Well after running windows Vista ultimate for roughly a year now I doing something that is becoming less and less uncommon. Thats right im downgrading (upgrading if you ask me) back to Windows XP. Why am I doing this. Let me sum up a few reasons.
My machines is pretty beefy with an intel pentium D proc and over 3 gigs of ram. I have a nice video card. Dual 17" displays two optical drives ( a cd burner and a dvd burner). And its current age is 2 years old. SO its no slouch and in genreal. However....
compared to an xp machine with lower specs or both proc and ram it takes me over a minute longer to boot than a lesser xp machine.
1.) I am using over 2 gigs of ram most of the time and am having issues with not enough free RAM
2.) My hard drive has become bloated to the point where I only have 2.5 gigs free of space. Vista seems to consume my hdd. just last week I cleared out a lot of stuff that I no longer needed and some stuff that I would have liked to keep but decided it was not critical and could be replaced. This got me to around 14-16 gigs of free space. Well now in the space of a week im back down to 2.5. When I search my drive I can find nothing that should be consuming this space. And when I went through my computer and backed up the files I wanted to keep including all my media I was only at around 17 gigs? SO where is the other 60?????
3.) Microsoft programs often crash while using Vista. This includes IE7 office 2007, even notepad crashed on me this morning. FREAKING NOTEPAD?????
4.) Vista ultimate is the biggest piece of skank ware I have seen yet. (if you dont know what skank ware is look for my wiki on it coming soon!!) I cant believe they charge more for this version. The only usable extra I have seen from it that I tried out was a crappy little texas hold em game. Thats it. Windows dream scene, which I did not plan to use but was excited to see, wont run on a dual monitor system like mine. there goes another feature. Oh and Aero often randomly turns itself off.
5.) programs hang all the time. ALL THE TIME.
6.) The sidebar is perhaps THE most pathetic attempt at copying something from apple. Their are like no real usable gadgets and they dont work as well as widgets do.
7.) It takes forever to do anything. I was trying to edit a photo awhile back and my machine kept crashing while doing a more complex editing option. Well after spending an hour trying I got fed up and decided to try it on my laptop. Ok if you have not seen my laptop its a mobile centrino proc with 512 of ram. it literally took me 30 seconds start to finish to do the edit I was trying to do!!!
8.) The security features serve only one purpose. ANNOYANCE! I only ever saw false positives from all the built in agents and the only person they stopped from accessing my machine was me.
9.) the last straw. today I was trying to upgrade to the newest version of Anti-Virus I have and it took me over an hour to uninstall the old version. Then it took a couple of re-boots before I could install the new ver. All in all took me about 1.5 hours to do. Brian in the next cube over. Same thing 5 minutes.
I am officially disgusted by this piece of garbage that Microsoft released.
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Hasta la Vista, baby? Or perhaps, hasta la bye, bye, Vista?
Last fall my computer of two years died and I had to replace it quickly. I bought an eMachines with AMD 64x2, 2 gigs of ram, DVD-RW, 256meg graphics card (for my 22-inch widescreen) and Vista. After about a month, I was tired of it crashing (even in safe mode) and not being able to run any programs.
I called MS and they tried to work with me but all they told me was I needed to buy a new printer/scanner because my old one was bad. I then ripped out Vistacrap and upgraded to XP. The machine runs soooo much faster and now only crashes normally (hey it's still windows) and my "bad" printer/scanner now works. No wonder Macs are selling like hot cakes. I can't wait to get one myself.
Btw, something is wrong with the eMachinces hardware because now my monitor blinks from time to time. Never did that on my old eMachines. I tried reinstalling the driver but the only way to get it to stop is turning the monitor off and then back on again.
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