Vista!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOO

[Noah]

I guess you decided to keep running Vista?

Yeah, I just needed some time for it grow on me.

[Emaho]

The only thing that i find totally worthless with vista is that is sucks up so much memory. And I've had some trouble with drivers. Other then that, just like Ewan says, it's a lot more stable then XP was when it first came out. Vista with SP1 runs like a charm!

[Noah]

Vista tries to use as much of your memory as it can to preload processes, and other background stuff at all times. This is true. However, this memory isn't reserved to Vista. As soon as another program needs the memory, Vista will let it go. In other words, Vista is just using the idle memory that nothing else is using.

This is a pretty genius feature imo.

[DankNuggets]

personally, i like 98 better because I could actually figure out how to change settings. Like you've said, people don't liek the newer systems most of the time because they don't know how to work it. Why they needed to change the way you go about custumizing anything from OS to OS is beyond me. Once i figured out you couldn't run msconfig to do what i want anymore, i kinda got pissed off at microsoft. then i learned how to fix it another way and i went on with my life. I just don't want to have to learn new ways of doing old things, each time I buy a new computer. Especially when they weren't easy to learn in the first place.

[Burzum]

Seriously though, Vista is a waste of time on a computer, just another program that supposedly is suppose to make your computer faster or better(please correct me if im wrong), but anyway since i have had vista on my computer I can't even save Screenshots from the game ...... i just my old desktop computer where i can save my high bountys in pub.

Vista won't let programs write new files inside /Program Files, or something like that. The screenshots get saved somewhere else.. Check your control pannel and turn off UAC ("user account control" or somesuch) and turn it off, heard that helps. I've got Slovenian Vista and have so far been unable to find that setting in the first place! lol

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personally, i like 98 better because I could actually figure out how to change settings. Like you've said, people don't liek the newer systems most of the time because they don't know how to work it. Why they needed to change the way you go about custumizing anything from OS to OS is beyond me. Once i figured out you couldn't run msconfig to do what i want anymore, i kinda got pissed off at microsoft. then i learned how to fix it another way and i went on with my life. I just don't want to have to learn new ways of doing old things, each time I buy a new computer. Especially when they weren't easy to learn in the first place.

I have no more bugs or qualms in dealing with Vista. I still think ME was worse than Vista...not that I ever owned a computer with ME on it!

At 1st Vista bothered me in that it would not acknowledge my older HP printer, but I am using a different HP driver for a newer printer and it worked on my old HP...actually works a bit better.

I am pissed that there are no drivers to allow my Microtek Scanner to be used. I also was annoyed specifically about the initial problems encountered to allow for the use of creative sound cards. This was solved by networking my XP Pro system on my laptop.

Vista has it's ups and downs, but it really has not blown me away after the 1 1/4 yrs running Vista. I also am not annoyed anymore with it after working around the problems I encountered.

I do like Vista's networking. Who knows...perhaps they will have the bugs worked out of Vista in another year or two prior to the next O.S. that will be a headache.

I can only say that I still hate the lack of support for most legacy add-on hardware and its drivers.

[Fluffz]

GO MAKE VIENNA!

what is this supposed to mean?

[Spider]

Vista isn't actually a bad OS at all. Especially if you agree with the hypothesis that WinXP was good.

Vista is designed more modularly, so if one part of the OS crashes is should in theory keep running and you might not even notice there was a problem. Theoretically there should be less BSOD. It's also much more secure.

There were a number of problems that made Vista appear to be worse than it is. Obviously, it is in some ways "an unfinished product" but in the whole electronics and software industry everything is these days.

Hardware and software manufacturers produce stuff that doesn't work properly inspite of MS having made Vista specs available to them way in advance.

People try to Vista on an ancient machine.

People have 10 years worth of software on their desks, bring home their new Vista computer, and try to install it all and don't bother patching and expect it to work. If you ask me the fucked up thing is how often it DOES actually work.

[Noah]

That's true Spider. It's two different OS, and so many expects it to be so similar that they hardly need to do anything when getting Vista.

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Hardware and software manufacturers produce stuff that doesn't work properly inspite of MS having made Vista specs available to them way in advance.

Creative Labs would argue this, as they made note that it was not available to them prior to the release of this O.S.

Many in the commercial industry also require the use of flatbed scanners of which today they still do not have these compatible. AutoDesk had similar complaint due to the use of Plotters for AutoCAD. HP's response was...no support for old plotters (1 year old) and you need to purchase a new plotter $$$$$

To the home consumer Vista will be less of a nightmare, but for the indsutry and professional use that utilizes specific hardware and software, it has been a let down.

[PUNK rock]

Creative Labs would argue this, as they made note that it was not available to them prior to the release of this O.S.

Creative Labs could argue that point when Vista was released, yet they still don't have quality Vista drivers now. There was a large story with this a month or so ago, when a freelance Creative driver creator was told to stop doing it, even though he was previously allowed to post his work on Creative's forums.

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Creative Labs could argue that point when Vista was released, yet they still don't have quality Vista drivers now. There was a large story with this a month or so ago, when a freelance Creative driver creator was told to stop doing it, even though he was previously allowed to post his work on Creative's forums.

This is why I run my audio through my laptop networked in my home running XP Pro. I never use the audio on my Vista system. Creative notes that the have new cards that are Vista ready, but I will wait it out and see...for now I have no prob just using my laptop for any audio use.

[laureth]

vista is overall good and looks ok too but there are annoying things about it like the network settings although pv6 is good it can cause problems randomly some times with wireless networks, like the other day my n wireless stopped working on my laptop for no reason although on my xp laptop it was working fine as with my desktop but overall good features and security is better i guess.

[jngy slate]

Vista is so much better than XP. It's the dumb users who don't know how to customize it that keep bitching about it. That's probably why that tech support guy told you that. He probably gets calls about Vista that he doesn't know how to fix and gets pissed at it.

[Lame]

This is why I run my audio through my laptop networked in my home running XP Pro. I never use the audio on my Vista system. Creative notes that the have new cards that are Vista ready, but I will wait it out and see...for now I have no prob just using my laptop for any audio use.

I have a Creative Audigy 4 Pro. Works on Vista and Creative made a program, Alchemy (Released mai, 2008), to add games that need EAX sound (since EAX sound doesn't work automatically in Vista atm). Don't know what sound card you have, so don't know if my comment is of any use.