Comments on: Conversation Surrounding Windows Vista

By: Rocky

Rocky — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:33:55 +0000

I am unable to get vista to install there 4.0 service pack 2 (kb936181) security update. Every time it down loads it says it is O.K. but the next time I boot up it comes right back to be installed. Does any one out there have a fix for this, it is driving me crazy.

By: seabee_ea

seabee_ea — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:35:17 +0000

I’m a little late in jumping on this but my laptop is running 3GB of ram and it’s a whole lot slower than my desktop running 1GB. I find it hard to believe you’re running anything less and it’s flawless. I’ve been thinking about turning back to XP. At least when I fixed a problem it lasted for a few months. Vista is nothing but problems everyday. Trust me when I say, you have to download an update to play a game. That’s absurd, when it should have been compatible in the first place. It’s not the retailer’s responsibility to update the information for compatibility, it Microcrap’s. Besides, haven’t there been issues before stating Gates wasn’t the creator???? But, I don’t make billions, so what do I know?

By: Craig Ross

Craig Ross — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:54:08 +0000

I have a HP DV9200 series Notebook with AMD dual core processor, and 2GB RAM. It was purchased the day Windows Vista was released, January 30, 2007. For about 11 months all was relatively well with my Vista Home Premium. I say relatively because I did experience some random error messages, and freezes, but I also had experienced the same with Windows XP. Some time in January of 2008, problems started to become more frequent, and I started getting the BSOD. Things got progressively worse and today, my notebook is nothing more than a boat anchor. I am currently waiting for a factory recovery disk that HP is shipping to me. My own recovery disks loaded OK and the OS worked for awhile., but eventually frequent BSOD started to occur. HP’s theory or hope is that my recovery disks were corrupted. On the presumption that my problem will NOT be solved by the installation of the factory recovery disks, does anyone have any suggestions. I have another computer running Vista Home Basic that is working OK, but all it is used for is email and surfing.

Craig Ross

By: johnr1

johnr1 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:17:13 +0000

Hey everybody. If you are skittish about vista and are thinking about getting xp or going back to xp just download microsoft virtual PC 2007 instead and then you can install xp and vista in the same OS. Its free. I would recommend having vista and then just doing a virtual machine install of XP. then you can run XP within vista whenever you need to for any old programs and stuff that you cant get to run. Vista ultimate is sooooooooooo cool and it is mega fast. Vista home basic does kinda suck and is slower in my opinion.

Microsoft virtual Pc 2007… get it!
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/virtualpc/default.mspx

(note depending on how good your hardware is your virtual install of vista or xp may run slower than if you had installed them separately as a dual boot so if you need to run some games that run in XP only you should do a dual boot but if you are just needing xp so you can use your old printer or something like that you should be totally fine. enjoy)

By: KASHUSHA

KASHUSHA — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:46:20 +0000

I just yesterday ordered TOSHIBA laptop with windows vista, i’m due to get it on friday, but now i red all your comments and i’m geting scared, if o took right decision…I need it only for work and home and i don’t need to have any special applications or programms…only microsoft office and interenet…maybe burn some cd’s or listen music…anyone who has used it for simple things like that is welcome to reply to my comment…my e-mail is realkashusha@hotmail.com Does anyone who used it for things like i listed is ok with vista? pleasr reply…

Thank you!

Kashusha

By: Lance

Lance — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:20:31 +0000

wow you people are retarded, stop toting xp because it’s superior, It’s Not!!! Vista is lil more than a year old and xp is riding on 8 or 9 years of updates and fixes. Do any of you even remmeber the original xp release? I doubt it, it was ridden with more bugs and crap than vista ever was. You guys are doing the same thing that people did when they had to change from win98 to xp or for that matter ANY new OS. There’s ALWAYS bugs and lil fixes required. Even in linux and those. I’ve had Vista since the week it came out and have never had a problem with it, it runs perfectly. And yes I use it hardcore for gaming, school and recording music! And F.Y.I for all buyers, Vista is a completely different OS core from Xp, everything is new…

By: Martha

Martha — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:51:18 +0000

My son received a brand new computer with vista for his birthday. And he is ready to smash it to pieces. It freezes several times a day. I think I am going to spend $100 and buy a windows xp disk and totally dump the vista.

By: Sgt Firestorm

Sgt Firestorm — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:12:57 +0000

One other thing I must point out, I myself keep having the “blue screen of death” come up with errors like Windows has experienced a sudden stop and has been shut down to prevent damage to your pc or even “Windows has encountered an Error in a Non_System_Paging_Sector and must restart”. I can’t fix this… I’ve done all I know how to do and the fact is… Vista is just a pathetic excuse for an operating system. I’ve tried everything to fix this screen and it keeps happening. Again, Microsoft could try so much harder to bring us quality products like Apple does. Apple shows the consumer on numerous accounts that THEY CARE!!! Microsoft does not.

By: Sgt Firestorm

Sgt Firestorm — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:39:35 +0000

Honestly, I bought a brand new laptop about 2-3 months ago that is completely decked out in RAM with a Core 2 Duo processor. It came installed with Windows Vista and needless to say, I’ve restored this computer like 4 times because of the massive amount of fallacies with Windows Vista. Not only am I disappointed in Microsoft for putting such a crappy OS out there but I am actually considering going back to Windows XP. I’ve never used an OS with so many issues problems in my life. I miss Windows 98, at least it worked a lot better…

By: Renato

Renato — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:14:49 +0000

I bought a Laptop for uploading all our current software like AUTOCAD and VPN , etc…. most of them crashed (not the ms propietary software). I took back that Office Depot and exchanged it for one with XP.

Vista has no compatibility to XP…nor to current versions of autocad , vpn, and I think all the software around there …

At home I will move away from Microsoft… I am going to Mac or Linux