Windows Vista is a piece of...

[PennylessZ28]

From the people I hear are having bad slow downs with Vista, they have something misconfigured or are simply doing something wrong. Or it's possible that your hardware vendor, has supplied you with bad drivers. There is also the case of the BIOS.

On notebook review, there was a bios update for some hp's lately that caused vista to move at a snails pace, hp was quick to fix this with a new bios update however.

Just some food for thought.

Runs faster on my 1.8ghz Turion 64 ML-34 with 1gig than XP ever did.

actually i think that Vista was not developped with the latest up-to-date computers, they started developping it years ago, so i'm sure that even if you have a 1 or 2 years old computer it is supposed to work if well configured...

a lot of tech sites are talking about different ways to configure your Vista, so i suppose it is not related to the release itself but the way your computer worked in the past and have to be "edited" to work properly now...

[Kihon Kata]

I guess I'm just used to SPEED. Vista didn't deliver speed, just slowness comparatively speaking. XP is running nicely. I can actually get some sheet done.

Glad it's out.

[bashy]

My Vista is puka, Just installed ultimate 64 today but was running ultimate 32 and there both just as good as each other, Only gone to 64 to see if there is any difference and my cpu is a 64.

I have found the Vista knocks the spots off XP, been using Vista for the last 4 months or so!! Will never go back to snail XP lol

[Razasharp]

I had ultimate installed on a test machine and liked it, so bought Home Premium 64bit for my own PC. It runs great and I prefer it tons better than XP.

I have a C2D, 2GB ram, 320GB partitioned SATAII HD.

It looks great on my 1920 x 1200 screen not to mention they've paid much more attention to the usability side of things. Oh, and it's more secure (well at the moment anyway).

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by popowich

If you pay extra Dell will give you Windows XP

(random unofficial poll)

-Raymond

Yaayyy Dell. Wouldn't have anything else. But vista sux. Used it for 2 weeks, and went back to XP.

[unenergizer]

I use Windows Vista Home Premium and it works perfectly on my computer. I had to make a few network modifications to open up ports for faster downloading etc.

My Specs:

Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Company
Model: m8020m
Raiting: 3.4
Processor: Intel Core 2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz
Memory (RAM): 2046 MB
System type: 32-bit

[LukeFX]

Get a grip, I run Vista on a 1gig 4.2 AMD dual core and its spot on, miles faster than XP.

[bashy]

pmsl.... hey luke, i noticed the edit to your post pmsl.....
"miles faster than vista" lol i saw it

Anyway, i have now put Vista 64 on but not noticed any difference..
Prob cause all my proggies are 32 bit pmsl....

[RichieBoy67]

I have been using Vista on 2 of my systems for months and I absolutly love it. It is the most solid operating system I have ever used and it is much faster and has way more features than anything else.....

It took a month or so for me to get used to it but once I learned all the added features and creature comforts I just fell in love with it....

I honestly cannot understand why you would have such a problem with it.. I truly believe it is a problem with your system, drivers, hardware or some software you have. If it runs slower than xp something is wrong and it is not Vista.... Vista is way faster than xp on both of my systems and I have tested it using various programs... It manages memory better and power too..

I would go over your system and try again. Format the harddrive and start clean. trust me, it is not Vista. Once you have it working correctly I bet you that you will not want to use any system without it... Man it is so awesome... networking, security..... everything....

Good luck though.. must be some incompatability somewhere...