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Vista who knew!

Postby sonic » Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:06 pm

I actually reinstalled Vista home premiuem last night after updating it and applying a few tweaks and after turning off the sidebar LOL ;D That I actually liked for few hours. I installed halo, fs9, rainbow six etc.... they it actually runs smoother than with xp ( to my surpise)! I only have one gig ram I am gonna get another gig next week but after I fist installed it a year ago and very dissapointed in performance I am inpressed right now and actually much perfer it over xp (never thought  I would say that) :D
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Kaworu » Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:48 pm

So you removed the sidebar and preformed some tweaks? Which tweaks? I'm sure there are many people out their salivating at your story!  ;)

Vista is weird. I've seen it run great on simply terrible systems, and terrible on systems that reguarly turn up in my dreams.  ;)  :D
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby sonic » Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:47 pm

I just googled it and read thru some and wrote down what I did so I could go back if I needed to, I'll post them when I get home. Nick N needs to write a book on tweaking xp vista etc... I would buy it thats for sure. ;D I would like to now what tweaks are good and bad one said turn off superfetch another one said leave it on I didnt know so I left it alone.
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Ashar » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:48 pm

I like the new stuff Vista does...That sidebar thing is actually quite helpful... ;D
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby sonic » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:03 pm

I really liked it for a few hours but then kinda got old But I actually played around with it for a while, How much system resources does it take up I wonder.  :o
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Mobius » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:27 pm

I personally love Vista, and can't imagine going back to XP.  There's been a few hiccups here and there, but for the most part, it seems quite nice. :)
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby th3flyboy » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:34 pm

I really liked it for a few hours but then kinda got old But I actually played around with it for a while, How much system resources does it take up I wonder.  :o

it takes up a bit, but i really dont worry with system resources on my new rig, on my old one, i was getting like 100% cpu usage on desktop with nothing running (p4 2.4 ghz) now on my new rig its rarely over 10% a core on desktop
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Ashar » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:57 pm

I personally love Vista, and can't imagine going back to XP.  There's been a few hiccups here and there, but for the most part, it seems quite nice. :)


Haven't had any problems so far, but I too can't imagine going back to XP...The UI just seems so clean...And I love Aero ;)
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Wii » Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:08 pm

[quote]I personally love Vista, and can't imagine going back to XP.
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Ivan » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:46 pm

[quote]So you removed the sidebar and preformed some tweaks? Which tweaks? I'm sure there are many people out their salivating at your story!
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Kaworu » Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:38 pm

Vista loves 64 bit hardware...


Not surprising! Vista is WONDERFUL! Sure, it eats your PC alive, but it's still nice.
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Wii » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:43 pm

I have a computer that runs just GREAT with Vista. (So says me and the experts.)
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Katahu » Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:23 pm

I got Windows Vista and I got no problem with it. Ok, I get some CTDs now and then, but that's only because I have a habit of keeping the computer on almost all day and all night every day. ;D
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Re: Vista who knew!

Postby Wii » Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:09 pm

I've heard people ranting on about how Vista's extra features (like the gadgets) just slow their computer down and all that but I see no difference in my computer performence at all when I disable those. ;D
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