contink Posted June 6, 2007 Posted June 6, 2007 After some "fun" starts I've finally gotten Vista installed on a dual boot machine although right now I'm not entirely sure what all the fuss is about.. Here however is a quick review in case anyone is interested. 1. How to kill your installer. Would you believe it's possible to actually disable your VGA controller completely and thus get.. erm.. yup.. no display at all.. can't shutdown, can't recover, can't repair using DVD.. reinstall time here we come. 2. Multiple monitors. Yeah, ok, not a biggy for most but the whole "driver limitation" thing is a pain in the backside.. It seems like MS are going backwards instead of forwards.. At most I reckon you can get about 6 monitors on one machine and the resources required to run 2 or 3 (3 being my norm in the office) is pretty high. Sure it looks pretty but it's slow and a bit thick. In a nutshell for anyone who uses multimonitors that have worked in XP or win2k, Vista is an expensive upgrade waiting to happen. 3. Pop ups? I see what you mean. I finally understood what people mean't about all the "are you sure?" pop-ups... You half expect it to come back with "Are you really sure?"... >... "But it could do something really bad.. I'd think about it for a while!" 4. Drivers can corrupt your hard drive Vista didn't so much as crash but it sure did a lot of damage.. problems with vista installed drivers and the multi-monitors mean't I got a LOT of corrupt drive warnings.. Surely if the things are signed and tested they shouldn't be causing this kind of damage! 5. Where the heck is everything? Why oh why do they insist on changing the format, layout and putting menus, functions, utilities, etc... in places that they never were before.. If makes the users job harder, gives the teacher/trainer who has to get everyone up to speed a headache and just knocks usability into a cocked hat... 6. "Microsoft Offers" Erm... isn't this a bit cheeky... If I want to get offers from M$ I'll look and bookmark it myself thanks.. don't make it part of the start page and if you do, make it removable! 7. Start menu What on earth happened to the tiering system... Now there's no indication that you're at any particular level or sub-level making it difficult to locate your position in the start menu heirachy.. ... I could go on and granted some of it is just "well it's a new system" gripes.. but the hardware side of things and the ability to desensitise people to the security pop-ups is a bit of a faux pas... Back to XP me thinks...
webman Posted June 6, 2007 Posted June 6, 2007 Yes, quite right Geoff... 'Onwards and up' more appropriate
webman Posted June 6, 2007 Posted June 6, 2007 Would be nice if it actually worked once in a while though... 8)
Dos_Box Posted June 6, 2007 Posted June 6, 2007 I like Vista, its shiny and nice. So's the sun, but you wouldn't like to get too close to it!
john Posted June 6, 2007 Posted June 6, 2007 Would be nice if it actually worked once in a while though... 8)I tell ya all those that don't get on with Vista need re-training, it works brilliantly for me.
john Posted June 6, 2007 Posted June 6, 2007 I like Vista, its shiny and nice. So's the sun, but you wouldn't like to get too close to it!Sun..... whats that, i live in a dark hot room with lots of computers and have a darkend room at home that I then live in, so don't see much of this sun you mention
webman Posted June 6, 2007 Posted June 6, 2007 I and many others will disagree with you on the re-training being the primary problem with Fister
m25man Posted June 6, 2007 Posted June 6, 2007 I only use it because somebody has to tell everyone else how awful it is! I find myself having to RDP into an xp or 2003 machine to do most of my support tasks... It's easier to dual boot a Mac with XP on it than mess around trying to work with Vista all day long...
Southwell Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Im stuck with it on my personal laptop as Nvidia don't do XP drivers for my graphics card!! I tried to install my antivirus and the system corrupted lol. At least my PC and work laptop are XP.
Jake Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 I wouldnt use it for the school network I must admit, but I do have it installed on this machine at work, and I also use it at home on my gaming machine.
StewartKnight Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Anybody who tells you that they are not having problems with Vista, isn't really "using" vista!
localzuk Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 I've been told that due to capita being slow with SIMS and the general cost of upgrading (not in terms of licenses, as our School agreement covers it, but in terms of time, effort, training and buying educational software that works on it) we likely won't ever upgrade to Vista, but whatever its successor is... Sounds good to me, except XP support will have ended by then won't it?
Jake Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Hehehe thats true, as long as my office, sims and games run I dont really notice the OS.
webman Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Hehehe thats true, as long as my office, sims and games run I dont really notice the OS. Would you consider running MS-DOS 6.22 then?
Jake Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Nah, it wouldnt be capable of running my ms office, sims and most definately wouldnt come close to running my games
Colditzz Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Anybody who tells you that they are not having problems with Vista, isn't really "using" vista! Tsk tsk... I have been running Vista at work, desktop & laptop & at home since BETA, its awesome... I have not yet found one single application that I couldn't get to work on Vista. Some of the software I use for support is also quite old. When you get used to its differences, realise that UAC should be off, its brilliant...
zag Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Vista made my laptop respond twice as slowly as XP, as much as I am a version junkie, I prefer a responsive operating system.
Colditzz Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Vista made my laptop respond twice as slowly as XP, as much as I am a version junkie, I prefer a responsive operating system.Thats amazing!! mine got twice as fast One thing to bear in mind though is that the Ultimate version of Vista is big and clunky because it does everything, I started with Business edition (which flies) and then moved to Enterprise (which also flies).
ChrisC Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Ultimate seems to run ok on my new gaming rig spec: Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) 2Gb DDR2 Corsair Twinx PC6400 Ram Geforce 8500 GFX Card (am going to get another to sli it, not a hugely powerful card, and only £60 for DX10!!) 160Gb Sata2 System Drive 320Gb Sata2 Storage Drive But yea, security software seems to be a bit clunky on it, given the companies didn't get much time to develop due to microsofts initial adimance that the kernel should be kept secure.... Zonealarm Beta seems to make the machine boot up pretty slowly, admitely zonealarm pro seems to drag my xp machine down on boot aswell.... Chris
ChrisC Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 In vistas defence, it has the rollerdex desktop, which isn't at all reminiscent of fedora's spinny desktop, not....not at all..... Or the widg.....gadgets..... Or the nice transparency effe...... I'll give up now Chris
Pottsey Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Vista is excellent it’s more then twice as fast as Xp 64bit and very responsive. Boot time is super fast at 5 seconds.
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