Anyone downgraded from 7 to Vista?

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Yeah it may be a bit of an odd question but has anyone had upgraded from Vista to 7 and then downgraded due to performance issues?

I upgraded from Vista Ultimate to 7 Pro a couple of weeks ago and TBH Vista SP2 seems far more stable and faster and i'm tempted to downgrade back to Vista (this is on a 6 year old PC). Is it just me or have others had the same issue?
 
Vista performs slower for me on all machines I've used both on..

What sort of performance issues are you having?

What software (and AV etc) do you have running?
 
Nope, it's always been the other way around.

Never really liked upgrades though, I would try reinstalling 7 from scratch if indeed you can.
 
+1 to that, I wish MS would just say "sorry, format only" -or repair install for broken installs :p
 
There is something wrong somewhere if someone is thinking of downgrading from Windows 7 to Vista. Do a clean install - Windows 7 is everything that Vista never was but should have been -lets not even think of XP it's well in the past now together with Windows 3 / 95 98
 
What spec is the system? I've found Win 7 to be a little quicker than Vista on all systems upgraded them on.
 
bledd. said:
+1 to that, I wish MS would just say "sorry, format only" -or repair install for broken installs :p
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I upgraded from Vista and the process is so much better in 7 than I've ever seen before. I literally had 0 issues and all the benefits. I think the days of format and install may be over.
 
I dont downgrade to Vista as I prefer stay with W7 cos of nice feature like jumplist,etc.. also taskbar you can pin up easily. That up to you to decide to use W7 or go back to Vista SP2 but with secuirty update usual every month that W7 has very fewest than Vista as this month W7 has 3 and Vista has 7.... I stay with W7 all way
 
Just to clarify, when I meant upgrade I meant it in the coloquial sense. I did the usual format and install not use the upgrade option on the disk. :)

Why back to XP? I left that behind about 5 years ago! Jumped over to Beta 2 of Vista, then the RCs and finally released Vista Ultimate which hasn't been touched since it was installed at release.

System is an x2 4400 with 2GB RAM and plenty of storage space. Never had a major problem that I can remember with with Vista, especially since SP1 and SP2.

The problems I'm having at the moment are slow file transfer speeds (across disks in the machine) also causing the machine to crawl to a halt (even when the transfers are being done over disks the OS isn't installed on) and a variety off annoying little bits like that, culminating in me trying to resize an jpeg image in Paint last night (haven't got round to reinstalling PS yet) and it locking up the entire computer. Managed to finally get the task manager up and tried to kill the process, resulting in the Paint process increasing ram usage massively and me hard resetting the machine.

7 also seems to be using more RAM than Vista at startup (with only MSE and mesh), not that it bothers me too much, just I wasunder the assumption that 7 would actually perform better... Still running a tight ship at the moment with only a couple of games installed, a few small programs and MSE, all of which were installed on the previous install.

TBH I assumed this would be the response but I just wanted to check as I quite like the new style of vista as well as one or two of the new bits (although quite a few are a pain in the ****) especially homegroup which is a massive plus in a house full of Win 7 machines.
 
With it being a 6 year old machine, are you sure it is not the hardware that may be showing signs of giving up the ghost? Less drastic is perhaps a corrupt file or service somewhere. In your shoes I would probably be taking a look at the Event Viewer and looking for any red or yellow log entries [under System and Applications] from the time of any abherrant behaviour.

Slow file transfer and dodgy paint performance might suggest a RAM issue... but without more to go on it is purely a guess.

Also, to answer your original question, I have never felt the need to downgrade from Windows 7. Every computer I have installed it on, be it notebook or high-end gaming rig, has benefitted from running 7 over Vista or XP.
 
I very much doubt it is a hardware issue, the time between uninstall of Vista and install of win 7 was about an hour and there was no problem before yet problem after. Having said that I will check the RAM and see if it throws up any errors.

I'm thinking the best bet may be to just reinstall 7 again and have another go, it's just a pain doing it all again (and reinstalling bits). :)
 
I downgraded from 7 to Vista on my main machine due to the Unfixable Non Existent Ethernet Bug which cause the connection to drop every 3 minutes requiring a router restart. It appeared at first to be motherboard related (onboard lan) but then an NIC only "fixed" the problem for 24 hours. All other machines in the house worked fine for days of uptime (XP, Vista, Ubuntu). Downgrading to Vista fixed the problem permanently.

I miss it, it WAS nice to use, but my Vista install was also completely solid. I accept that's a rare case though.

Now i'm stuck with Ubuntu on a netbook so i'd appreciate either ;)
 
I would only upgrade if I couldnt get someting i used every day to work on vista otherwise no point taking a step backwards
 
Vista was really sluggish on my parent's PC I built them, the tech inside it being 6 or so years old (S939 + DDR1 :o), even with SP2 installed.

After an upgrade to Win7 HP (which took 3 hours, no less) yesterday it already feels snappier. It's a much more optimised OS, on the whole.
 
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