Do you like Windows Vista?

[bktII]

A mumber of posts here on Windows Vista with much subjectivity in the discussion and few details.

If you respond to this poll, please post:

o VERSION(S) of Vista you are using or have used (home basic, home premium, business, ultimate).

o HOST PC HARDWARE SPECS (processor speed, processor VT/no. cores, RAM, video card/RAM, etc.).

o If you run (or ran) Vista virtualized, in addition to the host specs, please post the VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE you used, the GUEST OS and the GUEST OS RESOURCES ALLOCATED (RAM, and in some cases, video RAM).

In my case:
o Windows Vista Home Premium
o HP desktop purchased over 2 years ago as a "low-end" workstation: CPU P4 2.94 GHz, no VT, 2 GB RAM, Intel integrated graphics/128 MB RAM
o Initially installed virtualized using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on Win XP Pro host and allocated 1 GB of RAM to guest OS
o Currently running multi-boot.

Home Premium runs very well (but heavier than XP Pro) via multi-boot, but did very poorly virtualized with the host CPU usage at 100% at after boot. My processor was challenged and probably the video card as well.

[ASpace]

I have been using Vista personally for 2 weeks and I am pretty happy with it . For sure I think it is the most secure , most beautiful and most useful Windows ever . Much easier to understand by new users , more intuitive .

I must admit it is different in many aspects , it is different that previous Windowses and it does take some time until you get used to it and its specifications . However , this is normal . If it was the same as XP (for example) , why would it be Vista at all , it would have been XP.

My vote is "Excellent" - a.k.a. happy Microsoft customer ;D

-{ Quote: "
If you respond to this poll, please post:

o VERSION(S) of Vista you are using or have used (home basic, home premium, business, ultimate).

o HOST PC HARDWARE SPECS (processor speed, processor VT/no. cores, RAM, video card/RAM, etc.).
" }-


x86 Vista Home Premium edition , Intel Processor 1.87 Ghz , 2 Ghz RAM (+ flash for ReadyBoost) , Mobile Intel video express card

[bigc73542]

Vista Home Premium. I have not had any negative experience with Vista yet. I have only had two programs that I ran on XP Pro that didn't work on Vista. I have been running Vista ever since Microsoft sent me the first Beta when it was first released for testing by the Microsoft registered beta testers.

[WSFuser]

With SP1 + vLite + service tweaking, Vista (Business x86) does rather well on my computer:

Athlon 64 3200+ @2.5Ghz (single core)
512MB (yes you read that correctly, MB)
GeForce 6600GT

[strangequark]

been running Vista Business since it came out, and betas before that, have had no problems so far except for one program and an old TV capture card that only worked sporadically on XP.

Core 2 Duo 6700
Radeon 1650
4 GB Ram [it's so cheap these days]

[cet]

Running vista premium on a toshiba laptop.Runs smoothly,no problems so far.But I prefer using my old desktop win XP.Why; because it feels using an old comfortable shoe.Lol

[midway40]

Another excellent vote here :) SP1 did fix some small annoyances I had and it works great now.

[PoetWarrior]

I began using Vista Home Premium very early on. Performed a clean install on my Dell 410 as soon as it came to the house. All the drivers worked properly even installed Audigy 2 card using KX audio driver instead of on board sound.

There have been a few performance updates to Vista that did settle her down. Vista liked to churn the hard drive at first, but not now.

The most demanding game I play is Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. Vista handles it fine.

I really appreciate the UAC because it allows me to use the semi-adminstrative account that's really a standard user. I've had no malware or viruses with this setup.

Wouldn't go back to XP Pro because it's been a great experience. First Defense has been great with Vista and is my main backup plan coupled with System Restore. The Vista install disk can use a system restore point to recover from a non-bootable situation.

:)

[TOMxEU]

Windows Vista Home Premium x86 with Aero enabled on AMD 2,2 GHz (1 core), ATI Radeon 9600 256MB (DX9.0), 1GB DDRAM 333MHz, 60GB HDD, 19" LCD. ::)

I use Vista since December 2006 and fall in love with it, though I had to stop playing games due to it, since almost none, that worked at XP, works on Vista, but it is a small price to pay for a better security and reliability. I voted Good, because of occasionally problems with IE and WMP. Anyway I am quite satisfied so far. :)

P.S.: I just bought VistaHPx64 OEM and I wait till my new PC is shipped to me (AMD Phenom 9600BE, 8GB DDR2, ATI 3870), so I can start playing games again. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[lodore]

vista home premium 32bit.
quad core intel Q6600
2GB ram 1024 MHZ
maybe get another 1gb stick when i got some cash.
nvidia 8800gt graphics card
creative x-fi sound card.
500gb hard drive space= 2X 250Gb hard drives.
its working quite well i hope Sp1 solves a few issues thou.

