Just about had it with Vista, Xp, any better?

[Omnios]

Hi guys,

I have been using Vista since the beggining of January 08, and I am not impressed. Shure Vista can do greate things such as recover and average user fixes. I fiind it is very slow on start up and shutdown and as I install new stuff it is getting even slower.

So what I am wondering is XP any better and what are the advantages and dissadvantages to up-downgrading to XP.

Also a isp techi was stumped with a direct to modem correction problem and stated vista should have fixed that lol.

[smirnoff]

Would need some idea of your system specs.

Also for the most part you can steal alot of the vista stuff and use it in xp if you want to (like sidebar).

[felixtrio]

Invest in a Mac!

[smirnoff]

Which has its own os that wasn't really needed.

Wonder whats with these guys putting os out that we didn't have a demand for.

[Omnios]

The main problem is I have a 160G hard drive and that is not a good combo for a win / linux dual boot for my usage. I will be mainly using Ubuntu or Kubuntu on it. Was planning to use vista mainly for gamming etc but found a lot of games I wanted to try did not even work in Vista. Also found that xp as a backup took very little space. Anywares from 10g to 20g and 30 at most.
Vista is already over 30Gigs wich hardly anything on it, though there is also the latest backup on that.

I am also thinking of trying some hacks such as having /home mounted as a seperate partition and using ext3 program to mount it in windows and also use it as the documents drive. I am stiff trying to research wine in linux and playing around with either mounting wine on its own partition or within home and using that as the xp install directory just for games.

[Beamer]

I hear your frustrations with Vista. I just got the blue screen of death in Vista and not sure what to do to go about identifying what the issues are and how to fix it. I dont want to have to reformat if at all possible. I guess I will just have to run a bunch of tests to figure out whats going on

[lovey]

beamer,blue screen usually means your puter is fried not the operating system,ir your os has gone so has your hard drive as it is on your hard drive which operates your puter

[Beamer]

god almighty, i just got this pc in Jan of this year. A high end one at that.

[Thaiwoo]

A little over a year ago, I bought a new home PC. It came with a free Vista upgrade and I eventually upgraded a couple of months later. I had some issues with software not working with Vista.

Recently I bought a new laptop which came with Vista. To my surprise several of the programs that don't work on my home PC do work on the laptop.

My home PC is dual boot with XP and I hardly ever boot into XP anymore. Vista is doing all I need and it's pretty solid too.

[glitch]

Hi guys,

I have been using Vista since the beggining of January 08, and I am not impressed. Shure Vista can do greate things such as recover and average user fixes. I fiind it is very slow on start up and shutdown and as I install new stuff it is getting even slower.

So what I am wondering is XP any better and what are the advantages and dissadvantages to up-downgrading to XP.

Also a isp techi was stumped with a direct to modem correction problem and stated vista should have fixed that lol.
I would like to hear your system specs.

[lovey]

god almighty, i just got this pc in Jan of this year. A high end one at that.

if it is that new I would take it back

[Omnios]

I would like to hear your system specs.


Its a dell XPS 1530

15.4" 1280x800 display wich works well as a desktop replacement. Really nice with Kubuntu.

2.2ghz processor with 800 fsb. 4mb cach

2 Gigs Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz Ram

HARD DRIVE 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive

GRAPHICS CARD256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600M GT

OPTICAL DRIVE8X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability

K the thing is that this was purchased as a desktop replacement as my old rambus tower is over 8 years old and upgrading ram on it is a no go. So basicly it will be acting as a tower pc other than taking to my dads etc. I am thinking of getting a 320Gig hard drive but will not be able to afford anything like that till about this supper or so.

Also I am still waiting to install Kubuntu as a dual boot as there seems to be some problems with the 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600M GT nv drivers and even more so with the 64bit version that I would like to play around with. I will be using Kubntu as the main os and vista or xp mainly for gamming and a few other things.

I also want to play around with a few things pertaining to partitions. Mainly with a small windows partition a small /root partition and have /home on its own partition and share it with windows documents. I am also thinking of playing with .wine fake drives on the /home partition and install the games in windows there and see if it will still work in wine. There are a lot of upgrade bugs with wine and this will allow windows to be used to update the games and hopefully play them in wine. Just something to try and do lol.

[Omnios]

K played around with tweekes on http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2238

Found a lot of tricks and where to look for my problems. Generally the default dell set up and apperently a lot of laptops come in power saver mode. My problem was that some of the power saver features where set on by default when the power wa plugged in. After tweeking this and a few other tricks from the page the performance when't way up and is more usable now.

Found another trick for laptops also which is setting the theme from aeroglass to the basic theme. This does help with battery life when set.

[Mr. Apollo]

I was going to say, I have a 1.66 GHz CoreDuo, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, and Intel onboard graphics and Vista runs really fast for me.

[alyj]

try installing sp1 for vista..it will do good