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Toyota-Mopar · 06-27-2008, 12:42 AM

I FUCKIN HATE WINDOWS VISTA!!!

I'd take a sledge hammer and destroy my laptop... but I think I'll "UPGRADE" to XP pro instead.

I feel like doing this:

master_1011 · 06-27-2008, 12:45 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Toyota-Mopar

I FUCKIN HATE WINDOWS VISTA!!!

I'd take a sledge hammer and destroy my laptop... but I think I'll "UPGRADE" to XP pro instead.

I feel like doing this:

Lulz...

I upgraded to XP Black.

It's the XP operating system, but looks like vista.

JPG · 06-27-2008, 01:06 AM

where did you get xp black?
wanna send me a copy on disk? lolz

apo address!
ill paypalz ya

RedSpeedFreak · 06-27-2008, 01:44 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Toyota-Mopar

I FUCKIN HATE WINDOWS VISTA!!!

I'd take a sledge hammer and destroy my laptop... but I think I'll "UPGRADE" to XP pro instead.

I feel like doing this:

Please elaborate and list your system specs.

I use vista 64bit on my laptop for work and vista 32bit at home (free from an MSDN event). I've had a total of 4 crashes in 3 months, between both machines. One was my video GPU driver flaking out and the other 3 were while playing Crysis...

I should mention I work in an IT/Engineering job and I frequently use programs and/or do things most people have never heard of.

The only complaint I have so far about vista is the extra crap they added in, to make it more like the faggy mac OS every idiot and their brother loves to brag about using.

Oh yeah...and UAC. I almost forgot because it was the first thing I turned off and it hasn't bothered me since.

Toyota-Mopar · 06-27-2008, 01:48 AM

It bogs down my computer tremendously.

I removed all the bloatware, disabled indexing and aero and it still takes 2 effing minutes to boot.

Then there's the problem of being slow. Running programs like word, excel, photoshop takes longer under vista than xp pro.

My P4, 1gb ram w/xp is much MUCH faster than my new AMD X2 laptop with 2.5gb ram.

dodgezdad · 06-27-2008, 06:01 AM

My Compaq laptop with vista is being sent off for the 3rd time for its blank screen. I'm glad my Dell with XP is still chugging along, its been a good laptop.
HP does have a good service Dept and you have English speaking people to talk to.

spcforker · 06-27-2008, 06:45 AM

It's gotta be better than the "ME" I am still running. Every time I think about getting a new comp I find something like this thread and figure I'll wait for the next OS to show up.
I'd better find something to back up my 100 gigs of crap before this thing dies and I loose it all.

Omegalock · 06-27-2008, 06:56 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by spcforker

It's gotta be better than the "ME" I am still running. Every time I think about getting a new comp I find something like this thread and figure I'll wait for the next OS to show up.
I'd better find something to back up my 100 gigs of crap before this thing dies and I loose it all.

Why don't you just upgrade to XP? It's more than proven itself.

smoger · 06-27-2008, 06:57 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by spcforker

It's gotta be better than the "ME" I am still running. Every time I think about getting a new comp I find something like this thread and figure I'll wait for the next OS to show up.
I'd better find something to back up my 100 gigs of crap before this thing dies and I loose it all.

holy sh*t.... you're running ME??????? you sir, are brave(or reallly frikken lazy

)

as far as vista.. i love it. havent had any problems with it whatsoever. actually last night i figured out how to use the media center functionality on my xbox... now i have all my media and free internet tv :-D woot woot.

thanks vista.

friend088 · 06-27-2008, 06:59 AM

ME has shown signs of instability. Definitely upgrade to XP.

master_1011 · 06-27-2008, 07:01 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by friend088

ME has shown signs of instability. Definitely upgrade to XP.

That is an understatement.....

friend088 · 06-27-2008, 07:21 AM

haha I was being nice.

XxWicked_MagixX · 06-27-2008, 09:47 AM

i had nothing but problems with Vista sp1, i "upgraded" to windows xp sp3 on a new laptop aswell and it runs 100% faster...

stowaway · 06-27-2008, 10:49 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Toyota-Mopar

It bogs down my computer tremendously.

I removed all the bloatware, disabled indexing and aero and it still takes 2 effing minutes to boot.

Then there's the problem of being slow. Running programs like word, excel, photoshop takes longer under vista than xp pro.

My P4, 1gb ram w/xp is much MUCH faster than my new AMD X2 laptop with 2.5gb ram.

You're comparing a crappy AMD-running laptop to a desktop that came out at least a year or two after XP did..... What actual processor are you running in both cases?

XP is actually usable with 512mb ram (if you have a half-decent processor) but works well with 1gb, and flies with 2gb. Vista can get by with 1gb, needs 2+.

RedSpeedFreak · 06-27-2008, 10:53 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Toyota-Mopar

It bogs down my computer tremendously.

I removed all the bloatware, disabled indexing and aero and it still takes 2 effing minutes to boot.

Then there's the problem of being slow. Running programs like word, excel, photoshop takes longer under vista than xp pro.

My P4, 1gb ram w/xp is much MUCH faster than my new AMD X2 laptop with 2.5gb ram.

Wow, really? I use a Dell D630 for work, 4GB ram, Intel core duo 2 2.6Ghz (dual core CPU), 64GB SSD (Solid State Drive). It boots vista in about 30-40 seconds. Then again, the SSD is badass.

At home I have an AMD phenom 9850 2.5Ghz quad core, 2GB 1066 DDR ram, standard 160GB SATA drive, EVGA 8800GTS "superclocked" w/512MB ram. It also boots vista in 30-40 seconds.

I use Aero, indexing and dreamscenes on both (I found a hack to run dreamscenes on vista enterprise for my laptop).

No problems, but of course XP would be faster - it's older software. Just like the previous moves from Win 3.11 to Win 95, to 98, to XP...each more powerful OS takes more powerful hardware to run.