 at 6:01 am, jbmcmillan wrote: >That's more of software that isn't programed to utilize all 4 cores than a Vista >problem.You will be seeing more multithreaded apps come along but technology has >just outstripped programing.Try running 4 things at once and you will see the speed >improvemnt. Written in response to: re: Question about Vist processing speed (jbmcmillan: Friday, November 2, 2007 at 7:01 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about Vist processing speed (ZoneIII: Thu, Nov 1, 2007, 1:04 pm) re: Question about Vist processing speed (jbmcmillan: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 7:01 am) re: Question about Vist processing speed (ZoneIII: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 8:03 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum