Vista Users

ken · #1 (**permalink**) 27th March 2009, 09:53 PM

How many of you are vista users and how do you like the operating system?

gener29 · #2 (**permalink**) 27th March 2009, 10:14 PM

I've got it. Its alright, took a while to find where everything was. My wife hates it. Where's the refresh button?!? where's this where's that.

ken · #3 (**permalink**) 28th March 2009, 04:19 PM

I got a copy with an upgrade drive. So far so good, its faster than my XP 64

computer2slow · #4 (**permalink**) 28th March 2009, 05:48 PM

It takes way too many resources to me. When you get into how gigs of ram it needs to work well. It's ridiculous to me.

If you are thinking of buying a copy I'd say wait to see Windows 7 heard VERY good things about it. Even from Windows haters.

ken · #5 (**permalink**) 28th March 2009, 10:13 PM

I have 6gs of ram. Vista hates my scanner and I can't find a new driver for it

computer2slow · #6 (**permalink**) 29th March 2009, 02:45 AM

That's what I mean a couple of years ago if you said you had 2gb of ram people would think you were rendering video or something big. Now you will hear you should add a couple more gigs if you want flash to run well.

farker · #7 (**permalink**) 29th March 2009, 03:28 AM

I have Vista and really like it. It makes things a lot smoother.

I guess peoples' main complaint that it takes a lot of resources is inapplicable to me since I'm on a quad-core though.

ken · #8 (**permalink**) 29th March 2009, 08:01 PM

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+, 2600 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

Xray · #9 (**permalink**) 29th March 2009, 08:07 PM

You can't run Vista on an old XP PC. It needs a new computer with a lot more ram than XP takes up. That's what I did. My new PC came with Vista. I've had Vista since last August, and have not had any problems with it.

childeroland · #10 (**permalink**) 31st March 2009, 01:50 AM

Vista's certainly an improvement, though it'd be nice if it didn't have problems with its folder's access control and permissions. Has Microsoft settled on a release date for Windows 7 yet?