Braving Vista SP1

[mscher]

Anybody taken a deep breath and install Microsoft Vista SP1?

My Vista Home Premium 32 system has acted so goofy since new, for the first time since day 1 with MS (20 years), I'm almost a little scared to install it.

Already have had problems with drivers and apparently if there are drivers that Vista does not like, SP1 won't be available as a system update option.

It would be nice to have some system stability, but on the other hand, not really interested in a system rebuild.

 

[dolluper]

Re: Braving Vista SP1

If micro would build vacum cleaners that would be the only product of theirs that wouldn't suck

 

[dchris]

Re: Braving Vista SP1

If you have to re-install, I'd think about going back to XP.

 

[JonathanW]

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I was on vista for about a week, my 2nd try at going to vista and it just sucks!!!

I strongly reccommend you go to XP.

Oh yeah while I did have vista I did install SP1 and it installed with no problems but it doesent really help anything from what I could tell.

 

[v1_0]

Re: Braving Vista SP1

It's getting harder to get a PC without Vista being foisted on you - got a laptop with this on it now. As near as I can see, it's just bloated XP. With lots of annoying "Do you really want to do this" pop ups.

I haven't had any problems with it yet - but then I haven't tried to do anything out of the ordinary. I'm sure I'll have some fun when I remove it from the new laptop and load it on the old one (can't be used as a laptop - LCD is shot, but it can be used as sort of a home entertainment PC).

-V

 

[JonathanW]

Re: Braving Vista SP1

You can disable that annoying "do you really want to do this" thing by unchecking the "Enable User Account Control (UAC)" checkbox under the user account menu thingy.

Just doing that makes Vista easier to stand, but it still is a crappy OS.

 

[BoatBuoy]

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...but it still is a crappy OS.

I've heard that on every OS release since DOS 3.0. The new one is never as good as the one before. But look how far we've come with progressively crappier OS's.

 

[dolluper]

Re: Braving Vista SP1

I've heard that on every OS release since DOS 3.0. The new one is never as good as the one before. But look how far we've come with progressively crappier OS's.

Ifin we had a bunch of old cars in the back yard only 10years old {the oldest}and you couldn't get parts for we wouldn't take it,don't make em right in the first place dump make an other one....capitalizism 101

 

[MikDee]

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About 6 months ago I choose to buy my 1st laptop from Dell for the bride, even though I'm not a Dell fan, it had the features I wanted. Well all they were offering was Vista, it was impossible to get XP Pro
So, I decided to shop at their reconditioned store, I was able to get actually a bit more options, (bigger hard drive, more memory, plus XP Pro) for even a better price, under $500, I still didn't like the idea of getting a used computer But, it was the only way to get XP Pro.
Since then I found if you go to their business computers, you can choose between XP Pro, or Vista, on a new computer.

 

[i386]

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I've heard that on every OS release since DOS 3.0. The new one is never as good as the one before. But look how far we've come with progressively crappier OS's.

This is very true. However, I think Vista might be the next Windows ME.

IMHO

Windows 95 was bad!
Windows 95 OSR2 was much better.

Windows 98 wasn't that great, but Win98SE was much better.

Windows ME was a piece of crap.

Windows NT4 was an abomination.
Windows 2000 was much better.

XP was very buggy until SP2.

I think Vista will be like Windows ME. It sucks and MS knows it sucks. Service packs won't make it not suck. Even if they speed it up, it's still annoying to use.

I hope their next OS is better. I think a lot of businesses will skip Vista and wait it out till the next OS.

 

[BRG25]

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Since then I found if you go to their business computers, you can choose between XP Pro, or Vista, on a new computer.

That tells the whole story right there. We just got new Dells at work. All with Windows XP. My company won't touch Vista.

 

[arboldt]

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I am not that much of a techie, but I've taken an old PC and put Ubuntu linux on it. If I can devote the time to learn that, I'm seriously considering the linux route for future PCs.

