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- binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -4/+147Nice change of pace to read something without bashing or hoorays. Good analysis.
- ryansebiz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+65XP didn't reach its peak until SP2, so this is very promising. I think Vista will get there, but it obviously still has plenty of problems to work out.
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -7/+39Nope. People will always look for an excuse to bash.
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -5/+36Good to hear. Vista has great potential to be a really solid OS; it's just these pesky issues here and there that pop up at inopportune moments.
- Flammadeao, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Wel I'd like to help you there, but I don't think I can,
I don't think it would be a good idea to go to this page http://www.torrentz.com/search?q=vista+sp1
Nor should you download the leak with the most seeds using uTorrent - fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+32Perhaps you should google refactoring and optimisation. It is often possible to make a program faster without removing or altering features.
- Kwipper, on 10/10/2007, -9/+30So... does this mean that the Vista FUD will stop now?
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22HAHA LOLZ YOU IZ SO FUNY!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20I don't know about faster or more stable, but I like the new start menu a lot.
- psykiv, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17I don't know about you guys, but I'm still using windows 98 se.
My comp is fast! - drakesteele, on 10/10/2007, -5/+19This was an EXCELLENT analysis of the alpha of Vista SP1... in fact, I have yet to have seen a prior Service Pack checked out in this detail in a post anywhere. I loved seeing what was actually included, and how much it apparently did for the system speed and stability. Can't wait to be able to test it myself in beta phase. Right on!
- Sparkster185, on 10/10/2007, -5/+19"The computer stops responding or restarts unexpectedly when you play video games or perform desktop operations."
Is it too much to ask to be able to perform desktop operations without unexpected restarts? - CLShortFuse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13And also FTA:
"This service pack isn’t to be confused with two enhancement packs which were leaked to the public a few weeks ago, and then officially released by Microsoft with virtually no fanfare on the 8th and the 9th. These two updates address compatibility and performance features in Vista."
Which makes your comment pointless. - culebra, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17As far as vista goes I have to say it's been a good experience for me. I've never had an easier windows install, it actually recognized every USB device without any drivers needed, it's as fast as XP, aero is a great improvement and a lot of the little things make a huge difference. I'm by no means a windows fan boy and I have to be very objective here, but vista is good. To me it's the best release of windows for the home user/desktop to date. It's really received a bad wrap in my opinion.
- angrycat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13The two OFFICIAL enhancement packs that were mentioned:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae2f819d-c33d-48db-a7e3-62eef7c1f7c2&DisplayLang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3fb80bb9-d832-425b-b42c-d3eb2071bbec&DisplayLang=en
Strange windows update didn't let me know about them. - Demagogue, on 10/10/2007, -17/+29I will definitely second that. I love my vista install, it runs a hell of a lot faster than XP ever did on my machine.
- Kwipper, on 10/10/2007, -7/+19Lets see, if you have a gaming PC and you wanted to play the latest games.... on your said PC... at a decent performance level (above 30 frames per second)? I really doubt any other OS could achieve the same results. So ***** off and die.
- aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11if Jobsie would let me install it on my PC, then I might agree with you
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Yup. You can go cry under the stairs now.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15You had me at "Huge performance increase". I may actually want to install Vista when this comes out.
- nonokiaboy, on 10/10/2007, -6/+16Torrent??
=) - EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9They released those on Microsoft's website to download a few days ago. :)
- aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8they'll be in Windows update on patch tuesday, which is erm... in two days time. On tuesday, obviously
- marx2k, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Heh. You upgraded your OS to play a game. Heh. Heh.
- Kwipper, on 10/10/2007, -12/+20GET THE ***** OUT OF HERE YOU LINUX *****!
- Phusion, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10I'm glad they are really focusing on performance increases, I just couldn't use Vista on my laptop.... which came with Vista. Here's hoping we'll shape and mold this fruity OS into something solid and useable...... oh yeah. http://btjunkie.org/search?q=vista+sp1
- estvir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6So you've finally began to push away your ignorance and realise there is a real world out there which is not the same as Digg's ecosystem which consists of "LOL M$ IS DEAD AND UBUUNTU APPLE LIKE RULES.!!!STEVE JOBS-JERk-CIRCLE HERE I COME!"
