Going back to XP. Has anyone else??

Johnnytoxic

Johnnytoxic

Johnnytoxic

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The only thing I wish I could take with me is the search feature in the top right of windows explorer.

Vista is just slow and unresponsive. I have a E6400 @ 3.2ghz and 4gb ram.
 
I was going to go back, but then I gave Vista one more chance. I worked through all the issues, now I will never go back!

Did you install all updates and also the latest service pack one? As I have a E6400 @ 3.4Ghz and 4 GB of ram Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and it's very quick!:)
 
Vista 64 & XP pro installed, using Vista 99% of the time, no issues apart from something making (Wolfenstein/HLSW mainly) my router reboot :s

Q9450 @ 3.2Ghz
4Gb Ram
9800GX2
 
At home I use Windows XP. I don't see any reason as to why I should change the operation system. It's doing everything I want.

I use Vista at work and I love the glass style interface and all the eye candy, but we do have a few problems especially in regards to networked printers. However, as I understand if we use Ultimate or Business then that solves the problem, but still the problem shouldn't really exist in this version - not a driver issue - a microsoft issue in my opinion.

I'll be sticking to Windows XP. Had Flight Sim X been properly designed to take advantage of the latest DX version then that may of swayed me from XP.

Vista isn't a terrible O/S. It's very good, but it's far from being perfect, and I do feel there are at times a feeling of having to click more mouse buttons to get from A to B than I did with XP.

I'll either change to Vista very late on or I'll switch to Windows 7 within a year of release if that proves to be good.
 
I dual boot vista / xp - 99% of the time I boot XP, I swapped my video card from nvidia to ati last week xp booted fine with the vga drive and let me install the ati drive, vista is now broken (blue screen during boot) I dont indent to fix it any time soon,...
 
Install Service Pack 1, too. A fresh install will be just what the doctor ordered. :cool:

Let us know how you get on. ;)
 
Not me, it's pretty speedy for me. I definitely feel it is faster than XP.

Although it takes forever for itself to finish doing whatever it is doing when I open the My Music folder after a boot up. Im thinking it is sorting my music files into the order it was before, don't quite get why it just doesn't save the order instead of me having to wait about a min before I can open the tracks.
 
Something's wrong if Vista is much less responsive than XP. I have Vista x64 SP1 on my desktop (Q6600, 4GB) and it's much faster than XP ever was. I also have 32-bit SP1 on a lower-spec machine (Core Duo 1.66, 1.5GB) and it performs about the same as XP.

Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit? Do you have SP1 installed? Is it a fresh install of Vista or an upgrade?
 
Johnnytoxic said:
Going back to Vista. I need the search and I forgot about memory limitations :(

Ahhh well a clean install should speed it up abit.
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Install SP1 disable indexing & leave all the other default services running as the mistake many make is disable services from web guides which are supposed to speed Vista up but they cause lots of issues and do not actually speed things up at all in the long run only when you reboot and think because it takes a few secs less you have made some breakthrough.

Whenever you install Vista leave it for a few hours then once the prefetch & readyboost settle down Vista is so much faster & stable than XP especially with modern hardware.
 
i just do not like vista. the saying if something aint broke dont fix it and thats all they did when vista came out after xp. am i right in saying either 2009 or 2010 a new operating system is due from microsoft anyway?
 
After sorting out my own (self-inflicted) problems, Vista is better than ever.

It certainly goes like this for me...

Vista SP1 > XP x64 SP2 > Vista (no SP) > XP SP3
 
DavieCramb01 said:
the saying if something aint broke dont fix it and thats all they did when vista came out after xp.
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Hello DavieCramb01, would you be happy to stick with Windows XP for the rest of your life? The statement, "If it isn't broken, don't fix it", leaves absolutely no room for progression which isn't a good way to go in my opinion.

am i right in saying either 2009 or 2010 a new operating system is due from microsoft anyway?
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Yes, that is correct, Windows 7. However, please take into account that Microsoft did not bring forward the release of their next operating system because their previous one (Windows Vista) was a so called disaster, which is certainly not the case anyway. If you look at the time of release of previous Windows operating systems, you will notice that releasing Windows 7 a couple of years after Windows Vista was released is nothing out of the ordinary. This is Microsoft's normal deployment time of their operating systems. :)
 
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Hi sorry its just in my opinion from my experience of vista i did not get on with it. and to be honest the longer ive had to think about it xp does have its number of problems.

i may have been quick to judge vista but have been asured that on a decent system with decent set up its a nice piece of kit. also microsoft may be in a financial situation to throw money around but dout very much they weould make an operating system for fun on a sunday. im sure you chaps in here will come to change my mind and like all great things everything must have an end such as xp but iv always used it and find it to be extremely easy and nice to use.
 
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