While first impressions are quite favorable, there's still a lot of hobbyist orientation I've got to translate to English and accommodate. So that first impression is that it's *almost* ready for prime-time.

 

[linxlvr]

Re: Braving Vista SP1

I am not that much of a techie, but I've taken an old PC and put Ubuntu linux on it. If I can devote the time to learn that, I'm seriously considering the linux route for future PCs.

While first impressions are quite favorable, there's still a lot of hobbyist orientation I've got to translate to English and accommodate. So that first impression is that it's *almost* ready for prime-time.

Funny... It runs Google, It ran Hotmail, which M$ even left it on Linux after they bought Hotmail until word got out and embarrassed the buggers. It was running Canadian National Railroad 1/2 dozen years ago... Home Depot also... Call me when you figure it's good enough you. LOL Just riding you a little don't get sore at me.

Seriously though, feel free to email me directly w/ any questions you might have. I would be glad to help in anyway I might. email is linxlvr@gentoo.com

My Mom can't even cut and paste and was running it 5 years ago. Installing it of course would be a VERY different matter. She found it MUCH easier to use, fell in love with Frozen Bubbles, etc., and was glad to be rid of windows.

If software vendors and/or hardware vendors ever got behind Linux, it would be all that much better though, I must admit.
--
dw

 

[Coors]

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This is very true. However, I think Vista might be the next Windows ME.

IMHO

Windows 95 was bad!
Windows 95 OSR2 was much better.

Windows 98 wasn't that great, but Win98SE was much better.

Windows ME was a piece of crap.

Windows NT4 was an abomination.
Windows 2000 was much better.

XP was very buggy until SP2.

I think Vista will be like Windows ME. It sucks and MS knows it sucks. Service packs won't make it not suck. Even if they speed it up, it's still annoying to use.

I hope their next OS is better. I think a lot of businesses will skip Vista and wait it out till the next OS.

I have 4 that run 2000pro; one dual boots xp.
I never have liked xp, it tries to run my lan.
Oh, and messed over ms- all my 2000 is using the same cd- it don't call home as hard as xp. Ms, dunno; but don't feel like learning a new os either.

 

[orion25]

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I am running Vista 64bit Ultimate on the computer that follows. I have installed the SP1 beta and have no real problems. Sometimes it has a problem coming out of sleep mode but I think that is related to the keyboard and mouse drivers I have installed (logitech). When the full Vista 64 SP1 is available I will be doing a reinstall though.........

Computer:
Intel E6400 - 2.13ghz at 3.2 ghz
EVGA 680i motherbooard
2gb Crucial Balistix PC8500 DDR2 RAM
2 X Maxtor 320gb HDD's in Raid0
1 X Western Digital 250GB HDD
1 X Seagate 160gb HDD
(ALL HDD's are SATA)
PC Power & Cooling Silencer PSU (750 watt I think)

 

[ricksrster]

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I've had no problems with Vista SP1. I am running Vista Business 64 Bit. It did take me a few tries to get the OS installed initially.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4
Chipset: nForce 570SLI4 AMD
Processor: AMD 64x2 6400+ 3.2 Ghz Dual core
RAM: 8 GB
Graphics: (2) GeForce 8600GT GPU's SLI

 

[Turin]

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I would just love to go and install linux but my F ^&*$%$%&*(%*%^^&*(%^#$% ING modem doesn't support it so im a bit of stuck with microsoft

You know why its microsoft???




Ask one of the nice lady's in Amsterdam they know.

Cant really tell the joke

 

[v1_0]

Re: Braving Vista SP1

I just installed SP1 yesterday. Also 2G memory and a USB TV tuner.

Everything looks fine, so far. Well, except for the speed... but that's to be expected with the bloatware that it is. And I'm only running a 1.6ghz Pentium M, and a 5400rpm hard drive.

I'll go on the web and see what tweeks there are to speed things up a bit/secure it down some too.

-V