I can't imagine how much of an impact that would've had on your simple mind, I hope everything works out okay for you. - chingy1788, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Driver issues really just go down to the manufacturers who don't make drivers for vista, mostly because they are too old
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+6Compatibility and Reliability pack - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AE2F819D-C33D-48DB-A7E3-62EEF7C1F7C2&displaylang=en
Performance and Reliability pack - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3FB80BB9-D832-425B-B42C-D3EB2071BBEC&displaylang=en - estvir, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10Oh, don't forget the oh-so-serious flaw in speech recognition!
- carpespasm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7i'm still annoyed by the "hey are you sure you wanna do that? _yes_ fo real? _yes_ you sure you don't want me to stop you? _yes_" screens that seem to come up whenever i try to do anything useful.
- EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The only time Vista has ever been unstable for me was back in the Beta days...but that wasn't Microsoft's fault, it was Creative for making such ***** drivers.
- NukkChorris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5So then turn it off. Search for how to disable UAC
- majikstranger, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12Vista is actually very nice it just has some kinks i wish they would resolve, but it has some features i cant live without know and it does excellent with hardware recognition, at least in my case. Remember we all bashed windows Xp until the service packs showed up and now we love it so give it time.
For you linux fans, i actually tried linux after doing vista because of its issues and guess what id rather deal with vista. Linux may be great for you superior beings from the moon, but it was never made as a desktop pc and never made to suit the masses needs (even though they are really trying now and have done a great job). It seems to me command lines are a thing of the past and we should be working on making the gui perform as well as command line - cinmachina, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I really appreciate whoever wrote that article, not only because they didn't turn it into an ignorant "Windows sucks, Linux/Unix rules for ever!" article, but because of the great amount of research that went into it. Who has time to go into the registry and analyze the differences between the first build and the new service pack? My hats off to you sir, thank you!
- demodawid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5microsoft.com, of course. Go get them, you can tell the difference.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Of course Demagogue doesn't know what he is talking about. Just check the requirements for a Windows Vista Basic install. I give you a clue: You can run 2 XP machines with them.
- MeneerR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Ohw, wait I get it. Was it faster than a fresh XP install, or one you installed years ago? With all kinds of extra crap? XP really wasn't slow at all. Ever. Its that anti-virus trail software you were never able to remove, the java-auto-updater-crap, etc.
How does the speed compare with a FRESH install of XP? - drouk1556, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Aero makes the desktop slower. It uses more resources than the standard grey theme.
- etcimon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4dude, I have wamp, photoshop cs3, dreamweaver cs3, visual studio 2005, sql server 2005 running at the same time on vista right now, and it was installed a real joke.( msi installer )... wtf are you talkin about?
- Narwaffle, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9Good to see that Microsoft's pushing Vista in a beneficial direction. This might be enough to finally warrant a purchase.
- estvir, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Wow, that's retarded logic.
- PrometheuZ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Totally agree. I've had none of the problems that many are complaining about. Only had a few issues with Nvidia drivers not being ready on time, but that was an Nvidia issue, not a Vista issue. Other than that, for me, it's been a very stable and reliable experience.
- geekoid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4XMMS is a media player that runs under Linux, not a WAMP suite.
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7your kidding? you had more software and drivers developed for a 6 year old OS then you do for one less then a year old?
what could possibly be the cause of this? it must be M$'s pure evil injected into the OS to force incompatiblity. - Darcy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I'm running Vista on 3 of my machines, and the only area that was slower than XP is when copying large files or directories from one place to another, which the recent update improves a lot. I do have friend who upgraded from XP to Vista a while ago and had major performance problems, where even opening the start menu took about 3 seconds, so he waited a few more weeks (9 to be exact) for nVidia to update their drivers, he tried again, and now it runs like a dream. From reading the newsgroups it seems that nearly all of Vista's performance problems are caused by poor video drivers.
- Ai3d, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6This service pack isn’t to be confused with two enhancement packs which were leaked to the public a few weeks ago, and then officially released by Microsoft with virtually no fanfare on the 8th and the 9th.
Whaa...Where? - FutureGuy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194
credit to the original poster. highly recommended patches. - ShrimpCrackers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3And manufacturers do not really want to update old drivers on old hardware. After all, there is money to be made if you are forced to buy new parts.
Heck its probably why Apple's emulation of old Power PC software for their intel macs is so darn slow and unoptimized (especially for the older Fireworks or Photoshop). They're a for profit company and look out for the interests of their software vendors. -
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