Sadly, the latest drop of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Vista doesn’t seem to have addressed the latent performance issues that continue to dog this version for me. One of the interesting aspects is that performace loss for me is not just about the sluggish performance but also the (un)usability of some of some of the Vista ‘enhancements’. The biggest problem I have is the Explorer window where I end up constant renaming files or selecting files or changing columns! One odd thing I have noticed is that Vista generally seems to perform better on 512MB systems as opposed to 1 or 2GB. Scarily, I knocked up a quick app via which I can do bulk copying faster than explorer, I’ll try and do some timings but despite my fiendishly clever code, Explorer should be faster.
