[quote name='cyborg2040']My new computer came preinstalled with Vista, and so far I'm not the biggest fan.
- I had to upgrade (buy) a new version of Nero because it seemed that none of the free burning software was compatible with Vista, including my copy of Nero.
- The system moves really slow at first. The first thing I did was pull up the CP to remove some extra bundled software that I had no interest in, and I waited about 20 - 25 seconds for the CP to even pop up. It gets faster with time. According to a random google website on Vista, the system catches the programs and folders you use to pull them up faster.
- My DVD drive quit reconizing disc one day so I rebooted and the problem was fixed. A few days later it happened again, and I rebooted to get the message that I didn't have an OS. Apperently this is a wide spread problem, and if Vista shuts down without all of the programs closing it may erase your OS. Microsoft perfers that you don't shut down with Vista, and instead use sleep mode.
- Computer comes back from sleep mode without keyboard and mouse support. This happens about 30% of the time forcing me to reboot and prey that my OS doesn't turn up missing.
- Vista is a resource hog from hell. Right now, with nothing up but firefox I am using 62% of my memory. that's because there are 33 processes running. 28 of them are Windows processes that are not able to be stopped. I did try turning off some of the services, but it seems that my Os has the power to say and enable them on it's own, so I lose again.
*Edit* As posted below, if I had a gig or two of ram that would solve the memory issues, but on 512 it's not worth it. Also that doesn't solve any of the other problems. Overall I I don't recommend upgrading if your not having problems with XP.
Vista isn't the worst OS in the world, those are just some of the negatives that I've ran into over the last month. Honestly it's no worse than XP was when it first came out, but I would wait until a few more bugs were worked out until upgrading if I were you.
If you do upgrade, you should be able to switch back to your previous OS at will by uninstalling Vista. At least I read that on Microsofts website.
I have an AMD Athlon 64 Duel Core Processor, 512 ram and 200 GB hard drive. All inside a brand new Dell Dimension C521.[/quote]
1) That sucks. The file structure is different in Vista and that's why the old version of Nero doesn't work with it.
2) I can tell from the rest of your post that it's your hardware that's the problem, not the OS
3) Widespread problem? I've been using Vista on Multiple system since before launch and I never heard of this issue, not even with the betas. Sounds like BS to me.
4) That happened to me when I first started using it. Do you run the updates? I think this issue was already fixed.
5) Microsoft recommends a minimun of 1 gig, so it's the OS's fault that you're using only half that amount? It's not vista's fault if your computer's a POS.