just upgraded laptop, hating windows 7.. help

[stickmitch]

for 2 years ive been using a toshiba nb300 10" notebook - really basic spec intel atom processor 1gb ram etc running xp - but i always found it to be super fast and i've never had any problems with it

today i went out and bought a sony SB2M9E for £450 from argos - intel i3 2310m 2.1ghz, 4gb ram, 500gb hdd windows 7 laptop - expecting to be really pleased with my purchase

now that ive got it home and started to use it, im actually really dissapointed, on the first start up it was incredibly slow in comparison to my notebook

so i spent about 2 hours removing all the bloatware and tweaking start up, services, indexing and disabling some of the power guzzling features of windows 7 (which kind of goes against the whole point of upgrading to windows 7) and its still pretty slow

i thought by getting a laptop with significantly upgraded features to my current one that i would be using an even speedier laptop, and i've heard largely positive reviews of win 7

what am i missing? is there some way to speed up the laptop - if its slow on the first day its only going to deteriorate over time

i'm kind of tempted to uninstall windows 7 and install xp - is that a good idea?

or is it the laptop? i could return it and choose another one (if you've got any suggestions)

any help would be appreciated as i have a fairly basic knowledge of computers

thanks in advance

 

[johnb35]

I would have someone else that has worked with windows 7 for awhile to look at your laptop to make sure its running slow. I've seen some laptops that will boot 7 kind of slow. It may be beneficial to make recovery cd's and then buy an SSD drive and put it in and then reinstall 7. It will boot and run much faster.

 

[TheComputerMan]

The New laptop is probably 64 bit, as for your old XP was 32 bit... If you laptop is 64 bit, then you might want to try Windows 7 32 bit.. With 4 gigs of ram the 32 bit system will only show 3.25 mb of ram, But it would be a little faster than the 64 bit..