[Ade 1]

Been using Vista since Feb 07 and have been v happy with it. Initial issues with soundcard drivers and video drivers but they were sorted some time ago now. Never had a BSOD since installed. Using Home Premium 32-bit. Installed SP1 a couple of weeks ago and no probs whatsoever. So I voted excellent. :thumb:

[BuzzStone]

Vista HP32, AMD 6000+ dual core, 8800GT, 4Gb Ram. I did not have this set-up a year ago when I installed Vista, but in any case, Vista has performed extremely well. Very pleased!

[appster]

Well I have to admit it's pretty to look at, but that comes at a stiff price (compared to WinXP)! It demands more hardware resources than XP, runs slower than XP, and some peripheral drivers still haven't been updated to work with Vista!

[Aaron Here]

-{ Quote: "Well I have to admit it's pretty to look at, but that comes at a stiff price (compared to WinXP)! It demands more hardware resources than XP, runs slower than XP, and some peripheral drivers still haven't been updated to work with Vista!" }-
That pretty well sums it up for me as well.

[BuzzStone]

I disagree with the above two posters with regards to speed, as I see no difference. 2 gig or more of ram is necessary for top performance. There may be the odd driver issue, but I have not experienced any. Now that Vista has been out to the public for over a year, most issues have been addressed.

[bktII]

-{ Quote: "With SP1 + vLite + service tweaking, Vista (Business x86) does rather well on my computer:

Athlon 64 3200+ @2.5Ghz (single core)
512MB (yes you read that correctly, MB)
GeForce 6600GT" }-

@WSFuser

Very impressive!

What did you leave out?

[WSFuser]

I removed the majority of Vista except Aero, the Firewall, a few miscellaneous drivers/services, and anything that cannot yet be removed with vLite.

[mrfargoreed]

Using Vista Ultimate with SP1. I find it runs far smoother than XP ever did. I do feel that it is bloated (20GB!) and I do get times when the whole machine seems to go into a world of it's own and that little green bar comes up in the explorer window as though it's searching for something and I wait, and I wait, and then it suddenly leaps back into life again. It's the only gripe I have with it though. File transfers much faster, looks nicer and my whole setup feels much better. And the missus likes it, too. ;)

[Coldmoon]

VERSION: Vista Business x32
HOST PC: Compaq Evo circa 2003 - P4 2.5 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Asus N6200 (Nvidia Gforce GPU) w/128 MB (add-on card)

Waiting for some more feedback on SP1 before I decide on upgrading; especially given that at least one critical pre-cursor to the upgrage still needs additional work...

[lucas1985]

-{ Quote: "Waiting for some more feedback on SP1 before I decide on upgrading; especially given that at least one critical pre-cursor to the upgrage still needs additional work..." }-
Yup. Early adopters often get screwed.
197922
;D ;D ;D

[YeOldeStonecat]

Not fond of it yet...run it on several PCs of mine....
*P4 C2D running at 3.4 GHz, 3 gigs of RAM, 512 meg ATI Radeon, 10,000rpm WD Raptor hard drive.
*IBM Thinkpad Pentium "M" 1.86, 1.5 gigs of RAM, 7,200rpm HD, 64 meg ATI graphics
*P4 Duo Core..I think 2.0GHz, 2 gigs RAM, 256 meg ATI Fire GL, 7,200rpm HD.

I find network browsing sluggish....even after installing SP1
Logon is sluggish...even after SP1
Working with files is sluggish....even after SP1

One of the biggest annoyances...to get to the areas of network properties where you wish to edit components..such as TCP/IP, or change wireless settings...it takes so many more clicks to get to those than XP or 2K. Especially painful when I try to walk a client through getting there over the phone...nearly impossible with Vista...whereas it was a 15 second quick 'n easy thing with XP or Vista. It's like..they made those components difficult to get to.

[trjam]

Once you set up the way that is best for you, it really isnt so bad. Actually I like it.:thumb:

[djohn]

love it:thumb: Vista home premium Hp laptop 1.66GHz Intel core 2 duo -250GigHD- 3 Gigs Ram-Intel chipset.

