I will state this again, I've read technical articles on the speed difference between vista, 7 and XP, and none of them have any specific speed advantage, they come out on top in different orders seemingly randomly.
[EDIT] This isn't the exact article i was referencing (I can't link you to a magazine page xD) but this will do fine:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355703,00.asp
apart from start up time windows 7 appears to be faster, vista lags behind allot but not by anything noticeably bad.
If you score 1 for average, 2 for green, and 0 for red:
7: 9 points
XP: 6 points
Vista: 3 points
Last edited by Vox; Jun 11, 2010 at 08:41 AM.