Win 7 64bit sluggish

I guess. Windows 7 utilizes resources much better than Vista did, so I don't really think 4GB of RAM was the problem (heck I'm doing fine on this jalopy with 2GB DDR)...

new install or upgrade? If so have you tried a new install?

Seeing how Windows 7 is a bit slimmer than Vista, I agree; Back up your stuff and do a clean install if you haven't. If you did, it really should not be slower. Have you analyzed the disk to check the fragmentation?

Or even a quick speed check is to go to system, advanced system settings, Performance / settings, then advanced settings, and increase the size of the paging file. It's not as quick as ram, but will give you a quick boost and show you if Rams going to be a huge improvement. I was running fine on 6 gb, and my wife fine on just 2gb. I set my initial page file size to 2048 and max at 4096.

I have a feeling this was a fresh install. Just a shot in the dark, but I'm taking the HDD route here. Make sure write-back is enabled, defrag, check virtual memory settings.

Also, just FYI on the 8GB RAM; Win 7 will use more if there's more to be had. Only using ~700MB at desktop currently, but when I had 8GB installed on my previous rig it would use ~1.5GB

what? no way man. i find windows 7 a whole lot faster and more responsive than vista. there should be something wrong, perhaps with the drivers or the installation itself.

he's talking about write-caching..its under the hard drive hardware under device properties and under policy tab...its usually enabled by default.

if its noticeably sluggish probably malware/virus.

Unless you're running 512mb RAM right now, 8GB of RAM is not going to help firefox load faster lol.