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Post by Dillon on Apr 17, 2007 20:31:29 GMT -5
I've been running Vista for well over a month and mine runs perfectly fine. It is speedy, quite abit more advanced in XP in many areas, and I frequently use Office 2007, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Games etc. The system runs perfect, to me I think you've just got a shitty system. Whats the spec's and more importantly where did you buy?
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Post by Jesse Amato on Apr 20, 2007 21:21:50 GMT -5
Yeah, same here. On my PC im running Vista Basic, and my Laptop i'm running Vista Premium. Never once experienced a problem.
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Post by bobholly on May 3, 2007 15:47:37 GMT -5
I have the same problem. Updates, updates, updates...
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Post by marcmandrake on May 6, 2007 22:59:15 GMT -5
Any new OS is going to have a feeling out period, it is the nature of the beast Hell, every major software package has this problem
Vista is pretty solid, as long as you have the CPU power, RAM and video card to take advantage of it I have a laptop with 2GB of RAM, Intel 2 Duo core 1.83mgz, and 256mb NVIDIA vid card It smokes for pretty much whatever I want to do I didn't have a choice, it came with Vista, but I kinda like it anyway, so no worries there If I was going to go out of my way to upgrade, I would have waited until Microsoft releases the first Service Pack
If you dont have the most up to date drivers, or your hardware manufacture hasn't put out Vista drivers yet, it can cause you some issues, but more companies are progressing in this department
As far as differences between Vista and XP... I run Home Premium... the Aero graphics are pretty cool, but it is more flash
Security wise, it is solid, more so because they made Vista idiot proof, since more security holes could be resolved by running a good firewall and virus protection that alot of people dont use lol
They also changed the internal code, so if something crashes in a critical thread, it typically wont force you to reboot the whole machine, but rather end task on it, and it will reset the code internally If it is a graphics intensive application, what it will do is reset the vid card, as opposed to having to reboot XP experimented with this, but it wasnt a perfect fix for the reboots There are numerous updates... many for security issues, not because there is a problem, as much as trying to thwart possible exploits, which you will have with any Windows system... not so much because it is Microsoft, but because it is the leading OS Make Linux the leading OS, you would see the same thing, if not more so because it is open source
If Vista is working slow for you, look around the net There are a number of sites out there that help you tweak it so it isn't as much of a memory hog, and it should run better for you
-Marc
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