Back to Vista!!

JS477

Odd I know but humour me. I upgraded my laptop to Windows 7 but now want to revert it back to Vista. If I have the Vista recovery discs that were used with the laptop so can I just stick those in the laptop and reinstall Vista on in it?

Is it as easy as that or is it more complicated?

totalsolutions

About the size of it.

googler

I'll humour you, but WHY?

Having used two Vista PCs, I'm going back to XP or up to Win 7 next time.

What on earth is the appeal of Vista for you? It can't even do Cut/Paste properly......

HO87

I understand that it is about familiarity but, honestly, you have my deepest sympathy. Don't be fooled by my signature whilst we use a mix of Linux and Mac's at home I've plenty of Windows experience right the way through from Windows 3.1 at work. Managed to suffer Win95, Win98, then XP but Vista - palllease! We installed it on more than competent machines that had run XP like gazelles that were instantly turned into coiled slugs. Convinced the problem lay with operator error we persevered for about a month before relenting and reinstalling XP.

Much like the migration from Win98 we left Win2000 well alone and only moved on once XP was released and stable. Have regarded Vista in much the same way but have yet to make the move to Win7 - and may not necessarily do so.

kabayiri

I have an intel quad core i7 notebook, 4Gb ram, and windows 7 home premium 64 bit loaded by default.

Now this machine should be quick; the spec says as much.

So why does windows 7 feel so stodgy? I expected it to really zip.

As a Linux user normally I'm pretty disappointed in truth. I knew Vista had it's problems but I was expecting more from Windows 7.

Any ideas why it's slow? (I hope you're not going to tell me to go 'nuclear' and reinstall everything!)

turbobob

Does it have loads of junk pre-installed by the laptop manufacturer?

spud17

turbobob wrote: »

Does it have loads of junk pre-installed by the laptop manufacturer?

Gets my vote.:D

I've got 2.95GHz dual processor, 4Gb ram and Home Premium 64 bit, its fairly nippy.
Mine is a self install, so avoiding the carp.

E.g Much, much faster than 3.0 Ghz P4 with 1.25Gb ram and XP.

mongoose2009

Win 7 is really Vista SP3 thats how they got it out so quickly

it does need a lot of ram and a decent CPU/GFX to work properly

i think a lot of people forget all that nice eye candy needs CPU clocks to run it!

Ive been with MS since DOS 3.1 and fix them a a job

XP was only anygood after SP2 again that was really a new OS

Vista is OK if you install SP2 AND have a 2GHZ+ CPU and 2GB+ RAM

googler

mongoose2009 wrote: »

Vista is OK if you install SP2 AND have a 2GHZ+ CPU and 2GB+ RAM

That's really useful - I have it pre-installed on a Dell laptop with a 1.8Gig Sempron processor and 1Gb RAM. So the only way to get a life free of the 'rotating blue polo mint of death', as we call it in our house is to perform open-heart surgery on the PC.

We also have a desktop with similar specs which performs worse than the laptop.

Does anyone have a solution for Vista's cut/paste failure?

Symptoms; navigate to a folder, which has some files and sub-folders. Select some sub-folders, right-click on them to select 'Cut' and navigate to a destination folder, then Paste them there. The OS should take all the files and folders from the old destination and move them to the new.

IT DOESN'T

Many times I'm left with some empty folders in the old destination. It's placed them in the new destination, with their files within, but hasn't completely 'cut' the top-level folder from the old destination to new. Happens all the time.

If an OS can't get this most basic task right, then I despair for it.......

JS477

googler wrote: »

I'll humour you, but WHY?

Having used two Vista PCs, I'm going back to XP or up to Win 7 next time.

What on earth is the appeal of Vista for you? It can't even do Cut/Paste properly......

Thanks for the answer. To be honest I didn't find Vista any problem on my laptop. I didn't have any issues with the Cut & Paste whatever it was. I have a PC with XP which isn't running too well so I'll stick Windows 7 on that and see how it does.

kabayiri

Sorry to hijack the thread JS. (oops)

I suppose the moral of Windows is to reinstall / spring clean every so often. Nothing changes then.