Lazarus 0 Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 My mate had to borrow my laptop for uni the other day and he placed Office 2007 on there and it is bloody swish and i like the look of it. So this got me thinking whether i should upgrade XP upto Vista, so the question is should i or should i not? Is there still problems with Vista or have they been fixed? Theres been a few updates but no sign of a proper service pack. But if you can 'acquire' a copy and can go back to xp if you dont like it - then go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6301 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 I've been using it for about 6 months now and am more than happy with it. Upgraded to Office 2007 about 2 months back and now wish I had it at work. It's needing a SP releasing and should be coming out very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 I've been using it for about 6 months now and am more than happy with it. Upgraded to Office 2007 about 2 months back and now wish I had it at work. It's needing a SP releasing and should be coming out very soon. Aye they usually get a decent SP out to fix problems their prime OS release reasonable quickly. Of course their non-prime OS is a different matter (Win2k's last scheduled SP was scrapped because... well the couldn't be arsed basically), the next service pack for XP, who knows, even though there's about 48 updates from a clean SP2 install at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 31 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Im duel booting at the moment but primarily use Vista now. There are things that Im still not used to and getting to grips with, there are things that bug the life out of me (do you want to do this? *click* are you sure you want to do this? *click* well Id like permission to do it anyway *click**click**click**click*) Ive not messed around with its settings much yet like. Office 07 is much better as well once you get used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 I've stuck with Vista, I like it asthetically, but performance wise I just think XP works better, clearly faster, but not as "nice" as Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 Im duel booting at the moment but primarily use Vista now. There are things that Im still not used to and getting to grips with, there are things that bug the life out of me (do you want to do this? *click* are you sure you want to do this? *click* well Id like permission to do it anyway *click**click**click**click*) Ive not messed around with its settings much yet like. Office 07 is much better as well once you get used to it. You can turn all that shite off - but your right, there are a few things that bug me as well that i dont appear to be getting used to. like if you copy a file to a folder it automatically puts it in alpha order so you then have to scroll back through the folder in order to access it. its also very slow in transferring files from one location to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 31 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Im duel booting at the moment but primarily use Vista now. There are things that Im still not used to and getting to grips with, there are things that bug the life out of me (do you want to do this? *click* are you sure you want to do this? *click* well Id like permission to do it anyway *click**click**click**click*) Ive not messed around with its settings much yet like. Office 07 is much better as well once you get used to it. You can turn all that shite off - but your right, there are a few things that bug me as well that i dont appear to be getting used to. like if you copy a file to a folder it automatically puts it in alpha order so you then have to scroll back through the folder in order to access it. its also very slow in transferring files from one location to another. Where is that option? (to save me digging around) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Had the ultimate version installed for about a week or so and its 'very fancy'. Bit concerned that my ram usage sometimes hovers around the 50% mark but its pretty good. The beta version of peerguardian appears to be working correctly, avg, football manager 2007 all seem to work fine. desktopx refuses to work though. everything appears to be ok with 2 exceptions: 1) rapget loads but doesnt download anything (i currently have 454 pending downloads ) 2) i had to manually download my onboard soundcard drivers and install them myself as vista wouldnt install them from the cd. Even though ive crashed it twice it seems pretty stable - theres supposedly a service pack due out shortly as well that may improve things further. Still tempted to go back to my microxp installation though....... It uses a lot of ram cause it checks thousands of times a minute if there is summat it can grass you to Microsoft for.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2191 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 My mate had to borrow my laptop for uni the other day and he placed Office 2007 on there and it is bloody swish and i like the look of it. So this got me thinking whether i should upgrade XP upto Vista, so the question is should i or should i not? Is there still problems with Vista or have they been fixed? Theres been a few updates but no sign of a proper service pack. But if you can 'acquire' a copy and can go back to xp if you dont like it - then go for it. Vista SP1 is due out in the first quarter of next year, they're currently doing beta testing on it. They'll also be the final SP for XP around the same time apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I've stuck with Vista, I like it asthetically, but performance wise I just think XP works better, clearly faster, but not as "nice" as Vista. Much like 2k vs WinXP (unless you stripped WinXP right down to what would be effectively Win2k SE anyway), by the time you upgraded your PC to negate the performance loss of the extra bloatware the OS is probably 1/2 through it's shelf-life. It's no coincidence