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| Thread ID: 101331 | 2009-07-10 03:34:00 | Thank you, Windows Vista | Jayess64 (8703) | PC World Chat |
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| 790576 | 2009-07-11 03:07:00 | Last year I bought a new computer with Vista Home Premium installed and was instantly convinced that the professional moaners were just that. It has crashed only twice in a year and both times it was my own stupidity which was the cause. You are a USER. Go into business fixing the things then comment. Metlas description is spot on. Why do you think WIn7 is out this year? It's the fastest MS ever moved on, not that they'd actually come out and say they screwed up of course, no, just quietly bring out the fixed version in double quick time. Yes Windows has its advantages over other non-MS O/Ss, but it has a lot of faults too. The only real advantages if you can call them that I see in Vista are cosmetic. Like a customer yesterday, he got all excited cause WMP after he ripped his CD, displayed the album name and song names and a pretty pic. Whereas the XP version doesn't. Mmm, yeah, personally I'd rather have a working Repair feature and less **** embedded in it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 790577 | 2009-07-11 03:26:00 | Best keep it away from Vista then, water and/or Vista can give shocking results when combined with electricity. In the case of the water it may get you hopping, but quite the reverse with Vista. (Unless hopping mad counts) ;) Vista cannot harm people with its requirements. Therefore electricity is not harmful to Vista. :stare: Look at me now, I've got Vista and electricity. :rolleyes: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 790578 | 2009-07-11 03:44:00 | Beware, any sparks affect Vista's vision of whatever it's world is (not this planet) and it crashes. I know a cunning feature of Vista is that it is sufficiently slow that a crash is none too obvious, but a crash is a crash, so watch out ;) Remember the warnings, opening the shrink-wrap is risky, but applying the disk to a computer is doubly so. Any subsequent application of electricity to the unfortunate computer means disaster is assured. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 790579 | 2009-07-11 03:54:00 | Um... if Vista is slow then the world must be in fast forward. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 790580 | 2009-07-11 04:06:00 | I built a system a while ago for a friend of mine. Nice system - good parts - middle of the road. Followed advice in the forums here. Intel E5200, Asus Mobo & Gfx, Corsair Mem and PSU, Logitech periperals, Samsung screen. Got him Vista Home Premium (so he could upgrade to Win 7 when it eventually arrives). Installed fine. No 'rogue software' - just a basic install. Avast AV. And then the persistent problem. It doesn't shut down clean - goes into reboot (it does go into sleep ok). Spent hours on the net tracking the issue. Installed couple of recommended hot-fixes - plus all of the service packs - so it is completely up to date. Now it shuts down clean *sometimes*, and other times it goes into a reboot. No consistency. My friend is just putting up with it in the meantime. BTW - there are plenty of people with this issue or similar. It's still not fixed. My impressions of Vista so far - slow, buggy, annoying (UAC). I think it deserves it's reputation. Thankfully - from what I have seen of Win7, there is a vast improvement. My impression is that the moaners are either Mac owners or Linus geeks who don't know a good operating system when they find one, and try to run badly written programs which would crash any system. Rod - mine isn't a moan - it's an observation. And for the record I do use Linux, and for me I find it a mile better than Windows in every aspect except gaming - YMWV. I think your comment reeks of fanboism. You'll find a lot of us so called geeks have tried and used a lot of different OS's. I personally find Win7 to be very good so far - and I will be buying it. But Linux will continue to be my main OS. Which Linux distros have you tried to support your "impression" - I'd be honestly interested :rolleyes: |
Brooko (8444) | ||
| 790581 | 2009-07-11 04:15:00 | It's probably something thats hanging when you go to shutdown. Cant say Ive come across the same prob YET. Disable UAC. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 790582 | 2009-07-11 04:54:00 | Um... if Vista is slow then the world must be in fast forward. Ahah - you've noticed! Also, note the way forward is away from the direction Vista is oh-so-slowly going? (Did I say Vista is backward?) Whoo-Hoo, - Windows - the preferred entry point for miscreants ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 790583 | 2009-07-11 10:23:00 | I started using Vista a couple of months ago, when I bought a new laptop, and I have to say it isn't nearly as bad as its reputation makes out. In fact, it seems pretty smart. Consider this:- I usually have speakers plugged into the audio socket, but the other day I was fiddling around, and I needed to disconnect the speakers. Up popped a info balloon telling me "You just unplugged a device from the audio jack". Well, thank you, but I knew that. A mouse click cleared it away. Next day I switched on, and after the system booted, there was an info balloon telling me, "You just unplugged a device from the audio jack". Well, no, that was yesterday. Clear it with a mouse click. Next day, switch on, boot up, and, "You just unplugged a device from the audio jack". For Pete's sake, shut up! To make sure, I plugged the speakers back in. Up popped an info balloon to say "You just plugged a device into the audio jack". This straight-jacket they fitted me with is really uncomfortable. It's a tickbox in the Realtek software that's called "Enable popup when jack plugged in", or something along those lines. Clear it, and your popups will be no more :) |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 790584 | 2009-07-13 10:55:00 | Vista has been pretty cool for last couple of years, but onward an upward with 7. Xp - do people still use that? |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 790585 | 2009-07-13 11:06:00 | Dunno how happy people would be if they waited 7 years for the new model of car to come out, Only to find all the promised features were missing, It was heavier and slower then the last model, Had no discernible improvements, Constantly hassled you, Half the controls were moved for the sake of it, all the faults of the old model were carried over. Then it required 2 major overhauls in order to iron out some major wrinkles, meanwhile the manufacturer was working round the clock to replace it as soon as possible. But hey, as long as it has a snazzy paint job, It must be better. Sounds like you're talking about the British Car industry:D |
Phil B (648) | ||
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