Vista is gay

[Deadfire]

You can also run a bunch a tweaks to the reg to get XP running great on any system. Some changes are surprising simple that most just never do

I have the edits on my jump drive that use for cilent's computers at work, If anyone wants it give me a PM and I'll see what I can do

[complich8]

I've tested vista enterprise edition on two fairly high-end machines. Very displeased. Numerous bugs in place, numerous misfeatures, a lot of very bad choices, and it's a freaking pig.

I, too, advise you to reinstall xp and go back to some sort of sanity.

[SorC]

I havn't actually tested vista myself yet, will get to do that soonish through work. However I've yet to hear anything really positive about it (Other than it looks good - which doesn't count).

Personally I don't intend to move to it unless forced to (I'm a PC gamer and windows has the lions share of the market as far as games built for PCs go).

And for anyone with a spare 2 hours here's an interesting article on the antipiracy measures built into vista:
Article

Makes me like the prospect of moving to vista even less.

[Lucifus]

Update.....quite from the bitching thread. What a motherf@8#$r.....

Bitch! Photoshop and Vista is a total fing diaster damnit.

I bought two gigs of memory and gave my old gig to my brother. Vista now runs pretty fine along with games. I dont get problems with memory anymore. But Photoshop refuses to do what I ask when operating on Vista. Its fing pissing me off. I just loss like the ultimate CC sig!

......Photoshop now decides that it will not open images. Any image, be it make a new image or open one from my computer. Before that it decided it doesn't want to free transform. Agh, its like a bandaid on my nuts!!@ >.>

Tried restarting, reinstalling, and just about everything. Need to vent. Meet me in Counterstrike noobZ!

[dimitris127]

i have vista on my pc...but before i go them i got 2gb ram...anyway it's true that using vista is not reccomended for now cause most of the programs and games are still only for the xp version...also if you try to install alcohol120% get ready to knock yourself out till you fix your pc

[itadakimasu]

Update.....quite from the bitching thread. What a motherf@8#$r.....



Tried restarting, reinstalling, and just about everything. Need to vent. Meet me in Counterstrike noobZ!

Do you play source?

[Board of Command]

Vista rocks. I finally reinstalled it today. Everything is so much smoother than XP.

[itadakimasu]

my first impression of vista was not very good. I got it installed on my media center computer in my room (vista-lite) its alot more streamlined than xp and i like the way it looks.

however, i cant really talk about the whole vista is gay topic because i'm not trying to do anything extreme on this computer, its only used to view anime / movies so i haven't run into any problems at all; aside from needing to activate / crack sometime in the next 4 weeks :X

[Sasori]

You can also run a bunch a tweaks to the reg to get XP running great on any system. Some changes are surprising simple that most just never do

I have the edits on my jump drive that use for cilent's computers at work, If anyone wants it give me a PM and I'll see what I can do

What kinds of tweaks? I don't really need it, but I have about 512 megabytes of RAM if I'm not mistaken. It's fine, but anything to make my computer run faster could be useful.

[Board of Command]

I have Vista on my laptop (C2D, 1 GB, GMA950) and no problems so far. Everything I use work fine (including Photoshop). Even Aero is perfectly fine even though I'm using really crappy integrated graphics. So no, it doens't take a super high-end machine to run Vista in all its glory.

Also, it's not a memory hog. It's just SuperFetch precaching your programs. If it was really the OS taking up all your memory then you'd experience severe slowdowns whenever you open new programs, but I'm sure that's not the case, right? And don't even both with ReadyBoost, it doesn't do much unless you're starving for memory (256/512).