Why You 'Hate' Vista..?!?!

Vista Poll, Answer Now!

  • I 'Hate' Vista and don't use it

    Votes: 29 13.6%

  • I 'Hate' Vista but I still use it

    Votes: 18 8.4%

  • I Don't mind it

    Votes: 70 32.7%

  • I Love it

    Votes: 64 29.9%

  • My cat's breath smells like cat food...

    Votes: 33 15.4%
  • Total voters
    214
I had some nasty Trojan that wouldn't go away, my PC was really slow because of it, I switched to vista my PC is now extremely fast.
 
I get a crap ton of memory leaks, and all I have in Vista, All MS updates, and video games loaded. I don't download anything to my windows boxes and it still runs like crap.

Last night played left 4 dead for 2 hours and it crashed, looked at my system resources and it was using 3.9 Gig of ram.
 
tlarkin said:
I get a crap ton of memory leaks, and all I have in Vista, All MS updates, and video games loaded. I don't download anything to my windows boxes and it still runs like crap.

Last night played left 4 dead for 2 hours and it crashed, looked at my system resources and it was using 3.9 Gig of ram.
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I've not experienced any of the issues you have.
 
I'm with Danny on this one. I have yet to have memory leaks on mine...If you've ever seen my posts in the desktop thread you'd see that I have a cpu/ram monitor on my sidebar, so it's constantly being monitored.

Actually...I blame winamp of stealing my ram...a don't think a media player should take 80mb of ram to play a freakin song. What happened winamp???

As for programs running slow on a quad core..iTunes would be the only one that comes to mind. I can fly through all my other apps, but switch to iTunes and I'm waiiiting for everything it does. I have a feeling thats just Apple trying to get people to switch to macs or something :P
Foolish Apple...I notice that yours is the only app that runs like a bag of crap on my machine. Plus you'd also be in the winamp boat with STEALING MY GOD DAMN RAM!!!

These would be the reasons I'm excited for WMP12. Plays everything I need out of the box, and uses half the ram! Not to mention extremely simple (but nice to look at) interface
 
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I am running Winamp, that could be part of the problem. I haven't had time to figure it out either. I work all day figuring that stuff out and when I get home I just want to kill zombies and explore post nuclear fall out worlds, is that too much to ask?

When I get a chance to actually sit down and troubleshoot the problem I know I will figure it out, but for now I will just bitch about it.
 
Haha, I know what you mean. I'm on vacation, so I have time to nit pick this shit, lol.

Winamp could definitely be a potential memory leak, I've been suspicious about the new winamp...It doesn't seem like they have the same goals as they once did.

How you liking fallout by the way? I'm not very far, but I'm very happy Bethesda stuck to their roots. Lovin it so far
 
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What's up with WMP11, It's all I use and it's great. I only ever use iTunes for my iPod and I do agree, it runs like a bastard.
 
Kornowski said:
What's up with WMP11, It's all I use and it's great. I only ever use iTunes for my iPod and I do agree, it runs like a bastard.
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I got sucked into milkdrop :P

Yeah, theres nothing wrong with wmp11, except having to download codecs. I do like the new one a lot more though :D
 
speedyink said:
I got sucked into milkdrop :P

Yeah, theres nothing wrong with wmp11, except having to download codecs. I do like the new one a lot more though :D
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Haha, Is that just visualisations?

I haven't had to DL any codecs, either. Heh, maybe I got the all-awesomely-complete-best-ever-version of Vista? :P
 
tlarkin said:
I get a crap ton of memory leaks, and all I have in Vista, All MS updates, and video games loaded. I don't download anything to my windows boxes and it still runs like crap.

Last night played left 4 dead for 2 hours and it crashed, looked at my system resources and it was using 3.9 Gig of ram.
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Yeah my Call of duty 5 crashes randomly, so far I think its only when I dont have the disc in. Even during multiplayer. TF2 and all my steam games seem to work fine though.
 
Kornowski said:
Haha, Is that just visualisations?

I haven't had to DL any codecs, either. Heh, maybe I got the all-awesomely-complete-best-ever-version of Vista? :P
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Yeah, milkdrop is a trippy ass visualization that comes with the new winamps.

Well, I'm talking about divx .avi videos and such. Of course you don't need to download codecs for mp3's and wma's :P
 
Well, i cannot sya I "hate" vista. When it came out, i HATED vista, due to driver issues. But now, those seem to be largly gone, with SP1. I would not mind having vista.
 
speedyink said:
Yeah, milkdrop is a trippy ass visualization that comes with the new winamps.

Well, I'm talking about divx .avi videos and such. Of course you don't need to download codecs for mp3's and wma's :P
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They look pretty trippy, Ideal for you then! :P

I've played .avi's and I haven't DLed any codecs.
 
Got some new reasons recently why I hate it and not use it:

In the high school where i study there were brought 30 new PCs (Intel Celeron with 2.5 gigs of ram) and they had preinstalled Vista.
At school we do C++ programming in the old 16-bit Borland C compiler. On xp the window could work on full screen; but not on vista.
Also they had sound, and the old xp computers didn't have, so for few minutes it was very noisy because everybody was surfing the net: youtube, flash games etc.
Also they were working pretty slow with 2.5 gigs of ram !!! and the processor was at it's max.
 
Kornowski said:
They look pretty trippy, Ideal for you then! :P

I've played .avi's and I haven't DLed any codecs.
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Haha, of course not all that great for a visit from Mary Jane but get into the more fun stuff...I spent 3 hours one time with my best friend just listening to music and staring at it :P

Well maybe you did get the super-awesome-no-codecs-to-install version of Vista :P


chibicitiberiu said:
Got some new reasons recently why I hate it and not use it:
Also they were working pretty slow with 2.5 gigs of ram !!! and the processor was at it's max.
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Ahh DUURRRRR! Hello, school computers? Schools can make Macs look like unstable pieces of crap. I know because I had video class...took 10 minutes (at least) to boot, crashed ALL the time...and this is from Macs.

Why do school computers suck? They cheap out on the processor, kids screw around with settings, and the administrators couldn't give a rats ass whether or not they are performing at their fullest...as long as they boot it's fine.
 
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I voted don't mind it but I would preferably stick to xp. The problem I have with Vista is that it focuses too much on being fancy looking and shiny. I prefer xp because it is simpler and less distracting.
 
Well, my Vista rig for no good reason is running fast now. I didn't change a single thing about it at all, but I think after that last reboot it now runs great. Very snappy. I blame what I was experiencing probably most likely due to memory leaks and memory dumps. Can't say who's fault it was, the app developer or Microsoft, but now it seems to run faster than it ever did, even after first installing it.

I wonder if that has to do with Vista's advanced memory management, which is suppose to preload things into memory you run a lot, so maybe it is starting to learn what I do with my PC.

Either way, can't say that I am totally impressed with it, and I hope Windows 7 is way better.
 
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