is anyone having trouble with windows vista home basic?

Question

We just purchased a new pc preloaded with windows vista and have already run out of space on drive D:. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Answer 1

Wow... Another dissatisfied Vista user.

My best advice, take that heap of junk back and get yourself a nice Macintosh. They start at only $599.

The benefits of Mac:

No viruses, or any other malware for that fact. (This is due to Mac OS X's UNIX underpinnings, not "lack of users" or "low market share.")

Seamless integration. Your hardware will work perfectly with your software, because both are designed by Apple.

You will enjoy many advanced features that are not available in Windows, even Vista. Features like Exposé, Spotlight Search, a built-in dictionary that can be invoked in any application with a simple keystroke, easy to build scripting using Automator, zero-configuration networking, system wide spell checking and many more.

Macs can dual-boot with Windows or run Windows within Mac OS X itself. With BootCamp, you can dual-boot with Windows and run any PC application, even high-end games.

Excellent support and customer service. Apple is well known for it's support. I had a wonderful experience with Apple when the logic board in my Mac mini went bad. (This was due to a power issue in my home, not the Mac.)

Great software. Most of the software made for the Mac is better than similar software for Windows. Crap doesn't survive on the Mac market. iLife is absolutely amazing. Mac OS X is compatible with many file formats, right out of the box. As I mentioned before, you can run Windows applications. With a Mac, you can have it both ways.

Beautiful hardware. Quality hardware. Apple puts the sex in tech. Apple hardware is always beautiful, as well as functional. Apple has extremely talented engineers. One look at an iMac will tell you that much. The hardware is of excellent quality and built to last. Macs are well known to have a longer life span than PCs.

Upgrades? Who needs them. A seven year old iMac can still run the latest release of Mac OS X. Sure, you can add more RAM or get a bigger hard drive, but your Mac will run beautifully for years to come. When a new version of Mac OS X is released, you won't need to scramble to purchase upgrades in order to run it. (Leave that to the Vista adopters.)

Crashing. It doesn't happen. I'm not saying Mac OS X is absolutely perfect, but it's damn close. Most problems are easily fixed within minutes. Macs don't require the constant maintenance needed by PCs.

Value. When all of these things add up, you'll actually be saving money, as well as time, in the long run. You'll find yourself actually doing more on a Mac. Things you never thought of doing on a PC.

Answer 2

What machine did you buy? And what size is your Drive D?

Usually, those “wanna be” good computers from Best Buy and other stores (HP, Sony, etc) only come with one hard drive, and they use two partitions, your usual Drive C and a small drive D that has some recovery information in case you need to restore the computer.

If that is the case, you can not use the drive D, only the drive C.

Now, just to let you know, it is a big mistake to have only one big drive. Why? Because it takes longer to read, and it will get full of “garbage” in no time because of the way windows works (doesn’t matter what version, Vista, XP, Server, they all do the same).

The best way to set up a new machine is using not one physical hard drive, but two.

Use a small one (smallest you can get in the market) for Windows, and programs, and the use another one for your files and the temporary folders.

If you wish to have backups for redundancy, you can always have two big drives, and backup your data from one to the other.

A setup I recommend (and I have on all my 5 computers at home and on all my clients) is as follow:

Drive C: use it to have Windows as the operating system, and all the programs. This drive doesn’t have to be too big, it depends on what programs you use. At least use 10GB, but today, a would say to have about 40 to 60 GB. This drive is independent (the entire physical drive is used).

Drive D: use it to have all your data. What I do is place “My Documents” in here, together with any other folders you want to have. I also use this drive to install games if you want to have them. You can also use it to download files from the internet, but only if you are not “hardcore” downloading, if you are look below. Note that this is a partition on a secondary physical drive.

Drive E: a second partition on the second physical drive. This is entirely for temporary files, and for the Swap File that windows Use. You can also separate those two into two separate partitions if you wish to have maximum performance for your Swap File (Windows Virtual Memory). The partition you use for the Swap File is recommended to be FAT32 and not NTFS for better read/write access performance and distribution.

Optional

Drive F: if you wish to back up your data from drive D, you can have a second partition shared on the first hard drive (together with drive C) and use it to copy your data. You can set Windows to create automated backups at night and point them there. Or you can add a third physical drive and use it to back up.

Any other drive: you have the entire alphabet to create drives, and as many physicals as you can connect to your computer (usually 4). And if your computer is SATA RAID capable, you can avoid doing backups as you can use the RAID capabilities to have redundancy in your drives. The setup for this would be a little different from the one I described before, but is about the same concept.

Answer 3

Since you sound surprised at this, I would take it in to the store where you bought it since it's under warranty. You might have a defective unit. Let them sort it out.
And try to get the premium loaded in the deal. Basic is very crippled.

Yes, the D: drive is usually a small drive many mfr use for recovery, but maybe not. Sounds suspecious.

Regarding the mac, yes, macs are nice but you bought a pc. If you can get your money back, yes macs are worth it.

As to linux, yes, some linux version are wonderful (Mac is one of them). A very nice one is UBUNTU linux with the Beryl desktop. All free and works on a standard pc. Once you see this, you'll wonder why you bother paying for Windows or Mac!

Answer 4

That's not a problem with Vista as far as I can tell.

It's that drive D:\ on most new machines (like dell, sony, etc.) is just a small partition containing restore files, and gives you a place to stick a few small files like drivers that you need in case of reloading etc.

Don't use the D drive for data, that is what the C:\ drive is for.

If you have already filled the C:\ drive (with movies and stuff) then burn some cd's or dvd's to get stuff off there.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

i can't get pass the password i use yo get in my coumputor. it's says the user profile service service failed the logon. user profile cannot be loaded