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10 Responses to “Suggestions, please”

1. Dan, on October 5th, 2007 at 11:42 am Said:

   What took you so long?

2. Eshwar, on October 5th, 2007 at 11:55 pm Said:

   I would say hold on if you are just using it for normal work… I agree Vista isn’t where it should be… But there are many potentials for the future like WPF which much in the future lead to some really cool apps.. My annoyances were UAC security features which runs many processes at their lowest priveldge level and thereby requiring the user to provide explicit permissions for many tasks, IE7 not quite stable enough… and quite a bit of bugs in the Windows Explorer implementation.

   However, having said that there are few things that were a good… Like side bar support, windows media center/media player, Most of them you can probably get from XP but still its easier with Vista. I think SP1 has hit beta and will release soon. So I hope it will fix some of the bugs. Being a developer using Vista is somewhat painful at the start since I had several problems with IDEs and debug tools and required installation of newer service packs.

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4. deepak, on October 9th, 2007 at 7:07 am Said:

   Better hang to it till SP1 comes out in jan 08

5. scudie, on October 9th, 2007 at 11:31 pm Said:

   Ubuntu rules!!

   On a less geekier note, I found Vista to be horribly slow on my dad’s new laptop (Compaq, Centrino Duo, 512 MB RAM) and tried to uninstall it. It was the begining of a nightmare. First I did an FFR (fdisk, format, reinstall) Only, I couldnt get past F. Some amazing co-incidence FUBARed the motherboard just when i was trying to reinstall XP. I still think this has something to do with Vista. After a week, with a new motherboard in (thank the non-existent god for international warranties!), I finally installed XP, only to find that Compaq doesnt support XP on that laptop, meaning no drivers could be found. I hunted for drivers for almost 12 continuous hours (thank you caffeine, nicotine). Finally, after much googling and the support forum on Compaq and other websites, got everything up and running.

   Couple of things to remember

   1. Note down the details of each hardware component on your machine and hunt for drivers before you start the process.

   2. Turn off SATA support in the BIOS. XP doesnt like this feature.

   Cheers
   Scudie

6. I, on October 13th, 2007 at 4:59 pm Said:

   vista bada bejar.

7. VK, on October 13th, 2007 at 10:57 pm Said:

   Thanks for the comments. Actually, I let Vista be. Not because I have decided to wait for Microsoft’s patches and service packs. But because, as Scudie points out, it is not easy to switch back to XP. At least not in the middle of a semester.

   The workaround is to strip Vista of all its RAM-gobbling, processor-intensive graphics, which is oh-so-fine with me.

8. scudie, on October 15th, 2007 at 5:26 am Said:

   So you have sold your soul to the evil M$. did u check this out? http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2110596,00.asp

9. Krish Ashok, on October 18th, 2007 at 12:34 pm Said:

   Dump Vista. Not worth it. Never going to be. Here’s my experience with Vista on my wife’s 512 MB compaq laptop.

10. vista windows explorer hang, on December 25th, 2007 at 6:27 pm Said:

    vista windows explorer hang…

    Nice points……

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