There may be some problems when you run Vista in your system. Sometimes you have a dual boot system and the other OS is doing well while Vista takes some more time to load or the Aero animations and other transparency effects are very slow and so on. If this happens to your system then it is time to evaluate your system performance. For this, you can use the Performance Rating and Tools utility in Vista.
This utility helps to rate your system based on different criteria like
Processor, Memory, Primary Hard Disk, Graphics, and Gaming Graphics etc. All the ratings are on a scale of 1 to 5 and the utility may check for your system’s compatibility with Vista and displays the rating of your system based on the above criteria. The higher the rating the better the performance is. To access this tool, navigate to Start > Control Panel> System and Maintenance > Performance Rating and Tools.
