ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh windows xp...
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I have been a fan of Windows for years. I had a great time when beta testing Windows 95. Now I've no idea what happened with Vista but I've tried to stick to it however I think I'm gunna have to give up. I've installed SP1 in the hope the thing would improve but I'm out of luck. The one major stumbling block I have is sleep mode. It sure puts it to sleep alright only to not be able to wake it up!!! I've tried latest BIOS updates, windows updates, Video Updates (NVidia) even reinstalling it. All to no avail. It is a real pain!! Even simple things like the standard photo viewer is horrible in full screen view. Photography is my passion. Vista brags about how photo aware it is but then Bill drops in a dog of a viewer. The photo's look great on my 30" Dell when in Windowed mode but when switched to full screen mode the resolution drops dramatically ... sheeze it ain't hard is it? Put simply I can't see any real advantage over XP except for Chip and PC manufacturers. All the orginal neat features like genuine multi-user etc was dropped leaving only what seems to be a dressed up GUI. Have you ever run Windows 98SE on one of your machines? You have to wonder if we are going backwards rather than forwards at all!!! I simply could not recommend this version of Windows to anyone.
Peter Hayward Ngarkat Technologies South Australia,
modified on Thursday, March 6, 2008 9:56 PM
yeah thats what happened to me essentially ... i tried my best to use it and like it but after 3 months of feeling like it was fighting me at every step of the way i just gave up and put xp back on as my windows os and im soooooooooo much happier ... stuff just works ive said before that i really and truly think that vista is another ME and will be largely forgotten and not talked about once the next version (which is what vista should have been) comes out shame really
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