Vista vs XP issues

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I have still to date not received a convincing argument as to why Vista (with SP1, of course) is perceived to be a worse operating system than Windows XP.

I have been up and running for a year now and have yet to notice anything that is severely problematic. Indeed I find the OS much more stable than XP.

I understand the RAM requirements are a bit heavy, but did you not find the same problem migrating from Windows 98 to Windows XP?

Please would you list why you feel Vista is a step backward (or why not); because I am clearly failing to notice any terrible problems.
 
Tim you know what bugs me is when people had to upgrade their ram from 98 to xp they where paying 10 bucks a meg, these days you can pick up 2 gig sticks for 350 yet people moan about the ram requirement when its dirt cheap.
 
UAC, disturbs alot of things for 1 COD4, cant play with UAC on.
Steam doesn't update, maybe thats just me haha

But i prefer Vista to :)
 
Well, we have a board in our office, on which I wrote: Days since last VISTA crash. Its record was 2. I've seen the blue screen so many times this year...

We program in Dot Net and do data analytics, but as soon as you have a few programs open at once (Which XP had no problems with), some of my drivers stops working and BSOD! Vista sucks.
/me trying to count the endless amount of hours that I've spent rebooting my pc and catching up work...
 
I like both operating systems. I started early with Vista and got used to it very quickly and I am sure the same thing will happen with Windows 7. I have personally been able to work out all my software and hardware problems with Vista and XP works normally as usual. Oh and UAC is very easy to turn off...

Start > Run. Type msconfig
Tools tab > Disable UAC > Launch

And it's off
 
Ryansta said:
UAC, disturbs alot of things for 1 COD4, cant play with UAC on.
Steam doesn't update, maybe thats just me haha

But i prefer Vista to :)
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I have heard the UAC can cause problems, its not something I've really dealt with though. Anyone else have something to say about the UAC?
 
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killadoob said:
Tim you know what bugs me is when people had to upgrade their ram from 98 to xp they where paying 10 bucks a meg, these days you can pick up 2 gig sticks for 350 yet people moan about the ram requirement when its dirt cheap.
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Yeah, its like R300 for 2 gigs! Come on, thats hardly a wallet busting amount.
 
killadoob said:
You know the UAC is simple to turn off right?
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Haha ya, it was only on cause i was showing my friend how to put it on or off. Forgot it on, shock and horror level 1 in cod4 haha. But its off again and im back to my level 52.
 
foozball3000 said:
Well, we have a board in our office, on which I wrote: Days since last VISTA crash. Its record was 2. I've seen the blue screen so many times this year...

We program in Dot Net and do data analytics, but as soon as you have a few programs open at once (Which XP had no problems with), some of my drivers stops working and BSOD! Vista sucks.
/me trying to count the endless amount of hours that I've spent rebooting my pc and catching up work...
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Funny, I've never even seen the BSoD on Vista. Clearly you're doing something you shouldn't.
 
foozball3000 said:
Well, we have a board in our office, on which I wrote: Days since last VISTA crash. Its record was 2. I've seen the blue screen so many times this year...

We program in Dot Net and do data analytics, but as soon as you have a few programs open at once (Which XP had no problems with), some of my drivers stops working and BSOD! Vista sucks.
/me trying to count the endless amount of hours that I've spent rebooting my pc and catching up work...
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I had the same problem when I first started using Vista on my new PC, the BSODs stopped after updating my bios to a version which stabilized the memory sticks I was using.
 
 
I remain very unconvinced, these problems that people bring up have never affected me. I wonder how they manage to garner so many BSoDs and I've yet to see one.
 
timgaul said:
Funny, I've never even seen the BSoD on Vista. Clearly you're doing something you shouldn't.
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We see it a lot around here.. My guess is that Vista is not quite keen on handling various types of large applications at once like XP did. I do admit that XP had its BSOD days with Remote SQL Server (We still don't know why), but with VISTA its almost random.. Someday I'll hopefully find the source of the problem... /me thinks its something to do with our network, coz it only happens at work... But on the other hand, I don't push my laptop's memory (4gig RAM) that hard when I'm home... :rolleyes:

Vista leaves me :confused:... With Ubuntu and XP I at least know where to start looking for the source of the problem. (Drivers, Hardware, etc...)
 
timgaul said:
I remain very unconvinced, these problems that people bring up have never affected me. I wonder how they manage to garner so many BSoDs and I've yet to see one.
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What do you use your OS for? Just Games, MS Office and Music? Coz, then it should run perfectly.
 
Garyvdh said:
The most important article... where MS admits their own mistakes was written AFTER SP1....

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/shattered_dreams_and_broken_promises_vistas_failure_launch

but if you don't really want to read anything then why did you post this thread?
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Gary, had I not gone through all the articles it would have been a bit difficult to determine when they were published would it not?

But the only article I read thoroughly was this article and most paragraphs begin with "At Vista's launch"; so yet again you can discount these pre-SP1 comments :/

More noteworthy is how SP1 has improved Vista’s performance, narrowing the gap between that OS and XP in key tests and even allowing Vista to surpass XP in our MainConcept encoder test.
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Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems
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They also never mention in their tests the amount of RAM used, yes you need more for Vista, but this is hardly a problem.

So these articles remain unconvincing. But what I'd really like is not just links but opinions from Vista and XP users on this forum.
 
I too have found Vista to be wonderfully stable. I am able to run up to 5 virtual machines at once with my 4GB ram, and the 64Bit Os just keeps running along smoothly in the background. From a technical viewpoint, Vista is pretty darn solid, just a pity about the cut down sound stack.

From a user interface point of view it's a bit mixed, but I've gotten used to it and I no longer really worry about it anymore.
 
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