after formatting my laptop, i've encountered few significant diff in my laptop.......im using vista ultimate...

1)the fade in and out of windows features in vista has gone, when i close the windows it makes me as if im using xp. even i tried to adjust the visual effect, its still the same.

2)turning back on my laptop after leaving it on sleep mode, the graphics in my windows become 'unstable', will easily hang.

previously im using the same vista cd, but it wasnt like how it is right now, the previous overall performance of my laptop was quite stable. but now the overall feeling of using my laptop is jz like using windows xp. i dunno whats gone wrong. my laptop is capable of supporting vista, dell inspiron 1520.

can any1 come up with a solution?! i would appreciate tat........

Try re-install all the drivers back. Obviously, after format must install all drivers.

i've installed the graphics driver........wat else left?

did u change the graphic property from Vista Basic to Vista Aero???

wow.....man! u're god like......problem solved! thx~

lol at the whole thing

Isn't "OS is Vista, but feels like XP" a good thing ?

perhaps it sounds nice....but u nvr noe how bad it is until u witness it urself.....u will feel like u wasted few hundred bucks to buy vista pack!

common problem encountered by new Vista users...

cuz before u install the driver, Vista take that ur graphic card is a lousy one... so it adjust to Vista Basic...

how big the differences between vista ultimate/premium and basic.....
of coursce that the ultimate hv better interface than basic

which one is faster......

google is ur good friend...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-v...ns/default.aspx

as for speed, well, it's very subjective...

This post has been edited by astria: Oct 28 2008, 08:34 PM

for startup i think basic is faster compare to ultimate.but the difference is not big