[midway40]

I'm still loving it here. Anybody got a problem with that can kiss my big shiny...



Start Orb ;D

[djohn]

-{ Quote: "I'm still loving it here. Anybody got a problem with that can kiss my big shiny...
LMAO


Start Orb ;D[/QUOTE

[Osaban]

Vista Ultimate on Asus laptop, Intel Core 2 T7400 @ 2.16 GHz 2 GB RAM

I've had it for less than a week, and I'm impressed in terms of graphics, elegance, smoothness of operation in conjunction with my new machine.

Even with a fast computer, I find it fairly slow booting (66 processes in Vista, 36 with XP). I like XP a lot, but it really feels outdated when you try Vista.

[InVitroVeritas]

Among other problems, with Vista even a highend recent computer really feels outdated compared to the same material with XP installed.

[ErikAlbert]

Yes, I like WinVISTA very much, because I don't have it. ;)

[HURST]

What amazes me the most, is the tie between "excellent" and "poorly", being both options the most voted.

love it or hate it I guess

[strangequark]

-{ Quote: "What amazes me the most, is the tie between "excellent" and "poorly", being both options the most voted.

love it or hate it I guess" }-

yeah I'd noticed that as well,
being of a skeptical nature I wonder if all those who ticked "poorly" have actually used Vista or if some, recalcitrant posters, thought they should make up the numbers ;D

mind you they might say that of the "excellent" tickers :dry:

[AKAJohnDoe]

-{ Quote: "
If you respond to this poll, please post:

o VERSION(S) of Vista you are using or have used (home basic, home premium, business, ultimate).
" }-
Vista Home Premium, since June 2007. Vista Home Premium SP1 since March 2008.
-{ Quote: "
o HOST PC HARDWARE SPECS (processor speed, processor VT/no. cores, RAM, video card/RAM, etc.).
" }-
Intel Core2 Duo T7200 @ 2GHz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400
-{ Quote: "
o If you run (or ran) Vista virtualized, in addition to the host specs, please post the VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE you used, the GUEST OS and the GUEST OS RESOURCES ALLOCATED (RAM, and in some cases, video RAM).
" }-
None

[yahoo]

Vista Ultimate 64bit.

C2D T7200, 3GB RAM.

Love it.

[EASTER]

Excellent 31 34.44%
Good 21 23.33%
Fair 9 10.00%
Poorly 31 34.44%

At this point looks like a dead heat between the two farthest extremes.

A 50/50 result.

I don't use Vista nor will, but for sake of comparisons thought this might be of some interests to those who do.

EASTER

[AKAJohnDoe]

-{ Quote: "Excellent 31 34.44%
Good 21 23.33%
Fair 9 10.00%
Poorly 31 34.44%

At this point looks like a dead heat between the two farthest extremes.

A 50/50 result.

I don't use Vista nor will, but for sake of comparisons thought this might be of some interests to those who do.

EASTER" }-
Mathematically, this is 57.77/44.44, which of course is more than 100%. Likely due to those who checked more than one box, as I did.

[EASTER]

No matter.

Anything new is always going to take center stage irregardless of discovered or even unrealized issues pressed upon by customers with their own opinions of it.

Frankly, i view Vista as somewaht of a disappointment even in spite of the transitions by many over to it since it's release.

There has to be something earth-shattering in a new O/S IMHO to drive the masses over to it from the O/S they long depended on and still realize but positive results from it in comparison.

[rookieman]

It seems to be running well here.It seems M$ is going to put out Windows 7!Hopefully this one will be liked as much as XP!!!;D

[Tunerz]

Vista Home Premium
Athlon 64 x2 1.7GHz, NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 559mb, 2,048 MB DDR2 RAM.
I played it for sometime. I like those eye-candy features, but I think that's all I like about it. I really don't like it consuming 512+mb of memory at default, makes me wonder how will I run resource hungry apps if the system is already hungry for more resources. I'm just waiting for software companies to adjust to Vista.

[RAD]

I have very mixed feelings, ad gave it a "fair".

I have been running VISTA Home Premium for about 16 months.

I needed an upgrade to my home Win98 machine, and I am very familiar with XP pro, as I run it at work and on another home computer. I figured VISTA was 'the future" so I decided to give it a try.

The first month was hell. HP Printer drivers for nearly new printers unavailable; MS Works spreadsheets had a bug that wouldn't allow them to print at all under VISTA; in short, it might have been only two little problems, but they were the only two things I really used every day, and noone (not MS, not HP) knew how to straighten it out.
Eventually the probs were acknowledged and patches were issued.

