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Old 10-25-2008, 01:23 PM
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I run XP at work and Vista at home and I am happy using either one. I would be ok with XP at home but I think Vista would drive me crazy at work. Right now I know how everything works and how to get things done.
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Old 10-25-2008, 06:47 PM
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LOL,

You guys forget how bad XP was in the beginning.

Now with several service packs and bucket load of patches.It is now good.
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Old 10-25-2008, 07:01 PM
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LOL,

You guys forget how bad XP was in the beginning.

Now with several service packs and bucket load of patches.It is now good.
Well then, maybe five years from now, I'll be interested in Vista...
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:21 PM
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LOL,

You guys forget how bad XP was in the beginning.

Now with several service packs and bucket load of patches.It is now good.
I haven't; my old computer started out with ME, and I got a low-cost upgrade to XP. Computer slowed 'way down.
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Old 10-25-2008, 11:21 PM
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This section I see does not get posted in to often, but that's ok.


I wanted to give a review of Windows Vista to everyone that might have seen/read etc the "nasty" things about how bad it is.

Well in truth 95% of what is said about Vista is just not true. In fact I use it all the time as my daily computer and I could not be any happier!

I use the Vista Ultimate 64 bit on a new laptop and it is hands down better than XP ever was.

I just want to let everyone know that they should not be scared to use Vista because of it's many problems because it does not have many at all. (No OS is perfect)

If you like how XP works you will love Vista for these reasons:
  • New user interface is great
  • Now have a quick search feature in the start that you can find anything instantly
  • Almost never locks up and the blue screen of death is a thing of the past
  • The response you receive overall is just quicker in Vista than in XP
  • Yes most printers, scanners etc WILL WORK in Vista just as long as they are not 20 years old.
It is also sadly believed that you need like 50 gigs of ram to make it run right and that's just simply not true at all.

I would recommend that if you have a computer less than 2 years old loading up Vista will be a great choice and you will not be disappointed at all. (2gigs of ram is recommend)

It seems the only people who have "problems" with Vista are the ones who never used it and just believe what they see and read.

That's right those Mac Vs. PC ad's from Apple are not true AT ALL.
First and foremost I'm A Mac guy. Xp was an okay operating system except that it was vunerable but Vista makes a horrible choice for power users they took out the Command Line and they have a policy called Least Privillaged User. Plus Vista is big brother it phones home to MSFT about all that you do on it. I don't want to send an error report to microsoft about how my browser unexpectaly quit working while I was visiting XXXXXXX and my ip is XXXXXXX or that my bank routing numbers on the page I was viewing we're XXXXXXX ya get my drift.
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Old 10-25-2008, 11:31 PM
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It seems like you need to be really technically savvy to run Vista with minimal difficulty. Never heard the Big Brother part, PS, but it wouldn't surprise me.

When Smileypad had a user forum, they said you had to turn off the UAC to allow smileypad to work.
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Old 10-25-2008, 11:47 PM
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The rule with Microsoft operating systems is: unless you know what you're doing, stick with whatever you got with your computer at the time you bought it.

And as for the error reporting - you can disable it, as I do.
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Old 10-26-2008, 12:54 AM
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The rule with Microsoft operating systems is: unless you know what you're doing, stick with whatever you got with your computer at the time you bought it.
Ain't that the truth.


My laptop came with Vista original. I received an update notice for SP-1. I searched the internet and found many people getting into a "loop" on startup after installing SP-1.

I asked our IT guy at work and he just smiled and said, "If you are not having problems........don't mess with SP-1".

The only annoying problem other than occasional freeze-ups, is when I am replying to threads some random window pops up.
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Old 10-26-2008, 12:56 AM
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Well then, maybe five years from now, I'll be interested in Vista...



Microsoft seems to change their OS every 3 to 4 years.
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Old 11-08-2008, 05:35 PM
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The problem with Vista isn't that it's badly designed, but that it has too much crap running at one time.

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