Is it good to use Vista ?
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I Installed Vista on a 15GB partition and in two months it grew so much so that now there are only 500MB free on that drive. All other software I am using is on a different partition so those 14.5 gigs are just for OS! For one thing it constantly updates and requires restart. But the big problem right now is that I can't install SP1 because it requires 2GB of free space! I tried freeing up some space but didn't manage to get enough. Turns out that the Winsxs folder takes nearly 8GB, and there is nothing one can do about that. Unfortunately repartitioning is not an option at this point. So the only thing I can do is create a new Vista CD with SP1 integrated and reinstall. :wtf: This is my first experience with Vista, draw your own conclusions. If I were you I would definitely stick to XP.
The minimum requirement for Windows Vista[^] (all editions other than Home Basic) is a 40GB hard disk with 15GB free space.
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Hi there. I'm using WinXp SP2. I'd like to know , it's good to use Windows Vista now ? Why? What are your reasons ?
I have been using Vista(32 bit) for over a year now for everything. It is a good OS if you have the hardware to run it. I run at home on an HP with dual core AMD processor and 3 gig of Ram. At work its a 24 inch iMac with 4 gig running under VMWare Fusion so windows gets 2 gig. VS 2008 is a slow pig on both but my colleagues using xp and 2 gig say the same. Any way I recommend VISTA because its whats going to be the dominate OS (the next os is still Vista core). Until everything is hyper visor and clouds that is.
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If you’re using too much juice remove Aero that will reduce power consumption and speed up slow machines quite dramatically. That’s the quick fix, a better way is of course to disable all the services you don’t need and if that’s not enough, remove Aero, because Aero is really the guilty part in using resources. I personally use Aero, but hey, I have a 45nm Quad core Xeon so…
I am referring to power consumption exclusively and not machine performance.
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SevenCPA wrote:
So, under the PAE model, you usually fall on the classic Win32 model: apps using franticly their 2GB (because they were not developed to take advantage of the extra giga), and OS kernel running in 1GB.
That doesn't really make sense. You said there's 2GB for "applications", so even if any SINGLE application isn't "designed to use more than 2GB" you should still be able to use the extra gig by launching more apps. Also, SQL Server *is* designed to basically allocate as much memory as it can, or more precisely to cache as aggressively as possible, and it does take advantage of the extra memory. (I'm sure you already knew - you mentioned servers and all - but it might be of interest to many readers.) I'm curious though how exactly "most applications" would be designed in any way to deal with the 2GB memory limit. It seems to me this should be "a hidden implementation detail" of the OS and not something applications should be concerned with. I'd claim that application developers try to write reasonably efficient code making reasonable tradeoffs between time and space, but without any regard to a 2GB limit and indeed in most cases without even knowing about it's existence.
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I'm curious though how exactly "most applications" would be designed in any way to deal with the 2GB memory limit. It seems to me this should be "a hidden implementation detail" of the OS and not something applications should be concerned with. I'd claim that application developers try to write reasonably efficient code making reasonable tradeoffs between time and space, but without any regard to a 2GB limit and indeed in most cases without even knowing about it's existence.
It should be except that the historic 2/2gb split resulted in lots of applications (and drivers) that use 32 bit SIGNED ints for pointers and blow up messily if they get an address in the 2nd 2GB of ram. This is why the /3gb (splits ram 3gb app, 1gb os) switch only gives extra memory to apps that explicitly say they can handle it. In win64 these apps get almost 4gb (a few memory holes are still kept for legacy support reasons) of addressable ram. It shouldn't be a painful change on a well designed app, but since it requires an extra round of testing not many people bothered, and at this point if real fixes are needed going x64 is much more future proof. PAE needs built into apps because it's a fugly kludge. PAE is a return to the bank switching the 16bit CPU era needed to access more than 64k of ram. X|
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I am referring to power consumption exclusively and not machine performance.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest HemingwayI would think that since Aero uses plenty of system resources that you will reduce power consumption by removing it, it might be worth a try anyways...
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In fact, I run Vista with 1GB. (not pulling your leg)
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I used to, but in my laptops case it was a bit less responsive than my XP machine when I upgraded to 4gb (3gb) of ram the relative performance difference vanished. I've been told 2gb is the magic number, but never tested with 1 stick of ram removed.
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Any app that uses the audio system will likely behave in strange ways. Been there, got the T-shirt. And something I use regularly (but which senility prevents me from remembering right now) just crashes on startup. Nero Burning ROM I think, old-ish version.