at all that they kept DirectX 10 for Vista, when there's no real reason (other than making people buy Vista) for not releasing it on XP and every game would have ran much better (on the same hardware) on that OS for the next year or so anyway. It uses a lot of ram cause it checks thousands of times a minute if there is summat it can grass you to Microsoft for.. It's ironic that people worry about spyware, but don't realise that Vista basically IS spyware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6301 Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 I've stuck with Vista, I like it asthetically, but performance wise I just think XP works better, clearly faster, but not as "nice" as Vista. Much like 2k vs WinXP (unless you stripped WinXP right down to what would be effectively Win2k SE anyway), by the time you upgraded your PC to negate the performance loss of the extra bloatware the OS is probably 1/2 through it's shelf-life. It's no coincidence at all that they kept DirectX 10 for Vista, when there's no real reason (other than making people buy Vista) for not releasing it on XP and every game would have ran much better (on the same hardware) on that OS for the next year or so anyway. It uses a lot of ram cause it checks thousands of times a minute if there is summat it can grass you to Microsoft for.. It's ironic that people worry about spyware, but don't realise that Vista basically IS spyware. Eh?? XP was far more than just an 'aesthetic' upgrade of 2K, it was a whole new operating system which they eventually tailored to resemble Win2K. For example, the boot cycle in XP is considerably quicker than in 2K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 16598 Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Still keeping away from Vista, ill pick it up in a year when it should be stable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 I've stuck with Vista, I like it asthetically, but performance wise I just think XP works better, clearly faster, but not as "nice" as Vista. Much like 2k vs WinXP (unless you stripped WinXP right down to what would be effectively Win2k SE anyway), by the time you upgraded your PC to negate the performance loss of the extra bloatware the OS is probably 1/2 through it's shelf-life. It's no coincidence at all that they kept DirectX 10 for Vista, when there's no real reason (other than making people buy Vista) for not releasing it on XP and every game would have ran much better (on the same hardware) on that OS for the next year or so anyway. It uses a lot of ram cause it checks thousands of times a minute if there is summat it can grass you to Microsoft for.. It's ironic that people worry about spyware, but don't realise that Vista basically IS spyware. Eh?? XP was far more than just an 'aesthetic' upgrade of 2K, it was a whole new operating system which they eventually tailored to resemble Win2K. For example, the boot cycle in XP is considerably quicker than in 2K. I dunno it's no more or less a new OS than Win98 to Win98 SE (they didn't call that Win99 or whatever and they changed a lot between those even the boot system in that IIRC). Or maybe even Win95a and b to Win95c. Although of course WinME was released as a new OS when I'm not sure it was even really Win98 TE maybe Win 98SE.5 or something. But for a long time Win2k gave you better raw performance than WinXP, unless you stripped all the extraneous stuff out (although yes it still did have a better boot system). With Vista they are moving a lot of things in a much more Linux-esq direction, beneath the hood anyway, but there's that much bloatware (and yes spyware) built in that on the same system you're going to be getting less performance in most anyway you care to measure it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Someone stick this in the help forum ffs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Can't stand Vista, came pre-installed on me new PC, absolutely tediously annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Just installed Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate, although its only a beta its already improved my system, it no longer takes 10 mins to delete an empty folder or to move files, so far so good, shame its taken a year to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 i really don't understand why anyone would buy it its interesting that there is still a lot of orders going in for XP systems............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26269 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 its interesting that there is still a lot of orders going in for XP systems............... Aye but no shops seem to be selling XP any more, mores the pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinofbeans 86 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 i've tried vista on a frinds laptop. what a load of bloatware shite.... it looks nice but doesn't go nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13834 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I can whack Vista on next week if i need to. I think im going to stick with XP tbh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 Went back to vista to see if sp1 would improve things - but it wouldnt install. Have a look at my ram usage! :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13834 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Fucking Terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Bought a laptop with Vista on it for where I work. I later had a guy in to rip the Vista out and put XP in it's place. Happy days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13834 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 What is the equivilent of task manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 31 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 What is the equivilent of task manager? Same thing. Ctrl, Alt Del and choose Task Manager from the menu it brings up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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