Vista or Vistrash?

[c_hegge]

Originally Posted by Someone who sall not be named

there is nothing wrong with vista. it was a decent operating system!

Personally, I hated windows vista (hence the reason for calling it vistrash). It uses WWWAAAAAYYYY too much memory, as it needs a minimum of 2GB before it runs smoothly, I HATE the UAC prompts whenever you try to run a program, and the windows firewall blocks the windows updates.

What do you think? Did you hate vista or did you like it (like whoever it is in my quote)?

[Uranium-235]

who dosen't hate vista? I've never had a computer with it on it, but i've had to reload several customers computers with it on, and 'upgrade' to xp or 7 from several customers computers too

[cookieCAM]

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[Noobliesque]

Vista was a resource hog yes. But if you had a system that was strong enough to run it, it was not a bad OS at all.

I actually enjoyed using it, Yes I am easily impressed with unnecessary eye candy.
I got a kick out of dreamscene, the looped video wallpaper.

I think it got a bad rap out of the gate, because MS specs were too low, and manufacturers ran with them. In the initial sales you saw many Vista basic laptops being sold with 512 mb of RAM. No small wonder people hated it.

[kc8adu]

dumped out on the market way before it was ready in the name of getting something out there.every box i have seen vista on was SSLLLOOOOOOWWWWW!
xp was an upgrade.upgraded many a system.
when a quad core with 4 gigs of ram drags its ass you know the os has issues!

[toastygoodness]

it was cool because of media center until SP2. MS took a dump on vista with SP2, making it worse than it already was.

[NxB]

Vista is rather unusable no matter how fast your machine is. UAC is the best.

Deletes file from desktop....
Do you want to, are you sure, requires administrative rights, click yes...

Wait 10 minutes to delete 50MB of files.
Watch it error at the end on 1 file and undo the whole operation.


THIS is why vista sucked.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Originally Posted by NxB

Wait 10 minutes to delete 50MB of files.
Watch it error at the end on 1 file and undo the whole operation.

That sounds like the Microsoft installer for Windows Live, IIRC, it would wait until almost the end then error out and roll back the changes.

The cause was a registry entry that somehow had a messed up ACL.
And I would get an access denied error when trying to access the registry entry.
It mysteriously had the ACL set to deny write access and read access to the registry entry.
And it was an important registry entry.

[Topcat]

vista sucked, I don't like 7 any better. Still using XP and have no plans to change.

[TheLaw]

Originally Posted by Topcat

vista sucked, I don't like 7 any better. Still using XP and have no plans to change.

Nahh...I was in your boat, but once I got W7, I realized how old XP was. You shouldn't try running 7 on an ancient machine, but for new computers, don't even think about XP.

[Agent24]

Originally Posted by Topcat

vista sucked, I don't like 7 any better. Still using XP and have no plans to change.

^This

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

I had no complaints with Vista 64 or Windows 7. 32-bit Vista sucked indeed. 64 ran well from the beginning. And i dunno what's wrong with SP2 for Vista because mine still runs the same - great. My main computer still runs Vista because it's FULL of stuff and i have no time to upgrade it to 7 because i like clean installs and i'd have to reinstall everything the way it was.

So what if the UAC bothers you? TURN IT OFF. In Windows 7 they even added a slider to control the level of annoyance. And disabling it doesn't even require a restart anymore.

[c_hegge]

Originally Posted by Th3_uN1Qu3

So what if the UAC bothers you? TURN IT OFF.

But then it nags you on every boot up to turn it back on

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Originally Posted by c_hegge

But then it nags you on every boot up to turn it back on

Never happened here. Perhaps i also turned off the nag to turn it back on? Stock Vista was naggy and you had to figure for yourself how to quiet it down. Stock Win7 is naggy but they tell you WHERE you need to go to turn the darn things off.

Audio guy here too. Never had trouble with either Vista or Win7 when it came to latencies.

[MXM]

Originally Posted by c_hegge

But then it nags you on every boot up to turn it back on

yo, when i had issues with that shitty uac (have to admit has actually also worked to me on certain situations) i used this soft and helped me out a little, if u havent tried it i recommend, hope u find it useful!...

peace.

http://www.tweak-uac.com/home/

ps. (works on w7 too)

[Rulycat]

Windows 7 was what Vista was supposed to be, Vista felt like a sort of cron job on top of XP whereas 7 felt new and polished. Topcat, How long does XP have support for? I think it's 2015 or something so safe there. After that, well, you'll have to hope ReactOS is finished enough to replace XP or switch to Ubuntu or something.

Don't hold out for Windows 8, they're packing all that cloud garbage into it.

[Phaihn]

Originally Posted by Rulycat

Windows 7 was what Vista was supposed to be, Vista felt like a sort of cron job on top of XP whereas 7 felt new and polished. Topcat, How long does XP have support for? I think it's 2015 or something so safe there. After that, well, you'll have to hope ReactOS is finished enough to replace XP or switch to Ubuntu or something.

Don't hold out for Windows 8, they're packing all that cloud garbage into it.

2014 to be precise.

[Topcat]

Originally Posted by Phaihn

2014 to be precise.

You are correct....but the seat of my pants tells me that they'll extend that when the time draws closer. They did with win2k several times, just because of all the corporate clients that were still using it. XP will be the same way. The economy sucks in a big way, so corporations, schools, municipalities, and other large-scale networks aren't chunking down bookoo bucks to have garbage like vista and 7.....they're sending the boards to me to be fixed, so they can avoid the trainwreck all together. The economy won't be recovered by 2014 enough that the bean counters will loosen the purse strings for such a useless "upgrade". Corporations and municipalities web browse, email, and keep records on their computers, things that Win2k, XP, hell....even win95 all do with ease on really old and slow hardware. They just don't need all the garbage that vista and 7 have bloated into them.

[Phaihn]

Originally Posted by Topcat

You are correct....but the seat of my pants tells me that they'll extend that when the time draws closer. They did with win2k several times, just because of all the corporate clients that were still using it. XP will be the same way. The economy sucks in a big way, so corporations, schools, municipalities, and other large-scale networks aren't chunking down bookoo bucks to have garbage like vista and 7.....they're sending the boards to me to be fixed, so they can avoid the trainwreck all together. The economy won't be recovered by 2014 enough that the bean counters will loosen the purse strings for such a useless "upgrade". Corporations and municipalities web browse, email, and keep records on their computers, things that Win2k, XP, hell....even win95 all do with ease on really old and slow hardware. They just don't need all the garbage that vista and 7 have bloated into them.

agreed i just like the overall look of XP and the y way it runs good still after all this time. thats why i sent you my P4 Board for recapping back in 09