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If anyone wants their PC to be slow, unreliable, incompatible, annoying, frustrating and expensive then by all means upgrade to Windows Vista (y)

Tried installing it a few days ago to see how it is, the next day I found myself formatting with the good old XP disc in the drive. After Vista XP seems quick in comparison, stuff actually opens when you click on it.

If you don't use your PC for gaming, movies or anything that requires performance then it might be alright :p
 
I don't know what everyones problem with Vista is, you all must be doing something wrong. :confused:

I've been running Vista with no problems at all for a couple of months now, it's a lot faster than XP - it boots up and shuts down at least twice as fast, programs load almost instantly thanks to SuperFetch and everything in general is a lot smoother.

What computer specs are you running?
 
Rockbottom said:
I don't know what everyones problem with Vista is, you all must be doing something wrong. :confused:

I've been running Vista with no problems at all for a couple of months now, it's a lot faster than XP - it boots up and shuts down at least twice as fast, programs load almost instantly thanks to SuperFetch and everything in general is a lot smoother.

What computer specs are you running?
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The majority of programs that I have aren't compatible with Vista. Both my printers aren't compatible with Vista either.
 
The thing about SuperFetch and the indexing is that it has to keep accessing your hard drive, the constant loading gets annoying after a while. Not to mention all the security features... "Are you sure you want this off", "Automatic updates are not running" They drive me insane with the constant prompts and reminders!! :bang:

Gaming performance was my main concern, I know the OS is only new but at the moment games run like absolute crap and there is no directsound support meaning no EAX.

Specs are fine, 3.2ghz, 2GB RAM, 7600GT etc.

If you're finding it ok then good for you :)
 
it ran OK on my older spec computer (2.4ghz northwood, 768mb memory, Radion something), though I never really installed anything more than the base OS as any that i tried didn't work :( I decided to leave it for a while just so i could play around with it.

Then came my new pc (core2duo E6600 (2x2.4ghz), 2gb mem, Geforce 8800GTS) and it was a nightmare to install. i was having problems with the Raid driver on install. Vista would not get past the first boot as it would blue screen every time. The only way I could install it was to take the disk off raid and install it as a normal hard drive. Well I wasn't happy with that as i wanted a mirrored pair for stability - so vista went and good old XP came back.

Been very happy with XP, always have. Even from the offset I liked XP, though it was a hard transition from Win 98SE. I didn't get the same feeling of Vista. I may retry in the future when service pack 1 is out. Until then, sticking with XP.
 
Bought my new laptop with vista, its a little slower to access things than good old xp pro, but I do find the new features useful, and its pretty good at sorting problems out, for example, msn messenger wouldnt open, so it told me what the problem was and where to download a fix, can't knock that
 
I admit I'm a technology laggard + I have no problems with XP so I'm in no rush to upgrade to Vista :cool:
 
Beerunning Vista since launch, only problems I've had are,,,

1. Latest Radeon drivers cause non start up. No problem to me as it plays all 3d games fine.

2. Some pages like logging into PayPal wouldn't load on IE7. No problem as I had the security settings all wrong.:eek:

3. Can't log into MSN messenger. Don't bother me as I hardly used it under XP.

Hardware wise, only my TV card was not compatible. But it hardly worked under XP properly anyways. So yes I'm quite happy with it.
 
As with all new operating systems, best to buy after a service pack has been released.

XP was shiete before Service Pack 2. Now it's compatible with anything.

It's the same with anything, new cars have recalls etc.
 
Like I said if your XP is working fine then there's no real reason why you should upgrade to Vista, it doesn't offer anything "Revolutionary".

Mac OSX is still way ahead in terms of OS features and user friendliness. Not games though :p

I was just hoping I'd save someone the trouble in case they weren't sure about upgrading or not.
 
Rockbottom said:
I don't know what everyones problem with Vista is, you all must be doing something wrong. :confused:
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crap hardware :)

there are some software compatibiltiy issues as we found out at work when we rolled out vista on all new machines after only 2 weeks of testing, but apart from that we've only had problems with users not knowning where something is, which is understandable.

Turbodiesel said:
Mac OSX is still way ahead in terms of OS features and user friendliness.
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the delusion continues :rolleyes:
 
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I been running vista since launch and i have not had any problems yet.

my games run at the same frame rate as they did on xp, all hard ware is fine with vista, even managed to link it up quite easily with my other pc running xp!!.

only software i had to lose was nero and daemon tools, but im sure fixes will be out shorlty.

On the other hand i can't see £150 worth of improvement over XP as everything still does what it did before. (and aero windows? whats that about?)

so my humble opinion is, if your running xp with media player 11 and explorer 7 your pretty much running the same.

oh and "GET A MAC":yuck: , i'd rather get speccy 48K with rubber keyboard!!! (and thats no joke)




spec:- 3.2intel pentium dual core, 2 gig ram, 2x nvidia 7800, soundblaster x-fi.
 
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