I recently bought a new computer - the only windows version available was Vista. To those of you that have Vista and use it, are you having problems with it? If so, what type of problems?
2007-03-22 00:28:54 · 5 answers · asked by bluez 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
In my experience , Vista is much more stable then Windows XP.
When you have high end hardware - > 1 GB Ram , fast 3D card, 10000 RPM HDD, I find that Vista happens to utilize the power of the system better than XP ( I have both installed). Vista 64 too rocks on the 64 bit processors.
For e.g. I was viewing a DVD movie on my Laptop from a disk on my desktop over the wireless network, while simultaneously downloading a torrent, there was absolutely no break in the playback. On exactly the same hardware on XP, even if there was no torrent running the movie itself would be choppy.
On my development system I have XP and I may have Word and Excel open along with 2 instances of Visual Studio, Opera with half a dozen webpages open and Yahoo messenger all running, sometimes the whole system goes into a "zombie state" and wont respond for a few minutes while it "does its thing" ( I have 2GB ram, so its not thrashing the pagefile ). Under similar conditions on Vista , it never gets like that.
The main complaint I have is that many software packages do not work on Vista, thats the only thing against it.
Vivek
2007-03-22 00:45:08 · answer #1 · answered by rep_movsd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In standard NO. Some desktops purchased just lately MAY have, as aspect of the marketing factor, a low cost or loose improve to be had whilst home windows 7 is published. (My new computer has the low cost improve.) Windows 7 may have a few one of a kind "stages" as does Vista. Tested the "beta" of home windows 7, and for THAT additionally, I can get a decreased cost whilst it comes out. Hope they constant ALL the insects that became up for the period of checking out!! I believe it'll be greater than Vista, however do not believe it's $one hundred fifty.00 valued at of greater!! (I STILL use MS-DOS five.zero for SOME matters!!)
2016-09-05 11:46:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can use a dual-boot system if u still have the old xp
therefore have xp and vista on it.
i tried it and dident like it as it wasent compatable with my xbox and plasma
prefer the old xp till they sort out vista,maybe in another 6 months
atb
2007-03-22 00:45:52 · answer #3 · answered by stevelaing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not compatible with my quicken or quickbooks and I refuse to rush out and purchase a new version just to make vista work. I ripped it off and reinstalled XP, now not a single problem!
2007-03-22 00:33:17 · answer #4 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, only occasional driver problems. However these can be solved by running them in win xp compatiblity mode.
2007-03-22 00:33:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