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Windows Vista: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista?
- 5/7/08 10:29 PM
you guys make me hate Ubuntu!!! >_<
by 7aji88 - 6/21/08 7:14 PM In reply to: Have you thought about Ubuntu? by chappejwcould you please stop this whole "switch to Ubuntu" nagging thing. I mean look how many people talked about switching to Ubuntu in this thread. Yes I use it on my laptop, but I have XP on my desktop because I have many hardware and programs that only work on XP (not even Vista) ok?.... just stop nagging about how "free" and "good" it is. You guys are being like "Apple"
(NT) See post 344
by Dango517 - 6/22/08 2:27 AM In reply to: Have you thought about Ubuntu? by chappejwFrom Lee's original post
by Dango517 - 6/18/08 12:43 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
"Please keep this discussion civil--this discussion thread is not a MS bashing session. Thank you!"
This thread is an open discussion about Vista
by chappejw - 6/21/08 10:32 PM In reply to: From Lee's original post by Dango517This thread is a poll about Windows Vista: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista?
My personal experience with Vista is very limited by convoluted click through security warning pop-ups. The operating system is slow compared to others, and the user experience was annoying as hell like a poorly organized kitchen.
I have Some Problems with My Vista
by jofish420 - 6/21/08 4:32 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bought a new HP Laptop with Vista Home Premium back last August 07. My main issue is I get blue screen crashes. Back in December I contacted HP tech support and they recommended the Bios update and to ignore the Welcome Center pop-up. That solved the blue screen crashes at that time.
Now I'm getting blue screen crashes again and this time the error message that comes up is Intel memory-core something something...I can't remember the total error message at this time. I did go to the Intel site and installed the latest driver as suggested...but it still is happening. I think I need to make another 2 hour call India again. I just called them for another problem I was having and they didn't recommend me manually installing the Vista SP1, as they said that when Windows Updates runs it will do it automatically.
Ha! I just checked my Windows Updates and the SP1 is there but it didn't install automatically, yet it is there as an important update. hmm...I wonder why it didn't do it automatically. It was published back in May and I have other updates like to my 2007Word security that went automatically..why didn't this one go automatically? Could it be because some ppl don't like to update with Service Packs?
Run Vista's memory tester
by Dango517 - 6/21/08 9:13 AM In reply to: I have Some Problems with My Vista by jofish420press and hold F8 on the BIOs screen you'll find it there. If this fails then look it up in "help and support". I think you have a memory problem. If this fails put a request in on the Vista forums, here:
http://forums.cnet.com/5204-12546_102-0.html?forumID=133&tag=forum.fd
Use the "create a new thread" button there on the right near the top.
We will need the complete error message to assist you.
Thanks for the reply! =]
by jofish420 - 6/22/08 4:29 AM In reply to: Run Vista's memory tester by Dango517I will try that and if it happens again I will be sure to write down the error message in its entirety and post it in the help forum.
Thanks for replying! =]
~jo~
I despise vista
by B123456H - 6/22/08 9:04 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I don't like it, period. I'm working toward M$ independence. Linux all the way!
It is a contradiction to battery life on laptops. in xp i got 6 hours, vista was a miserable 3.
Plus vista is so dadgum huge. An o/s shouldn't take 15 gigs of usable space. The service count was annoyingly high. Just at idle, my computer was busy dealing with all the sys processes by vista.
Has anyone found UAC useful? I'm an advanced admin user, so uac gets in my way.
windows 7 does not need UAC. Who's with me?
I only like one feature, and that was the start menu. Nothing else i like. The gui looks snazzy, but using it sucks.
Who can agree with this-
Vista is like the newest ferarri in the showroom, but there is one flaw, it has a scooter engine.
I own Vista and currently have little or no problems with it
by larrance - 7/24/08 11:17 PM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
For personal use, I really like it. I am running the 64 bit sp1 on two machines, on a regular basis. If you have enough computer, and you customize the vista experience, and use x64, you will like it too. But, there is the rub. One machine running it is a second gen opti with 4g of system ram, sata 2 resources, nvidia 512m video, and a really nice ASUS mother board. The other machine is an athlon 4400, 4g of ram, 512 m nvidia, etc. You get my point? I have experimented with it on a 1.6g/1g thinkpad, runs ok, lags sometimes, and no driver support for the video. Oh, yeah: its ATI vid. went back to xp pro on that one. Another concern: I am admin for a small organization, 30 work stations spread around three offices, plus other remote users, all on company hardware. For them, no way, not yet. One thing, its an imperfect match for server 2003. Another prob: too much tweaking to get it to work well, in terms of staff satisfaction. They can adapt to the interface changes, that is not really an issue. But, do I want to shackle myself with not only the installs, but the tweaks and the support, when XP Pro is running so sweet, and meets all the OS needs for the organization? You can guess my answer.
