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Hmm, well depending on your pc I guess you might go back to XP. Anyone with a dual core cpu would not be to bright to go back to XP though as it is extremely unresponsive compared to Vista. Also, the bickering with SP1, what are you talking about as far as a consumer stand point? Even the file management with Windows Explorer is far more intuitive. I can't stand using XP now. You just need to open up your heart a little and let this in. Quit fighting it.
It is the unforgiving angry at life consumers such as yourself that make my life miserable. You force application developers to continue to intergrate legacy support as well as dropping newer features or ideas because of compatibility with older systems. If you could hear yourselfs... you sound like that 60 year old on a fixed income telling the store clerk that he didn't receive the right change... you know he needed a couple extra pennies. In the mean time costing me around a dollar in wasted time.
Vista really has nailed the wow-experiance, no other OS has been installed on my PC for only 3 days before going mental and installing a faster, more reliable and most important compatible with programs/game/websites.
Wow Vista!
Thank god I had a full backup of my XP installation.
http://www.sciforums.com/Windows-XP-Sucks-t-6958.html
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=xp+sucks+im+going+back+to+98se
Windows XP Sucks"No kidding!It has crap for compatibility with older programs (example, those created to run on 9x)It's not secure at all. Forget about hackers breaking in, microsoft will be the one stealing info from you! (try doing a search in your local intranet zone, or viewing a movie on Windows Media player 7.0 or greater - or heck, getting a microbrain DVD decoder)Get yourself Windows 2000 Professional.
CASE CLOSED.
You guys really (anti vista), should just go back to xp or 2000 or me or 98se or 95 or 3.1 or dos or os2.. or de-evolve to a wiggly string just before the big bang.
vista is good. faster, better, cleaner, brighter then xp can ever be. its what i thought windows should have been ages ago. from a IT Admin point of view, its much safer and easier to control. it get top marks from me. all service pack one will do is give you a reason to join the rest of us, like xp.. sp1 did nothing for most users.
have fun and try to close your eyes and pretend.
regards
Morph, why do they have a hardware rating of 2? What are their flawed piece(s) of hardware? My pc that is well over a year is 5.1? And you know the open your heart statement was just a joke. I have enjoyed stable Vista install/use durring every CTP released since beta 2. It has only gotten better each time but after using beta 2, I have dreaded my XP moments.
Andrew, I... agree with you, ME sucked ***. And back in the day I kept a hard drive with 98 installed with a quick swap bay just so I could have compatible apps for well over 6 months. As for your "The only way Vista can (possibly) be faster than XP, is if the hardware has a shead load of memory. I have not yet installed Vista on a computer and found it faster than XP, but then again, I'm not prepared to waste money buying memory just to run all that unnecessary eye candy."XP wasn't nearly as equipt to handle multi threading. Vista is only starting to take advantage of the posibilities. Hence faster than XP.
All you uninstallers. Like I said, I kept a hard drive with 98 for a long long time after XP was released. So, no I'm not in some "Vampire OS Clan", I recognise when something isn't usable. Since before Vista was released, I have ditched any traces of 98. I use many professional applications (Yea, mostly Microsoft) but even Adobe's new CS 3 applications run faster on a good Vista PC than the equivaliant PC running XP. There are a few applications that try to manage everything without regarding common practices which are locked to XP.
Here have some pizza and shutup [pi]
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I built my home computer last summer. It's not anything special. It has an Intel Pentium D @ 3.0 GHz, Intel D945PSN motherboard, only 1GB DDR2 533, 230 GB SATAII HDD and a wimpy ATI Radeon x800. I scored a 4.5.
I've been running Windows Vista Home Premium without any trouble. I like it a lot.
xMorpheousx416 - I'd like to know which Laptops those were so I can be sure to stay away from them. Were they HP, Dell, Fred's CB Radio & Computer Shack? Anything with those specs and that rating is in serious need of being repaired - I saw 2 HP Laptops at Costco tonight that were 4.7 and 5.4, and my nearly 2-year-old AMD x64 4000+ (Sledgehammer) system with 1GB of RAM, an 80GB Seagate P-ATA drive and a GeForce 6800 GT-I PCIe Video card rates as a 4.2 - something just doesn't seem right. Maybe they were in some kind of reduced-performance mode because they were on battery power and not AC?
