Vista is out - What do you think?

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 15 Apr 2007, 19:13

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:I've never had a single crash/BSOD with Vista. Ever.

Dammit, just had my first BSOD. I needed to format (new HDD) and it all went well. Then when it was at my desktop for the first time, i plugged in my G15 and a network cable, and BAM!!! BSOD.

Sucks...

AlphA wrote:I'm curious, do you guys run your PC's 24/7?

Yep

Never goes off

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 15 Apr 2007, 19:30

LMAO.

AlphA · Post by **AlphA** » 15 Apr 2007, 19:34

It was bound to happen sooner or later.....

My laptop (running XPSP2) BSOD's at least once a month. My wife's machine (XPSP2) never BSOD's......but she doesn't run it 24/7.

Post by **ryanrich** » 15 Apr 2007, 19:36

AlphA wrote:
DAE_JA_VOO wrote:
ryanrich wrote:
DAE_JA_VOO wrote:I've never had a single crash/BSOD with Vista. Ever.
Same here.
COOL!!! Now we're like brothers!! Like we have this spiritual connection!! w00t!

lol just kidding man
I'm curious, do you guys run your PC's 24/7?

For the first month I ran Vista on my PC it was on 24/7. Now my girlfriend uses that PC for her graphic design stuff, but it's still on most of the time...

My laptop is on almost all the time as well, and so far not a single issue. I must say Vista seems to run much better on my laptop than on the PC which is an Opteron 170 @ 2.5GHz with 2GB RAM.

DoOb · Post by **DoOb** » 17 Apr 2007, 13:26

ryanrich wrote:
For the first month I ran Vista on my PC it was on 24/7. Now my girlfriend uses that PC for her graphic design stuff, but it's still on most of the time...

My laptop is on almost all the time as well, and so far not a single issue. I must say Vista seems to run much better on my laptop than on the PC which is an Opteron 170 @ 2.5GHz with 2GB RAM.

It also probably becoz everything is integrated, there are less issues, But i might be wrong

Post by **Ron2K** » 23 Apr 2007, 16:24

My network admin sold my soul to the devil this morning by installing Vista on my work machine.

What I think so far...

Post by **Stuart** » 08 Jun 2007, 19:08

Dunno if someone posted this link yet, but here are a ton of drivers for Vista users.

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 25 Jun 2007, 09:46

I read a couple of the pages from this thread but cannot find a suitable answer that justifies my question.

I'll ask it again since its a couple months down the road from when vista was brought out.

Im planning on switching over to Vista Ultimate this week, do I go with 32 bit or 64 bit?

I dont want to have tons of software compatibility problems like Windows XP 64 bit gave me.

Also, what is the performance difference between 32bit & 64bit ?

And how many of you guys using 64bit now?

CesarePlay · Post by **CesarePlay** » 25 Jun 2007, 10:25

My vista is giving me problems now. Ever sice it did an update is has gone very slow. I use it on my laptop. Also my index service has stopped working.

GreyWolf · Post by **GreyWolf** » 25 Jun 2007, 12:08

my brother uses Vista at work, he hates it. Programs simply disappear...

qace · Post by **qace** » 28 Jun 2007, 12:19

Does anyone know of a program to automatically install Vista updates and hotfixes that I have downloaded manually on a different machine ?

I have read about slipstream using nlite but that is to create a complete new installation DVD and not for updates alone.

Domino_PhoeniX · Post by **Domino_PhoeniX** » 28 Jun 2007, 12:23

someones got a copied version

CesarePlay · Post by **CesarePlay** » 28 Jun 2007, 12:24

I don't Vista is good. I had nothing but problems with it. Everything just stops responding.

tim · Post by **tim** » 28 Jun 2007, 13:44

I just got a new laptop, a HP Pavilion with Vista preloaded.
It was not a concern when I purchased because I thought i could just load my existing XP onto it.
I am now told there are no drivers available for this HP laptop and when you download drivers from the website for xp they don't work.
PS. laptop came without any software CD's etc. Instructions say you must make a vista restore file from the system for any future restores.
Any comments.

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 28 Jun 2007, 14:08

qace wrote:Does anyone know of a program to automatically install Vista updates and hotfixes that I have downloaded manually on a different machine ?

I have read about slipstream using nlite but that is to create a complete new installation DVD and not for updates alone.

I want to do the same, I'm also looking for an application that can install updates that I've downloaded from another machine.

This is because my main pc with Vista (which is installing atm

) doesn't have internet

Spicy-McHaggis · Post by **Spicy-McHaggis** » 28 Jun 2007, 14:28

when u see the updates available just reboot ur pc and it wil start

qace · Post by **qace** » 28 Jun 2007, 14:30

Tim Wrote

I just got a new laptop, a HP Pavilion with Vista preloaded.
It was not a concern when I purchased because I thought i could just load my existing XP onto it.
I am now told there are no drivers available for this HP laptop and when you download drivers from the website for xp they don't work.
PS. laptop came without any software CD's etc. Instructions say you must make a vista restore file from the system for any future restores.
Any comments.

Use HP Backup and recovery manager to create your restore cd. This should be insatlled on your HP Laptop.

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 28 Jun 2007, 14:37

Spicy-McHaggis wrote:when u see the updates available just reboot ur pc and it wil start

Hmm... perhaps you dont understand,

We have downloaded updates on PC 1 but havent installed them as we want to install the updates on PC 2.

qace · Post by **qace** » 28 Jun 2007, 15:24

ADV4NCED wrote

We have downloaded updates on PC 1 but havent installed them as we want to install the updates on PC 2.

That's it exactly.
I download the updates at work and then take them home to install on my pc.
I have re-installed Vista recenlty and now have about 70 updates. It is a really a long process to install 1 update at a time.

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 29 Jun 2007, 18:27

qace wrote:ADV4NCED wrote
We have downloaded updates on PC 1 but havent installed them as we want to install the updates on PC 2.
That's it exactly.
I download the updates at work and then take them home to install on my pc.
I have re-installed Vista recenlty and now have about 70 updates. It is a really a long process to install 1 update at a time.

Where do you download your updates from?

Can you give me a link?

Post by **Anthro** » 29 Jun 2007, 18:32

I always use: www.softwarepatch.com

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 29 Jun 2007, 19:09

shot Anthro

Have any of the service packs been released for vista yet?

Post by **Anakha56** » 29 Jun 2007, 21:33

http://www.autopatcher.com/autopatcher-vista/

why not use autopatcher?

*edit

try majorgeeks.com to see if they have the full file...

Soap · Post by **Soap** » 29 Jun 2007, 22:55

With all the gimicks and twice the number of services the system resource demand is horrid. On my old P4 3.0GHz with 512MB RAM and a FX5200 normal Xvid and MPEG2 videos lag a bit, not to speak of anything slower than 3.0GHz. I believe buying new hardware merely to suite an operating system is insane.

PsyCLown · Post by **PsyCLown** » 29 Jun 2007, 23:11

Its the 512MB RAM. Vista needs a minimum of 1GB but id say 1.5GB - 2GB to work properly