I have vista and yes you can have a lot of problems with finding programs for it.

But after a good while of searching for the stuff i needed it seems to be running like a dream.

Takes some getting used to but its worth it when its all up and running to spec


Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

The power in my last laptop went a month or two ago (after a few heavy drops) so I finally replaced it this week with a £340 (GBP) laptop. It's dual core 1.7 with 1GB RAM, and came with Vista Home Premium.

I love the upgrade to Vista... there isn't a great deal of change from XP, really. I love Aero Glass, and I love [Win]+[Tab] (that pretty [Alt]+[Tab] alternative you always see them talking about), and a few things are nice, like the improved login screen, and the Start menu is a bit more accurate about "Last used programs".

...but overall? It's pretty much XP underneath. Everything's improved, and I like the improvements (including Windows Media Center on all Home/Ultimate copies) but I reckon you could get it to run on an old celeron if you wanted - it'd just take years to boot up =]

Edit: By the way, on the first boot, I installed Firefox, Thunderbird, and MS Office, and since then I've installed Filezilla, VLC, Daemon Tools, and a few other apps, but I haven't really had any problems so far.


Tom

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can any on help have vista 3 months now downloaded lime wire but wont down load any thing else ssays invaled system 32

I haven't had a problem with my windows vista,or my laptop since I got it

I have been using Vista Ultimate since January and the only problem i have come across is that Creative did not produce any vista drivers for my sound card. I got fed up of waiting and sold my sound card on ebay. Vista is great, i would recommend it to anyone.

I got Vista Home Premium and I am very unsatisfied. There are so many bugs, so many problems. No, it is not what I have on the PC, all I really use it for is typing up stuff. It is just an underdeveloped operating system.

I love vista!! My hubby bought me a new laptop for my birthday and i have a dual core processor and i think its 2 gig of ram and 200g hard drive. I have been able to put all my old work onto it without a problem and it has a compatibility mode for other stuff. My games are even better somehow, its compatible with all my antivirus and internet security software and as yet i'm still to have one single problem with it.
My laptop is now my fave thing!!
I happen to think that it is the machine itself that is responsible for the speed not the programmes your running but then my hubby knows more about that that i do.
Suffice to say i would reccomend it to anyone and really don't see what the problem is!!

if anyone thinks that Vista is good. It sucks.