Windows Vista: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista?
- 5/7/08 10:29 PM
Vista on a Compaq Presario C700 Notebook PC with 1014 of Ram
by frank6213 - 5/8/08 5:55 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Currently looking to revert to XP, as this Vista has been nothing but problems and a pain. First the computer is slower than our old Compaq with windows xp, and locks even more than the older compaq with windows 95 on it still that the kids use to play their old games. Next issue was with the Wireless networking. After first working just fine with the Belkin Wireless N router, after going on a trip and useing another wireless network after about a month of working at home, was not able to set the network up to work fine again. Would get connected but only locally, no issues with the XP wireless desktop. Couldn't use the wireless adaptor form the desktop to use the wireless network with the laptop, as it did the same thing. Now that I reverted back the the linksys wireless g, back to no problem with the wireless network. Currently researching whether it would be better to load XP on to this machine. Will never buy another Vista POS. Will either go with Mac or Linux but there is nothing anyone can say to get me to go buy another one. I know I will never have to work on one machine with this operating system at my current global company. Doubt many other large companies will be idiotic enough to go to Microsofts current version of ME.
Don't want it
by Romas27 - 5/8/08 5:57 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Why do I say I don't want it? Easy. to me an OS should be just that. I don't want an operating system to be a jack of all trades. Just give me something that runs my computer and lets my choice of software and hardware operate properly. If I have media software that I like why should I have my system clogged with the OS version? This do-at-all OS just ends up costing a fortune with features that will never be used. And speaking of cost, how many people only have one computer at home? So how about an OS for people like me?
Vista--WHY?
by Frank Burnworth - 5/8/08 6:01 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If someone can explain a logical reason to upgrade (downgrade?) to Vista, I will. The reason that is most prevalent is---Microsoft will not be supporting XP in the near future.
Vista is expensive to install on an existing machine, the machine needs more abundant resources, implementation can cause a myriad of problems----crashing, no drivers and etc. My copy of XP Professional does everything it should do and is stable. Therefore----Why Vista?
Don't own and plan not to.
by 46thchief - 5/8/08 6:03 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've watched my friend struggle with this system. I'm building up my
ability to use Linux Ubuntu and have converted my XP laptop to that OS.
In the future I plan on going to that with my desktop. If that dsnesn't work, I'll keep XP. Plan to buy an XP disc as a safeguard.
Avoiding it
by DR.Bod - 5/8/08 6:30 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bought Dell Vostro (great PC btw) specifically so I did not have to downgrade to Vista, a terrible interim operating system that is supposed to last less than 3 more years (Microsoft hopes to finish windows 7 in 3, not likely though)
Subject is a waste of time
by Mikedana2 - 5/8/08 6:36 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I got a new Dell with Vista as soon as it came out. We have had virtually no problems. We experienced less problems with vista than with previous new window releases. More stable than even XP. The minor problems we encountered were solved quickly be the associated software companies or microsoft. Only hardware incompatibility was a $20 webcam so we didn't care. We have been always more interested in producing work with the software we use than with tweaking the operating system. All our software runs fine. What's the point of the discussion? It's not like Vista will disappear and XP will rule again. Reminds me of an IT guy at my office who tryed to convine me that windows 98 was a better operating system then XP. It's 2008
I'm having little or no problems
by doc4wos2 - 5/8/08 6:44 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Two thing have made Vista stable for me.
1 - Firefox beta 3
2- SP 1
Prior to FF b3, I had frequent browser crashes with both IE and FF when running games at http://www.ledgaming.com/. Besides the crashes graphic intensive web sites took forever to load and many page just timed out. FF b3 fixed both of these problems.
SP 1 fixed the random desktop crashes that I had.
I'm becoming less dissatisfied.
Mostly happy with Vista......but
by dmcc98 - 5/8/08 6:45 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Internet Explorer is considerably unstable under Vista. It crashes/restarts a number of times a day. Evidently a lot of other people (from looking at various forums) have the same problem and have provided a number of solutions that work for them, but not for others. Microsoft hasn't responded to the problem with any fix/guidance as far as I can tell.
