Windows Vista: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista?
- 5/7/08 10:29 PM
i just don't know
by TexasInSoCal - 8/21/08 8:34 AM In reply to: Vista sucks. Dell sucks. by bbneo2I guess I just got the top of the totem pole because I had a external DVD burner that I used with my old WinXP laptop, I plugged it into the Vista laptop and worked perfectly.
I don't know, the only incompatible thing I have with Vista would be the Hauppauge TV thing, that I don't use anymore.
Just down grade.
by Albertv - 8/25/08 9:45 PM In reply to: Vista sucks. Dell sucks. by bbneo2My 9 month old HP laptop is wonderful on XP Pro SP-2 as is my desktop. My hat of to all you unofficial testers for Microsoft who paid MS for the privellage. All my PC's came with Vista and they all were reborn as XP. If I want eye candy Stardock.com makes my Xp perform and look better than Vista and the biggest draw is not having big brother decide for me what I can and can not play on my machine.
Downgrade. Amen.
by bbneo2 - 8/26/08 6:50 AM In reply to: Just down grade. by Albertvor *upgrade* to Linux. I would recommend fedora or OpenSUSE or Ubuntu. Visit Chess Griffin's Linux Reality podcast site and the Linux Questions.org site to start getting up to speed.
The problem with downgrading is that you can't do it to an existing system generally, except at the time of purchase, and now you can't even go out and cough up the $200 for the full install of XP any more.
I got so frustrated with my Dell Vista notebook after having to reinstall the OS once, that I tried installing my Dell distribution CD's of 2000 Pro and then XP Pro upgrade (from an older machine) to it, but I couldn't find some basic drivers (including the ethernet card?).
Microsoft not only wants to control (and make sure you pay) for your media content, they also want to control exactly how you use the operating systems on the machines you buy that they "certify".
This fascism is probably written into their EULAs, they've probably just decided to start enforcing it in their software.
downgrade
by chanitasambista - 8/26/08 3:36 PM In reply to: Downgrade. Amen. by bbneo2i have no idea what a downgrade is... chanita
poll: personal experience with vista
by chanitasambista - 8/21/08 8:04 PM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i have had vista since late march. i used to have xp.
vista has been okay for reading and sending e-mail.
but, it is incompatible with my $275 printer, which was less than a year old. getting the software to make it compatible cost almost the same as a compatible printer (which didn't do as many things). i got the new printer.
it is incompatible with my photo program. i am having to learn my way around a new program, which is supposed to be easy to learn, but which has drawbacks of its own.
i expect i will learn my way around the computer, but not easily. i was not very computer proficient before, and what little i knew is different here.
discontinue polls
by chanitasambista - 8/27/08 9:35 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
please do NOT send me any more POLLS. i asked this before, and still received one today. of course, i only asked yesterday, but hope that somewhere this is being recognized. thank you, chanita
Vista Rocks
by hypervish89 - 8/27/08 8:47 PM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'd take vista all the way. Its the best. No problems ever. I have a 4.8 Ghz Quad Core Processor with 4Gb's ram 64 bit version of vista. It works pefect
64 bit Vista
by Philip Shelton - 8/27/08 8:58 PM In reply to: Vista Rocks by hypervish89I have had problems small and large (I've re-installed Vista Ultimatum 32 bit three times), and I've posted those problems earlier.
My feeling is that the polling by hypervish89 is likely an answer I had not considered. I have a hunch Vista was written to work optimally 64 bit, where we will all be sooner than we think.
When my 32 bit version works, it works very well. Then, kapoof.
64 bits may be what heals all the wierd problems I've had. Meantime, it's Mac OS X 5.X.X
P3
Vista poll
by mackman - 8/28/08 7:24 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Home premium with sp1 absolutely no problems love the OS like XP but with many refinements. If you take the time to understand the similarities and the natural progression of all windows operating systems and have a machine capable to run it the whining is from the uninformed.
1.8 GHz Core2Duo with 2 Gb RAM... ain't enough.
by bbneo2 - 8/28/08 9:01 AM In reply to: Vista poll by mackmanTakes 20 minutes for Vista to burn a data DVD on my Dell Inspiron 1505 notebook. With fedora 9 Linux installed on the same hardware, it takes less than 10 minutes.
I was also having problems copying files *on the C drive*!!! It would take 10 hours (!!!) to copy several Gb of files from one folder to another. How is that? Shouldn't that basically just be a directory reassignment?
Bill Gates thanks you. His wife thanks you. Steve Ballmer thanks you. The city of Redmond, Washington thanks you.
Good experience wih Vista
by colon1148 - 8/28/08 8:19 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Vista on desktop and Xp on my laptop.I like Vista much more and in my case it is not slow and have currently no problems.
