Is Vista that bad?

[_Lee_]

Like most on here I was very sceptical about Vista.

But after using it for a while I am a real convert and think Vista is league's ahead of XP.

Good OS, not one crash or blue screen since I have started to use it.

[TheGriffalo]

Didn't see the point at first, now I love it. Running VB on a brand new HP lappy with 2GB of RAM and it's fine.

Can just pop the lid down when I'm not using it then wake it up and ten seconds later I'm active and all my wireless etc has restored in the background even if I've changed network.

As long as you've got the resources it's excellent.

[Mattt]

Noger said:

One of the things that makes Vista slow is the HDD access speed. When you first fire up Vista it spends a long time fiffling about in the background. Indexing and stuff.

That's now my problem, with an X2 6000+ and 2GB of Crucial C4 RAM - my HDD is the slow point now - shame as I only bought it a few months back.

As said above, most people that give Vista a fair go love it (at least now most bugs have been patched).

[Blue Meanie]

Mine crashed all the time. Wouldn't play some legal DVD's. Had to reboot as it wouldn't connect to the wireless router unless you did so. Annoyed the feck out of me. Might have been other parts of the comp, but I went out and bought a macbook it was annoying me that much. Now I have both, which is nice!

[Scraggles]

currently using xp, settings set for performance when I ran out of virtual mem and had to boot to safe mode

used to think xp was naff compared to win 98, but slowly got converted, so probably looking at vista, but with say 2x 2gb DDR ram

new pc will be next year at the earliest and have some friends who use it all the time for games and find it ok, but neither of the them use 2 gb either

[mogul]

I've been running a new Dell Inspiron with 2gb RAM, 1.86GHz dual Pentium and Vista Business and it runs like a dream.

No problems, very fast and compared to my work desktop it's light years ahead.

Mrs. M also has the same laptop (yes, his and hers so we don't fight over it) and she is also very happy (as far as a web surfer can be!)

Thumbs up from me

[Plotloss]

On me laptop its not best, useable but I had to dual boot XP

On the desktop, its a revalation, was very skeptical at first but have grown to like it.

Its a great operating system, if you've got the machine for it I reckon.

[Tunku]

Vista is good I suppose, would be better without all the extra security. Looks pretty, but so does XP with the right ingredients. I'm sticking with XP for the moment. Mrs. Tunku has Vista and loves the look, but then she doesn't have to do much with it. I tried it and went back to XP.

[Mattt]

You can turn UAC off.

[kevin63]

I quiet like Vista now after getting all the old programs I like to eventually run on Vista, not too sure about the windows mail though and would love a key code for the office 2007 that is on my business edition, all in all though I do like it now especially as it has an HD screen.

[mcflurry]

We have 2 pcs with approx 3gb processors, both with 1gb ram. The XP machine runs fine, the Vista one runs like a slooooooow thing and needs more memory...

[TheLearner]

Mattt said:

You can turn UAC off.

But if you turn UAC off, you've removed most of Vista's 'armour' and it becomes... XP. Please, turn it back on or install the usual truck load of anti-malware stuff.