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  • D Dirk Higbee

    :omg: :wtf: I just had to fix my wife's computer. Oh..my...god. Windows XP is the biggest pain in the a** I've ever had to work with. I told her "you're getting a new computer". I don't have these problems with Vista. I can't wait. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

    Don't take any wooden nickels.

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    Christian Graus
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    You have to be kidding.

    Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

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    • S Super Lloyd

      Dirk Higbee wrote:

      Windows XP is the biggest pain in the a**

      Man, let me tell you, Win95 was waaaay worse! ;-)

      A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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      Super Lloyd wrote:

      Win95 was waaaay worse!

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      • D Dirk Higbee

        :omg: :wtf: I just had to fix my wife's computer. Oh..my...god. Windows XP is the biggest pain in the a** I've ever had to work with. I told her "you're getting a new computer". I don't have these problems with Vista. I can't wait. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

        Don't take any wooden nickels.

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        Member 96
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        Ahhh..here come the 1 votes. :) I agree with you to some degree but I wouldn't call XP the worst though I would never go back to it after having run Vista for over a year now day in an day out, but there are so many mindless irrational Vista haters around here that you're bound to get a pretty strong reaction to your post. Should be fun. ;)


        "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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          Dirk Higbee wrote:

          Windows XP is the biggest pain in the a**

          Man, let me tell you, Win95 was waaaay worse! ;-)

          A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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          Member 96
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          Than XP? Wow people sure have short memories.


          "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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          • L leckey 0

            That was my thought. But you are one of the very, very, very few I've seen to say "no problems with Vista."

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            Member 96
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            No problems here, in fact there are quite a number of us that have learned how to use it and how and why it's different and supplied the correct hardware to run it and stated that we've had no major problems with it and even prefer it and appreciate it's improved performance and speed and utilization of the hardware over older, lesser operating systems; but we're drowned out by the irrational majority here.


            "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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            • D Dirk Higbee

              :omg: :wtf: I just had to fix my wife's computer. Oh..my...god. Windows XP is the biggest pain in the a** I've ever had to work with. I told her "you're getting a new computer". I don't have these problems with Vista. I can't wait. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

              Don't take any wooden nickels.

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              Zoltan Balazs
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              Like what??? What problems do you have that's easy with Vista?

              Work @ Network integrated solutions | Flickr | A practical use of the MVC pattern citizen 340340

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                Than XP? Wow people sure have short memories.


                "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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                Super Lloyd
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                I remember very clearly that once I upgraded to XP I refused to get closed to 95/98/Me and stopped helping friend who had such OS. A stubborn friend kept having some random crashes with those for a long while, while I was happy with my XP!!!

                A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                  That was my thought. But you are one of the very, very, very few I've seen to say "no problems with Vista."

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                  Here's a third & fourth who's never had trouble with it.

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                  • E Ed Poore

                    Here's a third & fourth who's never had trouble with it.

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                    I would add a fifth if I didn't occasionally battle to delete files, even files owned by admin, running as admin. So far, no other problems.

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                    • S Super Lloyd

                      leckey wrote:

                      But you are one of the very, very, very few I've seen to say "no problems with Vista."

                      Let raise the numbers! :-D Are you ready? OK, one, two, three.... "No problem with Vista"! In fact I love it (Although I was was alway lucky to have more than 2GB of RAM on all my Vista PC, maybe it helped?), it looks so good! :-D And it works just as well as XP as far as I'm concerned. Although I cannot really make careful comparison as I am out of XP since more than 1 year now, and I never bothered look back nor felt the need for it.

                      A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                      Alsvha
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                      Raise it one more for me :D But good hardware is a requirement. Many peoples problems with vista comes from shoddy hardware and drivers (then again - so did many peoples problems with XP, 2K, 98 and 95 - ME was just messed up :D)

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                        leckey wrote:

                        But you are one of the very, very, very few I've seen to say "no problems with Vista."

                        Let raise the numbers! :-D Are you ready? OK, one, two, three.... "No problem with Vista"! In fact I love it (Although I was was alway lucky to have more than 2GB of RAM on all my Vista PC, maybe it helped?), it looks so good! :-D And it works just as well as XP as far as I'm concerned. Although I cannot really make careful comparison as I am out of XP since more than 1 year now, and I never bothered look back nor felt the need for it.

