Posted on 02/28/2008 10:57:49 PM PST by militem
My recent experience is this. My HP laptop HD crashed. It came with vista premium . My Pavilion DV6435nr Laptop has 2GB Memory and Nvidia Ge-Force 6150 Go Graphics.. I decided to go back to XP Pro........NOT !
Tried everything south of Friday to get it to work. All the hardware such as graphics and sound cards would not work with XP Pro. Searched for a few days for drivers or geek tweeks etc and no joy !
.... Had to go back to Vista so I upgraded to Vista Ultimate 64bit.
No problems at all thus far after a month of daily abuse and use......:o)
I know that my next puter will be a solid state drive desktop that I build with as much memory and processor power I can build into it . Vista 64bit is better than per my take if ya HAVE to use Vista.
You will have to endure a bit of relearning on Vista as opposed to XP. In a effort to make the OS very user friendly, they P'O'd a few geeks who like to tinker and these geeks, IMO, did not spend the time needed to realize that they can tinker, but the way to access the OS was different.
You will like the way it keeps track and organizes music without your input. The new windows mail is also improved and very secure.
One thing that some find aggravating is the new security features. many complained about un-secure MS OS's, and now they complain because they are so secure it aggravates them. You can turn this stuff off, which I did at first, but then I turned it all back on, realizing that it was a big, huge security improvement, especially for those that stay connected all the time.
Keep my screen name handy and FR mail me if you have any questions. Perhaps I can help you make the same user adjustments that I have made, and save you some grief in the end. The OS is really different, as you will discover, and there are some things that may not be there that you were used to on XP, but they are there, just not evident. (like the run command)
OK thanks
BTW & FWIW, I often tell folks. "When I want to work on the computer I use the Windoze machine; when I want the computer to work for me, I choose the Mac."
Just curious: aside from testing new code from a code editor, (which I do frequently) WTH is the use of a “RUN” command?
Most of all that HP is crap!
Get a Dell with XP, Vista is still going through growing pains!
It's now located in the accessory folder and not on the start list.
BTW, I would not own any Apple stuff if you gave it to me. :-)
so where do we go from here......LOL.....
If there's a shortfall on the margins, it must be partly because the presence of it has set the bar of demands so high.
This is a natural consequence of excellence. Since Michael Jordan, the game has changed.
Anybody should be good at this particular target.
It's like putting a full magazine into the 10-ring from 50 ft. using a Ruger Mini-14 ranch rifle with a scope.
You are absolutely right, and I am sure Microsofties are beginning to realize that. So much so that they are making a serious U-turn in “throw in everything and a kitchen sink” philosophy of packaging software, and their new 64-bit versions of server (and client/desktop??) software is being severely slimmed down and modularized so as not to overburden the resources (computing as well as human - user/administrator’s)...
At least, that’s what I got from some of their FEs and road shows. They are extremely sensitive about and apprehensive not to repeat the failure (”disaster”, in their own words) of ME, yet Vista in its current shape seems to be “the son of ME” or something like it.
I don’t need their help. I got Fedore core 8 instead. It’s more friendly than the Windows whacker called Ubuntu.
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