andy1868
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Registered: 22nd Jun 06
Location: Burscough, Lancashire
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i used vista for 10 months on my home machine and went back to xp. i've used vista at work since the start of december until present. the only way i don't get crazy errors is if i run it in the basic appearance settings, and there is therefore no point of having vista to start with IMO
both machines are above minimum standard, my work one is a 4200 X2 with 2GB RAM and my home machine is a 4200 X2 with 4Gb of RAM.
i'm not going back to it on my home machine until SP1 at the least, i'll install it on my work machine and judge from there
[Edited on 03-10-2007 by andy1868]
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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If vista is giving errors there is either a driver problem or the system isn't up to scratch.
My home system with a dodgy graphics card only ever falters when the graphics card plays up, and most of the time windows itself doesn't crash, the card crashes the driver and vista recovers from it, not one previous version of windows would have managed that.
As for the fancy bits, if i'm using anything but vista everything is turned off as they are a waste of time, on vista though, the fancy stuff is handled by the graphics card, which on the desktop isn't doing anything else so they are all left on.
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bigD21
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Registered: 22nd May 07
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one question for anyone who can help - i installed vista ultimate to test it out and it uses ALOT of HDD space, especially for a basic format installation. The "hibernation" settings thing that automatically uses 2gb of HDD space, can that be turned off? along with anything else that eats up HDD?
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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XP all the way!
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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Only go with Vista if your going to have a decent amount of RAM installed, otherwise you'll probably regret it.
I'd still personally go with XP. A lot of companies like Dell, HP, etc are offering XP installed with a voucher for a future upgrade to Vista - which IMO is the best current option to go for until most of the problems are ironed out. Especially if your not using it for anything taxing.
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bubble
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Registered: 24th Jan 04
Location: Darwin, NT Australia.
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i have xp on my laptop, my mum bought a toshiba laptop yesterday with vista on-it went straight back as when first turned it on it stuck on a "starting vista for the first time" page and never got any further. took it back comet-they tried tell her ring the tech support line.
needless to say she walked out with another laptop!!
which worked btw
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Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
Location: Essex
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
Only go with Vista if your going to have a decent amount of RAM installed
Minimum 512mb
Recommended 2gb btw 
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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quote:
Originally posted by Neo
quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
Only go with Vista if your going to have a decent amount of RAM installed
Minimum 512mb
Recommended 2gb btw
ATLEAST 2GB imo.
Have tried it on a PC with less than that and also read a few horror stories on the net and isnt too impressive.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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I'm running ultimate on 512meg just now, wouldn't recommend it as i'm only doing it till I build a new system but its running along fine tbh.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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3.11 
Turn on Netbois and away you go 
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