Is it good to use Vista ?

Trevortni

6 months ago, I was checking for updates pretty regularly, figuring that they would fix this bug sooner or later. Over the last few months, I've given up on them ever fixing the problem. I suppose I could check again, but (a) that would require logging in to Vista and (b) the last time I tried this, it took me a while to get things returned to the lesser evil after the attempt.

Trevortni

Mark Nischalke wrote:

Yes, I have

And you haven't had any problems? You're lying somewhere.

Mark Nischalke wrote:

Dah, drivers are different

So that can just be swept under the rug then?

Pankaj Nikam

sure here it is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946003/[^] :)

Always Keep Smiling. Yours Pankaj Nikam

Dan Neely

It's purely a GUI change. To avoid confusing (uneducated) users they're reporting the amount installed, instead of the amount the OS is able to use.

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Dan Neely

For a slightly less extreme option www.hardforum.com[^] has a recent thread in the OS forum where someone found over a gig of unicode fonts you won't need unless you're using an obscure character set, and other stuff that's almost never needed that can be deleted out of the OS folder. That might be enough to get you going. If not, vLite out stuff like the multigig driver DB as well so you have a bit more space to work with when you add the SP.

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Trevortni wrote:

You're lying somewhere

No need to be insulting

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I'd wait for Mojave :-D

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My advice: stick to XP. Some will agree, some will disagree. My experiences, however, have not been particularly great. Vista is pretty, and some features are very nice. But Vista can be slow and clunky where it doesn't have to be; Vista settings can be a pain in the neck; and Vista is not compatible with a lot of things. I have it on one of my machines; it won't be going on any others, and, if I had time to wipe it and download the billion plus drivers (it's a high performance laptop that came with Vista) that I need for all my hardware, I'd get rid of it. Honestly, it's not as bad as I've heard some people say (if it was, I'd make time to get rid of it); but it's not worth getting, either.

Trevortni

No insults, just the facts. You probably just didn't read my whole complaint against Vista or something.

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Trevortni wrote:

No insults

Trevortni wrote: You're lying somewhere Don't know what part of the world you are from but around here it is pretty insulting and inflammatory to call someone a lier.

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Lost User

harold aptroot wrote:

I'm not dumb.

Good. Thanks for clearing that up.

harold aptroot wrote:

And who uses 32bit anymore?

Lots of people. The majorty of people. Me. Our entire development team, and all our users.

harold aptroot wrote:

and of course 3GB ram is simply not enough to run vista smoothly

If that was the case, then you are saying that Vista 32 bit cannot run smoothly on any machine? That's dumb :)

Take a chill pill, Daddy-o .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

Trevortni

It's also insulting to lie. Ooh, I shouldn't post this, but you just made this fun. Anyway, if the shoe fits....

Lost User

maxxx# wrote:

If that was the case, then you are saying that Vista 32 bit cannot run smoothly on any machine?

Exactly. And it is dumb. But then, it's vista.. I've not yet seen proof of Vista x64 running smoothly with any amount of RAM though - but then, 4GB was the highest amount I tested.

si618

From what I have read, I don't believe that's the case[^]. Please feel free to refute at your leisure. Also, we have the action pack, so there is no saving of money using Vista over Win2008.

Christian Schiffer

Most hardware I have encountered fully support Vista now, try spending some time finding the right drives that might help, good luck. By the way whats your graphic card make and model? Maybe I can help...

Christian Schiffer

Your right, 15 GB was enough for XP, on Vista I would recommend at least 30 GB free space, I fact I use a 73 GB drive as system drive. If repartitioning is a problem for you you might want to look at some software products out there who can help you to repartition without having to format the drive, like partition magic. Also I never had a problem using it it is never the less recommended to backup at least your critical files before doing that, just in case. Hope this can be off some help for you. Cheers

Ken_GHill

I think it is definately a bit slower than XP, but as a person who designs windows client application UIs, I wanted to stay current and be familiar with the most up to date Microsoft UI paradigms. I do think it is pretty slick looking in general, though. And once I turned off all of their default security features, I think it works pretty smoothly.

Ed Leighton Dick

Are you using SP2 on SQL Server 2005? I know you have to be at least at that release level in order for it to run properly on Vista.

Ed Poore

Not 100% sure, downloading it now thanks.

Trevortni

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS I have spent a lot of time trying to find the right drivers. But the official drivers at the manufacturer's website don't let me get full resolution on Vista. For that matter, when I installed them on XP, they killed the resolution there as well.