Reasons not to get Vista
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Vista sux la(For me at least)
Or im just a Vista noobie..yea
anyway..installed it on my other partition
Went to the desktop..only saw the recycle bin
tried to run some old exes but cant..
i see so ma fan mustdo everythin all over again decided to just switch back to my XP for now 
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if u want to run some older exe, u may
1. want to run it as administrator
2. set it to windows xp sp2 compatible..
3. (optional)disable vista protection in ctrl panel>user accounts..(this is to allow the program to write some info on your disk eg. config files)this one also disable irritating prompts from vista.)
4.(optional) firewall. off it. Vista firewall has gone stronger.. in winXP firewall, it ONLY protect ur computer from intruders. however, as for vista, they prompt u even when your programs wants to initiate to the server. -
Vista hates shoot' em ups
Hardcore gamers up in arms
By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 13 February 2007, 09:15
VISTA'A NEW graphics engine is causing first person shoot-em-ups to crash.
According to ComputerWorld, CounterStrike, Half-Life 2, Doom 3 and F.E.A.R are all fragged when punters try to play them on Vista.
Quoting gaming bulletin boards, ComputerWorld noted that the gamers complain that frame rates have dropped down the lav since they upgraded.
Being blamed are flaky software drivers, VistaÂ’s complexity, and a shortage of video cards which can handle DirectX 10.
Vole promised that Vista would be backwards-compatible with XPÂ’s graphic engine, DirectX 9, and that it will support existing games. Clearly it was not.
Chris Donahue, manager of MicrosoftÂ’s Games for Windows group, says his outfit has tested 1,000 popular games from the past five years. Most work well with Vista, he said. He didn't say which ones didn't. -
song boh.
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Vista securityVole is happy with bugs
Not as many as he expected
By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 13 February 2007, 07:24
THE TOP SECURITY MAN at Microsoft said that he is happy with the number of bugs that have been found so far in the Vista operating system.
In an IDG interview, Ben Fathi said that he was not surprised with the number of bugs users had found in Vista as he expected users to find some.
But he added that six or nine months ago he wanted to see less than half as many vulnerabilities as XP in the first year. He said that there had been a small number of vulnerabilities in the three months since Vista shipped, and although it was early days yet, Vista was doing better than XP did.
Fathi said he was pretty sure he was on track for his goal of half the number of XP bugs. Of course XP was presented as a secure operating system and when big problems happened, 20/20 hindsight vision switched on at Vole Central.
Fathi led Vole's Security Technology Unit until Vista shipped and is now in charge of the Windows Core Operating System Division. And there is more about this, here.
What's wrong with him? He is satisfied with bugs?
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Readers reply to Inquirer....
Subject: Vista hates a lot more than only shoot' em ups
Hello Nick,
Vista doesn't hate shoot' em ups alone. Vista hates a lot more.
I'm currently testing Vista, still a few weeks to go before my testperiod is over, but I haven't gotten everything in working order.
I you watch movies at YouTube, the sound stutters. If you download a movies and watch it local (divx, mpeg,...) and your hard drive tries to read something, the sound stutters.
WinAmp doesn't have any low sounds (2.1 or 5.1 sound). It's always stereo, but I have those small satelite speakers which need the .1. Windows Mediaplayer does the same thing.
In WOW there is only stereo, it's the only game I play for the moment. I used my onboard sound. It's a RealTek 850 chip. I found some vista drivers for it and then I could select my 5.1 speaker setup. But this didn't change a thing. Windows knows my speakers and when I test them I hear them all. But Mediaplayer still doesn't like my setup, neither does Winamp or WOW.
Thanks to an upgrade to an Creative X-Fi card I have better sound in Mediaplayer. But in Winamp it's still a no go. The same for YouTube or other movies.
Thanks to ALchemy from Creative I have great sound in WOW. (thank you)
But Microsoft made a mess with the new audio-stack. It send us 10years back in time. The new audio-stack which lacks hardware acceleration is the culprit. I hope the fix it fast. It's no fun like this.
Kind regards,
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While people say Linux drivers are hard to find, Vista is now facing this problem. I never had so many problems when I first switch to XP. XP did live up to its name of eXPerience, promised by Microsoft. The lack of security could be patched with third-party softwares. In Vista, try anything funny, you probably crash it.
Like what the gamers did. -
that one eXPerience..
this one is wow!
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Ok.Confirm.
I urge everyone to only get Vista in the next 1 or 2 years when everything is more or less stable/settled. -
I think Tech Support can close in one to two years time if nobody buys Vista.
