How's the Vistie Boys Getting On?

mr_fishbulb

Been using it for a while at work.

Best thing - If you are copying a lot of folders, and you come across an error (e.g. file is in use) then you get the option to skip it and carry on. XP just stops in mid-copy leaving some folders in their new location and the rest in the old.

2nd Best thing - Sidebar gadgets! London Underground and Network Rail are great. Wonder if you can hack them onto XP....

3rd Best thing - Native search indexing. I know you can get it with Google desktop on XP.

Worst thing - Slowness. I'm running a beast - 2 x dual core Xeon processors. 2 x Raptors in RAID 0. 4GB RAM. I still have to turn off the Aero as my graphics card is only business class (although not a bad one) and gets a score of 2. Machine is sluggish compared to my Pentium D 2GB XP machine.

2nd worst thing - Price.

alanrowell

Mine runs pretty much 24x7 with a reboot about once a month, have no problems.

Mind you I've had no problems since I first built it so don't know what all the fuss has been

Nilrem

I've been using it for about 2 months now and positively loving it compared to how I felt about XP when first using that.

It's got it's small niggles (UAC can be annoying at times), but the positives far outweigh the negatives so far - especially the little things like Vista reporting a SMART error on the hard drive straight away, whilst XP would happily note it in error logs but you had to look for it (usually after the drive had failed on a reboot:( ).

The one thing that is annoying me is the sound changes, but i'm not 100% sure that's due to the soundcard drivers or Vista (apparently Vista changed the way sound devices are handled).

[Deleted User]

It's great. My laptop came with XP on it and I didn't like it after being used to Vista for so long, so that got upgraded.

UAC isn't really that much of a hinderance. You do get quite a lot of prompts when you first install Vista but after a week or so they are few and far between.

x64 is blisteringly fast and actually works compared to XP64.

Conor_3

Installing a HP Officejet 7300 All in One...a printer/scanner that's about 3 years old now.

Vista x64 - "A new device has been automagically installed"
Vista 32bit - "A new device has been automagically installed"
Windows XP x64 - "No drivers available". Non available on HP's website. Goes off and spends an age on the internet and finally dig up some basic functionality BETA ones from 2005 after stumbling across a forum post on AMD64 website..
Windows XP 32bit. Download available - 164MB.....

mdbarber

Conor wrote: »

Installing a HP Officejet 7300 All in One...a printer/scanner that's about 3 years old now.

Vista x64 - "A new device has been automagically installed"
Vista 32bit - "A new device has been automagically installed"
Windows XP x64 - "No drivers available". Non available on HP's website. Goes off and spends an age on the internet and finally dig up some basic functionality BETA ones from 2005 after stumbling across a forum post on AMD64 website..
Windows XP 32bit. Download available - 164MB.....

not really much of a surprise when vista is 4x the size of xp on your hdd to start with though having xp64 i agree it is not good as far as compatibility goes

tom9980

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

2nd Best thing - Sidebar gadgets! London Underground and Network Rail are great. Wonder if you can hack them onto XP.....

Seems people are making the mods for this! i agree they do seem pretty cool i do like the idea of them from what i have seen of vista running on a laptop. Might look into a few of these XP versions to find one that is low memory usage and is of course actually useful..

amonra

Gone back to XP !

Ice_2

well I for one am loving vista...
for those people who are having afew problems can I suggest this...
start
control panel
user accounts
and turn it off...
makes sense if for 1 you don't actually need it and for 2 its bugging you...
my advise for any printers out there is up-grade to a new printer thats vista compatible or buy 1 you know is compatible...
for slow start up's
go to windows defender and turn off any program that doesn't need to be loading at start...this will speed up your start-up time's...
and above all remember it's new and we have to learn how to deal with this...it's like any new thing you buy you have to read the instructions then have a play around then decide whether it was a good buy or not then decide whether you like it or not...

also as for printers that wont work with vista...how is this vista's fault...get in touch with the printer maker and ask them what the hell...they wont know you want it until you ask for it...alot of companies are responsible for people not liking vista because of driver error...

wolfman

I like it. I use Linux primarily, but develop using XP and Vista. As you've got a decent spec pc Vista is great. Feels quite slick with all the graphics and sounds turned on.