Have you had good or bad experiences using Windows Vista?
By darkangel079
@darkangel079 (1498)
United States
January 9, 2008 2:00pm CST
I have to say a little of both. The structure of its network setup is little complicated and not so friendly to use for setup unlike Windows XP's setup configuration.
What is also annoying from Vista is when you open or attempt to install a program, how long to wait for a popup message that gives you access permission to install a program or if you attempt to make any changes in Windows.
Windows Vista is not stable with low end processors such as the Intel Celeron M or Celeron D itself - it does not combine very well using DDR2 RAM even with 512MB or 1GB.
Another downfall is that even older applications that you have might not work on Vista either - even after you have set that program with backwards compability mode.
Now Windows Vista will run great if you have a higher end processor like the AMD X2, FX or Intel Core 2 Duo or Quadcore - Older versions of the AMD or Intel chips will not run great - regardless of how much RAM you pump in your system. 2GB of RAM is a great minimum to start with and much recommended.
With different versions of Windows Vista - Home Premium was my best choice - Home Basic Version didn't do me any good.
How about you?
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5 responses
@dodiewayne (70)
• United States
11 Jan 08
I have been using Vista for almost 8 months now and I have to say....XP is the way to go!
I really havent had alot of problems with it except the annoying pop ups. Also I have found that some of the software that I use is not compatible with Vista.
The main problem I am having now is that my RAM is being used excessively. I have no idea how to stop this. It makes my computer sluggish and annoying.
Now if we were talking about my old HP with XP on it I could fix it in a jiffy but with this all the information I can find is to "clear my cache". This does not help at all!
It just seems it has been one thing after another with the Vista.
@dodiewayne (70)
• United States
12 Jan 08
What I have is this:
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+, 446MB Ram, NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE.
Now what exactly can I stop to make this new computer run as it did when I bought it new 8 months ago?
@darkangel079 (1498)
• United States
11 Jan 08
It all depends on how much RAM you have - either 512MB of 1GB of RAM - but yes that is a big problem that the RAM is being used more often - maybe I can help out. If you go to msconfig and then Startup it should show a list of your files that are running in the background. There are certain things you can disable on Vista so that it can give you more breathing room. And you're correct that certain programs on Vista will not work - even if you chose the backwards compability mode.
@zenmachado (1617)
• United States
9 Jan 08
My response is more a huge ditto.
I abhor vista and all of its idocyncracies.
Not only is it complicated and full of difficult components, but its pletora of messages are a constant annoyance.
The only thing I enjoy about this new vista version of windows, is the desktop look. Yet with the screen visual being my only positive, ill be sticking with my XP for this frame of time.
@darkangel079 (1498)
• United States
9 Jan 08
Windows Vista was and still is a big disappointed. It's an under dog for now until the real version comes out in 2 years - this will not be a big disappointed - Microsoft Windows 7 (Vienna) will make a bigger difference.
@vin_kmr (227)
• India
11 Jan 08
Actually Vista is good os, but it does not soot for all system configuration. it is not so user friendly as XP. and more over it take the 10gb space of the hard disk to get installed. and 1GB ram is not sufficient for that. it needs atleast 2GB Ram, with good configuration of processor and mother board, And compulsory you should have an high end processor may be Quad core or atleast Dual Core machines. but still vista has got some good advantages. the Aero feature is good, and it is very protective by virus. they had only concentrated about the graphics of the OS instead of the performance, now days i am facing problems of copying in vista, it takes lot of time than Xp. for me too Home Basic version dint do any good thing. hope the OS get full version. waiting for the New version to come.
@Arkadus (895)
• Canada
11 Jan 08
The only thing it's ever done that annoyed me is that stupid security advisor, but hat was rather easily solved. Aside from that I've only ever had one problem with something sending explorer.exe into an infinity loop of crash, restart, crash, restart... -_- Machine was still usable though, but I just reinstalled vista and it fixed up. Either way that's just the result of conflicting programs and could technically happen on any machine. Even though on my other computer that's been running for several years that's never, ever happened.
@BooZzZ (139)
• Netherlands
10 Jan 08
I have to say, it isn't as bad as everyone says (especially those Mac users who never touched a REAL computer, yes you heard me.. a pentium 1 with Windows 95 can do the same stuff as a Mac). However, you do need a good computer and good hardware to be able to run Vista properly. That being said, I really think XP was better when it was released. To bad I don't really have a choice, if I want to play new games I need Vista.
@darkangel079 (1498)
• United States
11 Jan 08
Exactly! That is what I have mentioned that it takes a good set of hardware parts to run Windows Vista - at least a Core 2 Duo processor with 2GB of DDR2 RAM - does not run well with DDR RAM - and good use with SATA/SATA2 Hard Drives - not very friendly or sufficient with regular IDE Hard Drives. Thanx for the recap though!
