Downgrading to Windows XP 64 from Vista 64

Number of reasons... Nothign major its just that I have no problems at all with XP64 but a fair few with Vista.

Such as:-
1 - System hangs every so often, for abotu a second but its enough to ruin my enjoyment.
2 - Slow files moves/copies... Deathly slow in fact
3 - Double clicking on anythign seems to not do bugger all for 6 or 7 seconds.
4 - Forcing me to upgrade a load of my software ( NERO, O&ODeFrag etc ) just to be Vista compatible - somethign that really ****** me off is that everyone seems to avoid acknowledging this fact possibly because so they have obviously downloaded hoopkie copies
5 - Music sounds different in Vista to what it does in XP, I dont care what anyone says about that, but if you have quality gear you willhear it, if you dont then you cannot comment.

I can go on, but you get my meaning... XP64 runs well for me, and I have no problems at all with it... All my hardware and software works 100% under XP64 and its faster under XP64 than any other O/S too! - It might not be on many other PCs but on my PC its faster and by a fair way too!

I want to go Vista I really do, but it just isnt being my best mate right now.

FWIW the only reason that I have stuck out Vista this last couple of days is purely that I am doing a deal with a lad in the US who is buying my Atari Falcon and I need to keep hold of his EMails till the deal is done, or I copy them over to my daughters PC ( Vista32Prem thats working just fine )

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Oh, and I forgot to mention... Since yesterday morning, I have lost 2 of my DVDRW Drives... The ones on the IDE Line... Sata ones are there, but not the IDE ones.

BIOS sees them fine as does my Live Ubuntu and Sabayon Distros, but Vista does not.

Yet another notch against Vista for me.
 
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FatRakoon said:
4 - Forcing me to upgrade a load of my software ( NERO, O&ODeFrag etc ) just to be Vista compatible - somethign that really ****** me off is that everyone seems to avoid acknowledging this fact possibly because so they have obviously downloaded hoopkie copies
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That's a bold assumption to make mate!!! Suggesting people here download pirated software.
All I needed to upgrade to move to Vista was my sound card and my mouse. All my software work fine under X64, not sure what you're on about.
Something is clearly wrong with your setup and I experience no lag whatsoever, everything is running smoothly. Had problems when first installed but now none.
My earphones is Shure SE530, so clearly I can make some judgement about sound and there's no difference from XP whatsoever (apart from the Dolby/digital support).
 
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toucam said:
That's a bold assumption to make mate!!! Suggesting people here download pirated software.
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Bold yes, but then there are people here that have downloaded illegal software, just the same as absolutely any other forum on the planet... There are many people who have and there are many people who have not... Are you suggesting that no one on OCUK has ever done it?

No of course not.

toucam said:
All I needed to upgrade to move to Vista was my sound card and my mouse. All my software work fine under X64, not sure what you're on about.
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Well, when I moved to Vista, I found that Nero 6 did not work, so I had to up to Nero 7 and O&O DeFrag 8.5 was also incompatible with Vista too! I had to up to v10 to get it running in Vista, I didnt like it, and went and dropped back to v8.6 asthis will work under Vista, but has the 8.5 interface.

Both software titles I had to pay extra for even though I already had them.

Nearly everything else has been fine, but those 2 cost me.

When you say all your software works on x64 do you mean XP64 or Vista64?
Cos in XP64 all mine works fine too.

toucam said:
Something is clearly wrong with your setup and I experience no lag whatsoever, everything is running smoothly. Had problems when first installed but now none.
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Something is clearly wrong with my setup?
How many times have I heard that one?

There is nothing wrong with my setup. I only have certain issues under Vista, and these issues are also present on several thousand other PCs around the world, just check on any number of other forums to see that.

toucam said:
My earphones is Shure SE530, so clearly I can make some judgement about sound and there's no difference from XP whatsoever (apart from the Dolby/digital support).
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Thats fine, you cannot hear any difference, I can however. Perhaps the card / driver makes a bigger difference, but XP most definitely does feel warmer and more natural.

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We must remember that Vista is still an infant, it will have its bugs and issues, its no different to any other version of any other O/S thats ever been before. These issues are being ironed out all the time, but its still not perfect.

You have found Vista to be spot on and thats brilliant. Millions have also, including myself... Vista32Prem is running on my daughters MSI Neo2 just great and according to MSI it does not work well with Vista??? - been fine for a few months now.
I also threw Vista32 onto a P4 Prescott for a laugh and its great on that, but on my main PC, its just had niggly things that on their own dont mean a thing, but they all add up and its just a niggle too much and so I am going back yet again to XP64.

Thats my choice.

It most certainly does not mean that my setup is wrong because its not. Its absolutely 100% perfect, and only Vista has issues with it, nothing else.
 
xp64 is the best ms os to date (for the home user), some of you have really got your head in the sand

sure, some odd bits of hardware don't have drivers, solution -don't use odd hardware :p
 
I meant X64 Vista Ultimate, I didn't have to upgrade any software.

From my experience lagging in Vista can be caused by software, I used to have massive inresponsiveness problems then I realised that file scan in Kaspersky was set to all files, things like that and also by certain Vista's services.

My hard drive is Raptor 150, so that can be another factor.

In general, I'm happy with Vista and that's probably why I don't understand others' desperate frustration with it.

