Well, as my title says, I'm having some big problems with Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit. I just installed this OS, upgrading from Windows XP Pro. My first problem is, everything is just really, really slower then in XP. Things are opening slower, and it's annoying to me. Now I'm not talking like 10 second delays, I'm talking like 30 seconds and such. Now I know that Vista comes preloaded with a bunch of security crap that runs in the background, and some of it, well, maybe it's not so useful, or can be disabled. I know there's been guides and such of things like "How to tweak Vista to increase performance". Well, I'm looking for a step in the right direction to get this thing going faster. Any links to guides, or your own tips would be appreciated.
My next problem, is that whenever I installed Vista, I think it kept all my old from XP. Now I have 2 hard drives, one with my OS and games, the other holds everything else (Music, movies, pictures, etc..). When I installed the new OS, I unplugged my storage drive, to steer away from any problems that may cause. As soon as it was done installing however, I went to my computer, and it says that I have 30GB/120GB of free space. Now I'm sitting here thinking, man Vista doesn't take up that much space. And then I go into it, and sure enough I have all my old files from XP. So what I want to know is this a major problem? Will it slow my performance? And is there a way I can remove the ones I don't need?
Any help would be much appreciated, giving +rep for the help.
Freeebeer
EDIT: This is what my drive with the OS looks like.
My next problem, is that whenever I installed Vista, I think it kept all my old from XP. Now I have 2 hard drives, one with my OS and games, the other holds everything else (Music, movies, pictures, etc..). When I installed the new OS, I unplugged my storage drive, to steer away from any problems that may cause. As soon as it was done installing however, I went to my computer, and it says that I have 30GB/120GB of free space. Now I'm sitting here thinking, man Vista doesn't take up that much space. And then I go into it, and sure enough I have all my old files from XP. So what I want to know is this a major problem? Will it slow my performance? And is there a way I can remove the ones I don't need?
Any help would be much appreciated, giving +rep for the help.
Freeebeer

EDIT: This is what my drive with the OS looks like.