Worth ditching Vista for XP ???

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prowla wrote: »

I've been running Vista on my main PC for ages; it is fine.
If you turn off UAC, you are disabling a major component of system security, and it does appear less and less as time goes on.

Day to day use on my home computer, I only get them when I run a program that requires elevation or I'm installing drivers. Both aren't exactly something I do a lot of day in day out.

buglawton

4743hudsonj wrote: »

.../snip/...But im afraid your upgrade was bad timing, Windows 7 is not too far off .../snip/...regards josh

Am I right in thinking that there will be an either free or very cheap upgrade path from Vista to 7?

Marty_J

buglawton wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that there will be an either free or very cheap upgrade path from Vista to 7?

I should think it very unlikely that it will be free. As for being very cheap, that depends on what you consider "very cheap".

RobertoMoir

Encantador wrote: »

Just purchased a HP Touchsmart Touchscreen all in one PC with Vista installed.

I remember hearing a lot about ditching Vista and having XP installed, but that was when Vista first came out. Apart from having to get used to the differences between the two, are there still any valid reasons for replacing Vista with XP on a new machine.

It has 4GB of RAM installed.

Thanks

There's two questions here I think

The general "Vista vs. XP" one: Of those two, I prefer XP. My 1 remaining windows machine runs that because I am personally not very taken with Vista. At the end of the day, it's a matter of personal preference really. Vista launched very roughly but as it stands right now with all patches and what-not installed it's much better now than it was.

I'd rather be running OSX on a mac but there you go. Personal taste, as I say.

Vista vs. XP on the actual machine you have in particular: Vista all the way. I think you'll lose the fancy functionality under XP that you currently have with Vista on that machine, e.g. the touchscreen stuff. If that's not important to you then I suppose that's fine (but why buy that particular model in that case). At the very least, those features would be much more clunky in XP.

Also, will HP support XP on that machine? Are drivers available? How able are you to support the machine and fix things for yourself? There is one particular bit of advice I offer in cases like this which might sound condescending but really isn't intended that way and that is: "If you have to ask someone else if or how, then don't do it".

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buglawton wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that there will be an either free or very cheap upgrade path from Vista to 7?

I can't see any reason at all why there would be anything other than the usual Upgrade versions available..

Edit: Oops, below is right!

robt_2

buglawton wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that there will be an either free or very cheap upgrade path from Vista to 7?

Only for computers which are advertised as such from the summer onwards.

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robt wrote: »

Only for computers which are advertised as such from the summer onwards.

I think it's from either the 26th or 28th of June onwards.

robt_2

anewhope wrote: »

I think it's from either the 26th or 28th of June onwards.

Yea I have seen a few different dates floated about including those two and the 1st July. Whatever the date though they will be advertised as such .

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It's certainly not going to be a low key affair, that's for sure.

HappyIdiotTalk

My preference would definitely be to stick with Vista. It makes XP look old and clunky, and it also has some very nice features in it like the search tool, superfetch and readyboost.

If you do find you dont like it, wait until the summer before you do anything. There are signs coming out of Microsoft that the release candidate for Windows 7 is about to be released. If so Windows 7 might be on sale later in the year. And Windows 7 is a much nicer and faster version of Vista.

Also dont disable UAC, that is a very bad idea. It will stop the prompts, but as mentioned it'll leave your PC wide open to exploitation.