Farewell Vista, Hello XP
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After exploring Windows Vista for about six months on my test-bed PC, I decided two months ago that, along with upgrading the motherboard and CPU in my main work machine, I'd "upgrade" to Microsoft's latest operating system.
Vista's new navigation features had slowly grown on me, though I hadn't tried to work daily with the OS. Vista's appearance has it all over standard XP, and there are tons of usability features that beckon--after you turn off the incredibly annoying User Account Control that constantly bugs you when you want to install programs or tweak things.
For example, I love being able to shut down with one click; I like the junk filtering in Windows Mail (Vista's upgraded version of Outlook Express); and I appreciate the way I can easily drag User folders (formerly My Documents) to a new location so I can consolidate them with other data that I regularly back up.
Annoyances Drive Me Backwards
Unfortunately, small time-wasting annoyances in Vista cropped up almost immediately. Auto-complete of e-mail addresses in Windows Mail works only with the 29 most recently used contacts (I have well over a thousand), and overall the program is slow. The Search Indexer had an irritating tendency to start when I watched an HD DVD, and despite of the absence of multimedia files in a folder, most folders showed useless columns for Artists, Tags, and Ratings. I must have wasted an hour changing them to Size and Date Modified headings--and then the folder would sometimes magically change from detail view to icon view. To be fair, that last part is a holdover bug from XP, but all I've described was just the tip of the iceberg.
As irksome as these things were, I considered them livable. It was only when I discovered that my sound card's drivers for ASIO (a high-performance audio standard for recording musical instruments and vocals) didn't work well under Vista that the balance tipped irretrievably towards "downgrading" to XP.
The beta ASIO drivers may have been spotty, it may have been a system configuration problem, it may have been me--Vista is actually reputed to be much better for Pro audio--but I decided that it was time to revert to good old stable XP with its mature driver support. source:
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Comments(18)
we know that people hate vista, but does every other article have to be about "go back
to xp" or "xp is so much better"?
i dont think hate is the correct word, normally, you hate something you have loved :)
hey u all why u just try to make vista bad and xp goood? with new hardwares vista is good
as xp ....
just please try to be fair vista has many news features and of course it
has new technology but as is said it needs new hardwares and mouch more memory ....
vista will be seen as the steeming pile of abortion that it is once windows 7 comes out.
ms knows they screwed up with it, but are doing their best to recover the money they've
invested.
once windows 7 comes out, ms will be using all of vista's flaws
(oooh take your pick!) to promote windows 7.
vista is an absolute atrocity.. i
shake my head in disbelief that ms would release something so absolutely buggy, awkward,
counter-productive. no amount of service packs will fix it.
what a utter nonsense, everyone is aping everyone else in shouting that vista is bad.
vista is great, it installs in 20 minutes, the media center part actually works and looks
good, the uac and sandbox mode are great for normal users, the interface is smooth, the
online help is used a lot and no bsod's for almost a year now on the 3 pc's at home that
have visa.
as for the hardware requirements, get over it 2gb costs less than
filling your car with gas (well in the eu it does). a pc that run's vista nicely does not
cost more than 300 euro's. hey if you want to play crysis it will be more but that's not
vista's fault. so grow up and use it before you start moaning, it's actually quite good.
vista has been out for ages now, if your hardware manufacturer hasn't released decent
drivers for their device by now, then i hardly think that's vista's fault...
i really appreciate the comments by sunnyc i think he made a very realistic comments on
vista.
having spent the cost of filling my car 8 times ( something that would take 12 weeks in
real life) - it took me about 6 weeks to grow to so angry and frustrated with vista that
its now my new coffee coaster. i bought vista for ease of use. as a professional
architect i had hoped for a reasonably smooth transition to a more stable and capable os
that would allow me to multitask some fairly heavy duty apps... (massive sigh) was i ever
in for a surprise - yes i checked compatibiltiy, yes i have "approved hardware" & yes i
(needlessly?) spent even more upgrading my workstation to compensate for vista's
footprint. long story short , i'm back on xp, calm and working (phew) and the hardware
i've upgraded means the performance i wanted i now have (and more!) with xp... i'm quite
happy to wait another 2-3 years for something that won't screw up my livelihood thankyou
very much. have fun gaming etc... but i believe "profesional" use demands a professional
os and quite frankly, vista does not cut it. as a footnote it already seems clear that
anyone with any real kudos at ms has already been moved to the windows 7 project,.. not
good news for the vista users who are hoping for improvements is it? not only are the
remaining team less qualified, all the newly promoted hacks will have precious few mentors
to regulate thier "fiddling".
