Don't like Vista?

When I got my Laptop a few Months ago I have to say I was confused but I soon figured it all out and now I have to admit that I like it yes it was a Pain having to sort it all first lol but now I do like it I had to download a Drive for my Printer to get it to work on here

Yup, Vista can be quite a pain if you are not familiar with it but after sometimes, it is just another OS. I am using Vista Ultimate for about a year now and so far I am quite pleased with it. It is running on my Core 2 Duo laptop that comes with a 2 Gb RAM. Anything lower than that is not recommended as Vista is resource hungry. In the beginning I was annoyed by the security in Vista where I have problems running certain program and connecting to certain hardwares but after turning off the UAC or the User Access Control things are working well for me now. Without the UAC, Vista would be just like XP without any fancy security control and that has managed to resolve some of the compatibility issues that I had in the beginning. Anyway, if you have an average PC and not really hands on with configuring the OS, I suggest that you keep to XP but you have to remember that one fine day, just like WIndows 3.1, Windows 98 and other older OS from Microsoft would no longer be made available and supported. Cheers!

I have to be honest Dawn and say that I have never used Vista, but have never heard anything good about it either. My guess is though, that if you just use it, it will work. It's when you start to do anything complicated, like use multiple windows, that everything starts to go wrong. XP is a better system they say. Personally I have an Apple computer and would never go back to a MS Windows environment for my home computing. Leopard, the latest Apple OS is streets ahead of Vista apparently. I don't know, but it works, and works superbly. Happy computing.

Windows Vista works like a charm as for as troubleshooting it over the phone through a wireless connection. However when it comes to compatibility like you said, most of the programs or hardware today are not yet compatible with the vista. It also consumes too much RAM and Video Memory not to mention that it's expensive because you have to have an up-to-date processor for it to be as fast as possible.

When I first got it a year ago, I liked it. It was new and fresh and it had so many options. I grew to despise it because it seemed as if it was running slower. I was more frustrated with it than anything. Now, I love it again. You just have to know what to have running, what will slow things down, and so forth.

I personally dont like Vista. It is full of bugs and some of the softwares i used don;t work so well with Vista. I bought a laptop 3 months ago with vista installed in it and after a week, i changed back to XP cause it's easier to use. Plus, it is more stable than vista.

I haven't used Vista system yet, but i don't like it either. It requires more memory, maybe drag the speed, too.

I personally don't use Vista, but our office acquired some personal computer units that had been distributed to the staff, the secretaries. The new pc's are all installed with Vista, and also with the new look Microsoft Office. They all had complains, at least for two weeks of using their new pc's. I had some problems helping them familiarize the system as I myself had the first glance of Vista. But now, it seems that they are all used to Vista...

I have heard only that everyone seems to have trouble with it. Not anything specific, just that we should avoid it when we purchased our recent computer.

Vista can be very frustrating at times but only in teh beginning. You are used to certain buttons on Windows XP and suddenly you find that they are gone. There shoud be a provision to swith over to the classic windows if you want to. However once you explore aroudn and get used to Vista, you start enjoying it. i love to work on vista till my mother board crashed and i have sent the pc for repalacment. i am now working on teh old PC on windows XP.

Well I actually prefer Vista now. I recently got a laptop with vista on it, and my desktop has 2000 AND xp... memory waste I know but its too late and too much effort to reformat it. Anyways, I also got MS office and it was confusing before I figured out on the top left side had the circle that represented the "file" button. Also some of the buttons were in different places which was annoying. And also, I tried to install my old printer to it but it didn't work, since the printer was only compatible to XP and below. So, I guess "new" is good, for the most part, but sometimes a hassle to transition.

I have finally "gotten used to" vista, however my big concern is that many of the software programs I use are still incompatable with vista. I am constantly downloading updates and I guess thats to be expected, but running back to my old xp system is usually faster for some things.