Windows Vista 32-bit slow on MB Pro 13"

I just bought MacBook Pro 13” (2.53GHz, 4GB memory, 250GB HDD if it makes any difference), and I installed Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit on it followed by Boot Camp Windows drivers. I noticed that the Boot Camp drivers installation took unusually long time (I think definitely more than 15 minutes), but I did not pay too much attention to it, as I assumed that was lot of drivers and programs to install. But then I started noticing other problems. For instance, after the installation, there were over 60 Windows updates scheduled to download and install. First I was not even able to start the update process (it seemed to be stuck on 0KB and 0% forever), so I left it running for a long time. It eventually started (I don’t know precisely when because I was not there), but it took over an hour to download and install about 30 of them. At this point I attempted to stop it and restart the computer, but it got stuck on “Shutting down”.
Now, I decided to reinstall the machine completely to give it one more chance. It’s finishing now, but I don’t have high hopes for it, because this is the most standard installation process. I did not do anything special before, and I’m repeating the same steps now, so I would be surprised if something magically fixed it.
Is it some known problem? Should I try Windows XP or Windows 7?
Also, I noticed another glitch. At one point, I turned off Aero (windows composition), but I was not able to turn it back on. I tried the Theme manager, Performance settings and direct registry tweaking without any luck. Is there anything which is known to block Aero?

It seems that everything is in order, and that the problem was mostly on my side.
The slowness was caused by a huge update. The first update has apparently over 300MB (I guess it is a service pack), and since Windows Update updates the progress bar only when a complete package is downloaded, it appeared as if nothing was happening.
The problem with the Aero was caused by a low Windows Performance Index which was not presumably updated after I installed Boot Camp drivers. When I refreshed it manually, Windows was happy to turn Aero on. This does not explain, however, how I was able to turn on the Aero before ... In any case, it seems to be fixed now.

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http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/08/snow-leopard-106-and-64-bit-what-you-need-to- know/
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