UAC is very annoying, and boot time was about 5 minutes. Untold number of background "services" keep the hard disk and memory churning constantly.
At that point I *almost* returned the computer, but Officemax said I could play with it as long as I wanted and they would honor a return at any time, since VISTA was so new and lots of problems had been reported. So I kept working with it, just because I kept feeling "VISTA is the future".

Over the next year I learned how to turn off most of the annoying services and startup programs, and the "Aero" nonsense, and I have to admit that Vista was extremely stable...though still seems "sluggish" compared to my work computer running XP. (Both computers are running 2.8 GHz dual-cores. Vista has 4 Gigs of Ram, XP only 2)

....but Vista was safe and stable, so I began to like it and became somewhat of a defender of Vista in numerous conversations.

I had tried to get a disk-imaging program to prevent disaster, and that is how I stumbled upon the TI forums. I am a registered owner of TI10, but as we all know, it just really doesn't work with Vista, so I had given up on it and uninstalled it and just considered it a $30 lesson in not being a sucker on the internet. :) Anyway, Vista was working smoothly, so I became complacent.

I was on the "Automatic Windows Updates". Then, about two months ago, my computer was black-screen when I came home, and I couldn't reboot. Windows Repair could fix anything either, so I did a complete System Restore from my OEM recovery disks and spent the next month restoring all my programs and data from various copy locations. Eventually, by looking at the logs, I determined that it was the automatic update that had disabled my computer.
This sent me on a mission to find imaging software that really works with VISTA. After extensive testing on the free trial version, I decided on Paragon Drive Backup 8.51

Then came VISTA SP1.
It, again scrambled my system....in repeated attempts to install. But at least this time i was able to restore pre-SP1 images without problem. Still, repeated failed attempts, plus attempts at self diagnosis, plus restoration of images, plus MS support techs asking me if I had turned off my antivirus program (duh!) all blew about two weeks worth of working on my computer all night every night.

In the end, it was all traced to one corrupt Vista system file. The SP1 installer could identify it as corrupt, but then would just hang there. The fact that this wasn't just a simple and obvious problem/fix even to numerous MS support techs blew my mind. I finally found one who knew what he was doing though (Thanks Raja!).

So anyway, my final opinion is that I have spent countless hours futzing with an operating system that MS released without sufficient testing, and I have ended up turning off most of its "features" to make it as much like XP as possible. I have to ask myself 'What was MS thinking?"?!?!?!?!

The final straw was that I had been waiting for SP1 because I heard MS had improved the incredibly dumbed-down disk defragmenter that Vista originally came with. That caused me to break into outright guffaws when I saw the newer version !!?!? WHAT ARE THEY THINKING ?!?!? It is almost as if MS is deliberately trying to alienate their customer base!

So, now, I have bought Raxco PerfectDisk 2008, just to have a defrag capoability that lets me know what XP defragger let me know. (Admittedly PD_2008 has a lot more too.)

But this just blew any shred of sympathy or loyalty to MS that I may have had out the window. My next macxhine will not have a MS op system, even if I have to learn Linux ! :D My feeling now, is that Vista is an "acceptable" system, but WHY ??? WHAT FOR ?!?!? Why so much meaningless change and retrogression !?!? Is MS using this as a testbed to train new programmers ??
I just don't get it.

[Carver]

I voted fair, while I don't use Vista it does seem to be getting better slowly. While I don't think it can be called Truely Excellent yet, but I hope it will someday.

[Jadda]

Yes, I like Windows Vista, and there is no chance I will ever switch back to Windows XP. Vista is working perfect on my PC without any problems. So I'm very pleased.

[francisw19]

Hello all,

I selected Excellent.

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP1 on the following hardware:

Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.80 GHz, Asus P5N32-E SLI, 4GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer w/ LED @ DDR2-800, 2x eVGA 8800GTS 320MB in SLI @ 621/1480/900, Creative SB X-FI Platinum, 2x Lite-On 20x DVD-R/RW w/ Lightscribe, Dual Layer, 3x 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATAII, Corsair HX620W, Silverstone Temjin TJ09 w/ Window.

