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Non Life Sciences => Geek Speak => Topic started by: latebind on 02/06/2009 10:59:32
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I absolutely hate Windows Vista, it is a slow behemoth. Whenever I use it I just get so mad that Microsoft could actually release this junk.
If there is anyone out there who actually likes Windows Vista and thinks it is fast (supercomputer users excluded) let me know!
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I do. I might be the only one.
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I tweaked mine to shut off a lot of the standard features. It seems to run just fine. I also have a computer running XP with a lot of tweaks. That also seems to run just fine.
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No problems here. Except 'the user' of course.
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I tweaked mine to shut off a lot of the standard features.
I recently shut off indexing on Vista,
previously the hard-drive ticked like a ***king clock, now it actually goes silent.
There is third party software to slim down Vista like Vlite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLite) but I doubt it is approved by Uncle Bill.
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I very much prefer XP myself.
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I prefer XP under any circumstances [;D] [;D]
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Wash your mouth out ! don`t even say the Vword [:-X]
Fistula is more appropriate: pain in the bum and crap everywhere.
Resource hungry and slow, and the hardware compatibility is (still)poor
On the bright side It has prodded people to look at open source.
At one place we had evaluation machines, and there are applications that just won`t run, or run so slowly as to be useless. A big enough company that IBM rewrote the bioses of some laptop models specially for them to increase disk access speed for a particular application. It hasn`t improved on recent samples of V
XP itself is in some ways not much of an "improvement" on win2k especially as totally win 32 API compliant legacy programs don`t always run properly. Compatibility was a pain especially in networking.
2000 did what it said on the tin, and as well as being stable it was sting free to network with unix/linux or macs.
Ho hum windows seven is sampling and vista should be swept under the carpet soon. I hope they have learned their lesson and listened to their customers.
They said they were withdrawing 2k and IBM and HP started shipping linux machines to fed up customers who had just upgraded from NT and weren`t going to change to anything MS after only 2 years, oops 2k back on, same with XP.
http://www.infopackets.com/news/business/microsoft/2007/20070704_microsoft_simplifies_xp_rollback.htm.
Have a look at some ofthe other articles at the bottom
Update, If you have V business or ultimate you still have roll back rights until it is retired in 2014 according to the xp page at microsoft.
Edit : I forgot to say before someone jumps on me that "compatibility modes" since various SP`s were issued exist in XP, still some 3rd party software completely compliant with the MS specs is buggy in areas.
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I have Vista. I havn't experienced any problems with it...
...just my graphics card at the moment... groan. [:(]
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Update it, that's what I did on Wednesday.
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I use both Windows Vista on my laptop for work and XP on my desktop, for gaming. I heard the earlier releases of Vista were a nightmare in many ways, but I didn't have the displeasure of experiencing them firsthand. Vista runs fairly smoothly on my laptop, no complaints there. I do wish they included Chess as part of the basic package though. [:(]
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Update it, that's what I did on Wednesday.
can't find it
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Go to the control panel and find the 'Device Manager' then click on 'Display adapters' and once there you should be fine, although you must run it as an administrator.
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Go to the control panel and find the 'Device Manager' then click on 'Display adapters' and once there you should be fine, although you must run it as an administrator.
[:-'(] It said that it already has the latest updates, but none of my games are working on it. [:-'(]
[:(]
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What are they?
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the games or the graphics card?
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Both if you don't mind,
preferably the games.
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The graphics card is a nvidia GeForce 9300M G.
The games, well... here are some of my favourite ones, but none of them want to work since I had to rebuild/reformat my computer.
F.E.A.R, Assassins Creed, Brothers in Arms, Call of Duty, Oblivion... etc...
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When someone says "I have vista" it is only a matter of time before the V turns into a T. [:)]
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I find Vista insulting. It exerts this big brother control freakery and makes it hard for me to actually do anything useful.
I was reconfiguring the networking on a laptop for someone the other day and the number of mouse clicks and "are you sures?" made the experience wholly unenjoyable.
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Windows 7 is the solution. Its basically what Vista should have been. Vista is a pain in the behind.
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Have you tried it then?
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I've never had a pc with it, but I've played around with it.
And I think it decent. I mean I don't think I or even any one of us could make a whole operating system near that good.
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Have you tried it then?
Yes I had Vista for a while then the moment W7 beta came out I upgraded.
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i have vista. whyyyyyyyyyy? i absolutely hate it. i wish i can downgrade it to xp. its good for everyday stuff but not games and other stuff.
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I find Vista insulting. It exerts this big brother control freakery and makes it hard for me to actually do anything useful.
I was reconfiguring the networking on a laptop for someone the other day and the number of mouse clicks and "are you sures?" made the experience wholly unenjoyable.
Vista should be shipped with this background screen [:)] ...
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image source (http://www.johnnynines.com/2007/10/wallpaper-wednesday-hal-9000/)
"I can't let you do that Dave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000)"
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Vista was the bane of my existence until I installed windows 7 which isn't too bad. Vista is quite possibly window's greatest blunder.
I really should have gone with a mac.
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Been using Vista64 for over a year and half with no complaints. Most problems are due to running vista on under powered hardware. If you want to tweak Vista (or any MS OS) for max performance I'd suggest visiting this site- http://www.blackviper.com/ handsdown the best windows tweaking site on the net.
Windows 7, which I've been running since RC1 was released, is a dream. It is as pretty as Vista and runs on much lower hardware requirements. Benchmarks I've seen show it performs better then XP and Vista on similiar hardware.