Getting rid of VISTA at last!

**Thorzilla** · 06-09-2009

I have been so frustrated with this infamous piece of SH*T over the past months. Slugish, slow, clunky and extremely inefficient. Back to XP tomorrow after finishing my backup.

Any of you guys happy to downgrade as well?

**Lunar_Chaos** · 06-09-2009

It's not that bad.

**-Deadpool-** · 06-09-2009

Have Vista at home and work, no problems or complaints.

Still running XP on one of my home PC's but only as its a fairly average spec and I know it wouldn't run Vista so haven't bothered.

**Bitbydeath** · 06-09-2009

I wouldn't consider it a downgrade to go to XP, but have you considered upgrading to Windows 7? I haven't tried it yet but have heard a lot of good things.

**tmacfan4321** · 06-09-2009

I'm using 7 RC1 right now and it is really, really good. I find it to be much improved over Vista all-around.

**MiNiMaL_sAnItY** · 06-09-2009

Still using vista on my laptop, and windows 7 on my PC. No problem on either machine. In b4 "lol vista uzez s0 mch ram" argument.

**Charl3z523** · 06-09-2009

Yeah, I hate Vista. Just today when copying 7 gigs of files to a flash card it kept saying "program not responding" was what Vista told me. But it was actually just doing it's job and I had to wait the 15 min for it to finish before that error went away.

That's how crappy it is, even Vista has low confidence in itself.

**Kael** · 06-09-2009

I think vista's better than XP, way better looking and more stable. I've used it on high-end and entry-level PCs and it works just as well on both.

**ABN4LIFE** · 06-09-2009

run Vista on my Laptop and its been good to me so far...

**admartian** · 06-09-2009

It is quite slow on the startup, epecially on my GF's computer. Not too bad on Uni computers, but if I had the choice, it would be XP, Ubuntu, or trying out Windows 7.

**mickice** · 06-09-2009

Beat you too it man, been back on XP for quite a while now.

Vista is a steaming pile of turd.

**SpyroViper** · 06-09-2009

Post your specs and switch to Windows 7.

**ex nihilo7** · 06-09-2009

Originally Posted by SpyroViper

Post your specs and switch to Windows 7.

I think he has a core 2 duo and an 8400gs video card. He asked a question before. Yes I also recommend switch to Windows 7 RC1/RC2.

**desolationw** · 06-09-2009

Cue applause . . .

now go and try the Windows 7 RC, you will be surprised. It the shinyness of vista, minus the slowness.

**Thorzilla** · 06-09-2009

For all of you recommending W7, I won't be putting a beta as an OS in my system coming from MS as good as it is. Rather have a stable XP. Playing around with MS's OSs is just like playing around with a nuclear reactor.

BTW: Dual Core @ 2.2Ghz, 256Mb 8400M G, 2G Ram.

**SpyroViper** · 06-09-2009

Dude, it's not a beta. It's a Release Candidate, different kettle of fish.

Also, in it's current state, it's more stable and secure than Windows XP. You won't believe it until you try it, it is FANTASTIC! Considering it's on my main gaming PC, that speaks for itself.

**V3nom** · 06-09-2009

I am not a fan of Vista at all.

Wasn't really a fan of XP either to be honest but I may give Windows 7 a shot if it's all that! lol

**AnotherRandom** · 06-09-2009

Try switiching to windows 7, i am fairly happy with it so far!

**SpyroViper** · 06-09-2009

It is!

Like I said, when I got my rig built for me, I said don't bother with an OS. I was so confident that Windows 7 X64 would work with everything I wanted on my rig. It hasn't let me down yet, even games that weren't designed with Win 7 X64 work on it. Hell, even Ubisoft games work on it, that's saying something.

Avast Works, Spybot works, Gamespy Comrade works, EA download manager works, FF works, everything just works!

**MiNiMaL_sAnItY** · 06-09-2009

Originally Posted by SpyroViper

It is!

Like I said, when I got my rig built for me, I said don't bother with an OS. I was so confident that Windows 7 X64 would work with everything I wanted on my rig. It hasn't let me down yet, even games that weren't designed with Win 7 X64 work on it. Hell, even Ubisoft games work on it, that's saying something.

Avast Works, Spybot works, Gamespy Comrade works, EA download manager works, FF works, everything just works!

Thank heavens for that! Those things didnt work in the previous windows versions at all!

**desolationw** · 06-09-2009

Look, if you have the time, install the W7 RC and see what it is like for yourself.

You may not like it, but i doubt that will happen. I haven't had any problems with it, software all works fine and it is not a sluggish as Vista. If you have a new-ish cpu, then you should be able to run 'Windows XP Mode' which is a XP virtual machine incase some programs don't work for you (again i doubt that will happen).

If you don't have the time, then just install XP like you had planned.

**SpyroViper** · 06-09-2009

It even runs on my Netbook!

Seriously, it runs blisteringly fast on a Netbook and super ultra uber n00b fast on my rig.

**rycexboi** · 06-09-2009

Was planning on downgrading, but decided to wait it out till Windows 7

**SpyroViper** · 06-09-2009

Just get the RC now and upgrade to 7 electronically in October..

**TTPS3** · 06-09-2009

vista works great for me ... and noticebly smoother since last SP ... i have 7 on my laptop which i was not impressed with to start with as it was much slower ... but seems to be getting better!