                        A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                        I really like Vista but I dont like Vista any more or less than I like XP. At first I hated it but then it was the same going from 2K to XP (got stuck in my ways - ended up not using the new start menu etc - and still dont ;P ) They both do the job for me and I am happy using them both. I think they are both great operating systems! :-D

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                        • D Dirk Higbee

                          ;) no joke

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                          "no joke" Agreed, you seriously need to use that Joke icon... ;)

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                          • D Dirk Higbee

                            :omg: :wtf: I just had to fix my wife's computer. Oh..my...god. Windows XP is the biggest pain in the a** I've ever had to work with. I told her "you're getting a new computer". I don't have these problems with Vista. I can't wait. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

                            Don't take any wooden nickels.

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                            Zhat
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                            Wow, I run 5 computers at home...all XP and I sure can't remember having any problems related to XP, but plenty relating to "wife" applications usage on 1 or 2. Nothing against Vista but if you're buying a new computer just for the Vista OS, I'll see if my computers can suddenly develope issues and maybe you could buy me a couple new laptops... :)

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                              That was my thought. But you are one of the very, very, very few I've seen to say "no problems with Vista."

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                              Dan Neely
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                              Not 100% problem free, but far fewer issues than with the 2k-XP shift.

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                                No problems here, in fact there are quite a number of us that have learned how to use it and how and why it's different and supplied the correct hardware to run it and stated that we've had no major problems with it and even prefer it and appreciate it's improved performance and speed and utilization of the hardware over older, lesser operating systems; but we're drowned out by the irrational majority here.


                                "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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                                I was running happily vista for well over a year, but decided to downgrade for one major reason. The remote desktop connectivity is *evil*. Recently I started using my vista to vpn to work, at any given time 1. connect to vpn, ok, start RDT (remote desktop) connects fine. ;) 2. connect to vpn, ok, start RDT it complains it can not find or see the remote machine. try multiple times finally it connects :mad: 3. connect to vpn, ok, start RDT it complains it can not find or see the remote machine, try my a** out it won't, reboot it work, some times it takes more than one reboot to connect :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: after chasing the issue for months, I gave up and downgraded to xp, never had any issue with it again. :)

                                Yusuf

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                                  Like what??? What problems do you have that's easy with Vista?

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                                  Dirk Higbee
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                                  I don't have any problems with Vista

                                  Don't take any wooden nickels.

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                                    Super Lloyd wrote:

                                    Win95 was waaaay worse!

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                                    Dirk Higbee
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                                    I loved Windows ME. I had no problems with it either. I know it's wierd, almost eerie, I just don't have problems with OS, except XP on my wife's computer. I think it must be the wife. Maybe I should upgrade :-D

                                    Don't take any wooden nickels.

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                                    • D Dirk Higbee

                                      :omg: :wtf: I just had to fix my wife's computer. Oh..my...god. Windows XP is the biggest pain in the a** I've ever had to work with. I told her "you're getting a new computer". I don't have these problems with Vista. I can't wait. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

                                      Don't take any wooden nickels.

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                                      Dirk Higbee wrote:

                                      Windows XP is the biggest pain in the a**

                                      Your a** must be space-warping.

                                      We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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                                        I was running happily vista for well over a year, but decided to downgrade for one major reason. The remote desktop connectivity is *evil*. Recently I started using my vista to vpn to work, at any given time 1. connect to vpn, ok, start RDT (remote desktop) connects fine. ;) 2. connect to vpn, ok, start RDT it complains it can not find or see the remote machine. try multiple times finally it connects :mad: 3. connect to vpn, ok, start RDT it complains it can not find or see the remote machine, try my a** out it won't, reboot it work, some times it takes more than one reboot to connect :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: after chasing the issue for months, I gave up and downgraded to xp, never had any issue with it again. :)

                                        Yusuf

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                                        Huh, well I can certify from personal experience that it works perfectly in Vista for me. I've been using it for over a year to connect to our remote windows 2008 server in L.A. on a daily basis. I remember when I first set it up there was something counterintuitive I had to do because I had never used it before, something funky about saving the password and login so it would do it automatically.


                                        "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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                                        • P peterchen

                                          Dirk Higbee wrote:

                                          Windows XP is the biggest pain in the a**

                                          Your a** must be space-warping.

                                          We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
                                          blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist

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                                          Dirk Higbee
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                                          peterchen wrote:

                                          Your a** must be space-warping.

                                          you know it. I warped right into Vista and never looked back

                                          Don't take any wooden nickels.

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