I had no problems changing my Compaq f500 notebook over to XP from Vista. And , lucky me, HP had all the XP drivers for my rig ready for downloading.   Then I found 2GB of ram at walmart for an affordable price. Changed my notebook back to Vista, thinking the extra ram would matter.....NOT!!!  Vista still sux, even with 2.5 GB ram.  So, now I am thinking of going back to XP again. Dual booting worked, but I want to lose Vista altogether. The only thing Vista does for me that XP don't is Vista run dreams more smoothly. And UAC is driving me nuts!!! I know how to turn it off, but then I have nag screens, popup warnings, etc.   

   So as I think about going back to XP, again, I wish Fuzzy Logic, Spock, would come back to us. I vote Fuzzy!!!!    

I wish someone would give a valid reason why Vista is better than XP.

Looking at my screen now, I see no difference between the two. Well, that isn't strictly true. In XP I have a usable start menu, and Windows Explorer hasn't got any clutter or any mouseover nonsense.

Oh, and games like UT2004 (a favourite of mine) romps along at 2-300 fps instead of the miserly 75-80 Vista can manage.

People just won't admit Vista is a pup.

Vista was supposed to be a new visual experience blah blah. But really, with all these incredible Stardock programs to play with, Vista kinda missed the boat.

Thinking about it, I hardly ever use the start menu, with all the Stardock's apps for short cuts. I find the Vista programs feature much cleaner to use than the XP's 2 or 3 full screen menus that pop out.

I'm feelin warm and Fuzzy..... I know we never spoke but I miss Scotty's expression, hehe

Welcome back.

I forgot all about the bsod. The only time I had it in XP was with the bklaster worm and I've never had it in Vista. Might as well go back to win9x if you really want to impress.

I prefer XP over Vista for the simple reason of less "safety features" if you get my meaning. XP I tell it to do something, it does it, or at least tells me why it can't do it and then I make it do what I want anyway.

Vista it's constantly "Are you sure you want to install this program?" Are you sure you want to startup this program? This program may not be installed properly. Are you sure you want to shutdown the computer?

At least XP let's me save money on aspirin.

You can do the same in Vista by disabling UAC... it's no biggie and you can do what you like, with no need for aspirin, tantrums or strait jackets.

I hear you all, agree with some disagree with others...

But, point here isn't in going from one dead horse to another or from one pig to another... 

I also used to run Vista and XP and 2000 and 98 and 95...

But then, after plenty of "aspirins" and various forms of frustration and utter pain I made rather balled move and switched to OS X

13 months later:

- not a single crash

- not a single virus

- not a single trojan or other bs file 

- plus perfectly clean XP installation via Bootcamp for all my gaming needs

= the ultimate computing experience

In short - whenever I see thread like this I remember old days and feel with you all

I built a new quad core PC earlier this year (my brother in law is an Intel Rep - free motherboard and top line CPU!). The word from my computer geek friends is that Vista was a memory hog, prone to driver-related crashes, would not work with some peripherals, and had some performance problems. XP worked fine with me, so my new rig got XP. I've had no problems whatsoever.

What is telling for me is that my company (engineering) has not migrated and has no intention of migrating to Vista. When 98 was replaced by XP (ME and 2000 weren't considered except for specialty business computers) it took only a year before the rollout. Of course, 98 DID have stability problems. Why aren't they jumping onto the (small) Vista bandwagon? Our IT guys have told me that VISTA doesn't play nice with other XP PCs (a problem during the middle of a rollout that takes 2 years before all PCs cycle off lease), and that changing over ten thousand PCs at my company, upgrading the servers, and dealing with hordes User Issues is not something they want to deal with. XP is well understood and works just fine. Plus, Vista is such a memory hog that PCs that have lots of company security and specialty software become brain dead doorstops unless they massively upgrade the memory. And why go to the extra expense when XP works?  

So, I'm happy with XP. Once I have a reason to switch I will.

Hydro

I haven't had a BSOD for quite some time; I'd guess a driver is to blame. I've had my share of BSODs in XP anyways, so I'm not sure XP is all that different in that regard.

But I guess that doesn't matter now that you've made the switch. I plan on sticking with Vista myself. It has worked well for me.

As if going above your monitor's refresh rate is going to make any difference. Your monitor can't draw fast enough to keep up with 300 fps.

Dunno why it would slow down so much, though - is this with the latest drivers?

This one I count as very helpful because I've had many a program try to shutdown my computer without my permission .

Once all of the software you want is installed, those prompts pretty much go away anyways.

Never used the Start menu much in either Vista or XP, so changes to it really don't bother me that much. Someday they'll make it useful. I personally don't see how it's any sort of improvement over Windows 3, and to this day I have a set of folders on my desktop instead of using the Start menu.

In short, if you'd like to buy me OS-X, I'll happily use it (with Bootcamp for XP), and in a few years we can reminisce about the good old days and feel for them all together

Sound like a plan? 

Oh, yeah.  I have never had a problem with XP, but ME... man.  I heard that Bill Gates himself said that that was the worst OS that Microsoft had ever made.

My parents had Vista for awhile, but went back to XP because the Vista media center program was considerably less user-friendly (you couldn't play movies off your hard drive, I believe was one of the issues they had).

Ok here's the problem  I see in this discussion:

Most people are comparing their set-in, heavely optimized, completely personalized, correctly installed XP rigs with their out-of-the-box Vista machines.

Unless you got your XP rig in the bast 18 months or so, you had to do about as much (or actually more most of the times), to get it working well as you do with Vista.

And  for XP  I've done about 20 reinstalls(forced, not counting optional ones where I was tinkering and stuff)  in its lifetime, resulting form BSODs, taskbar hangs, >>>>MALWARE<<<< (the unprovoked kind, mind you) etc, etc, etc... most in the first 2 years of release

WIth Vista?Since getting it a year ago: NO reinstalls so far, NO taskbar hangs, NO BSOD(aside from the one time I did something stupid istalling gfx driver... and yes the whole GFX issue was a pain) , NO malware, great file management and backup capabilites, great background service prioratization, and so on.

...

Actually both my machines are Out of the Box installs.

My desktop is a refurbished Compaq Presario AMD 3400+ that has had XP Home preinstalled

My laptop is a refurbished HP Pavillion AMD Turion 64x2 that has Vista Home Premium

Both machines have 2gb of RAM. Desktop has a better graphics card.

My XP machine is a far better experience ( my laptop is 'good enough' and I'm having issues with kubuntu on it so for now Vista stays )

Oh and the virus issue is moot. I had *one* malware incident on XP and that was me installing a .exe for a Trillian skin off of Customize.org. Self inflicted. And I don't go to that site anymore. Lesson learned.

BTW , OSX isn't worth becoming the 'I'm a Mac ' from those assinine Apple ads .

not on 4gig & quad core 9800GT G-Card no pup here start menu is better on Vista come on

 Fuzzy will soon grow fatigued with XP and downgrade to Win2000

Anthony R lol

Good for you, not a fan of vista myself, but anyone else wanting to go back, use the xp disk and run fix mbr.  Vista has an entirely different boot loader and it needs to be changed before you can load xp.  Just a note to save others from the hassle Fuzzy encountered.