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I'm quite happy with Vista actually, despite what all the haters say.

The only problem I've ever had with it was failing to see why it is supposedly so bad. In fact the other day I started up my computer to see that I had a virus that deleted several startup files. While this would have been disastrous for an XP PC, I merely had to pop in my Vista disk and reinstall the startup files, restoring my PC to exactly the way it was!

Unfortunately, I didn't have the Vista installation disk, just a crappy Vosta 'Recovery Disk' That got shipped with my PC, which does everything the normal version does. Except the startup recovery. Grrrr.

On the other hand, it did reinstall windows entirely but, caring ol' Veester completely backed up the entirety of the PC beforehand onto the Hard Drive, allowing me simply reinstall all the programs and carry on.

So thank you Veester, for not being nearly as bad as people say you are!

Baseline for me: There is nothing it has that impresses me enough to use it.

Heck, in XP I still use a 98-eqsue theme for my windows instead of that horrid blue color....

d3jake wrote:Baseline for me: There is nothing it has that impresses me enough to use it.

Heck, in XP I still use a 98-eqsue theme for my windows instead of that horrid blue color....

Don't say the B word.... You give me horrible memories of endless empty screens, with that horrible text!

*Shudder*

Windows Veester actually looks very nice, I quite like the design. The sleek black look of the toolbar goes with the black bezel of my monitor and the glossy case.

Gee, XP is still full of crap 10,000 patches later. The original build was terrible. I think Vista makes great use of modern technology.

Thou shalt not blasphemize the holy name of XP.

i'm with ghyrd o this one... with the exception of a self botched cpu upgrade and flashing my bios during the middle of a windows update, i've had few and far between issues with vista x64, and i'm actually pushing the system as i go (unlike 90% of consumers who just complain for the bandwagon factor)


i admit there were some big issues with vista before SP1 and on launch, but there were even more in xp, except this time there's hundreds of times more people using it when it launches as opposed to when xp launched.

Hippo wrote:i'm with ghyrd o this one... with the exception of a self botched cpu upgrade and flashing my bios during the middle of a windows update, i've had few and far between issues with vista x64, and i'm actually pushing the system as i go (unlike 90% of consumers who just complain for the bandwagon factor)


i admit there were some big issues with vista before SP1 and on launch, but there were even more in xp, except this time there's hundreds of times more people using it when it launches as opposed to when xp launched.

Mind you I suppose another reason many people complain is because it is rather demanding, but I have a pretty high-spec PC now, so I don't really mind.

Other than that though I really can't see what everyone is going on about.

Veester x64 all the way! Untill Windows 7 is mature at least. Or I get bored of Veester or persuaded otherwise.

My solitary experience with Vista has been it reducing a new laptop to being slower than the 5 year old windows 98 laptop it replaced. Regardless of anything else, it's certainly not making good use of resources... or has everyone forgot what an operating system is supposed to be for?

My family just got a brand-new Dell with 4GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz processor (for an amazingly cheap price, no less), and Vista's been running smooth as silk for them. (Of course, their old machine was over 9 years old and struggled to even run XP, so maybe that's not the best comparison point. ) I certainly didn't have any problems myself while I was doing setup on it, other than having to deal with some UAC annoyances while installing and configuring certain programs (having to re-enter the password for my admin account on multiple occasions got to be very tiresome). I'm starting to think that most of the bad rap it's received has been somewhat overblown, provided that you're running it on a reasonably-powerful machine.

(Now all of that having been said, I don't have any real reason to upgrade my own machine from XP...not that it could handle Vista in its present state, anyway.)