The sidebar was reduced to a desktop shortcut here to get it out of the way. That was one way to retrieve the classic look over having a new tool bar covering one side of the desktop with shortcuts buried under it. That was simply disabled with the shortcut created later. The "eye candy" has been more of a selling point for the new version then anything else.
Windows Vista from XP - Worth it?
- Thread starter Kornowski
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lovely?
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true, but really, i really do believe the pros outweigh the cons in this case, but it rests entirely on point of view. i like change, even when that makes my system obsolete. some people are a little more hesitant to change, and then there are the ppl who are still into windows 98 lol.
tlarkin
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It is that exact thought that makes them able to release a POS OS and still have everyone buy it. Maybe if their quality control went up a bit at MS they would just release a better product and people would still buy it.
Why do you think Apple is out selling everyone right now (as for the pretty much all of 2007 so far) in laptop sales? Its because vista runs like crap on a desktop, runs like crap x2 on a laptop.
Just because some people expect it to suck in the beginning doesn't mean it should.
The reason for Vista being used is simply to get familiar with the new version and it's differences. But you'll note that XP is still the primary OS used here with the post SP2 days now being enjoyed! As for Vista being a little more memory hungry the new build in the works will see 4gb of ram.
The amount of Vista ready programs and update patches for existing softwares for things like tuner cards is still non existant! Having just installed a new card at the end of 2006 the company came out with a tuner driver but no patch to see the software work on Vista. There's no new cards. That kind of gives you idea that they are "holding off" to see if Vista does become a sequel to ME.
The amount of Vista ready programs and update patches for existing softwares for things like tuner cards is still non existant! Having just installed a new card at the end of 2006 the company came out with a tuner driver but no patch to see the software work on Vista. There's no new cards. That kind of gives you idea that they are "holding off" to see if Vista does become a sequel to ME.
Le GoogelGuRu
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It's up to you really - I have Vista and it doesn't run any slower than XP did.
Vista seemed faster on my system than Xp at times,Booting was a little slower but thats expected of my system specs.
But im sticking with Xp on this system because i lost FPS in games under Vista.
The time you will really notice the drag is when going to shut the system down or simply reboot. With only the essentials running it takes longer there then seen with XP with a ton of things added. XP definitely loads to the desktop faster as a rule anyways. That was an original selling point for that version of Windows along with the new product activation requirement that kept many running 98 or 2000 far longer.
tlarkin
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we have put vista on a few laptops here at work to test our laptops "future compatibility" and to see how well vista works with our enterprise level wireless solution. When vista connected to our wireless network it knocked other wifi clients off. I am not quite sure what MS did to the TCP/IP stacks or the windows networking (SMB) but they did something.
Google shows that others have had this same problem
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vista+kills+wifi+connection&btnG=Google+Search
Google shows that others have had this same problem
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vista+kills+wifi+connection&btnG=Google+Search