Simcut Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 Hi guys, I've just got XP up and running again now, I made the fatal mistake of installing Vista and giving it a whirl. I have to say it does look very flash but my god, the Menus etc are shocking! the menu system is just ridiculous, its so difficult to get around Windows Explorer in Vista. I love the little 3d animation of when you flick through the open windows, very flash. Despite all the sexyness looks wise of it, its absolutely w*** (technical term!!). I play Counter-Strike Source and the performance is pretty f***ing shoddy to be honest. I'm not going back to Vista until at least SP1 comes out. Take my advice and avoid it for now!! Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 As I said on msn, new trimmings really, same as every new version of Vista, I really don't like the windows bar menus change at all although the 3d in middle of screen rotaing all open windows jobbys a nice novelty. I havent gost Vista btw, my uncle has, he got a new pc with home premium on last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsteve Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 My Dad got a PC recently and its got Vista on it. He gets on really well with it and no problems. It is his first PC and he isn't used to XP like most people. Maybe its just a case of getting used to something new? I wasn't keen on IE7 at first, but now wouldn't swap it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberduck Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 I'm running on vista right now. Cant fault it to be honest. I only use my laptp for t'internet so maybe I'm not coming across problems with vistathat others may. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simcut Posted June 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 Dont you just find the Windows Explorer absolutely s*** now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aza Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 My Dad got a PC recently and its got Vista on it. He gets on really well with it and no problems. It is his first PC and he isn't used to XP like most people. Maybe its just a case of getting used to something new? I wasn't keen on IE7 at first, but now wouldn't swap it. I started reading this thread & deffo agree with you there Steve :thumbsup: I have Vista myself here (free upgrade from XMAS), but aint installed it yet after following Simcuts advise and a few other articles I read online. I have yet to try it, but following the BBC news online, their technology section certainly has it covered and I m quite looking forward to upgrading... The only thing for me, I have run the upgrade advisor and a lot of my existing hardware (including me wireless stuff) is incompatible and a t'internet connection is essential for installation (I believe). The only downers I hold atm is; the hungryness for system memory etc, I think 2gig of ram is more realistic rather than the recommened 1 gig, and apparently watching hi-def movies on yr comp, Vista downgrades them to dvd quality because of DRM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simcut Posted June 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 bearing in mind the excellent specs of my Computer, it really struggled to run a few games on the PC! It takes forever to boot up etc.... not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Brown Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 I'm behind the times but in the next week or so l will be upgrading to Windows XP and having other things added on such as an additional hard drive, flat sceen monitor, dvd rewriter etc . I'm really looking forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simcut Posted June 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 Cool Chrissie! Windows XP is fantastic, I can point u in the direction of some cool tweaks to make it even better :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberduck Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 Did anyone see the episode of 'The Gadget Show' when that geeky old bloke that presents on there upgraded his PC to Vista. It took an absolute eternity and he thought his computer had totally f***ed up when it eventually finished and rebooted but it did actually work. Luckily my laptop had it already installed so I haven't had to make the upgrade or not decision. I had a bit of a cock-up with my laptop last week as the Symnatec anti-virus software decided it was going to go tits up and recommend installing and re-installing. I did this rather hastily and then realised that my computer didn't come with a disk to load this software on. It came on a 90 day free trial, which was almost finished. I have now started using avast. Free and looks pretty effective. The only grumble I have is the alarm that goes off when a virus is trying to gain access to my computer. Scares the s*** out of me as it's really loud :eek: Not bothered about renewing the Norton anti-virus package as that costs £40. I've had plenty of good reviews of avast so thought it was worth a look. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tremor Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 Good Choice with not bothering with Norton, I hate it, nothing but trouble for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 yeh ive had loads of trouble with norton too! Pile of poop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Brown Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I use AVG (free) and have done so for 5 yrs now and had no problems with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakey Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I had to install McAfee when my computer was on the uni network but it was crap so gone back to AVG free again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrant Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 This Vista thing was originally called Longhorn or something wasn't it? Imagine releasing a Windows with that name :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aza Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 You are correct Quadrant sir... I don't think that name is scrapped though because they are releasing "Longhorn" as Vista's Networking equivalent of NT (I think). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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