anyway, for what its worth that my experience
and 2cents.
ah...i now understand. all us in the usa hate vista and it is the crazy europeans that
have fallen for vista love. it is now so clear to me. now how do we tell the euro's that
the war in iraq is also just like vista. a techno upgrade over the war 10 years ago. they
will all start sending troops and we can get out and use xp and let them fight it out!
if you had already taken the time to set up vista to your liking, why would you need to
migrate your settings back over to xp instead of just keeping your xp settings backup
files handy, if you were just trying out vista?
oh, that's right, those people
need one more reason to bash vista. as if it's a cardinal sin for microsoft not to make
it super easy to go back to an older os which they'd rather snuff out than have to
maintain for those of you who don't understand how to make vista work for you after
almost a year of ironing out the rough edges.
this page should be named "we hate vista", almost all articles is about how you
personally dislike vista, what the beep is up with that. vista is going through the exact
same situation as xp was in its days. xp sucked with loads of bsod, driver problems etc.
if vista run like shit on your computer, well then upgrade to a descent pc. xp
was so crappy till xp2 was released... stop whining, get over your apperently really
cheapass old shitty pc's.
maybe go back and run dos again, its way smoother
and faster than vista and xp! or maybe windows 95 or windows 3.11 ... jesus christ....
sending a 160000 troups that cant bring peace to a small country,the size of a small
state in the us is bush winning again?that guy needs to go soooon,he is running the us
into the ground.vista will get better and better,with every upgrade.like the us will get
on top again,with a new presedent
i'm sorry for you vista users! i really am... :(
conclusion: vista is still very new compared to its brother, xp. give it time to become
better just like xp in the past when it just came out. do not expect the best cuz nothing
is perfect in this world. xp is not perfect, there are still bugs around but at least
after 6,7 years xp is stable now. so i repeat: give it time
why don't you upgrade your atrocious hardware and then maybe you won't complain about
vista so much!
understand this, vista will not run smooth on the crap systems that the xp lovers
complain about. yes, xp is much better on your system but if you have a good system, vista
offers smooth performance, better look and more features.
unreal. those who just bang the drum of better system are like those who believe in the
trinity. it is just a mystery. just believe. same with vista. i run a shop. build amd and
intel dual core units each day. 2, 3 & 4+ gig ram. up to 1tb drives. i have in 1 year,
sold 2 vista units, the others, all year, have been 99% xp pro. both home and buz
customers do not want to fight with vista and the 2 that have vista are thinking about xp
as it runs faster on units just like theirs that have xp. and btw, all software, all, runs
on xp. can you tell me all or even most software works with vista? i can post 100's of
software for real world use that does not work with vista or works with crashes each day.
the truth is, is vista were not mfg by ms, no one would use it.
thats the last straw for me too. what a shame that the actions (or rather in-actions) of
just one person hurts so many others...
seriously though, where are you off to
marc? i've always thought you were a straight shooter & i agree 100% with the
(unfortunate yet unavoidable) decision to ditch this place.
even a bad admin is
better than no admin.
kez, you've brought this on yourself. without decent
help (more than 1 person!!) the forums are crap now. as for news, well its always just a
reprint of someone else's stories anyway...lazy ass regurgitation.
the thing
that bugs me is that kez is using the kudos that this site supplies to further his own
personal agenda... i don't give a shit about what he can do (or not as the case may be)
- its what he should do.. we gave him our time and efforts, it might as well of been
anywhere, kez just got lucky (right time - right place)... in that same light however, i
think it will be quite shocking how fast things fall apart and the site becomes a
laughable mess of kiddy hacks and n00000bs
so thats that...
plonk!
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By soad112589 on 11.12.2007 - 03:12