If my system only responded after 5-7 secs like yours then I might as well get the hammer out :p
 
FatRakoon said:
One agaisnt the grain, but Im currently on Vista64ULT and I went from XP64 and any day now Im going back ( For the 4th time since I got Vista )

Driver support for XP64 is bad?

Absolute crap.

older hardware sure, USB Modems and some TV Cards, but almost all newer stuff has 64Bit drivers.

I have not come across anything in the last year or so, that I have not had running just fine on XP64... Well, there has bveen a few things but they are crappy bits that I have no intention of wanting to use, so they dont count.

Driver support for XP64 is every bit as good as it is on Vista.

Go to XP64 mate... In my opinion, its too quickly slated by people who have not truly tested it out.
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I totally agree.
I'm using XP x64 with an X-Fi Xtreme gamer sound card, a TV card and Nvidia 8800GT.
It all works perfectly, is super stable and I've had no trouble whatsoever.

There really is a load of bull talked about XP x64 a lot of the time.
 
Digital Punk said:
I totally agree.
I'm using XP x64 with an X-Fi Xtreme gamer sound card, a TV card and Nvidia 8800GT.
It all works perfectly, is super stable and I've had no trouble whatsoever.

There really is a load of bull talked about XP x64 a lot of the time.
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Bull where is any of that mentioned in here?


At the end of the day either OS has its advantages, it down to personal preference & choice. You got to ask yourself though why downgrade to an older OS? There isn’t a point from what I can see.
 
fothsn said:
Bull where is any of that mentioned in here?
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Not so much in this thread, but hundreds throughout the forums

fothsn said:
At the end of the day either OS has its advantages, it down to personal preference & choice.
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Exactly andif someone whants to go back to another OS instead of Vista, then as you said... Its personal choice...

fothsn said:
You got to ask yourself though why downgrade to an older OS? There isn’t a point from what I can see.
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But now you are saying the opposite... I thought it was personal choice?
If it is indeed personal choice, then why are you now also telling us that you see no point? - its got nothign to do with you what anyone else uses as their choice of O/S.

Besides, have we, or have we not just started to cover a small portion of why people prefer XP64 over Vista?

Or are you thekind of person who says why... why... why all the time?
 
FatRakoon said:
Not so much in this thread, but hundreds throughout the forums



Exactly andif someone whants to go back to another OS instead of Vista, then as you said... Its personal choice...



But now you are saying the opposite... I thought it was personal choice?
If it is indeed personal choice, then why are you now also telling us that you see no point? - its got nothign to do with you what anyone else uses as their choice of O/S.

Besides, have we, or have we not just started to cover a small portion of why people prefer XP64 over Vista?

Or are you thekind of person who says why... why... why all the time?
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It is personal choice, my choice is not to use an outdated OS simple. I’m the type of person that chooses to adopt early technology like Vista I purchased it the day it was available I don’t like to hold back. Well no it’s not got anything to do with me I think that’s obvious however I can give some input to what OS to recommend you probably gathered but this would be Vista 64Bit.


FatRakoon said:
Or are you thekind of person who says why... why... why all the time?
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Quite the opposite really, are you?
 
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Why?

But seriously, calling XP outdated is a seriously flawed arguement.

for the vast majority of computer users, Vista offers us nothing that XP does not.
In fact, when you look at the vast majority of computer users out there, they only actualyl want to have basic internet access and do some EMails to aunty flo so even Windows XP is overkill for them.

Hell, Im piddling about with a 10 year old Imac thats only got 32MB and a 4GB HD and Im browsing just fine.

Vista offers very few people very few advantages over XP.

Vista is also turnign out to be such a cabbage that even MS are looking to bring Windows 7 out a lot sooner than they intended purely because the Vista cabbage is not doing anywhere near as good as they had hoped.

And so to call XP outdated is really so wrong its shocking.
 
FatRakoon said:
Why?

But seriously, calling XP outdated is a seriously flawed arguement.

for the vast majority of computer users, Vista offers us nothing that XP does not.
In fact, when you look at the vast majority of computer users out there, they only actualyl want to have basic internet access and do some EMails to aunty flo so even Windows XP is overkill for them.

Hell, Im piddling about with a 10 year old Imac thats only got 32MB and a 4GB HD and Im browsing just fine.

Vista offers very few people very few advantages over XP.

Vista is also turnign out to be such a cabbage that even MS are looking to bring Windows 7 out a lot sooner than they intended purely because the Vista cabbage is not doing anywhere near as good as they had hoped.

And so to call XP outdated is really so wrong its shocking.
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Fine there your opinions who am I to change these, arguing over a forum which is the better OS is silly. You’re happy with XP I’m happy with Vista the argument will just go on and on I’m leaving it at that.


If a new product comes out to replace the other isn’t this classed as being older therefore outdated? That’s the way ‘I’ see it.
 
You have not read me properly at all.

I like Vista. I love it in fact, there is nothign wrong with it on many PCs and I have it on 2 of my PCs as I have said.

I also love XP64 too!

The thing is that Vista does not run right on my Main PC and so I am going back to XP64.

Personally I dont care whether its Vista, XP, or sodding MSDOS, I need it to run all my software and so far, the only O/S that has done this, has been XP64
 
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