Vista = garbage!!

[kerrcdc]

[QUOTE=gz1]Well I was one of the early adopters of vista. Have been running it since the beta release. I am running it on a P4 3.6GHZ with 4GB ram (of which only 3.2GB are usable actually, but that's another story). When using it as a standalone PC and basic web/email/word stuff it is great. Everything works fine, nice and fast and very stable.
I also do a lot of photo work, both stills and movies. Nothing pro mainly hobby stuff but still have over 10,000 photos, mainly happy snaps of the kids.
This was running on XP pro and the photos/movies were on a 4TB NAS shared to everything else at home.
So I thought i'll use vista to do some photo management and see how the media center in it works.
And this is where vista comes unstuck. Badly. Copying or accessing a large number of files from the network simply does not work. I have tried all the tips and workarounds and still it is very slow. at least an order of magnitude slower than XP on the same hardware and same network. Transferring a large directory with approx 6,000 files in it, the speed drops to ~300k/sec. I've seen faster dial-up transfers.
Micro$oft acknowledge there is a problem and have supplied a hot-fix that did absolutely nothing. their response: try a different NAS server or wait for service pack 1 either of which may or may not fix the problem.
Like I can just swap out 4TB of NAS that works perfectly with everything


Interesting, when i try to access my Vista box from libux via CIFS, the tv (its my media centre) just stops working for a second! it never used to do that when i ran XP MCE. sounds like some issue withg the way vista is handling files and/or network drivers..

[Sprint347]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

well i'm looking for a computor at the moment . and the computor shops . say. go with VISTA. because in 6 months time WINDOWS XP will be non existant .as far as buying a pc goes.

Windows XP will be around for a very long time, Service Pack 3 is just about ready for release.

Getting used to Vista is a good idea as it will eventually replace Windows XP, but don't let retailers pressure you into buying it purely because of 'Windows XP becoming non-existant'.

'Mainstream' support from Microsoft for Windows XP is scheduled for 2009, and 'Extended support' is scheduled to 2014, so go with what you're comfortable with!

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Originally Posted by LSTerritoryGhia

I got 2 new computers with VISTA and both of them freeze MSN messenger when you boot up, sometimes they come good sometimes i have to restart, yet VISTA works fine on my older computer GRR.

Try updating your versions of Windows live messenger and running Windows updates

[Sprint347]

Originally Posted by Noddy

Ok checked that, it was already disabled. Thanks for the tip anyway.

Is the laptop wireless or 'wired'

If it's wireless, try plugging it into the device with a piece of cat5 (blue cable) and see if it's any better. It's all a process of elimination

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Originally Posted by XR-CHIEF

Dimension E521 as long as you dont have Vista you'll be alright.

I've heard of manufacturers giving out restore CDs for XP Pro because of users having issues with Vista... maybe give that a go.

Dell's are generally pretty good

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Originally Posted by rodderz

lol...I was pulling my hair out after getting Vista too, some design programs I had used for work were incompatible with Vista, and some dvd programs either had errors or didnt work at all.

I've changed all the settings to be more like XP and there were drivers and some programs I managed to find or download to make things work, but not after the brand new PC got blamed a fair bit and multiple sets of naughty words. Seems ok now though

We get constant feedback from our users that the more Windows updates that are run on Vista machines, the 'nicer to use' the machine becomes...

Microsoft are forever making changes (hence why Vista SP1 is on the horizon)

When I first got Vista Beta it was TERRIBLE to use, now I'll be leaving Vista Business on my laptop... I like it