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Thank creative labs for that one. Audio was one of the two driver models to get heavily reworked (video the other one), thanks to Creative Labs inability to write a bugfree driver for the soundbastard the audio model was ripped out of the kernel and into usermode to keep it from being able to BSOD the OS. X|
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dojohansen wrote:
I'm curious though how exactly "most applications" would be designed in any way to deal with the 2GB memory limit. It seems to me this should be "a hidden implementation detail" of the OS and not something applications should be concerned with. I'd claim that application developers try to write reasonably efficient code making reasonable tradeoffs between time and space, but without any regard to a 2GB limit and indeed in most cases without even knowing about it's existence.
It should be except that the historic 2/2gb split resulted in lots of applications (and drivers) that use 32 bit SIGNED ints for pointers and blow up messily if they get an address in the 2nd 2GB of ram. This is why the /3gb (splits ram 3gb app, 1gb os) switch only gives extra memory to apps that explicitly say they can handle it. In win64 these apps get almost 4gb (a few memory holes are still kept for legacy support reasons) of addressable ram. It shouldn't be a painful change on a well designed app, but since it requires an extra round of testing not many people bothered, and at this point if real fixes are needed going x64 is much more future proof. PAE needs built into apps because it's a fugly kludge. PAE is a return to the bank switching the 16bit CPU era needed to access more than 64k of ram. X|
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I had no idea! Thanks! :-D
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Thank creative labs for that one. Audio was one of the two driver models to get heavily reworked (video the other one), thanks to Creative Labs inability to write a bugfree driver for the soundbastard the audio model was ripped out of the kernel and into usermode to keep it from being able to BSOD the OS. X|
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Well, that post (or, rather, sig) certainly made me laugh. It also interested me as I have noticed how much higher the overheads are in the Vista audio stack than under XP. So now I know a little more than I did before Dan, thx.
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I would think that since Aero uses plenty of system resources that you will reduce power consumption by removing it, it might be worth a try anyways...
What is the first thing Vista does when you start a WPF app? Start DirectX 10 and run that video card. (I know because my laptop has this nice feature of a loud fan as well as flashing lights that come on whenever DirextX is used)
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What is the first thing Vista does when you start a WPF app? Start DirectX 10 and run that video card. (I know because my laptop has this nice feature of a loud fan as well as flashing lights that come on whenever DirextX is used)
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Hi there. I'm using WinXp SP2. I'd like to know , it's good to use Windows Vista now ? Why? What are your reasons ?
My experience with Vista is not pleasant. Unfortunately, it is the direction MS is going. There will not be a choice except for using it in near future. The major inconvenince is the User Account Control which is on by default. If you are on a network, make sure you add yourself to the local admin group on your machine. Otherwise, Vista stops everything you try to do. I also had a great difficulty with Visual Studio on Vista. But this seems to be random. Not everyone has a problem.
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Sounds to me you could save some juice by removing those flashing lights dude ;P
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Cost of development is not my concern but cost after deployment.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest HemingwayI see, well you were the one concerned about power consumption... Cheers mate..
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I am using 32-bit Vista Home Premium. It works well even for development tasks.
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Sounds good, although I mean to remember that Home versions do not support connecting to a domain... but you might not need that
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I see, well you were the one concerned about power consumption... Cheers mate..
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingwayyou wrote: "My work laptop is XP2 so I switched my personal laptop to Vista so I can be prepared in case the eventual switch ever occurs. I think some of the WPF things are neat, however, when I look at how much juice is draws from the laptop I wonder if companies have looked at the overhead cost of even developing in Vista. If your PC is drawing 200W/hrs to run a simple business app * 200 users that is a lot of power compared to the low draw that can be achieved with SP2 and an LCD. Heck, most of my apps business apps run near idle. But yet, I run Vista, no real reason. "
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Hi there. I'm using WinXp SP2. I'd like to know , it's good to use Windows Vista now ? Why? What are your reasons ?
I use Windows Vista, and have been doing so for about the past year. It has gotten better with time, (i.e. more stable etc.) If you have enough RAM, vista, in my mind, will be a good experience. More than just looking nicer, the integrated search is really nice. For me it is a big productivity enhancer. The OS feels a lot more secure, too. I like the UAC. (unlike many others) Vista does suffer from a perception problem, though. If that doesn't bother you, I recommend it.
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you wrote: "My work laptop is XP2 so I switched my personal laptop to Vista so I can be prepared in case the eventual switch ever occurs. I think some of the WPF things are neat, however, when I look at how much juice is draws from the laptop I wonder if companies have looked at the overhead cost of even developing in Vista. If your PC is drawing 200W/hrs to run a simple business app * 200 users that is a lot of power compared to the low draw that can be achieved with SP2 and an LCD. Heck, most of my apps business apps run near idle. But yet, I run Vista, no real reason. "
Christian Schiffer wrote:
simple business app * 200 users that is a lot of power compared to the low draw that can be achieved with SP2 and an LCD
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Christian Schiffer wrote:
simple business app * 200 users that is a lot of power compared to the low draw that can be achieved with SP2 and an LCD
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