Zuza - Was this a clean install of Vista, or an upgrade? I've personally found that clean installs perform significantly better than upgrades when it comes to Vista (did plenty of both during the Beta) - yes, it can be a headache...but so can living with the vestiges of XP mucking-around with Vista.
--ScottKin
Stop with the im going back crap, get a gig of ram and a decent pc for gods sake. My entire office runs gefore 6800's with 3ghz and 1gig of ram all 20 pc's upgraded to legit vista and running flawlessly
People say their going back but the reasons are idiotic, just about 99.9% of everything is compatabile (i havent run into anything since nero released their new version) and its just as fast if not faster on any modern pc i have tried it on p4, core duo, core2duo, all the latest amd's hell my girlfriends got it on her frigging old ass sempron and it runs great
And people that actually do upgrades shouldnt be posting it just shows how stupid you are, no real IT person does or even suggests using upgrades, why? they never work even a tiny bit like their clean install breathern
Vista is a bit better at upgrades considering how horrible XP was at it, but its still no comparison
I have a 4+ year old 2Ghz P4 with 1GB of RAM (home built) and it is running fine with Vista & Office 2007, sure, my GeForce 4400 doesn't do Glass, but it is a DirectX 8 card, and not DirectX9 or above.
I've got a pair of 3+ year old Dell GX270's with a 2.6Ghz Hyperthreaded P4 and 2GB of RAM and they've been running Vista since the first public Beta. One is my Media Center box (Hauppauge 500 dual-tuner card) and the other is my Virtual Server host machine. They also run O2K7 just fine. Though I'm likely going to wipe the VS host and make it my Windows Home Server machine once I copy all my .vhds to my new VS Host.
My main laptop is a Toshiba Tecra M4 (2Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM, 5400RPM HD...[:(]) and I've been running Vista & Office 2007 on it since the July '06 Beta builds of each that allowed them to work better together. I'm at RTM of both and the unhappiness I feel towards that machine is more due to its 5400RPM HD than Vista or Office (I used to run XP on this box and had all the same complaints then as I do under Vista). The beta drivers for the nVidia chipset aren't to bad (they've gotten better after RTM of Vista, but still need some work), but the games that I do play seem to play well (though most are a couple of years old).
My new Virtual Server Host box is running dual-core Intel x64 CPUs and 4GB of RAM and aboslutely flies on Vista. With the hardware assist on the CPUs for Virtualization, this box does great. I might pave it eventually and rebuild under Longhorn Server and Windows Virtualization after betas of those are out, but in the mean time, it runs Vista great! It even has Glass with the on-board video card. :)
My old laptop is a 3+ year old Toshiba Tecra M1 with a 1.6Ghz CPU and 1GB of RAM. It can run Vista w/o issues, except that Toshiba doesn't have a working XDDM video driver for that model (but they don't support that model under Vista). Due to the lack of a video driver (which prevents me from watching DVDs on it), that box is back at XP.
The M4 that I mentioned earlier is setup to dual-boot with XP, but I only boot to XP to apply the monthly updates for XP and because my Hauppauge USB TV Tuner doesn't have any drivers that would provide audio (it can do the video, but the audio drivers don't do anything under Vista). So when I'm traveling, I boot that one to XP if I want to run the TV Tuner. But the machine is able to do everything else under Vista that it could under XP, and does many of them faster and better than it did on XP.
Granted, I'm not trying to play the latest Battlefield game, or something else that pushes the latest high-end video cards, but for my normal day-to-day stuff, my Vista machines work great. I don't want to take any of them back to XP and don't forsee doing it again.
I don't think I'd consider myself a fan-boy, I'm just an old UNIX Sysadmin at heart (DEC UNIX in particular, with a little Solaris for good measure).
Hey yor_on, go try a typewriter. You can avoid the pc altogether and go straight to the paper. It will increase your productivity.
As far as the ease of the workarounds...Using my imagination I see many people who might not have purchased vista or continue to use it staying w/ it just because of this. After a few months or so, they will require it to continue their daily activities. At this point, MS uses the clapper and the mighty Genuine Genie shows up locking the system until money is inserted into the cd tray.
I think they are onto something!
Sorry, can't agree it's just a Microsoft money making machine.
With lots of smart lock ups for people who doesn't want to use their brains.
which btw, i think your comment showed Zac B