Wayne
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I currently have Vista on my pc, but i'm toying the idea of going back to XP. Wats peoples thoughts on both? My pc is a good spec but vista is just a hungry little bastard and i know xp will run faster than vista and is better supported. I can always go back to Vista when its been out longer.
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
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Vista works fine.... I have been deploying it within my company for the past month and it works well.
Group policy disables indexing and visual styles which really aids performance.
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Doug
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As soon as SP1 is released I am going back to Vista on my laptop.
As far as needed more RAM I have read about the Readyboost feature that uses a USB memory stick as virtual RAM?
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jamied
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finally people on cs arent slating it!
deffo vista
you wouldnt install 98 would you?
see the last threads for my reasons why
by way Doug the readyboost feature doesnt seem to make a noticeable difference
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Wayne
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I don't slate vista it's nice, but uses a hell alot of memory than xp..
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John
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It doesn't really use that much more memory.
It runs faster with more memory and makes more efficient use of it.
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Steve
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thing i dont like about vista is everything you want if your changing techie stuff is so much more hidden away, and the profiles and where it stores certain files is cock eyed
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Wayne
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ive read somewhere that the kernal uses a hell of alot in vista? Not sure if i'm rite or not.
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John
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Vista uses all the memory it can get its hands on, why not when its sitting unused.
It frees it up when something else needs it though.
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Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
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XP
End !
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John
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Why
Full stop
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Nic Barnes
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mac os tiger end
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Wrighty
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Registered: 28th Feb 04
Location: Howden
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used vista for the first time the other day, christ i was lost!
give me xp anyday
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barteh
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been using vista for about a year now and wouldnt go back to XP.
If you have alot of RAM you can leave visual styles on, if you dont then turn it off.
If you have 1gb of RAM or less then consider using Readyboost (really cosider getting another stick of ram!) but it doesnt make a huge difference.
The thing is, everything people are saying and complaining about with vista is what they were saying 7 years ago with XP.
SP1 should be good.
[Edited on 15-11-2007 by barteh]
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Andrew
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I haven't got around to installing this yet. Going to try and do it this weekend.
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simon179
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Registered: 6th Aug 07
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xp until sp 1 is released for vista! too many things dont work or go wrong on vista at moment!
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Andrew
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sp1 is meant to be released after Christmas.
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AndyKent
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quote:
Originally posted by barteh
been using vista for about a year now and wouldnt go back to XP.
If you have alot of RAM you can leave visual styles on, if you dont then turn it off.
If you have 1gb of RAM or less then consider using Readyboost (really cosider getting another stick of ram!) but it doesnt make a huge difference.
The thing is, everything people are saying and complaining about with vista is what they were saying 7 years ago with XP.
SP1 should be good.
[Edited on 15-11-2007 by barteh]
Exactly!
I'm running a laptop with only 1gb and even with everything on, its not particularly slower than XP TBH. For normal, everyday tasks, its far better than XP. Love it 
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Wayne
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I have 4gb memory and it ran ok with everything but i put xp back on last night and it runs alot smoother and better.
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John
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The visual stuff uses the graphics card
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Wayne
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i have 8800 gts 320mb.
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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Disable indexing and precaching and it will be the same.
Ppl who say "ill wait until SP1" are very old fashioned.
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Pucci1
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Registered: 19th Oct 07
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end of the day XP sp2..
vista to hungrey (not everyone has big amounts of ram) to many issues, ask's me far to many question (if it ok for java to run? of course it is i installed it)
although am running vista atm giving it a 2nd try
i will be going bck to xp 
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
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I am working side by side with MS and ive seen the benefits of UAC and its worth being nagged for.
Vista is only RAM intensive when Aero is on due to each open window saving an uncompressed bitmap to RAM, which will be sorted soon but isnt a problem.
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Pucci1
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xp > vista
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