Do You Have Any Problems With Windows Vista?

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Jonathan1990

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I'm find that Vista wont do the things like XP and 7 will like make certain games work. It is a lot slower loading in as well. I know that XP was so good they have not discontinued it yet but they can't discontinue Vista until XP has discontinued. Windows XP is the best though.

I have founded out that there will be a new Windows 8 coming soon. What will that be like?
 
They are actually stopping support for vista shortly, i think end of march or april.

Vista is pretty well agreed by all to be one of the worst os versions ever.

Part of the reason it is so slow is because it is such a resource hog.

I think the fact vista didn`t make it to having a sp3 speaks volumes of how bad it is.
 
I missed Vista but many were not happy with it.
Had XP Pro and used for years. Jumped on 7 Pro 64
and like it even more. It was just another learning curve but
happy with it now. I would think the support from microsoft for XP
is about to expire soon. Or getting close.
 
Vista's main end support is April 10, 2012. Extended support is April 11, 2017.

IMO Vista is a fine operating system. It was simply released too early in development and on too many low-powered computers. Therefore it is now drilled into people's heads that Vista is a bad OS, where in fact it is perfectly fine on a decently powered machine with the two service packs,
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Vista's main end support is April 10, 2012. Extended support is April 11, 2017.

IMO Vista is a fine operating system. It was simply released too early in development and on too many low-powered computers. Therefore it is now drilled into people's heads that Vista is a bad OS, where in fact it is perfectly fine on a decently powered machine with the two service packs,
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I agree. I bought a laptop in July 2007 with Vista and it has worked fine. The computer came with only with 1GB of RAM; I upgraded it to 2GB and it performs fine for my typical laptop use (email, web browsing, Office 2007 apps). I've never seen the need with my laptop to go back to Windows XP as some Vista users did or to upgrade it to Window 7.
 
My only issue with Vista was performance. I had a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a 1.8 Ghz Turion 64 x2 with 2 GB of memory and a 5400 rpm hard drive. It was reliable just a little slow but I did like the look of the U/I.

All Vista was is Windows 7, they were in the process of making it when Apple announced the release of OSX Leopard and they needed something other then the aging XP. So a not complete version of 7 was released known as Vista.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Vista's main end support is April 10, 2012. Extended support is April 11, 2017.

IMO Vista is a fine operating system. It was simply released too early in development and on too many low-powered computers. Therefore it is now drilled into people's heads that Vista is a bad OS, where in fact it is perfectly fine on a decently powered machine with the two service packs,
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Agreed, on a fairly average performing computer Vista is fine. I don't have a problem with it, but I know people that will shoot themselves before using it. Even my computer engineering teacher told me when asking about how to fix the BCD that the only way to fix it was 7 and that it was broke because it is vista. Never mind the fact that I screwed with it in easyBCD that had nothing to do with it at all right? (stupid ****tard).
DMGrier said:
My only issue with Vista was performance. I had a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a 1.8 Ghz Turion 64 x2 with 2 GB of memory and a 5400 rpm hard drive. It was reliable just a little slow but I did like the look of the U/I.
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I have never had a problem with performance in it. It runs on my D630 just fine (1.83 GHz C2D 60nm, 3GB DDR2, 5400 RPM main drive). It may be a processor difference, but I don't think it would be that bad.
 
The best would be if Microsoft makes just one OS and then simply continuesly fix bugs which they find by time and here and there put something new in it.
If they for example decided that XP was going to be the one and that all until today's day they were just fixing the bugs and optimizing it,XP would be one of the best operating systems ever :P

If you ask me it is better to make one OS and then just continuesly fix the bugs in it as you find them by time rather than making a new one all from the beginning.On that way that OS would be just great.

But I guess Microsoft is making new OS(s) just to make more money instead to make just one OS and simply work JUST ON IT.

I guess that one day when money stops to exist (hopefuly during my lifetime) then people (in this case let's say Microsoft) won't lose so much time to make all from the beginning (which causes many bugs) and instead they will make just one and just work on that single OS in order to make it better and better and better with every service pack and other bug fixes and optimizations.




Cheers!
(And yes I hate money and always did hate it.It just makes this world a worse place then it already is)...
 
DMGrier said:
My only issue with Vista was performance. I had a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a 1.8 Ghz Turion 64 x2 with 2 GB of memory and a 5400 rpm hard drive. It was reliable just a little slow but I did like the look of the U/I.
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IMO, Vista was not meant for any laptop.
 