I own Vista and currently have little or no problems with it
by rey7782 - 2/15/09 3:23 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
been using Vista coming to a yr. Reformatted twice due to small probs. basically, been happy with it ; ) ; ) i will still go for Vista if i were to choose between it and XP all over again ; ) but will not hesitate to move on to Windows 7 
Not a happy camper.....
by BLKHWK57 - 2/23/09 5:11 PM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I purchased a COMPAQ PC which has Vista Home Basic installed on it.
When I first made the purchase, I upgraded to Home Premium and life was good.
Then my hard drive crashed and could not recover. So I purchased a new hard drive, re-installed my factory OS which brought me back to home basic.
Right now I am on day five of trying to upgrade to home premium and it's not working.
I have read thread's where people have started having there install problems at the expanding portion of the install, not me, I go all the way to the end, about 1 1/2 hours into the installation, and then get the msg, "ONE OR MORE SYSTEM COMPONENTS CAN'T BE CONFIGURED, EXIT INSTALL AND RE-INSTALL VISTA."
What ticks me off is it won't even point to which system component is not configuring.
I am at the point of calling MS and getting a return number so that I can send this crap back to them, unless they have a fix for this.
Windows Vista
by AspieMum - 4/13/09 9:13 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've run the compatibility program for Windows Vista and it came up with some serious you must sort this out before upgrading type issues. As a result I would need to buy a whole new computer in order to upgrade. As I am a full time Carer living on benefits due to my caring responsibilities I am highly unlikely to be able to afford to do that. I'll have to stick with Windows XP even when Microsoft no longer support it.
Always been happy with it.
by AkulaTheDeathScythe - 4/14/09 4:37 AM In reply to: Poll: What’s your personal experience with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've got vista running on and HP dv9500 and an ASUS Eee 1000 and under both cases I've been really happy with it.
I know what a lot of people complain about, but really, I find most of them to be fools. Yes it takes a lot of the system, but I've got the RAM and if I want more its dirt cheap. Even with XP I wouldn't have used only 512mb or even a 1gb of ram. I would have stuck 2-4gb in there right off the bat anyways, its cheap, and more never hurt.
I've read many things about people complaining of instablities and annoyances. My experiences with such things? Well, I can't really think of any... oh, one comes to mind, the bloody system tray has the button on it to expand it to see everything on it, it wouldn't always work when pressed. Oh and when you turn UAC off that little red sheild is always in the system tray with its annoying red sheild-ness. And the last thing I can really think of is that connecting and managing net connections took some getting used to. While those things were minor bugs I can;t think of anything that really was huge, or even big enough for me to give it a second thought. I'm realitivly knowledgeable about computers and I tweak things to my liking, it doesn't take much, a few settings to change here, a application to add there. I really do have trouble understanding why some people have so many problems, am I just lucky?
Things I like, I love the start menu, the search is so useful, its basically an aplication launcher (something I had to add to XP). Its shiny and I'll admit I like that, gives me more to play with when changing themes and all. I appreciate the different default file arrangments, which make more sense then the XP ones (damn Documents and Settings folder), and I like that more programs seem to recognize and take advantage of this in order to make thing easier for people. I could go on with suddle things across the baord like that change in the file path bar which while making it bt harder to just type and exact location in it, does make it easier to see exactly where you are and let you easily go where you want by just clicking (besides if you're typing in exact locations idk why you'd be using the explorer and not just good old CMD).
I've got my Vista comps right next to my XP comp and its sort of a pain to switch back, maybe if you don't ever have the chance to try the two right next to eachother you'll never notice all the subttle differences, but I have and so have others around me. This is turning into a novel so I'll end it with this last thing.
I have a Eee 1000 with an 8gb SSD as the C drive, it runs vista, quite well I might add. I did it as a proof of concept to show people here at school who would throw empty arguments about how bad vista was at me that they could drop it, and they were general fools jumping on the vista hate bandwagon. The computer runs well, it boots quick (prolly mostly the SSD showing off there), the computer is suprisingly snappy, it happily runs firefox with multiple tabs with MS word in the background typing some notes (took a little bit to get used to the ribbon interface in the new word but I've come to appreciate it, especially how much easier equations and symbol insertion is, which is kinda huge for an aerospace major). I plays video fine, though HD is obviously out of the question, but thats a hardware limitation not a software one. I must note though that I have done a lot of work to the vista install I used. I cut out things I found unessesary, like UAC, the games it comes packed with, windows media player, and other such things I never use. Then once it was installed on the Eee, I found some nifty ideas to move all the windows dll files to the D drive in order to free up a lot of space, basically it just involved tricking vista into thinking the files were there on the C drive but actually directing it to the D rive. With that done and office installed on the C drive I'm left with 1.5gb of free space on the C drive, plenty of room for the usual fluctuating windows size.
So there, I'm happy, I'll be upgrading to 7 when it comes out, not looking at it as if its saving me from vista but instead as just another operating system to learn the tricks for (though I'll prolly keep the HP running vista, because I like to have multiple OSs around, and I just really like the changes I've made).
Peace
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