Windows Vista: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it?
- 2/22/08 11:56 AM
If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it?
by rileyr1 - 3/1/08 7:29 AM In reply to: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My main complaint with Vista is the backwards compatability issues that I am having. Some of my previous software and hardware can not be used with Vista. For example I was using a Palm Pilot with my old XP system and it worked just fine. I am unable to use the existing equipment with Vista. Also I had been enjoying a weekly conference call with my brother and two sisters on Yahoo's IM that too is kaput. I am thinking of returning to XP.
What versions...
by John.Wilkinson - 3/1/08 7:36 AM
In reply to: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by rileyr1
Palm has released a couple software updates to deal with Vista compatibility issues, so depending on the model (is that really a Palm Pilot, one of the first PDAs ever produced?) there may be a patch available. Also, Yahoo! recently came out with a new special Vista-only version of Yahoo! Messenger, which can be downloaded by clicking here. That may ease many of the problems you've been experiencing.
Hope this helps,
John
Palm VII compatability and Yahoo IM
by rileyr1 - 3/1/08 7:54 AM In reply to: What versions... by John.Wilkinson
Thanks John. I have d/l the new Yahoo Vista and it does not have the conferencing capability. They say that they are missing a codex. As far as the Palm goes I have yet to figure out how to hook a serial port to the system. What I have done is to leave the Palm hooked to my old XP system and then using the network transfer the archive files to the Vista laptop and Palm VII desktop works that way. But that is just a work around that I am using for now. It has many extra steps that I just don't need. Being retired doesn't mean that I have unlimited time. LOL
Vista...argggggghhhhhhhh :(
by pkennedy - 3/1/08 7:40 AM In reply to: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
since I got it in my Dell laptop with Vista Home Premium in 3/07.. I had no choice at the time with getting a Vista OS... what a mistake.. a nitemare.. slow slow and 'slow-er-er'.. a graphics cosmetic booddoggle.. I use it for traveling mainly.. got it with 1gb...I know ..should have gotten 2gb or more.. but at the time they were not pushing that ... it worked with just about no other software at the time... everything had to have updates.. the mistake I made was not sending it back right away..
these people who say it is great... gotta wonder what planet they've been living on..or are using their employers high dollar systems..or just glad they're working for MS these days.. jobs are tuff to find.. 
I've gone thru all the tweaks to try to speed it up.. shut down the aero graphics which is a total waste.. does nothing for me...a gimmick.. even kicked it back to the classic Windows view.. among other tweaks.. as per the suggestions of Cnet and other tech sites
to me as a backup and traveling Laptop it just about gets by.. to use the Vista OS as a main computer-Desktop PC is got to be crazy... it eats up much too much memory .. did I mention it's slooooooow.. and annoying too.. bottomline bring back XP
will the new Vista SP1 service pack help.. I doubt it very much.. seems to be a system that was marketed for it's high gloss shine and cosmetic appeal.. and of course a money-maker for MS... and not for it's performance which to me there isn't any..
and how does my 5 year old Dell XP laptop with only 768mb RAM ( that was a lot at the time when I got it) outperform and is a lot faster than my newer Dell Laptop with 1gb RAM using Vista.. something is wrong here...
one other thingy.. it's amazing that MS had touted at the very beginning when marketing the new Vista OS that it wouldn't have or need many updates like XP needed.. this is NOT the case.. just d/l the latest MS Windows updates for the Vista laptop.. a dozen.. then I d/l updates for my 5 year old Desktop and there were only three.. it's been like that from the beginning..
no kidding!
by back_water_tech - 3/16/08 10:50 AM In reply to: Vista...argggggghhhhhhhh :( by pkennedyI have a three year old Micron with 512 mb of ram and a 20 gig 5400 rpm hd with XP Pro, that beats the pants off my wife's new (brand new) laptop with a gig of ram and sata 7200 rpm hard drive. And vista is suposed to be BETTER? what a load of crap. 
:P
Vista
by Askswhy86 - 3/1/08 8:04 AM In reply to: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bought Vista Ultimate, replacing XP, and have been very sorry most of the time! I had to give up a number of useful programs because they were not compatible.
Jeeze Askswhy86
by MikeHolli - 3/1/08 10:20 AM In reply to: Vista by Askswhy86Jeeze Askswhy86, have you thought seeing as how you were using WinXP previously it had something called compatible mode? Windows Vista has that as well, and can run any previous Windows program meaning anything from Win95 up to WinXP! Right CLICK on the mischievous program, then choose for the list of Operating Systems that compatibility mode includes. In your case WinXP.
This maybe the best OS Microsoft has ever created.
by Dango517 - 3/1/08 8:55 AM In reply to: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Vista - Business
Over all I think it is a very good OS but there is room for improvement. I'd still like to see the start up time improve and some features added to Windows Mail, Paint and Wordpad. I do believe the security features in this OS are better then XP or ME. It is also far easier to search within the OS then previous versions and is fast about it. The OS also has many advanced features that previous versions did not contain.
I will say this though, in time we may see there is much more to Vista as the graphics capabilities become more apparent. This OS is a "sleeper" soon it will awaken. This will require more improvements by the programmers and developers to see gains here.
After "a successful" release of SP1 and continued graphics improvements this maybe the best OS Microsoft has ever created.
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Very Dissatisfied
by quakeguy - 3/1/08 12:12 PM In reply to: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Vista Home Premium on Dell Inspiron 1505 with 2 GB RAM.
- Abyssmal file transfer speed with thumb drive (< 100 KB/sec)
- Took me almost a year to get WPA2 Enterprise authentication to work (needed SP1 and a new wireless card, no one would fess up to screwing up).
