Upgrade Vista to XP Today!

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   17 Dec 2007 ~ 12:21am Leonardo It seems the first link is broken. Sounds interesting, though.
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   17 Dec 2007 ~ 12:23am Thrax fix't.
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   17 Dec 2007 ~ 3:50am Snarkasm I know it's all tongue-in-cheek nowadays, but I really don't get all the Vista hate. Apparently I'm the only one, though. Using it from near day one, it would seem I'm the only person on the planet who is happy enough using Vista not to lament the loss of XP.
   
   PC World just called it the "biggest tech disappointment of 2007." Then again, I think PC World might be the biggest tech disappointment of all time, so take that as you will. I just don't get it.
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   17 Dec 2007 ~ 6:10am Thelemech .... I love the "Upgrade" to XP from Vista line
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   17 Dec 2007 ~ 7:52am Harudath Yeah, now that I've used a copy of Vista that doesn't repeatedly crash (was using a RC2 before) I've actually grown to like it. Bit of a performance eater but it's really good imho. Compatability issues are a pain but to be honest I think it is worth it.
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   17 Dec 2007 ~ 8:49am Nightwolf I might just have to hold off on upgrading to vista!
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   17 Dec 2007 ~ 9:28am primesuspect There are several "annoyances" which, if I had never had XP on my system, I would write off as acceptable, but I know how well my system can run - the performance on XP was sublime. With Vista, my computer is slower, the disk accesses WAY more often - here's a real world example:
   
   When I'm playing TF2, randomly for 2-3 minute stretches, at least once a night, my hard drive goes crazy and starts solid-orange-lighting. The game ka-chunks to a crawl and there's nothing I can do about it. This never happened with XP. I've tried all kinds of things - turning off the sidebar, disabling indexing, changing storage drivers, etc. None of it helped. Vista is doing something back there, and I can't tell it that I don't want it to. It is exceptionally annoying.
   
   Another thing: I can't close any "big" application (like a game, or photoshop, etc - any app with big memory demands) properly. It's almost as if the memory won't flush out fast enough or something - whenever I close a big app, it starts to close and then just crashes, throwing one of those "application not responding" windows and asking if I want to report it. It's not a big deal, but it makes for a very unpolished experience.
   
   Emptying the trash in Vista takes at least three times as long as it did in XP. Why?
   
   There are a lot of other little annoyances, too many for me to list, but the end result is that Vista feels far less polished and usable than XP. This is my direct personal experience with it.
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   17 Dec 2007 ~ 9:56am Thrax I wrote an article about my direct personal experience on it. Not good.
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   17 Dec 2007 ~ 11:04am Harudath Well, to be fair, when XP was released, before even SP1, it was probably as buggy to 98/2000 users as Vista is to SP2 users, no?
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    17 Dec 2007 ~ 11:06am Thrax Not really. XP had its issues, but it was comparable to 2000.
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    17 Dec 2007 ~ 11:58am QCH WinXP was built on the Windows 2000 platform so many of the driver issues were avoided since W2K drivers usually worked and programmers didn't have to research how to build a driver from scratch for a new operating system.
    
    Every new OS is a bit buggy. The issue is to what extent. I run Vista at work and have been for 3 months. It's a good OS. I like it... but I LOVE WinXP. Vista looks cool and has some really great features but it KILLS me to see Outlook crash a few times a day because I clicked too fast or Firefox locks up because I have 4 tabs open, or that the system sometimes just stops responding... WinXP was much simpler, it just BSOD or restarted. WinXP's SP1 fixed 95% of the problems... and Vista's SP1 sounds like it will fix 50%...
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    17 Dec 2007 ~ 12:10pm Harudath Yeah, Vista is by far the worst when it's come to release bugs, but they're probably working on fixing it. By probably I mean hopefully, and by fixing I mean hiding.
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    17 Dec 2007 ~ 1:02pm Leonardo

    before even SP1, it was probably as buggy to 98/2000 users as Vista is to SP2 users, no?

    The advance from XP to Vista is evolutionary - incremental. The advance from 98/Me to XP was revolutionary. XP brought huge improvements, for example the NTFS file system, repair installation capability, and easy home networking. Has Vista brought any major improvements?
    
    I think Vista is to XP/2000 what Windows Me was to Windows 98 - a new square OS shoved through a round hole purely for the sake of keeping a fresh product in the market. I think Microsoft had indeed intended for Vista to be a sea change, but the complexity of the enterprise was far more than Microsoft foresaw.
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    17 Dec 2007 ~ 1:05pm Harudath We all feel like we're using macs.
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    17 Dec 2007 ~ 1:46pm Snarkasm I must be out of the norm. I have literally never had one single lockup that I can remember and attribute to Vista. Is it just because of the hardware I'm running it on? Maybe. While XP was great, there are things Vista finally brought me that were actually useful to me. Emphasis because I'm sure I'm not in the majority on this one. I thanked the heavens when Vista finally let me load RAID drivers via USB. No more stupid floppies. And I replaced every single component in my machine except for the boot drive with Vista on it, and it repaired itself and gave me good functionality and let me go get the new drivers. At least in my experience, I haven't met another OS that's let me do that.
    
    The biggest problem is that Longhorn was supposed to be revolutionary, and then Vista wasn't Longhorn, and people didn't realize that. Hopefully all of that Longhorn work is getting put into Windows 7 now, but who knows.
    
    For the record, I run Ubuntu as my primary OS since I'm on my laptop all the time and I don't think I'd like to run Vista without Aero. But that doesn't make it the biggest tech disappointment of 2007. Maybe the Q66 and the 4 gigs of memory and the 8800 alter my Vista experience, prevent some of the stuff other people are reporting... but I had a lot more trouble with x64 XP Pro than I have ever had with x64 Vista Ultimate. I guess that's all I'm saying.
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    17 Dec 2007 ~ 2:48pm Harudath Oh, then I'm one of the people under that misconception. I thought Vista <i>was</i> longhorn :P Ah well, there's hope for microsoft yet!
    
    
    Note, I actually love Vista, no idea why I said that