Windows Vista Good to see bad to use
By amitavroy
@amitavroy (4819)
India
January 24, 2009 7:16pm CST
The very first thing which you will notice when you start using this operating system is that it will not give you any kind of RoOM. I mean to say that it is a complete resource hog and it well drive you nuts. I have a decent configuration to my computer but still when I was using the operating system I felt as if I using a 486 computer. The problem with the operating system is that it uses so much of your system resources that it hardly Speirs some for the applications which will be using for the main purpose of your computer. Apart from that it also brings the so many confirmation messages to even will operations like deleting a file or maybe renaming a file that it completely slow down the whole process of working. I am a Web designer and there are times when I had to read him quite a few files to my requirement. And let me tell you one thing I have to click the continue but in almost 2 or three times before renaming a single file. Although I in the administrator on my computer it still gives me so many messages of confirmation. This is something which is very irritating I personally feel. Otherwise the navigation in Windows as that is very good and also there is no doubt that the visuals of the whole operating system is very appealing. It is one of the best visually designed operating systems by the Microsoft and I were rated nine out of 10 when it comes to individual part. But when it comes to the performance of the computer and the operating system and its course very low in reliability and stability.
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11 responses
@tooincome (345)
• United States
25 Jan 09
well i use vista myself and i don't really run into the problems you have. i have 2 gigz of ram and my pc doesn't lag at all. i run world of warcraft (window mode), firefox, windows media player, and photoshop all at once and i don't feel any lag. i too am a web designer and deleting files and renaming files are pretty easy to me. did you just switch to vista? ive been using vista for about 3 months now (been using xp and ubuntu). my experience is pretty good overall, but i do prefer using ubuntu(linux). only reason why im still using vista is because i cant get the driver for my video card to work in ubuntu, and its annoying to switch from windows back to ubuntu every now and then
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@amitavroy (4819)
• India
26 Jan 09
well my friend yes i am a bit new a in i onl used it for a month
i got that just to have IIS7 as you know we cant have IIS7 on windows XP as far as i know. so i upgraed to vista. but then it was such a pain in the a** that i decided to get a free asp hosting and upload that on the server rather than testing on computer and rolled back to xp
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
25 Jan 09
Vista is fine as long as you have a modern computer with fairly new hardware installed, otherwise it can be a real problem.
My current desktop runs fine under Windows XP, but with Vista I have no CD writer or Scanner and I have to manually persuade the system to accept the audio drivers. The same scenario applies to many older software programs, which are simply not compatable.
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@rizzu87 (860)
• Malaysia
25 Jan 09
That is exactly how i feel about windows vista. The appearance of vista is very good i would rate it 9.5 out of 10 but when it comes to performance it is very bad. And when you do something like installing or uninstalling applications there are so many confirmation messages vista asks. Even when we delete files it asks for confirmation. Really that is irritating. I have installed vista for a week in my computer but then i came back to XP. I think they should release another version of vista in which they can solve all these things. SO that consumers might like it.
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@aristrocrat195 (282)
• India
25 Jan 09
well i am not using vista because i was knowing that this problem is happening in vista it is very complicated to use in personal computer vista is very far from XP and you had to operate to vista then you have to go under training till 1 month i think this vista is coming in many laptop's so i say that avoid using vista its very bad
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@djemba (767)
• India
25 Jan 09
I agree amitavroy. Windows vista is worthless,its only popular for its looks but the performance is very poor.I think its the worst release from Microsoft....i think the most impressive operating system releases from Microsoft are probably windows 98,Windows XP SP2 and Home server.Also i'm looking forward to Windows 7 ,its looks impressive in its looks but the performance can be judged only when its out.....
@perowlifick (25)
• United States
25 Jan 09
The thing that bothers me is the field is without boundary (borders) on the left side and bottom. I only use it at a relative's house when I baby sit but I'll use XP and than skip over to the newer one after Vista. I read they are already working on it to come out within 2 years. Vista has not been well received. I bought a used laptop so I could get XP. When you order XP on a new Dell, there's an extra charge.
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@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
26 Jan 09
I bought a laptop right after Vista came out, and I hate it. I love my Computer with Windows XP on it a lot better. Honestly, Windows Vista is not as bad as ME, but it does not compare to XP. I would Love to change my laptop to XP but not sure it is even possible, or maybe would cost me too much to do, so I leave it the way it is. But personally I would refuse to buy another New computer until their is a better Windows choice for it as well.
@saichandtalluri (1486)
• India
25 Jan 09
VISTA has many bugs so that is reason Microsoft is releasing a new operating system without much gap just imagine how time did microsoft take to release VISTA after releasing XP.
Let us wait for windows 7 and see how this operating system is going to be.
@prasannasajjan (8)
• India
26 Jan 09
Vista works fine with me...
I am using it from 2 years no problem till now...
Specs of my PC:
3 gigs RAM
750 GB HDD
Nvidia 8800 GE