how do you like vista now?
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 by bmorenmiami | Discussion: Windows Vista
there were several threads about how vista would suck...and how many would not get it ...now that it's out of beta what do you think about it now?
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Leri2003
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:17 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:17 PM
I also love it too. I been enjoying the themes I downloaded. 
Teri
Teri
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:31 PM
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:31 PM
Mostly ok. One thing I hate is the download dialogue - instead of XP's drop down folder list you have an address bar which looks like a throwback to a DOS tree, or a tiny box to browse posibly dozens of folders. Just trying to find the folder you want to download to takes a frustrating amount of steps. My keyboard isn't going to last long at this rate I keep banging it so hard 
navigatsio
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:41 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:41 PM
Like it now...
Didn't to begin with but once I took "control" of it, tweaked it exactly the way I wanted it and gave it a few obedience lessons, it's great!
Didn't to begin with but once I took "control" of it, tweaked it exactly the way I wanted it and gave it a few obedience lessons, it's great!
Phoon
Reply #6 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:51 PM
Reply #6 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:51 PM
What is it that George Carlin says..
"As soon as I shove this red hot poker in my ****, Im going to chop my **** off".
That's what I would rather do than to buy Vista right now.
When ALL my normal programs, and hardware work on it, then I will consider it.The upgrade advisor says that I would have issues with some things.
"As soon as I shove this red hot poker in my ****, Im going to chop my **** off".
That's what I would rather do than to buy Vista right now.
When ALL my normal programs, and hardware work on it, then I will consider it.The upgrade advisor says that I would have issues with some things.
thomassen
Reply #7 Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:23 AM
You mean IE7's download window? The one where you have "Show Folders" button in the bottom left corner giving you a normal file dialog window?
Reply #7 Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:23 AM
Mostly ok. One thing I hate is the download dialogue - instead of XP's drop down folder list you have an address bar which looks like a throwback to a DOS tree, or a tiny box to browse posibly dozens of folders. Just trying to find the folder you want to download to takes a frustrating amount of steps. My keyboard isn't going to last long at this rate I keep banging it so hard
You mean IE7's download window? The one where you have "Show Folders" button in the bottom left corner giving you a normal file dialog window?
NightTrainthedark
Reply #8 Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:31 AM
Reply #8 Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:31 AM
Question for those who made the switch.
If given the chance to go back, would you pay any substantial upgrade costs and do it again or would you stay with Xp and spend your money on something else?
If given the chance to go back, would you pay any substantial upgrade costs and do it again or would you stay with Xp and spend your money on something else?
thomassen
Reply #9 Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:41 AM
Reply #9 Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:41 AM
Nope! I've grown very comfortable with my Vista Ultimate. And I didn't even have to upgrade my 3 year old computer to get all the bangs and whistles. 4.2 Performance rating.
And I got an OEM System Builder edition so it didn't cost me much.
And I got an OEM System Builder edition so it didn't cost me much.
viking396
Reply #10 Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:32 AM
Reply #10 Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:32 AM
So far I've been using Vista in some flavor for a long time, now that it's released
I like the fact I can choose a network share to search and it happens nearly instantly. I like dreamscene but some have CPU usage thats a bit high and affects laptop runtime on battery. My home system has a Core 2 Duo extreme in it and still sees up to 25% usage on some scenes.
Aside from that I'm liking the experience very much and recommend it to everybody.
EDIT: Stay away from any upgrade edition as it requires XP to be installed, my experience upgrading over XP (shame on Microsoft for forcing this on people) has been it stinks, don't do it.
Great way for Microsoft to force power users to buy the full version to do a fresh install. Thankfully OEM versions aren't too expensive.
I like the fact I can choose a network share to search and it happens nearly instantly. I like dreamscene but some have CPU usage thats a bit high and affects laptop runtime on battery. My home system has a Core 2 Duo extreme in it and still sees up to 25% usage on some scenes.
Aside from that I'm liking the experience very much and recommend it to everybody.
EDIT: Stay away from any upgrade edition as it requires XP to be installed, my experience upgrading over XP (shame on Microsoft for forcing this on people) has been it stinks, don't do it.
Great way for Microsoft to force power users to buy the full version to do a fresh install. Thankfully OEM versions aren't too expensive.
thomassen
Reply #11 Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:21 AM
There seem to be loopholes for that.
Btw, I'd recommend everyone to do a fresh install of Vista if possible. For one reason to avoid clutter from previous Windows versions, but also because the upgrade is slooooooooow. But a fresh install is done in 20-30 mins.
Reply #11 Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:21 AM
EDIT: Stay away from any upgrade edition as it requires XP to be installed, my experience upgrading over XP (shame on Microsoft for forcing this on people) has been it stinks, don't do it.
There seem to be loopholes for that.
Btw, I'd recommend everyone to do a fresh install of Vista if possible. For one reason to avoid clutter from previous Windows versions, but also because the upgrade is slooooooooow. But a fresh install is done in 20-30 mins.
viking396
Reply #12 Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:07 PM
There seem to be loopholes for that.
Btw, I'd recommend everyone to do a fresh install of Vista if possible. For one reason to avoid clutter from previous Windows versions, but also because the upgrade is slooooooooow. But a fresh install is done in 20-30 mins.
