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New Post! Oct 14, 2007 @ 10:04:50#16
queenofhearts

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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


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New Post! Oct 25, 2007 @ 21:08:55#17
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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.


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z0mg0wn3d last visited November 02, 2007
Edited: October 25, 2007 @ 21:10

New Post! Nov 14, 2007 @ 00:44:47#18
sean26a

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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

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New Post! Nov 14, 2007 @ 00:49:13#19
hotgirlinfl

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


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New Post! Nov 15, 2007 @ 18:15:00#20
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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.

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New Post! Apr 27, 2008 @ 22:02:01#21
christopher1292

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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.

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New Post! Apr 27, 2008 @ 22:37:15#22
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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!!


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New Post! May 04, 2008 @ 21:31:05#23
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if anyone thinks that Vista is good. It sucks.

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New Post! Jul 25, 2008 @ 08:47:29#24
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christopher1292 said:
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.


Obviously you didn't get this preloaded, all builds with preloads are designed to suit, so its obvious your PC spec isn't up to it, anyone having trouble at this stage in its development can only put it down to one of three things, poor configuration, poor spec, trying to use old incompatible programs.

Vista is far in advance of what XP was at the same timescale, remember XP had to issue an SP after just 6 months, it was such a mess.
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New Post! Jul 27, 2008 @ 01:38:44#25
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moggy3 said:
Obviously you didn't get this preloaded, all builds with preloads are designed to suit, so its obvious your PC spec isn't up to it, anyone having trouble at this stage in its development can only put it down to one of three things, poor configuration, poor spec, trying to use old incompatible programs.

Vista is far in advance of what XP was at the same timescale, remember XP had to issue an SP after just 6 months, it was such a mess.


I agree that Vista is a step up from XP. It requires a lot more jam to run smoothly, though . The recent SP1 has made life much easier.


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New Post! Jul 27, 2008 @ 01:39:36#26
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My work just switched back to XP after experiencing too many crashes and incompatibility with Windows Vista.


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