Not easy to deal with
by equinelover - 5/8/08 6:46 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I do tech support and I feel that Vista may work for the person at home with only one or two computers it is a different story in the work enviornment and when you need help. Either Vista doesn't play nice with the other existing OSs out there or they don't play well with vista. Also from a help perspective it is harder to maniuplate Vista and do the things I can do with XP. It seems harder to find where you can change settings and things seem to be more setup to a prescribed way of being, for example I was trying to adjust a person's PC for sleep, hibernate, etc and instead of being given a straight up choice we are given choices that are supposed to cover all preferences. Also I use windows explorer a lot and I find the organization in Vista hard to use and also the fact of the way it moves around as I try to browse through it to see where I want to go makes me nuts. I could get sea-sick watching that!
I know I need more experience with Vista to address issues easily but what I have seen so far makes me reluctant to make the switch myself anytime soon.
Vista OK on laptop, Unable to download XP SP3 on desktop
by kyrhett - 5/8/08 6:48 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Is Microsoft playing with XP users? - have tried, without success,all suggested Microsoft Help & Support suggestions for unsuccessful XP SP3 installations. All I get is an "Access Denied" error signal. Anybody else having same problem?
Vista
by jwlaurie - 5/8/08 6:50 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I do not like Vista for three main reasons:
1. The washed out/non contrasting colours it uses for the desktop. Try highlighting a photo for copying or something and you can barely tell if there is a highlight box around it.
2. The fact that when I download a group of pictures from my camera I'm forced to go through the Photo Gallery first then highlight and copy them then put them in the Pictures program where I want to store them. It seems as a particularly useless step and very frustrating.
3. When I want to review my pictures and I select a particular thumbnail size to see the picture properly I have to do it with every picture individually rather than setting it once to the larger size and having it stay that way until I want to change it back to the default "tiny" thumbnail size.
As you can tell I use Vista mostly for picture handling, fortunately only on my wife's laptop when we're travelling together. My desktop still has XP and I will always use XP until forced to do otherwise.
Solution for your photos
by chappejw - 5/8/08 4:39 PM In reply to: Vista by jwlaurieYou should be using Picasa by Google. Better yet you should be using Ubuntu Linux and Picasa by Google. It is a genius photo management solution..!
Ubuntu lets you customize your entire computer with ease. Windows XP has over 200,000 viruses available and over a million spyware/adwares that rips the operating system to shreds. End your pain and suffering with Ubuntu, and you will see what millions of people have been saying. It's easy, it's fast, it's excellent! You will enjoy using a computer again and it will be intuitive to use, like a computer should. By sticking to Windows and Microsofts End User License Agreements, you are nothing but a Milk cow being fed your cud so they can milk you over and over and over and over again.!
Go here to free yourself ==> www.ubuntu.com
Hey, I'm just telling it like it is...
vista better than xp on this notebook
by Jim Johnson - 5/8/08 6:52 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I was one of the Express (HA!) Upgrade folk. I am certain my experience has been very different from many because I scrubbed my system of crapware (including Registry debris), and replaced non-compliant utilities and apps before the upgrade, and upgraded the BIOS firmware. Ed Bott and other columnist/authors are correct. It is the OEMs that are killing Vista, not Microsoft.
My personal opinion is this notebook runs Vista better than XP. Oh yeah, I researched and applied Registry tweaks to Vista - but I'm sure most XP power users do the same - only given how new Vista is, they are harder to find and/or find the little utilities that do them for you.
I'm not unhappy with XP. My two generation older desktop won't be upgraded. I know better.
I'll wait for the next OS
by BillSamuel - 5/8/08 6:53 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I got my PC before Vista came out so I have XP. The history with Microsoft is that some versions of Windows are real winners and some are real losers, and some are inbetween. XP has been one of the most successful versions. Vista clearly has real issues. It's probably not as bad as ME, but it doesn't seem to have enough in the way of advantages to outweigh the problems, so I don't see any good reason to upgrade. Chances are the next version of the Windows OS will be much more attractive, and Vista will fade into the background.
It's not Vista it's the apps
by dougpb - 5/8/08 6:54 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I probably have more applications installed than most, some of which are not Vista compatible so the cost of upgrading will be significant. I also do some programming to complement a commercial program used by my church an must consider its database software. A new Dell with XP is being delivered today to keep me going for the next couple of years.
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