S.T.A.R.S. said:
The best would be if Microsoft makes just one OS and then simply continuesly fix bugs which they find by time and here and there put something new in it.
If they for example decided that XP was going to be the one and that all until today's day they were just fixing the bugs and optimizing it,XP would be one of the best operating systems ever :P

If you ask me it is better to make one OS and then just continuesly fix the bugs in it as you find them by time rather than making a new one all from the beginning.On that way that OS would be just great.

But I guess Microsoft is making new OS(s) just to make more money instead to make just one OS and simply work JUST ON IT.

I guess that one day when money stops to exist (hopefuly during my lifetime) then people (in this case let's say Microsoft) won't lose so much time to make all from the beginning (which causes many bugs) and instead they will make just one and just work on that single OS in order to make it better and better and better with every service pack and other bug fixes and optimizations.




Cheers!
(And yes I hate money and always did hate it.It just makes this world a worse place then it already is)...
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Other then that some of us like the look of a new U/I every once in a while. Not to mention they would fall behind the industries standards pretty quickly, reason why we are seeing a Windows 8 so quickly.
 
S.T.A.R.S. said:
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They don't just release new OSes because they want more money.

New OS means new support for new technology. Windows XP could not support anything above directX 9, was not meant for 64 bit, and a whole host of other things. No amount of bug fixes and enhancements could remedy this, XP would have to be rebuilt from the ground up with these new technologies in mind. And if you're going to do that, might as well make a new OS.

If they stick with old OS, they will eventually end up with 'spaghetti code'. That is to say, the system will be too big for itself and way too difficult to manage and sort out things. Adding drivers or additional bug fixes can no longer be done quickly and efficiently; fixing one thing could break 10 others! New team members to the project would have a nightmare learning curve; old team members would be too valuable to let go. It would be unmaintainable!

Basically: yes, I agree that there is a bit of a price hike, and releasing a new OS say every year isn't very nice to the customer. But more often than not the new OS is more than necessary and you should welcome it.

With that said, to the topic at hand. Vista sucked. That's all I have to say :D.
 
I think Vista is fine but Windows 7 is definitely much better. I prefer Vista to XP on modern hardware, I find XP to be very slow for me with all the latest updates and on decent hardware, maybe I'm just unlucky? I wouldn't recommend anybody goes out to buy Vista now because 7 is here and support for Vista is ended soon.
 
windows 8 is apparently going to be vista the 2nd


there removing the start menu and replacing with a start screen and adding a app store


don't buy get ubuntu
 
vistakid10 said:
I think Vista is fine but Windows 7 is definitely much better. I prefer Vista to XP on modern hardware, I find XP to be very slow for me with all the latest updates and on decent hardware, maybe I'm just unlucky? I wouldn't recommend anybody goes out to buy Vista now because 7 is here and support for Vista is ended soon.
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This is why you only install the updates you need. Installing all of them is just taking space and fixing things you do not need. Why fix a problem you don't have? It is pointless.
ryan.white said:
windows 8 is apparently going to be vista the 2nd


there removing the start menu and replacing with a start screen and adding a app store


don't buy get ubuntu
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and ubuntu sucks. Get crubchbang or Mint. At least they are stying close to their Linux roots.
 
wolfeking said:
This is why you only install the updates you need. Installing all of them is just taking space and fixing things you do not need. Why fix a problem you don't have? It is pointless.
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Exactly!This is what I keep telling to everyone,but people ALWAYS install ALL the updates and they do not understand why all of a sudden it works slow lol.
 
I just don't bother installing them after SP3, use good anti-virus software and a good browser and you're there - I don't use XP much for my own use but when I need to install it for customers I do put all the updates on just in case. And why should you have to spend ages trailing through 100 updates, de-selecting the ones you don't need when really you should just be able to install all of them and not have a problem with speed?
 
You don`t have unselect them all one at a time vistakid, you can just unselect all, then tick the ones you want and install, then just right click and hide all.
 
Yeah I know but it's still a pain. Don't have this problem with updates making the OS come to a standstill with Vista or 7, only XP.
 
Just what he said. You should only install updates if you have a problem with the computer. Then only install the updates that involve your problem. Updates are not a blanket solution, windows itself is the blanket solution. Then when there is a hole (issue), only patch the hole, not the whole dang blanket.
 
Personally i don`t install updates, i just install service packs, depending on the os i install net frameworks and windows installers.
 
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