Has anyone made a recent change from XP to Vista?

I did this in June (I think?). Ive only ever encountered one problem - Nokia Updater for my N95 8GB. It won't work properly for Vista. Not exactly M$'s fault though.

I have the spec in sig. Runs flawlessly and I haven't really thought about switching back. I play games on my rig and I don't notice that much difference. I'd say XP is marginally faster on the graphics but certainly not enough for me to switch back. It feels smoother, is a bit more secure (I'm running x64) and I do like it.

You will need to be patient though - some things have moved around and it takes a while to adjust to the new location of things. Everything has become too user friendly with lots of annoying interim screens before you can reach your desired goal. Maybe I haven't found the right shortcuts.

I hope that is an honest, balanced opinion.
 
my laptop comes with vista32, but im assuming its because bluray playback is a right pain in the arse with vista64 - it bloody is on my pc anyway lol
 
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james.miller said:
my laptop comes with vista32, but im assuming its because bluray playback is a right pain in the arse with vista64 - it bloody is on my pc anyway lol
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I don't know why, I found this funny. What programs are you using to playback? Surely WMP should do it?

Just buy yourself a PS3! :p
 
Only reason I can see is for looks if everything works for you on xp then what is the point ?
 
smids said:
I don't know why, I found this funny. What programs are you using to playback? Surely WMP should do it?

Just buy yourself a PS3! :p
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bluray playback in wmp is even worse than powerdvd lol. what else is there...erm, nero doesnt work with dual sceens for me on my pc, arcsoft totalmedia theatre doesnt work at all on vista64.....this laptop comes with winDVD BD for vaio. i didnt know winDVD did BD playback yet tbh, but it seems to be the only thing ive used that just works (so far lol :p)

oh i do have a ps3, but this is quieter and uses 1/4 the power (45 watts!). fair enough i loose Hd audio but for those times i dont care, its full of win. laptop > hdmi > amp. job done :)

Zefan said:
Another one :D?
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:D
 
i've been using Vista x64 for some time, dual booting with XP pro x64 too. overall, i've found no actual benefit of Vista over XP, other than the shinyness and somewhat faster startup because of superfetch.
 
Jumping said:
I can't understand people who keeps moaning how bad Vista is. I been using Vista 64bit on my home pc for 6 months+ and never had any issues with it. To be honest there isn't many software out there now that doesn't support Vista properly now and if you have some old crap that refuse to work, change to some that work :)

Also wasn't it you that had HUGE problems with Excel? Which actually wasn't any problems at all with excel....;)
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no I didn't have huge problems with excel, im just inept at using it.

As for Vista. its a complete bag of crap. 6 years 5 billion dollars and 1400 development staff and that's the end result :confused:

I switched back because I didn't like the performance hit on my 2 main games, i.e. COD4 and Supreme commander.
 
i made my move slowly

xp pro
to xp pro / vista hp dual boot where i used xp pro 99% of the time

switched to vista 64 last month - wont go back now
 
something_totally_different said:
no I didn't have huge problems with excel, im just inept at using it.

As for Vista. its a complete bag of crap. 6 years 5 billion dollars and 1400 development staff and that's the end result :confused:

I switched back because I didn't like the performance hit on my 2 main games, i.e. COD4 and Supreme commander.
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The end result is spearheading 64 bit to the consumer market. People fail to think that Windows is an impressive operating system in that it supports an almost infinite combination of devices, whilst something like Mac OS supports a very small combination of hardware (we're talking CPU/GPU etc not USB sticks etc)

This is something people fail to remember when they rant on their blogs about how rubbish Vista is, when in fact it is the peripheral manufacturers who need spoken to. Vista is rubbish for them because they have 200 year old PCs or devices with little support. The move to 64 bit is inevitable in the day and age of 4gb+ RAM, 1gb GDDR etc.

There is no other operating system out there which is comparatively easy for a consumer to drop into almost any hardware combination.
 
Switched to Vista Ultimate 64bit last month when I got my Dell m1530 laptop with 4gb of ram. Would never go back, XP just feels old !
 
I've just switched to Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition. Generally working OK with two exceptions:

1) The volume on my Creative Audigy 2 Platinum Pro ZS is lower than it was under XP. I've whacked every volume control I can find up to 100% and it still sounds quieter than XP at 50%. Annoying.

2) Handbrake has a few issues. Running it in non-Administrator mode causes it to crash. Even once I got around that problem, it still has issues with quite a few DVDs. I get a "No title(s) found" error despite the same DVDs working under XP.

That's all I've found so far but I do get the impression that Vista 64-bit is the ******* child that nobody loves. Let's hope that Windows 7 is 64-bit only, comes in only one or two editions and has a family license deal.
 
I'm glad I read through this thread. Thinking of switching really soon, and was going for 32bit. Surprised how many have said they are on 64bit, so may opt for that instead (and buy a ton of ram to make the most of it hehe)
 
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