Goodbye Vista

Goodbye Vista

Submitted by iolizard on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 03:40.

I've had it. I give up. Reinstalled XP the other day and couldn't be happier. I did, however give me an excellent chance to compare the two operating systems. Compared to Vista, XP just snaps those windows into place when I run a program. For general speed, there's no beating it. Oddly enough, there was one thing at which Vista has a serious advantage and that's Winamp (and media player). In Vista, Winamp 5 seemed much more responsive, where in XP it can ignore your clicks for a second or two on occaision for whatever odd reason.
Video, however is a different story. I had trouble playing high def before, but now it works beautifully. Maybe I'll reinstall when the bugs are worked out of it, since it seems we'll all be using Vista sooner or later. Not that that's neccessarily a bad thing. It's current instability is more a function of immaturity rather than any fundamental flaw in design. In fact, I'd say it's at least as stable as the original release of xp and, while the cause of crashes might be more difficult to plumb, it's a great deal more stable then Windows ME ever was.


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There should be a forum

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 21:47.

There should be a forum module I can just upload and turn on, I hate to admit it but since getting Vista off my machine I've rather neglected this site.
As far as having 2gigs, I do. It was the first change I made (new ram, the old turned out to have a few bad bits in it somewhere). Then the new video card, ect. My system isn't top of the line, but it's not powered by a Celeron either. I'm really at a loss to explain what metric you're using when you say Vista is 'faster' than XP? On the same hardware, it performs rather worse. I suppose that's to be expected, however, if you look at the requirements of the various Windows versions over the years. I'm glad you're happy with it, I found it rather decent with the exception of the stability issues, despite its more heavy, slower feel.

Vista > XP

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 03/09/2008 - 21:04.

I disagree. I do have a laptop that is experiencing the restart loop (inspiron 1420) however I also have Vista installed on my Desktop machine and I couldn't be happier. You really need 2GB of ram (4GB is even better) to make vista run at its optimum speed and once it does this, it is far faster than XP ever was. Not to mention if you are an avid gamer, you can't live without Vista's features.

Vista needs to be buried six feet under

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 20:17.

I would have to disagree with you. I have an HP laptop ($1600) with Vista Ultimate and 4gb ram, and I see myself missing my old several hundred dollar desktop which had XP. I will admit that my other desktop (which has Vista home premium and 3gb ram) isn't experiencing as many problems, but that may only be because I don't run as hightech software on it. Vista really is just one big mistake.

My Macbook Pro, though, is just beautiful; couldn't be happier... although, still, Linux is best.

Good luck

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 21:36.

I would like to thank you for this fine website, to bad I found the website to late, (CD-DVD virtual drive endless bsod) its hard to get my faith back in vista after it happening it to me twice, well I think it would be a good idea to start a user forum (there are pently of nice free ones if your short on cash) thank you