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HalfAnAndroid

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Hello.

I keep getting told by everyone that Vista is rubbish, doesn't work and is the worst thing Microsoft ever did. I find that I like Vista, and that it works really well on my Acer Aspire T671 (overclocked).
Please can someone tell me what is wrong with it.

Thanks,

HalfAnAndroid
 
it has a bunch of security holes in it. And a lot of people say its resources, but that is coming off the antiquated XP.

Personally, I never really had a problem with it. I still use 2k though, just because its what I know best.
 
What are these security holes?

The only thing that I noticed is that sometimes it indeed is/feels quite sluggish, even on computers with decent specs (Studio 17 in my sig). That, and it lacks a bunch of things that I need/want (which is why I use Linux), but for a Windows it was quite decent IMO. There were some annoying crashes and other glitches that made me rage at times, though, but overall they were fairly infrequent.

I think it just left a bad taste in people's mouths after launching with crap driver support and being shoved on computers that barely met the minimum requirements. While people berating it often do have a valid point, a lot of the criticism towards it seems a bit... exaggerated.
 
Its second hand knowledge. But there did seems to be a hell of a lot more security updates real early for vista than 7, so it does fit.
 
Its second hand knowledge. But there did seems to be a hell of a lot more security updates real early for vista than 7, so it does fit.
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It might have had more security updates, but that in no way implies that it presently has any noteworthy security flaws. Vista did take the "big step" in improving Windows security, but in the progress broke a handful of legacy apps (it's one of the things that just had to be done). Those updates, of course, would come with 7 by default so of course you would have less of them. Security is probably one of the better sides of Vista, that's when Microsoft started taking it really seriously instead of pampering million years old pieces of software that assume they have full access to everything in the system.
 
Nothing wrong with Vista. It's kind of a dead-end street now though and I don't think Microsoft are going to support it for much longer.
 
HalfAnAndroid said:
Please can someone tell me what is wrong with it.

Thanks,

HalfAnAndroid
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There is nothing wrong with it lol.Those who say that Vista barely runs on their systems obviously do not know how to properly use computers lol.

As for the security: If you want security,buy a 5000 dollars expensive and good antivirus software and that's it.No security updates can measure with that believe me.There is a reason why security updates are free and 5000 dollars expensive and good antivirus software isn't...
Mine costed 7000 dollars and never ever had any problems with anything malicious since it protects against everything.

Like I said...there is nothing wrong with Vista as for any other Windows operating systems.It all depends on your knowledge about the computers.



Cheers!
 
wolfeking said:
it has a bunch of security holes in it. And a lot of people say its resources, but that is coming off the antiquated XP.

Personally, I never really had a problem with it. I still use 2k though, just because its what I know best.
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You use windows 2000? So do I! i just use firefox as a browser 2k is on my laptop and windows xp is on my desktop...
Windows vista has huge security holes that cant be patched and it sucks what windows 7 is is a fixed windows vista...
 
FORDSVTPARTS said:
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2007/05/windows-vista-no-more-secure-than-xp-report.ars

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/170

http://www.wifinotes.com/computer-operating-systems/security-in-vista.html

Does this help?
I havent had 1 virus on XP and 100's on vista... both systems running Avast! anti virus free... i downgraded from vista to XP
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You do realize the first 2 articles are dated 4 and 6 years ago? The last article has no date but I'm assuming its an old article as well.

And as far as you not being infected on XP...Consider yourself lucky... If you are even telling the truth.
 
...four years, get better evidence, with SP's and such, I would say Vista would be more secure due to UAC...but thats me.
 
Customers Inspiron 6400 came in the other day slow as molasses running Vista Basic and 1GB of RAM. Ran Combofix, disabled startup items, and popped another gig of RAM in. Runs like butter now.

Vista got a bad rap when it came out on underpowered machines. I also personally don't think it was fit for laptops either. Laptops should have gone from XP to 7 and not have had Vista as a lot of the laptops that ran it were underpowered (what laptops aren't?).
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Customers Inspiron 6400 came in the other day slow as molasses running Vista Basic and 1GB of RAM.
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I think all vista basic machines only had 1gb of ram. To me that wasn't enough even for basic and most would only support 2gb max anyway. Vista itself is a memory hog, I've worked on a couple vista basic pc's and upgraded both to 2gb and both were still slow, one I even did a fresh install on so that didn't even help.

Vista got a bad rap when it came out on underpowered machines. I also personally don't think it was fit for laptops either. Laptops should have gone from XP to 7 and not have had Vista as a lot of the laptops that ran it were underpowered (what laptops aren't?).
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I agree 100 percent on that...
 
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