re: Dire printing slowness
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 10:27 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by George Cowley
(165 messages posted)
Sadly I think even Microsoft has acknowledged that Vista is one great big stinking
pile of dung. I tried installing the drivers locally but unless the printing is done
locally, printing is well nigh impossible. I'm wondering whether I should just uncheck
all the crap in the connection settings save for TCP/IP. Certainly Netbui can go.
Possibly more too.
On Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 9:59 am, Jacob6601 wrote:
>For printing, try installing the print driver locally on the vista macine.
>
>For general slowness, try Control panel --> System --> advanced --> performance
and
>then choose "best performance". After applied, you may want to go in and re-check
>a few boxes under the "custom" button. For example, I like "smooth fonts".
>
>Use Start --> run --> type "msconfig" and go to the start-up tab. Uncheck anything
>you do not use.
>
>Search using "speed up vista" for other tweaks that may apply to you -- turning
off
>indexing comes to mind. Unfortunately though, my experience is that vista is terrible
>at basic file management (tying up your network drives), even within a stand alone
>pc.
>
>Luck.
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