Windows Vista

MommyEnterprises · 07-17-2007, 06:26 PM

I have Vista on my new laptop. I have had it a few weeks with no problems. Well yesterday I had a friend kind of laugh and was like you have Vista. Warned me I was in for problems.

What do you think about Vista for those that have it?

mastermemei · 07-19-2007, 02:45 AM

I also bought a laptop a month ago and Vista is my OS, well so far no problem encountered. I also download updates every now and then.

divalicious · 07-19-2007, 02:50 AM

Really?.. Well, we're also planning to have a vista home and I'm hoping that this time, we will not encounter any problems...

Costin Trifan · 07-19-2007, 03:05 AM

There are still some issues in running different software products on Vista platform and that's because Vista is quite new on the market and the software manufacturers haven't been prepared for it (but they're working on it...)

I believe that not even Microsoft wasn't prepared for it...My VS 2005 still has compatibility problems running on Vista....but this is nothing serious

ewomack · 07-19-2007, 08:56 AM

I've heard that issues really spring up when upgrading to Vista from 2000 or XP, but that few have problems with new systems pre-packaged with Vista. But I still haven't used it.

tnk · 07-19-2007, 03:53 PM

there is a video on cnet. it says that some applications are not compatible on vista that works on xp

mastermemei · 07-19-2007, 11:05 PM

I only encountered some minor software incompatibility issues like my ericson phone's cd kit which I cannot install because it doesn't support Vista

Kusanagi · 07-20-2007, 12:14 AM

The big reason why Vista is having problems is because Microsoft rewrote it from the ground up, and it's a memory hog.

On the first point, backwards compatibility hadn't really been an issue with Windows. You could still make programs for 95 work on XP with little to no tweaking. That was because certain operators and blocks of code that 95 programs relied on were kept in XP and expanded upon. You could always expect backwards compatibility for a few generations with Windows products, and that was a huge selling point for their software.

Vista was written from scratch, and none of these operators are there anymore. This is why even backwards compatibility of ONE generation does not work and alot of XP programs do not work on Vista. Big box computer stores are getting alot of grief because:

1) The people that aren't smart enough to realize that Vista just isn't an "upgrade" and have it installed on their brand new PC or laptop bitch when their old software doesn't work.

2) The newer machines come preinstalled with Vista and no option to stay with XP. Fortunately, most of these people just format and install an OEM copy of XP.

On the latter, if you ever look on the memory requirements for Vista, that's a computer running Vista and nothing else.. The Big Box companies are getting alot of flak by putting Vista on machines that can barely run them, forcing users to upgrade if they want to do anything besides use Word.

Remember they did the same thing with XP? You could get XP to run on a 233, if you didn't overload it by moving the mouse

Not to mention all new OS's are buggy. Give it a service pack or two before upgrading from XP which is tried and true.

sleepyhead · 07-20-2007, 12:26 AM

Kusanagi, thanks for the info, mine need some sort of download for that aero glass thing.

Tinien · 07-20-2007, 01:07 AM

I like Vista's GUI but I don't want to have Vista on my PC. I preffer more simple OS

www.errorforum.com · 08-07-2007, 03:57 AM

vista sucks i still prefer xp

MykeXero · 08-07-2007, 10:50 AM

Vista is pretty, but im not planning on upgrading for at least a year. There are still alot of incompatiabilies, as well any new OS tends to have a nice amount of security flaws.

Linda in NY · 08-07-2007, 06:21 PM

My husbands computer has Vista and mine has XP, I much prefer XP. He cant run anything or have anything on his computer but Vista. On mine I have tons of programs, games and pictures, and downloads and knock on wood it still runs like a champ. Just my opinion, good luck to you.

nks · 08-07-2007, 07:00 PM

It'll probably take a year or two for Microsoft to come up with Service Pack 1 and 2 for MS Vista - to patch up these memory hog issue.

This issue will always persist, since Microsoft has truly incorporated a chunk of features into this operating system. It will really take a long time to patch and optimize those codes.

webgirl · 08-18-2007, 10:47 AM

Vista has a lot of extras that arent really extras...I mean who needs that stupid big fat clock? I like XP, but hear there are issues in upgrading. Laptop came with Vista, so I stuck with it.

Taltos · 08-19-2007, 12:38 PM

Wow, I have Vista on a laptop that is about 4 months old. I have had almost no problems at all. I am running games that came out well before Vista. I am running graphics software and programming environments with no problem. I have 2 GB of RAM and it is nice and quick. I probably will eventually upgrade to 4 GB but have not need to right now.

The only problem I had was I got a high end gaming laptop that runs an Nvidia 7950 GTX. There were a few video glitches. I had to download the desktop Nvidia 7950 GTX video driver and a slightly edited .inf file from one of the laptop video web sites ( I would have to hunt it again and too lazy right now) and install the updated desktop video driver on my laptop. Other than that, I have had no trouble. I like Vista. Although I have been through numerous Windows upgrades so I am used to having to look for things in a slightly different place on the "next" version of Windows. I think most of the complaints result from people being very comfortable with the previous version and not doing the basic foot work of looking for an using features in the newer version. I have seen this with every upgrade of windows from Windows 3 all the way to Vista. Too many people complain without using their brain and quickly giving up trying to do things they can do without thinking in the version they are comfortable in. My

Incey · 08-19-2007, 03:51 PM

I just bought a laptop this week and it came pre-loaded with Vista otherwise I wouldn't have bothered for a while. I tried to get an XP machine but struggled to find a decent spec machine shipping with XP.

Anyways, first thing I did was download updates and got hit by 31 updates for nearly 62MB. After this I setup using all software I had running on my last XP machine. The only compatability issue I have had has been with Adobe Acrobat 6 (Adobe state on their site that Acrobat 8 has been tested with Vista, and they have no plans to patch older versions, which sucks).

I am generally pleased with my Vista experience although I did kill the gadgets as I agree that there is no need for two clocks on my desktop. Considering the horror stories I have heard about Vista it gets a tentative two thumbs from me!

monhunter · 08-21-2007, 09:05 PM

No problem with vista ....... but u cannot use the old vesrsion software with it

elina · 08-25-2007, 11:37 PM

Last time I had vista was 4 months ago. And at that time many of my old softwares didn't run properly because of compatibility problem. So now I am still using XP.

zibblu · 08-27-2007, 12:41 AM

I've had Vista pretty much since it came out on my new computer and it's been fine. At first I was a little annoyed because it couldn't run some of my older programs - but things are working themselves out. Vista itself seems pretty sweet.