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mayi should be the 1st to use Vista, so that next time forumites got problems you can help them.
Also help you gain more eXperience.
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then she'll have more headaches
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Originally posted by M©+square:then she'll have more headaches she has to
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Library system staggers under Windows updates
You prolly weren't expecting this Valentine
By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 14 February 2007, 19:57
THE SPATE of bug fixes for Windows XP and other Voleware has sent worldwide library cooperative OCLC into a spin.
On its site it complains about inclement weather conditions, but just two entries below that there's a message saying that the Windows updates are screwing things up, just a tad.
It's the Connexion client that's suffering.
So much for Digital Delight, eh? More here. The librarians are investigating what's going on.
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Creative Vista support causes people to fume
Sound and Fury
By Dean Pullen: Wednesday 14 February 2007, 10:51
THROUGHOUT THE BETA testing of Vista, one problem with some of our test machines was more prominent than others. When testing using a Creative Audigy sound-card or similar, various problems with the Vista installation would ensue. (See Creative offers workaround for Vista gaming sound)
Like many hardware outfits, Creative appears to have been somewhat tardy developing and releasing Vista drivers, and some months passed between official releases of beta drivers.
Now, nearly a month after the release of the retail versions of Windows Vista, Creative still lacks non-beta driver support for the majority of the company's products. A quick scan of Creative's Vista driver availability chart reveals current support for Vista for less than half of modern Creative product.
Many 'older' products have their driver development listed as 'No Development Planned' - for example the four year old external Extigy sound-card.
It should be noted that Creative's newest devices seemingly have Vista support - both the new X-Fi external Xmod has embedded native support, and the X-Fi Xtreme Audio has final non-beta 32-bit drivers (though without any working audio console application, and no 64-bit availbility). Interestingly the rest of the new top-of-the-range X-Fi series drivers are still in beta.
Most drivers are listed as being available in Q1 2007, which is specifically marked as "the end of March". Considering the time spent thus far, and the trickle of availability, we'll be keeping a close eye on Creative to see if the company actually keeps to these deadlines.
Audigy owners take note of the official line on support of your fairly modern sound-cards; X-Fi owners come first.
We've been monitoring the Creative forums for some time now, and many enraged customers have posted and flamed Creative support demanding Vista compatible drivers that don't BSOD their machines (one of our beta installations of Vista had to be restored after a newly installed beta driver BSOD'd the machine consistently on start-up).
The situation has got so heated that a non-abusive post stance had to be announced by the forum moderators. Randomly closing threads hasn't helped ease the situation.
Mass postings of crashing problems, limited application support, limited channels, missing sounds, popping/noise, Windows not recognising devices - even with allegedly final drivers, have appeared on Creative's forums for some time now. Many have resorted to using XP drivers to some degree of success.
We'd like to post more examples of the extreme levels of anger and questioning from Creative customers on the forums, but there would simply be too many links to make this article readable - a very quick perusal of the community response should allow anyone to gauge the level of animosity.
Of course the problem isn't limited to just Creative, but even the posters on the forums recognise other (and smaller) companies already have driver support - a growing list of compatible sound cards for Vista are listed within this post.
Consumers could probably live with the driver delays from the likes of Creative and Nvidia if Vista had shipped when promised. Instead Vista has been languishing in beta form for some extraordinary amount of time, time which could have been spent developing and polishing much needed driver-support for existing product.
Opps...another one. Creative mp3 and hardwares softwares not compatible with Vista. 
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seems like thr's a lot of problem with vista
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If you willing to sponsor me a brand new PC, I don't mind.Originally posted by nightzip:mayi should be the 1st to use Vista, so that next time forumites got problems you can help them.
Also help you gain more eXperience. -
Don't forget that Creative is actually part of MS... I don't expect Creative to solve their drivers problem before March comes.
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Originally posted by M©+square:
good move
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Attention to all : Pre Sticky Announcement
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So as to prevent too many Vista threads to appear in this forum.
All news and articles of Vista, please post in this thread.
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Sticky will take place 1am on 16 Feb [/b] ... everytime see this thread keep bumping up -
eh? but if its good news how? cuz the title is not to get leh...
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We will deal with it when the good news comes?Originally posted by nightzip:eh? but if its good news how? cuz the title is not to get leh...
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I think i shall install Vista on my new XP com coming next month, and try to get used to it
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Count on you for advice and tips.
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Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Count on you for advice and tips. I try bah..my 1st impression of Vista isn very good to begin with..