- Very difficult to use printer that is shared from my WIndows XP desktop. If a computer geek like me could only get it working with lots of searching for answer, how could a casual home user ever do it? (Partial answer: "net use lpt1 \\<machine>\<printer> /persistent:yes - and sometimes I have to tear down connection and start all over).
- What was wrong with XP?
OK to play with but not so good for business
by TLComputers - 3/1/08 12:15 PM In reply to: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have installed Vista Business on a couple of machines and have found several problems that are critical for business users.
Missing Device drivers: as noted by many sources. Yes, there are many printers and other devices that are older than two years that are still in use. It has taken many companies a long time to produce drivers for the devices that are still in use.
System resource requirements are too high. Many companies watch their IT budgets like hawks and use PCs as long as possible; they just can't afford to buy new PCs for Vista. There are many 1.8Ghz P4 PCs that are still useful; and no one with any common sense would put Vista on one of those.
Application support. Many business applications (special database app's and such) that are in use were built for XP and changing the app's for Vista is just not practical. There is no business justification for it. If businesses are not changing to Vista, software vendors have no reason to invest in program changes for a product that businesses don't want.
At least Vista is fun to play with. Besides, with all of its bugs and instabilities that's about all it's good for. So many times, it will crash, and then report that the crash was due to a problem in ... tadaaa ... Windows Vista. And, whoopee, I can Click Here for driver updates, but there are none because I've already got everything that is available.
So, yeah, Vista is a nice toy, but that's about it.
Vista
by flannigan - 3/1/08 2:30 PM In reply to: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'm very happy with it. I think it required a longer learning curve than XP and I personally believe it was more complicated than it needed to be. However, it is where we need to learn and I think many of the features are improved.
Mike Flannigan
It's Fine
by mkaz91 - 3/1/08 6:10 PM In reply to: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Seriously, Vista works great with the huge majority of customers out there. It may not satisfy everyone's technical needs, but it is overall a huge improvement over Windows XP. The UI is nicer, the language is easier to understand, and media technologies are vastly improved with Windows Media Player 11, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker.
For a great and honest review of Windows Vista, I recommend this link: (http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista.asp). It is a long 8-part review, but does a great job of explaining the good and the bad of Windows Vista.
Very Dissatisfied
by DDT3 - 3/2/08 9:17 AM In reply to: It's Fine by mkaz91Home Premium. Should have taken a fellow forum posters advice and wiped the hard drive and installed XP Pro the day I bought it...but I thought "it can't be that bad" ... IT IS!
Do not use Vista (until there is a verdict on SP1 at least) if you "work" on your computer and have a lot going on. Constant bugs and crashes, terribly long shutdown/reboot freezes, all an everyday thing and nothing on here isn't "Vista Certified" which is a joke because often "Vista Certified" products require downloading patches or Vista upgrades instead of working "out of the box".
My wife has it on her laptop and thinks it great. She mainly plays solitaire and web surfs. I spend all day every day on it and keep my old XP Box running next to it so I can keep working while I am rebooting or trying to fix another bug.
12+ hours of support direct from Microsoft 2 weeks ago where they controlled the computer and they have finally got the bug level down to once or twice a day... but those are usually still "debug/can't debug" (unending pop-up) bugs from the Visual Editor which they said they uninstalled since I didn't need it and it was a major problem.
I have also heard from a Microsoft "Gold" service center/builder that they have said that they are already planning a new OS for 12-18 months out but the new OS will have a different name not yet announced because "Vista" has burned too many "brand name" bridges to be saved even with service packs.
I can't imagine how they could come out with such a huge improvement as Office 2007 at the same time as such a bad OS... and now that there is Office for Mac my next computer will be a Mac-enough is enough. At least then the Vendor can't blame the OS and Microsoft blame the vendor etc.
Quad-Core, 4GB RAM, 4GB ReadyBoost, 512MB GeForce Video, Asus MB, Seagate drives. I was super-impressed with the quality of the components in this HP... but Vista has made it all totally undependable. Something that people who are "at the computer" all day every day can't have.
For household use, maybe... but for work Vista stinks and there are no words to describe how bad. Hoping SP1 is of some help, any would be an improvement...
Works fine for me!
by brycematheson - 3/2/08 9:52 AM In reply to: Very Dissatisfied by DDT3I'm the kind of person who researches EVERYTHING before I go out and buy something. I read reviews for 20 years before I make a decision. For some reason, even after reading terrible reviews of Vista, I decided to go out and buy it.
I'm running it on an Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 (overclocked to 2.7) with 2GB of RAM and an 8600GT. It runs AMAZING for me. It runs, actually, even faster than XP. I loaded XP on this same machine and everything was lagging for some reason. I don't know if it's because all of my hardware was designed for Vista or what, but the slowness alone was enough to make me go back to Vista. I love the glossy interface, and also the new Windows Movie Maker, and DVD Maker. These 3 alone are enough to make me stay with Vista. I have experienced no bugs, no BSODS, and no driver issues at all. Everything just worked!
I don't know what everyone else is complaining about, but I actually really like Vista.
Vista!!! Very dissatisfied
by miamibig - 3/2/08 12:06 PM In reply to: Poll: If you use Vista, how satisfied are you with it? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Very dissatisfied.
I am using two versions of Vista. Ultimate on my desktop and Home Premium on my laptop.
I am very dissatisfied because so many programs did not work until I upgraded them, some free but many at additional cost to me.
Additionally many, many problems have popped up with hardware. Some issues still remain even after applying updates to drivers that promised to work with Vista.
All in all a nightmare experience even worse than Millenium. The thing that really gets me is that Vista seems to have problems with MS programs such as Word, Excel and Outlook. I have had so many error messages and freeze ups on Word and Excel that I have come close a few times to just drop kicking my computer out the door.
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