Paul_J
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I just got my laptop sent back from repair and not only did they replace my motherboard (which solved the issue) they also wiped my hard drive and re installed the 'standard' operating system - which is Vista 
Personally I can't stand Vista, so previously removed it and installed XP instead.
Now this laptop has Vista again, but I'm wondering how many people these days actually use this operating system rather than XP?
Does it really slow your PC down, and how does it handle pirated software like Pirated Office, Pirated Photoshop etc - I've heard stories about it locking down the PC / software when it detects it's not legit.
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Cosmo
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Mac option is where 
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willay
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XP - Vista is still bloated resource hugging shit.
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Jakey
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Registered: 4th Jun 07
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XP on home pc
Vista on laptop
Voted vista as im on my laptop more
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Paul_J
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
Mac option is where
Get the fuck out.
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willay
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dannymccann
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I would like to know if Vista has been improved from when it was released. Ive always disliked the performance of Vista, and the amount of drivers which simply refuse to work on it, but have liked the aesthetic features. However I still love XP as its modern yet still works perfectly......
And im formatting my PC later so would like to know either way as I have XP Pro and Vista Ultimate to choose from
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Paul_J
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Anyone know how Vista handles pirated software? a goon at uni who did his placement at Microsoft kept telling me Vista detects illegal pirated software and shuts it down / locks the whole OS down.
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Anyone know how Vista handles pirated software? a goon at uni who did his placement at Microsoft kept telling me Vista detects illegal pirated software and shuts it down / locks the whole OS down.
I think at first Vista used to detect if Vista itself was a pirated copy, and if so lock it down, but it kept doing it to genuine copies so they removed it.
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Shane
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ive only ever had one problem with vista, and that was the first time i updated it,
ive got pirate sofrtware on it and still works fine
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Paul_J
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Cheers shane.
Ok I'll probably just stick with it this time then.
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Brett
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Yeah, I've got a downloaded copy of office on mine and it's fine.
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Jambo
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i use vista, grown to like it. Took along time to get over XP tho there wasnt anything wrong with it!
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Kurt
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hate vista, my sister has it on her laptop and has just one account. yet whenever you do anything, for example setting it up on the network you get some gay little background window going on about admin stuff
i however have xp on mine and its fine
much prefered M.E on my old computer though, was just so simple!
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
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I requested XP at work and have XP at home.
I find vista too annoying to use. Asks you 3 times if you want to do what you want to do. Plus I find it jerky and thinks too much.
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dannymccann
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quote:
Originally posted by Dean_W
I requested XP at work and have XP at home.
I find vista too annoying to use. Asks you 3 times if you want to do what you want to do. Plus I find it jerky and thinks too much.
You can turn that 'security' shite off, have a google its on there somewhere, easy fix
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
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Still shit. Just don't like it
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Robbo
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I have Vista and really like it after expecting that i wouldn't
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Richie
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I use it every day. Organisation has moved over to Vista Enterprise when SP1 came out and we've had no issues.
I use Ultimate on my boxes at home and would never go back to XP.
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Ash_EP3
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Vista runs ok when you have a fairly good spec machine - my choice at the moment is XP 
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Richie
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Machines in our company never have Vista if they have less than 2gb of RAM.
Vista + Office 2007 + 1Gb RAM = fucked
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Jakey
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quote:
Originally posted by Richie
Machines in our company never have Vista if they have less than 2gb of RAM.
Vista + Office 2007 + 1Gb RAM = fucked
Ive got office 2007 on vista and tbh it its not happy with 2gb ram
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
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Vista is shit & I hate it... Just too lazy to get XP installed
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AndyKent
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Love Vista.
Looks nicer and works just as well as XP even on my not too powerful laptop.
With uninstalled anti-virus it runs quicker than my XP desktop.
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Anyone know how Vista handles pirated software? a goon at uni who did his placement at Microsoft kept telling me Vista detects illegal pirated software and shuts it down / locks the whole OS down.
does it bollocks
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