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  • youthinksoo
    Super Member
    Super Member
    • Oct 2005
    • 201

    Do you Like Vista?

    Is anyone satisfied with Windows Vista? Have you upgraded? Have you downgraded back to XP? From what I heard Vista is not worth it, so I plan to stick with XP.
  • anonymez
    Super Moderator
    • Mar 2004
    • 5525

    #2
    I don't particularly like Vista. I like XP. I <3 Linux.
    "What were the things in Gremlins called?" - Karl Pilkington

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    • alan1476
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • Jun 2006
      • 37

      #3
      Vista is the next ME. It will only last 1 year. My opinion.
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      • Gary D
        Lord of Digital Video
        Lord of Digital Video
        • Dec 2005
        • 2266

        #4
        Talking with computer store owners, there are people bringing in packaged systems (For example: Dell) and scrubbing the HD and installing XP.

        I will wait until the speed catches up with the bottom end systems. I figure 2010 or 2011. Windows announced that SP3 is in the works for XP in 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lif...vicepacks.mspx

        MS support for XP will stop in 2014 :http://support.microsoft.com/lifecyc...8&y=12&p1=3223
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        • MilesAhead
          Eclectician
          • Nov 2006
          • 2615

          #5
          Originally Posted by youthinksoo
          Is anyone satisfied with Windows Vista? Have you upgraded? Have you downgraded back to XP? From what I heard Vista is not worth it, so I plan to stick with XP.
          I bought an HP Pavilion w/AMD duo 64 processor and Vista Home
          Premium about 2 months ago. I don't think I'd try to
          upgrade my Pentium D machine. You'd want to buy a fast
          machine with at least 2 GB Ram and Vista preinstalled.
          So far it seems pretty stable.

          The main annoyances for me were 1) Stuff scheduled to run that
          you don't want such as network file caching, file indexing,
          mobile device syncing etc. that just causes HD thrashing, and
          2) they shuffled all the settings around in Control Panel making
          it difficult to shut most of the crap in 1) off!!! The easiest way
          is just to google for everything you want to disable and chances
          are you'll find a Vista tweak that shows how to get to that setting.

          After you spend some time tweaking then it's not so bad. By default
          it waits 20 seconds for running services and processes to quit, making
          shutdown seem like it takes forever. But I found the registry setting
          online and changed it to 8 seconds. Not so bad.

          My 2-machine Lan seems to run better now that I have Vista on one
          of the machines. I don't get an access violation every time I try to
          drag & drop a file across the Lan.


          I think when the next generation of 64 bit PCs come out then it will
          be less noticible what a resource hog it is.

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          • petsbug
            Gold Member
            Gold Member
            • Jan 2005
            • 101

            #6
            Dell resorting back to XP as an option in their new machines as per customer demand. I have no complaints so far and not attempted to tweak my system. I learned my lessons the more you tweak the more problems down the line as you put more and more crap on the system.
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            DT: Burners: BenQ DVD CD DW1670 and 2 Philips DVD+- RW DVD 8701
            LT: Vista Premuim, HP Pavillion 9288ea

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            • Chewy
              Super Moderator
              • Nov 2003
              • 18971

              #7
              the more you tweak the more problems down the line as you put more and more crap on the system.
              could you elaborate on this part?, my experience is the opposite

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              • jm1647
                An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
                • Apr 2005
                • 3661

                #8
                Originally Posted by petsbug
                Dell resorting back to XP as an option in their new machines as per customer demand. I have no complaints so far and not attempted to tweak my system. I learned my lessons the more you tweak the more problems down the line as you put more and more crap on the system.
                I think it is the "more problems down the line as you put more crap on the system" that causes problems. Adding decent programs shouldn't be a problem.

                From what I have heard about Vista, the free upgrade I got to Vista Home Basic is still in the envleope Compaq sent it in, I'm sticking with XP Home for now

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                • petsbug
                  Gold Member
                  Gold Member
                  • Jan 2005
                  • 101

                  #9
                  Originally Posted by Chewy
                  could you elaborate on this part?, my experience is the opposite
                  I know you do cos you're a geek and i am a novice
                  What i mean is that there were times that you needed a little application to improve something then that something affected something you ended up removing that something ......
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                  DT: Burners: BenQ DVD CD DW1670 and 2 Philips DVD+- RW DVD 8701
                  LT: Vista Premuim, HP Pavillion 9288ea

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                  • Chewy
                    Super Moderator
                    • Nov 2003
                    • 18971

                    #10
                    What i mean is that there were times that you needed a little application to improve something then that something affected something you ended up removing that something ....
                    it's better to go slow with tweaks till you kind of understand them

                    those auto tweak programs are too dangerous

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                    • davidt1
                      Junior Member
                      Junior Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 23

                      #11
                      Originally Posted by youthinksoo
                      Is anyone satisfied with Windows Vista? Have you upgraded? Have you downgraded back to XP? From what I heard Vista is not worth it, so I plan to stick with XP.
                      No, I don't like Vista. Laptop came with it. Installed XP for dual boot. Use XP 90% of the time.

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                      • doctorhardware
                        Lord of Digital Video
                        Lord of Digital Video
                        • Dec 2006
                        • 1907

                        #12
                        It is a PIA to setup some computers take 45 minutes to 1 hour and a half to get to the desktop to do anything to the computer. Stay with XP as long as you can. IMHO.
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                        • Chewy
                          Super Moderator
                          • Nov 2003
                          • 18971

                          #13
                          quad core, 4 gigs of ram, 512 megs of vid and you'll be all set to go with vista when they get the bugs out

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                          • photo_angel2004
                            Queen of Digital Video
                            Queen of Digital Video
                            • Jan 2004
                            • 3558

                            #14
                            I have herd nothing good about Vista and I dont plan to get it ever unless it gets better not to mention all of my NONE of my programs are compatable with it except for maybe a few new ones. I would have to upgrade $$$$$$ programs to upgrade to Vista and thats just not worth it for me.
                            XP has been working fine for me. Heck I still have windows 98 SE on one of my computers. LOL

                            I have seen all of the new computers sold in the stores all have that Vista installed to them though they dont seem to sell Pre made computers with XP any more. Good luck to all those buying a new pc.






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                            • petsbug
                              Gold Member
                              Gold Member
                              • Jan 2005
                              • 101

                              #15
                              You people seem married to XP! Get a a mistress named Vista and you'll love it! Well, I am never qualified to judge Vista I am no geek I am a mechanical engineer but I have good experience so far. I think its just a matter of getting used to its functions, where things are as always hard to become disconnected to what you're in love with and got used to. Its stable for me not a single freeze or crash since I got it.
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                              DT: Burners: BenQ DVD CD DW1670 and 2 Philips DVD+- RW DVD 8701
                              LT: Vista Premuim, HP Pavillion 9288ea

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