Comments on: "We Remove Vista; We Install XP"

By: virtuetovice

virtuetovice — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:30:20 +0000

I vaguely remember XP having a lot of problems when it first came out

By: Neal Andrews

Neal Andrews — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:39:35 +0000

I removed vista & installed xp dvd plays sound but no picture. Please help!

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:45:24 +0000

The problem is that the cd boot must have all sata and sata2 drivers incooperated. I made this work for myself, I have made a dvd now which can boot the ERD comander , install xp, and run ghost for a backup restore. All the different environments have all drivers needed to run on the new notebooks.
Send me an E-Mail and we can discuss directly (Kcarlo@t-online.de)

By: Victor3

Victor3 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:58:24 +0000

I have tried every single route to uninstall vista in order to install xp. I need xp to run my lotus 123 programs (9 of them, all macro driven) but can not install 123 on my laptop (HP compaq 6720S notebook pc, its 2 weeks old). But 123 works perfectly on main dell pc running xp. Its no good trying newer version of 123 as my complicated macro programs dont work, god only knows I have tried. It has been close to 120 hrs of solution hunting for this and know matter what I try, the laptop wont:
a) boot from cd rom (original xp prog).
b) reformat hard drive.
c) fdisk
d) create partitions

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME.

By: Spin

Spin — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:36:11 +0000

There’s a lot of nonsense written about vista, to be frank.

As mentioned above, early driver issues that no longer exist are still used as a branch with which to beat vista. I’m using Home premium for 3d, photoshop and game developement on a fairly humble machine (e4300,2gb,8600) and find it to be stable, intuitive, secure and aesthetically smooth. According to what I have read from the anti-vista crowd none of the software I use every day works, I should be expecting crashes left right and centre and struggle to do anything I was used to with xp.

I suspect that, like the image above, lack of user knowledge is the cause of most people’s complaints about vista (after all, looking at the image, how much stead would you apply to the opinion of someone who needs to go to a store to get their OS installed?).

For gaming there IS a performance hit (maybe 10-20% depending on which game/engine is running) but if you are a serious gamer you would likely have both the hardware to support that and the understanding of the implications of an OS switch. I guess those who are dissapointed are people who think that a new OS will somehow run better than their current one on 3-5 year old hardware.

By: erathoniel

erathoniel — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:27:01 +0000

Well, yeah, Vista would work on an 4GB RAM computer, because it probably has all the additional necessary hardware. An 8800 (I’m assuming nVidia) is powerful enough too.

By: Phil Migrowen

Phil Migrowen — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:52:37 +0000

That sign doesn’t inspire much confidence in that shop’s services because the guy in it looks like George Bush.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:03:06 +0000

I had a free copy of Vista Ultimate laying around, so when I built my new computer last June, I installed it on there. Sure, I’ve had problems with it (but fairly minor ones, at that), but overall it’s got some nice features I really enjoy using, and DX10 support is important for me. I don’t really notice much of a performance hit while playing games (possibly because I’ve got an 8800/4GB RAM), so I really don’t see any reason to not keep using it myself.

If I could, I’d install Vista on the laptop I’m on right now.

By: erathoniel

erathoniel — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:02:34 +0000

Stick with XP. Vista’s like a battlemech with no weapons and an internal combustion engine instead of a fusion one. XP is a fully armed Atlas. Crippling for a civilian market? Maybe, except the market stayed the same.

By: i8strict9

i8strict9 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:18:55 +0000

Mac = Graphics is so Mac Classic of you.
You know I’m pretty sure adobe has released Illustrator for windows.
Sorry I don’t really mean to be sarcastic… but this preconcieved notion that a Mac is needed to be a graphics designer is crazy.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:01:34 +0000

@ William

I have the CS3 Master Collection and I am often working in Photoshop, After Effects or other programs while Premiere Pro is encoding and Vista copes perfectly fine with that and I currently only have a Pentium 4 and 2gb Ram. It also has no problem at all with running Autocad 2008 while encoding video in the background.

Fair enough you find Mac OS works better for you but that doesnt eliminate the fact that the hardware is a total rip off. If you spent $2000 on a Mac and $2000 on a PC the PC would be the faster machine. When I upgrade my PC later this year it will have as much processing power as any Mac on sale, it will be completely silent and it will cost about $2k less than the equivalent Mac would.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:50:32 +0000

Hey, all I can say is that I like Vista. It is very stable and supports lots of different options that you just don’t get from XP. These people that have so many problems with Vista is because there is Jello in there head where a brain should be. Yes it was bad to begin with but that was only because there were no real hardware companies that were putting out Vista Drivers. But were are just about past all that now. Hell… NVIDIA’s 8 series drivers are getting released faster than any other series sense the beginning of there first product. It’s always going to be like this, just like the move from 98 to XP (I’m not including ME or 2000, I like to prettend that never happened, lol) So as long as your not trying to run Vista on some 6 year old computer, I don’t see any reason to hate it.

By: William

William — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:06:56 +0000

a perfect example is right now I have around 30 windows in Firefox going, I’m editing several large images in PhotoShop, I have something going in Dreamweaver and I have Maya open (working on some 3-d stuff).

If I tried all that on my PC running Vista, it would crash hard.

I’m definitely not a Mac elitist, but I need it for my art projects. I certainly believe PCs are better for gaming and other tasks.

By: William

William — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:03:25 +0000

Norbit: style over substance? Well.. I use Mac because I edit some very large graphic files. I have a PC of equal power, but the Mac simply works better when it comes to editing things, particularly editing numerous things at once. The OS is stable enough to handle so many tasks going on at once. If I tried the same workload on my PC, the OS simply would crash every time.

By: Tall_n_Moody

Tall_n_Moody — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:12:22 +0000

I say that if my 3.2 GHZ, 1gb of Ram, GT7300 lecturers PC is too slow to have VISTA running on it then I’m going to keep XP. When are microsoft going to learn that as the PC becomes more and more a consumer item households are not going to buy a new one every year. Households don’t buy a new DVD player every year.

Also my mother-in-law is still using an amd 500 with windows me to do her teaching materials on. OK she isn’t a gamer, but do microsoft even consider some people are comfortable with what they have. Take a leaf out of Nintendo’s book with the Wii.