what difference does that make? windows 7 runs better on the same hardware. vista was bloated and crawled performing the simplest tasks.
Anyone still use and like vista ?
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what difference does that make? windows 7 runs better on the same hardware. vista was bloated and crawled performing the simplest tasks.
What difference does it make?
Device drivers.
Vista's device drivers, especially graphics adapters, were exceptionally primitive in the first year. To the point that early Nvidia drivers were actually unstable and would quite frequently crash (and then automatically restart, mind you, thanks to innovations in Vista's kernel).
It was a combination of factors. Hardware of the day typically wasn't even dual-core. The average graphics card had just 128MB, which isn't really enough to properly run a desktop composition rendering system as what Vista pioneered for the first time in a mainstream OS. Software had issues with UAC. Device drivers were crap. In short, it was a up hill struggle. W7 benefited massively from the growing pains that Vista went through.
If you install Vista and W7 side by side, patch them and install all the latest drivers. Other than basic things like boot time, which yes W7 is far better, you'll really have to squint and search to find a performance difference between the two. If I had to put a figure on W7's overall performance gain, it would be around 5 to 10%. Which isn't really perceivable.
Device drivers.
Vista's device drivers, especially graphics adapters, were exceptionally primitive in the first year. To the point that early Nvidia drivers were actually unstable and would quite frequently crash (and then automatically restart, mind you, thanks to innovations in Vista's kernel).
It was a combination of factors. Hardware of the day typically wasn't even dual-core. The average graphics card had just 128MB, which isn't really enough to properly run a desktop composition rendering system as what Vista pioneered for the first time in a mainstream OS. Software had issues with UAC. Device drivers were crap. In short, it was a up hill struggle. W7 benefited massively from the growing pains that Vista went through.
If you install Vista and W7 side by side, patch them and install all the latest drivers. Other than basic things like boot time, which yes W7 is far better, you'll really have to squint and search to find a performance difference between the two. If I had to put a figure on W7's overall performance gain, it would be around 5 to 10%. Which isn't really perceivable.
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I had no problems with either 7 or vista tbh.
This other than drivers it was a good OS from launch. People just didn't understand and slagged it off.
W7 @ £45 though meant it got replaced and that's now been replaced by w8 devloper preview and given the copy to my parents.
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Can't see how you got that, Win 7 is bigger, and has more bloatware than Vista.
To be clear, I liked vista at the time and i did prefer it to XP as long as the machine was powerful enough.
I'm not saying it was a terrible OS as most people say, it had tons of improvements over XP, but I don't miss it in the slightest now W7 is here. On the same hardware my machine runs smoother than my vista sp2 build ever did, and it hasn't been rebuilt once. I don't care what you say, I do notice an improvement
W7 is a better OS at the user level. I would not disagree. The only reason I haven't upgraded is that the benefits simply aren't great enough for me to justify a month of turmoil and reinstalling my apps.To be clear, I liked vista at the time and i did prefer it to XP as long as the machine was powerful enough.
I'm not saying it was a terrible OS as most people say, it had tons of improvements over XP, but I don't miss it in the slightest now W7 is here. On the same hardware my machine runs smoother than my vista sp2 build ever did, and it hasn't been rebuilt once. I don't care what you say, I do notice an improvement
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Upgrade then?
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I am still using vista on my main computer. I also have Win7 on my laptop. I can see the differences between the two OS, but there not enough to make me go out and buy a copy.
I may upgrade when I build a new system, but Win8 might be released by then
I may upgrade when I build a new system, but Win8 might be released by then
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The only diff is that its a tad more memory hungry then win7 and looks slightly diff. But no I didnt have any probs with win7 and the upgrade from vista to win7 isnt really worth it, unless your having probs with vista.
Have you actually tried Vista with SP2? Have you actually tried it outside of the first six months?
With today's drivers, there's nowt fundamentally wrong with Vista. Yes, 7 is better in UI terms and a bit better in performance terms, but in terms of speed and stability there's really nothing to complain about.
Indeed. Prior to 7 I always advised against upgrade installs of Windows, but the Vista->7 upgrade is really painless.
Wow how many apps do you have? It must be a lot to take a whole month.
I must be an idiot becuase I think Vista is rubbish. It was on my machine for a month before I went back to XP. I love win 7 though.
Right click taskbar > properties > never combine taskbar buttons > apply.
Edit: that might not work for ie tabs though.
you can turn that off in windows 7.
as for me, i liked vista. nowt wrong with it at all. and all the people claiming earth shattering differences between it and 7 performance wise really are talking out of their behind.