Thinking of going back to XP

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I have no idea why. I just like having a fresh install of XP, which has been tweaked and stripped.

I like Vista. I like the interface and the speed & reliability.

In XP I like the fact that it uses next to nothing and seems quite efficient.

I like love the classic interface. As much as I like Aero I don't think anything can compare to XP's classic UI.

Dammit!
 
i couldn't go back. using the 2 side by side to start with i couldn't really tell the difference. but when you've used vista for ages without touching xp, when you try xp again it seems really old and cumbersome. :p
 
marc2003 said:
when you try xp again it seems really old and cumbersome. :p
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To true, I hate using xp on my desktop. Even striped and the resources being so low. It still feels slow and rubbish. Remember used resources is wasted resources. Stop looking at the figures and actually look at how fast the OS is. Not just some pointless number.
 
Agreed with the 2 above posters. I actually feel almost like shaking in a corner at the thought of using XP for any length of time now.

Using Vista on both home and work systems, I even nuked my XP partion because I couldn't really find any problems with any software I use with VIsta 64.
 
Disagree with the above - Vista is rubbish, bloated and full of unnecessary and unproductive fripperies. XP, even on a default install is quicker and less of a resource hog. Plus games run better - as has been backed up by countless tests. I tried Vista myself a couple of times and had to reinstall XP as it was so poor. Asking around, I have yet to meet anyone who has Vista and is satisfied with it.

And if Vista is so good, why have Microsoft extended the lifespan of XP and been forced to continue to stock it for OEMs nearly a year after release?

I'm not saying I won't go to Vista eventually, but I'm definitely waiting for SP2 to be released.
 
Qdos said:
Disagree with the above - Vista is rubbish, bloated and full of unnecessary and unproductive fripperies. XP, even on a default install is quicker and less of a resource hog. Plus games run better - as has been backed up by countless tests. I tried Vista myself a couple of times and had to reinstall XP as it was so poor. Asking around, I have yet to meet anyone who has Vista and is satisfied with it.

And if Vista is so good, why have Microsoft extended the lifespan of XP and been forced to continue to stock it for OEMs nearly a year after release?

I'm not saying I won't go to Vista eventually, but I'm definitely waiting for SP2 to be released.
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Really ? http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302500,00.asp

Shows Vista is just as fast with SP1.

And how can you say it is bloated ? because it uses all the memory ? so what, its better it use it all then free it up when needed rather than XP's "all the resources are there, but I am both to scared to use them and to afraid to touch them".

Every single person I know who uses Vista has had no problems, and even the ones that no little tech stuff prefer it. I am not saying XP sucks, but the totally reworked way Vista is designed is much better. I actually feel slightly safe with Vista even using IE that it won't have so many diseases the CDC won't come around my house and take away the PC for contamination of diseases :p
 
i had vista ultimate but it was 32bit, from reading from various forums it seems the 32bit isnt as good as 64bit. I went back to xp coz for me vista just kept freezing up for a few seconds very often and crashed a few times.

and yes i had all up to date vista drivers etc. I just found it pants. Like so many other people seem to.

ps firefox ***! :)
 
Badger_grr said:
i had vista ultimate but it was 32bit, from reading from various forums it seems the 32bit isnt as good as 64bit. I went back to xp coz for me vista just kept freezing up for a few seconds very often and crashed a few times.

and yes i had all up to date vista drivers etc. I just found it pants. Like so many other people seem to.

ps firefox ***! :)
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Freezing every few seconds? Thats odd, shame a lot of people find vista pants, seems like its just luck as to wether it works fine on someones pc or not.
 
Dark_Angel said:
Really ? http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302500,00.asp

Shows Vista is just as fast with SP1.
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Thanks for proving my point! Shouldn't a newer OS comfortably beat an old OS, rather than *just* matching it?

*edit* - I'm not trying to provoke a flame war - as I've said, I will end up with Vista eventually, but it still needs a lot of tweaking. But for me personally, XP is still the best option - a good Vista install seems to be as much about luck as technical expertise or good user practice.
 
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Ditto, xp is great, very fast & efficient. Vista offers me no new 'must have' features & runs slower on all the hardware I've tried it on.
Still some people seem to like it though.

Now server 2008, that is a different story. if vista ran as fast & reliably as that I would migrate all my machines tomorrow.
 
Its different for everyone, Vista runs a lot faster than XP on multiple machines I've had it on just as long as there is enough ram, tried Server 2008, no speed difference really and in the end it ate itself.
 
Qdos said:
Thanks for proving my point! Shouldn't a newer OS comfortably beat an old OS, rather than *just* matching it?
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No as drivers/software have been optimized for xp. Thus further down the line vista will obliterate xp once stuff is optimized. It was the same back in 98/xp days. Everyone said xp was slow resource hog etc. As drivers for 98 where optimized.
 
I remember when I got my first PC and it had XP, I was looking for games and stuff for it but constantly running into the problem that it would not work in XP, needed Windows 98.
 
I've got Vista Ultimate x64 and XP Pro on a dual boot. I actually prefer Vista x64. I've been using it for just over 1 week and I really like it. My computer is as in my sig. I don't know what people are fussing about. The only issue I find is that networking is still poor. Network shares still don't work properly and are temperamental with explorer still crashing sometimes. Other than that, it's fine. Games, yeah, it feels a bit slower but I'm giving ATi time to optimise.
 
If you like XP's classic interface, and small system requirements.... then why not just use Win2k? I mean XP is basically Win2k with the kiddy Fisher Price standard skin. XP also uses more resources, and has lower performance than 2K.

Infact, someone could argue, why not just use Windows 95? or 3.1? lol.
 
I've been back and forth from Vista to XP and i've settled on XP for the moment.

One reason for this and one reason only - activation.

Now i'm happy that i've bought an OEM version, I know the deal, and I know how it's done.

But I am fed up with having to pick up the phone and speak to someone I can barely understand every time Vista throws a fit and decides i'm a pirate. I mean come on, I took it on the chin the first time, but it's just so frequent. A BIOS setting change triggers it. Sometimes I think the weather changing triggers it as well. :/

They should really have given out 3-5 "grace" activations every phone call. That's how it works with XP. And it works well.
 
Hmmm, although i use XP on a regular basis on other computers. Vista just does things better. So many little tweaks and extra things that aren't particulary needed, i agree, but make using windows much easier/nicer/quicker. Its true you can make XP emulate probably just about everyone of them, but by the time you've done that you've probably lost the small "speed gain" you may have originally had, and some more. Without doubt in my mind Vista is the future, it makes very little sense to move back, there are a few reasons, but not many.
 
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