Windows Vista

[Gary H NC]

Re: Windows Vista

I'm getting a free copy of Vista Ultimate,I'm putting it on a 80 gig removable drive so i can play with it and then pop XP back in the machine...I'll see how it goes..

 

[waterinthefuel]

Re: Windows Vista

Ladyfish I warned you Vinta ain't what its cracked up to be!

 

[mscher]

Initial thoughts

Initial thoughts

My wife got tired of hearing the cooling fans roar in my 6 year old AMD, so she "forced" me to buy an HP Pavillion Athalon 64 x2 with MS Vista. Ouch 8)

Vista seems much prettier with an emphasis on transparent windows and menus, but basic operational functionality is similar to XP

Nice to have with a new computer, but not really a "must have" upgrade, IMO.

Will report more later

 

[LadyFish]

Re: Windows Vista

I'm not quite sure whats going on with mine but Explorer keeps crashing on me.

 

[dolluper]

Re: Windows Vista

I had a system failure yesterday, Explorer failed to be exact, and I had to do a recovery. It acted fine until the puter tech made some adjustments to it in order to accept the current DSL router. :/

Me thinks that's your problem

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Re: Windows Vista

How to load Vista the right way.

http://www.break.com/index/how_to_properly_load_vista.html

 

[18rabbit]

Re: Windows Vista

For those that care, MS will be supporting XP until 2015 so those of us that will not update to Vista without a fight have at 7 or 8 years of support left on XP.

There is an interesting read about how Vista is negative for the marine industry on Panbo. From what I am reading, the problem with Vista is that it does NOT trust you! It will not allow you to load/run any software that was not MS/Vista approved. With XP, when prompted that the s/w you are loading is not MS/XP approved, you click on [load anyway] and keep going. The option to ignore the lack of MS/Vista’s approval is NOT part of Vista. Only s/w manfrs that have PAID for their s/w to have MS/Vista approval will load/run under Vista.

After XP I will probably be going with linux. There is enough going on in life that I don't need to waste any of my time on OS drama.

 

[mscher]

You'll need a BIG cup of coffee!

You'll need a BIG cup of coffee!

It looks like MS Vista may become the champion of bloatware.

My new Vista pre-installed HP Pavillion did not include the usual OS "system recovery" cd, to re-install the OS when needed. My call to tech support indicated why.

You have to create your own OS restore disks from files on the hard drive.

You"ll need either 11 blank CD's, 3 DVD's or 1 multi-layer DVD blank.

 

[Coors]

Re: Windows Vista

Ouch!

 

[i386]

Re: You'll need a BIG cup of coffee!

Re: You'll need a BIG cup of coffee!

It looks like MS Vista may become the champion of bloatware.

My new Vista pre-installed HP Pavillion did not include the usual OS "system recovery" cd, to re-install the OS when needed. My call to tech support indicated why.

You have to create your own OS restore disks from files on the hard drive.

You"ll need either 11 blank CD's, 3 DVD's or 1 multi-layer DVD blank.

From what I've seen on other laptops, it's really not that bad. In my experience, you only need the CD's/DVD in the event of a total hard drive failure in which you have to replace the drive. Otherwise there should be a key you hit when you boot that lets you restore it to factory from a utility located on a hidden partition on the drive.

Check your documentation to verify what I said, then go ahead and make those CD/DVD's (and put 'em somewhere safe). There should be a simple utility that walks you through the process. Good luck.

 

[i386]

Re: Windows Vista

Well, the wife sanctioned the funds for me to get a copy of Vista. After doing a little poking around about it, I think I'll just wait until SP1 comes out. I'm hearing of too many problems and poor performance.

Instead, I'll be ordering a DVD burner (can you believe the "computer guy" doesn't have a DVD burner???) and a 4GB thumb drive since my 2GB one is full.

 

[JasonJ]

Re: Windows Vista

My sis just bought a new laptop with Vista, I'll play with it, but I really have no need for it. It would kill my 6 year old laptop, so that isn't even an option. I might be better served buying a new laptop that still has XP. Get it at a discount...

 

[Plainsman]

Re: Windows Vista

Does anyone know the key combo to get open windows in 3 D?

 

[Gary H NC]

Re: Windows Vista

Making the system restore DVDs is not bag.
Did them on my laptop in about 30. minutes
Also have a partition on the hard drive to restore from.
If your machine has only 1 gig of ram expect Vista to eat it up.
2 gigs runs fine.
Vista runs a little slower than XP for sure.
I noticed also on my home pc the cpu gets a workout.
P-4 3.2 ghz...

 

[i386]

Re: Windows Vista

I finally got a chance to play with it. I transfered (manually) the files and settings from a laptop to a new (pink) Sony Vaio running Vista Home Premium. For all I did it didn't seem sluggish at all. I will attribute this to the fact that the machine was designed to run the new OS. I like how the My Documents folder/feature has evolved and yet find it annoying at the same time. Windows Explorer was also annoying as they put all the crap I use the least at the top. It looks like MS tried to make it so people who don't know what their doing can find stuff, while making people who know what they're doing take more steps to get to the things they need to get to.

I won't bash it much more than that until I get a chance to fiddle with the preferences and learn some of the shortcuts.

The interface is pretty but might get old after a while making me want to switch back to some "classic" version if one exists.

That's my $.02 at this point. I may feel differently with more experience.

 

[Gary H NC]

Re: Windows Vista

After a little adjusting and changing some settings my new laptop is really fast with Vista. I really am kind of liking it...never thought i'd say that..
Now i'll start to forget how to work my home pc with XP pro..
There are some Windows skins you can download that makes XP look a lot like Vista..

 

[LadyFish]

Re: Windows Vista

Is anyone else having problems with printer drivers?

Our company bout 4 new laptops with Vista loaded and time after time we are having to uninstall and reinstall printer drivers.

Bottom line, the docs get held up in the que until the computer goes through a restart each and every time. :/

Every computer has a different printer, all new. two are HP's, one is a Dell 966. Different printers, same problem.

 

[tommays]

Re: Windows Vista

That is what happened with XP my aunt was a and early user and it took a year to get a good printer driver


Tommays

 

[LadyFish]

Re: Windows Vista

After contacting Dell I found out the driver will be available March 28 '07. :'(

 

[technostingray]

Re: Windows Vista

Just a reminder. 28Mar is my Oldest sons' birthday - Somebody else was born that day, but I just can't remember who? Or would that be whom?