The only install path for the Upgrade versions of Vista is to install a fresh copy of XP first, or install over a currently configured system otherwise there is no way to install an upgrade version of Vista by formatting and starting fresh, if you've found one post it.
Reply #12 Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:07 PM
EDIT: Stay away from any upgrade edition as it requires XP to be installed, my experience upgrading over XP (shame on Microsoft for forcing this on people) has been it stinks, don't do it.
There seem to be loopholes for that.
Btw, I'd recommend everyone to do a fresh install of Vista if possible. For one reason to avoid clutter from previous Windows versions, but also because the upgrade is slooooooooow. But a fresh install is done in 20-30 mins.
The only install path for the Upgrade versions of Vista is to install a fresh copy of XP first, or install over a currently configured system otherwise there is no way to install an upgrade version of Vista by formatting and starting fresh, if you've found one post it.
Jafo
Reply #13 Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:23 PM
Reply #13 Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:23 PM
because the upgrade is slooooooooow.
I proof-read War And Peace in the time it took......twice....
When I get a full ver of Ultimate it'll be a clean install....
UBoB
Reply #14 Friday, February 16, 2007 4:04 PM
Reply #14 Friday, February 16, 2007 4:04 PM
I installed it on 4 different machines. The slowest was 33 minutes. The fastest, (my own Core 2 Duo machine) took less than 25 minutes.
All systems are running smoothly. All devices and their associated drivers work as they should. Two of the systems act as Media Centers and perform their function extremely well. The other two, my main system and my wife's home business system actually work better then when XP was installed on them.
The printer and scanner drivers were native to Vista and installed as soon as I plugged them in to USB ports.
All-in-all I'd have to say it's been a very pleasant experience.
BTW, one of the installations was done using the Upgrade version of Vista Ultimate. The installation was easy. Yes, I had to have XP installed, which I did, and I had to initiate the Vista installation from within XP, but it was possible to do a clean installation. When prompted I simply selected the alternate installation option and then selected a clean install. Vista put everything from the XP partition into a folder called Windows.old and then installed the new OS to the remaining empty space on the partition. When the installation was finished I simply found the Windows.old folder and deleted it. Voila! New OS. Clean install. No remnants of the old OS.
All systems are running smoothly. All devices and their associated drivers work as they should. Two of the systems act as Media Centers and perform their function extremely well. The other two, my main system and my wife's home business system actually work better then when XP was installed on them.
The printer and scanner drivers were native to Vista and installed as soon as I plugged them in to USB ports.
All-in-all I'd have to say it's been a very pleasant experience.
BTW, one of the installations was done using the Upgrade version of Vista Ultimate. The installation was easy. Yes, I had to have XP installed, which I did, and I had to initiate the Vista installation from within XP, but it was possible to do a clean installation. When prompted I simply selected the alternate installation option and then selected a clean install. Vista put everything from the XP partition into a folder called Windows.old and then installed the new OS to the remaining empty space on the partition. When the installation was finished I simply found the Windows.old folder and deleted it. Voila! New OS. Clean install. No remnants of the old OS.
Fourtyacres
Reply #16 Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:11 PM
Reply #16 Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:11 PM
once i disabled that windows defender and did some other tweaking its starting to come
around. still looking for a decent file manager to replace this crappy one.
Fourtyacres
around. still looking for a decent file manager to replace this crappy one.
Fourtyacres
EddieStarr
Reply #17 Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:48 PM
Reply #17 Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:48 PM
Vista has not made life suddenly easier, but it has made it more Blissful to enjoy things like DreamScene & Added Content, well lets just say, Microsoft is in the right direction, but can't they just admit OSx is better and Copy the File System and ADD features to OSx, why can't AAPL and MSFT be
partners?
partners?
Island Dog
Reply #18 Monday, April 16, 2007 7:48 AM
Reply #18 Monday, April 16, 2007 7:48 AM
I am generally happy with Vista. The performance has been pretty good and has improved greatly since bumping my RAM up to 2GB.
I'm still debating whether to go to Vista full-time because I really can't stand dual-booting.
I'm still debating whether to go to Vista full-time because I really can't stand dual-booting.
ama02
Reply #19 Friday, April 20, 2007 12:47 AM
Reply #19 Friday, April 20, 2007 12:47 AM
After some issues trying to install a new SATA drive, I finally have Vista installed. I have the upgrade version of Home Premium. I ended up installing XP on the new drive then choosing the clean install option of Vista. I've only had things up and running for a day so far. There's a lot that I like, and there are some things that I am not sure of yet, like navigating the file system...I'm sure I'll eventually get used to it, and get to like it.
My system is still bare, only installed a few apps so far. Trillian Pro works fine, and Rainlendar works fine.
My system is still bare, only installed a few apps so far. Trillian Pro works fine, and Rainlendar works fine.
vStyler
Reply #20 Friday, April 20, 2007 1:31 AM
Reply #20 Friday, April 20, 2007 1:31 AM
From a skinners point of view.. I still hate it. Otherwise.. it's ok.. and still no where near supported enough. I made two Vista compatible updates to two skins of mine, made zero difference to download %'s or new comments. That along with the relatively low download numbers for Dreams leads me to believe that skinning predominantly for XP is currently the best bet.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:01 PM
There's a couple of glitches here and there but it's due to third party software not 100% compatible with Vista yet. But all in all I'm very happy and I find XP to be more and more awkward to go back to.