Woah! How retarded is Vista!?!

DarkShadow

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After pulling my hair out for hours, I managed to install Vista business edition and what a bloody waste of time it was!

As soon I get in Vista, I see all the bells and whistles and I start playing around, I was starting to enjoy it. After installing crucial pieces of software such as graphics driver, firefox and so on the PC rebooted.

As soon as I got in to Vista (mighty fast startup time, I may add) explorer has CONSTANTLY been crashing. Worse so, task manager has been grinding to a halt. When you go to file > run and restart explorer.exe it takes a toll, sometimes it fires up sometimes it doesn't!?! :confused:

I spent the best part of 3 hours restarting the computer to see what on earth was going on. Please tell me this isn't normal? :mad:

I'm going to attempt another re-install. If not, I'm reverting to XP and I've spent best part of a week messing around for no fudging reason.

Also, when you install a piece of software and it says it's not compatible with vista, you then close the program and vista prompts you to try to install it using it's method/settings, how does that work exactly?

How do you turn off all the annoying requests in order to install stuff?

I want to give it another try, I'd like to hear if anyone has had similar issues.
 
Well Vista has never had that issue for me, I would suggest the post number 2 is correct in some way!

Have you tried a fresh install?
 
google disable uac to switch it off.
this is not normal with vista. i have happily run vista business since release with very few problems
 
dark_shadow said:
As soon I get in Vista, I see all the bells and whistles and I start playing around, I was starting to enjoy it. After installing crucial pieces of software such as graphics driver, firefox and so on the PC rebooted.
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Hello dark_shadow, if your system is rebooting itself, it's highly unlikely that Windows Vista is actually causing this. It's probably going to be more of a hardware issue.

How do you turn off all the annoying requests in order to install stuff?
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If you are referring to User Account Control, then you do not need to disable it. User Account Control does not prevent you from installing applications. :)
 
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Either your RAM, CPU or HDD are the problem, I would say the HDD over anything else, have you run a SMART health check and also an error scan ?

Either that or a BIOS config/system setting that Vista does not like.

Is memory remapping enabled in the BIOS? if so turn it off and retry.
 
Fire Wizard said:
1) Hello dark_shadow, if your system is rebooting itself, it's highly unlikely that Windows Vista is actually causing this. It's probably going to be more of a hardware issue.
2) If you are referring to User Account Control, then you do not need to disable it. User Account Control does not prevent you from installing applications. :)
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1) Hi, sorry I should have clarified . . It rebooted with my permission as you do with most drivers.

2) It isn't stopping me, it's just interupting me.

Thanks

Edit: mrk just checking over my OC settings now, tis a fresh HD.
 
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My OC settings for anyone interested:

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Just ran memtest86 again, passed with flying colours, running orthos again too.

I'm perfectly fine in XP and have been for a years.
 
dark_shadow said:
1) Hi, sorry I should have clarified . . It rebooted with my permission as you do with most drivers.

2) It isn't stopping me, it's just interupting me.

Thanks

Edit: mrk just checking over my OC settings now, tis a fresh HD.
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about 2)

If you find it annoying just turn User account control off, it reduces your system security but it saves a bit of time and relieves some stress from having to confirm every new thing... Fire Wizard is one of those guys who reckons you shouldn't turn it off as it reduces the security and he doesn't mind confirming things, but imo it's really rubbish and if you reckon you can keep your pc secured fine then you can just disable it...



about 1)
Sounds like a hardware issue or something silly disabled or something as explorer shouldn't freeze even on a fresh install. But just to be sure I'd install all the updates and service pack 1...
 
I wonder how much longer we have to put up with un-informed, snap judged Vista posts? The next version of Windows?
 
flying grouse said:
someome can correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that the pci-express frequency is best left at default 100.
I notice that yours is at 110
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Many P5B owners across XS forums have been leaving it at 120 default.

Memphis said:
I wonder how much longer we have to put up with un-informed, snap judged Vista posts? The next version of Windows?
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Did you attempt to read the thread? Oh did you just read the thread title and think 'ZOMG vi5taz haterz brigade' is here? *Sigh*
 
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