What I don't understand....
by TexasInSoCal - 8/18/08 12:44 PM In reply to: I own Vista and currently have little or no problems with it by larranceWhat I don't understand is that I used Vista for about 6-7 months. NO PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER. I edit music and video, and even use Photoshop to edit all of my photos. IMHO, I believe that most of these errors come as user errors. If you buy a laptop or desktop, be sure to know some of the basic computer info. Don't buy the cheapest laptop, just because of the price, for the reason that it's going to have bare minimum requirements to run Vista, and it's going to be poo. My notebook is the Compaq Presario F756NR, with 2Gb of RAM and a measly 128 Megs of video RAM, with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. I haven't had one problem, even when using multiple tasks. I'm currently using Ubuntu, for personal choice, and by all means I'm neither a Windows or a Linux fan boy. Quit griping about everything and fix what ever problem you're having. If your hardware sucks, upgrade.
Ha ha ha ha!! LOL My hardware sucks? hahaha
by DJEVEREST - 8/19/08 12:38 AM In reply to: What I don't understand.... by TexasInSoCalHey everybody !!!! this guy says my hardware sucks!! jajaja and more JA!! and i understand he's saying not just mine, maybe he's meaning everybody's hardware!!
Let me tell you something pal, when i bought my NI KORE controller, it worked smoothly with my Pentium 4 HT Desktop PC with XP, but i tried to install it on a core 2 duo Laptop with VISTA and it began to sucks!!
Actually, i'm working nice with my Desktop PC and my NI Kore contoller, and i had to sell my brand new laptop but not just for hardware compatibility, i sold it cuz VISTA in general terms SUCKS!!
So i don't think i have to adapt myself to windows VISTA. THE OS itself has to be a tool for working, creating or entertain people, and it has to be easy to use. VIsta is cool in appearance and maybe nice for entertainament but most users look thos things in a PC, but a lot more users looks others things in a new PC. If you have a lot of hardware that worked well with your old XP PC, but you want a new good looking PC and it comes with vista you also want that new pc to work with all the hardware you already own, but if your new pc doesn't recognize most of your hardware, what you gotta do??? buy new hardware compatible with your new Vista PC??? or simply get back to your old but well working PC??
I said it before, if you work with Office, and use your pc for listening music, watching videos or doing some writings or presentations and play some games and check and send emails then, VISTA is PERFECT for you. But for other tasks like professional audio recordings and professional Video authoring and editing, Vista simply can't stand those things.
ASK TRULY PROFESSIONALS if they work with VISTA, but i mean REAL PROFESSIOANLS who work with VIDEO & AUDIO, just see ARMIN VAN BUUREN play; He doesn't even work with Pcs, he works with MAC, but i'm sure if he'd play with pcs, he wouldn't play with Vista pcs.
Let's wait for 2010, cuz Microsoft has announced that is starting to develope a new OS (windows 7) and has a blog called "blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7" ( http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/default.aspx ).
Maybe its time to look forward and talk about a new OS for PCs.
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by TexasInSoCal - 8/19/08 10:39 AM In reply to: Ha ha ha ha!! LOL My hardware sucks? hahaha by DJEVERESTI used to edit video AND audio, and I haven't had a problem with it...
What's funny is that your comments are based solely on opinion. But hey, what the hell do I know? I use Ubuntu. 
Research project for class action lawyers...
by bbneo2 - 8/21/08 9:08 AM In reply to: Ha ha ha ha!! LOL My hardware sucks? hahaha by DJEVERESTAsk Microsoft what they use in-house... XP or Vista?
Ask Dell what they use in-house.
Where's the defrag interface???
by trublubush - 8/19/08 12:41 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've repaired about 10 various OEM brand PC's and laptops with Vista so far, ...all with Dual Core cpu's.
I like Vista except for one thing only..., NO user interface for Vista's disk defragmenter. And for that reason alone I'll stay with XP for my use.
Vista sucks. Dell sucks.
by bbneo2 - 8/20/08 9:38 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Inspiron 1505 bought with Vista Home Premium in 4/2007. Had to reinstall the OS from the recover partition within about 6 months due to problems related to graphics driver incompatability.
Had to reinstall OS again about 2 months ago due to incompatability problems with DVD burner. I still have compatability problems with the DVD burner... takes 20+ minutes to burn a data DVD. fedora 9 Linux dual booting burns same data on same hardware in about 8 minutes.
System can be very slow to copy files, startup and shutdown.
Note about dual booting: You are supposed to be able to use Vista disk manager to resize your Vista partition to make room for other OS. Wouldn't work for me due to "shadowing" operations or such. Don't care. Couldn't turn it off. When I had to reinstall the second time, I made sure to repartition to limit the space that Vista could suck up.
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