I have all the 'Bling' turned on in Vista (Aero, Dreamscene, sidebar, etc...) and it runs silky smooth for me. No problems at all! :thumb:

On a side note, for those interested, my X-Fi is working perfectly in Vista. No SCP issues to report whether it's in games or just listening to music/watching movies. 8)

[sukarof]

I have had Vista for almost a year now. In the beginning I was not too happy with it. For some reason Vista updates always failed to install.
It could be fine for a month or so and then suddenly when I looked at the history it had errors and they were not installed. So for a half of a year I jumped back and forth between XP and Vista. (got my license locked by Storagecraft since they felt I moved, (deactivated) Shadowprotect too much :) )
Now since new year I have used Vista regularly (all the updates install fine now) and I like it. I have no problems (SP1 installed just fine)
The speed is excellent, I´d say Vista with all the enhancements on are at least as fast as XP ime. I would say a bit faster actually. And I love UAC.
It was actually my occasional visits into Linux world that teach me to appreciate it :)

Nowadays I have my FDISR snapshot of XP archived on my USB drive.
So, I am very happy with Vista 32. I have Vista 64 snapshot too, but I have not played with it that much. Mostly because FDISR and Shadowprotect are not yet compatible. We cant take FDISR snapshots in 64 yet or archives of 64 from the 32bit installation. But as soon as those two are compatible I will start exploring it.

[Sm3K3R]

Used it 4 months, now im back to XP and very happy.Nice interface but too damn buggy.

[BuzzStone]

I've been using Vista HP32 without problems since Feb. 07. I believe most complainers have never given it a fair trial (or base their info on hearsay), or have junk computers or lack knowledge as to how to use them. It is faster than my old XP Pro. You should have, however, 2+Gb of ram. My system has 4Gb of ram.

[bigc73542]

I had no problems with the Vista on my last comp. And the new comp I just bought with Vista Home Premium SP1 seems to run even better than the last one. :thumb: ;D

[Seer]

After some heavy features/services tweaking and (most important) ditching Aero for Classic theme, I can pretty much say that I have grown to like Vista. I just still hate the name.

[tisungho]

-{ Quote: "I just still hate the name." }-

VISTA: Virus, Intrusion, Spyware, Trojan, Ad-ware ;D ;D ;D

[HyperFlow]

-{ Quote: "No matter.

Anything new is always going to take center stage irregardless of discovered or even unrealized issues pressed upon by customers with their own opinions of it.

Frankly, i view Vista as somewaht of a disappointment even in spite of the transitions by many over to it since it's release.

There has to be something earth-shattering in a new O/S IMHO to drive the masses over to it from the O/S they long depended on and still realize but positive results from it in comparison." }-I was looking for the right words to add my 2 cents in on this poll and i could not agree more with what you say. I like my xp pro and i'm sure vista has some thing that i would like. but until they offer some thing that is going to reevaluation the computer world I will stay with xp until i have to change than i will go to mac. :argh:

[EASTER]

MS policy is not acceptable IMO. Many will like Vista for one reason, it's new and different, even if it does have a few extra security preventions, takes too much energy components just to drive it stable. I would call it nothign more really then a Lull untill their next O/S and nothing else.

[BuzzStone]

Although I am have no problems with Vista, I fully agree with Easter's view "nothing more than a lull until Microsoft's next O/S".

[Osaban]

-{ Quote: "MS policy is not acceptable IMO. Many will like Vista for one reason, it's new and different, even if it does have a few extra security preventions, takes too much energy components just to drive it stable. I would call it nothign more really then a Lull untill their next O/S and nothing else." }-

Have you tried it? New and different is a good reason to change. It is a lot more secure than XP (this alone should be in tune with the Wilders community), and as far as I'm concerned as fast as XP.

When XP was first released, it wasn't even half as good as Vista. Speed in a computer is important, but it's not everything. I think one should give Vista a bit of time to mature.

[bigc73542]

-{ Quote: "Have you tried it? New and different is a good reason to change. It is a lot more secure than XP (this alone should be in tune with the Wilders community), and as far as I'm concerned as fast as XP.

When XP was first released wasn't even half as good as Vista. Speed in a computer is important, but it's not everything. I think one should give Vista a bit of time to mature." }-


Totally agree :thumb:

[Meriadoc]

Vista Ultimate 64 bit I like... Address Space Layout Randmonizer, hardware-backed Data Execution Protection, Kernel Patch Protection and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications.

Test Drive Vista Ultimate without installing it (http://www.windowsvistatestdrive.com/ultimate.aspx?btype=2)

[bigc73542]

I really like vista but here is a little vista humor

http://www.flixxy.com/vista-operating-system-humour.htm