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how to switch to xp from vista - Dogpile Web Search — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:31:18 +0000

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By: TekJ

TekJ — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:47:34 +0000

True, Vista is not that bad. But is not good enough yet to make me wan’t to upgrade. Speed is King for me, and my XP is faster, by any benchmark, on my current PC. I also have a desktop with Ubuntu which is fantastic
Benchmarks speak louder than words.
You got to check this benchmarks. They are in my page TekhnokraticJunkie under my “Time for a downgrade?” article.
Nice content, long video.

Hey Chris how did you get your name to be the first in google?.

By: Shawn Cordon

Shawn Cordon — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:13:06 +0000

Hey Chris,

I’m a pro residential estate photographer (multi gig daily workflow, adobe bridge, photoshop ect..) built a quad core raid0 system this month and opted for Vista…2 weeks later…Can’t find my Microsoft Mouse driver??, Western Digital My Book external driver issue, HP Printer driver issue, Sony Optical DvD burner no driver..more like can’t find it..just buggy…and it goes on and on.. The base os seems fine..It just has no eyes, ears or touch LOL. My computer is my work truck to me. It’s gota work, I don’t need pretty, just a firm ride, a stout motor and the ability to be ridden hard and put away wet. Vista comes off tommorow and XP home goes back on. Wanted to make it work, but a computer is not a game to me..it’s a living. Thanks for your blog
Shawn Cordon, Simi Valley, CA

By: VWRA

VWRA — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:46:03 +0000

Thank you all for the banter ! You just convinced me that my new desktop is going to be one that works ….. so it will have XP Professional for sure .

VWRA

By: Mushiku» Blog Archive » Windows Vista vs Windows XP

Mushiku» Blog Archive » Windows Vista vs Windows XP — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:18:29 +0000

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By: Mushiku» Blog Archive » Windows Vista vs Windows XP

Mushiku» Blog Archive » Windows Vista vs Windows XP — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:18:29 +0000

By: Abemore

Abemore — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:27:31 +0000

Yes, every OS sucks… except for the mythological Google OS, that is. Some day, perhaps…

By: Angus Mobsby

Angus Mobsby — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:25:35 +0000

Well I entirely agree, I have just got two new machines, a laptop with vista home premium and a desktop which I had to get the operating system changed over to XP.
Let me explain, I got the laptop first and spent two weeks trying to get everything working. First Kaspersky internet suite did not work with Adobe Lightroom, so I downgraded to antivirus only, but photoshop cs2 had problems, so I tried a trial version of CS3, which was about 98% ok, but still crashed, the printer driver needed updating but at least was available (well done Epson). The Office XP assistant could not be changed (a bit much when even microsoft software will not run correctly). So to cut a long story short I made sure that the desktop came with XP.
I have now bought a copy of XP to put on the laptop, but will try vista again when service pack one becomes available, because despite its problems a quite like vista, but at the moment I just can’t live with an os that is not reliable when running my software.
My desktop is now here and happily running xp and all my normal apps with no problems and only took just over a day to get setup. The conculsion is that I just feel safe with xp and find that vista just makes me feel uncomfortable.

Regards
Angus Mobsby

By: Angus Mobsby

Angus Mobsby — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:25:35 +0000

Regards
Angus Mobsby

By: John Belanger

John Belanger — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:26:27 +0000

As computing in general gets older manufacturers support gets less and less. I remember when I had DOS 5 I had a manual almost an inch think, now I have XP and a pamphlet. Not a good report for Microsoft at all. It seems like there’s a new OS every year or so, sad indeed some thought used to go into OS’s, sadly that’s not more. Today you pay a couple hundred bucks for a Microsoft OS and HOPE someone will support it, Microsoft probably won’t. In this century it seems computers have gotten more complex and LESS reliable with less support. Now a days if your computer gives you trouble don’t fix it buy a new one. A throwaway society indeed.

Not me I build em and reload OS’s if I have to. Call me an old fart but…

By: John Belanger

John Belanger — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:26:27 +0000

Not me I build em and reload OS’s if I have to. Call me an old fart but…

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:39:50 +0000

We purchased 3 Vista computers for our office and are very dissapointed.
All we want to do is get our work done and I find Vista’s graphics to be distracting and a drag on performance. The UAC (security) is a joke from my perspective. Imagine your Grandpa using a computer: “Grandpa, just click Continue when you get that security message.”; Then some malware asks Grandpa for permission to wipe out his hard drive and he clicks Continue because that’s what he was instructed to do. The key to success for Microsoft is to preserve backwards compatibility while offering new and better technology alternatives. Instead they have adopted an arrogant attitude towards their new technology which effectively abandons its end-user and developer customers. Microsoft is no longer the obvious choice for the business desktop and smart developers will look to developing software to run on alternate platforms such as Linux and Mac.

By: Fatal1ty

Fatal1ty — Sun, 27 May 2007 10:37:51 +0000

I’m running Windows Vista Home Premium and dual booting Ubuntu 7.04. Vista already knew all my hardware and I had no driver issues apart from my eyetoy which I use as my webcam. I’ve decided to buy a decent cam anyway. Media Center annoyed me a bit with its sluggishness. Apart from that it took 2 days off my calender but I now have a awesome system!

Damn, wish I could fix your problems though…

Cheers Chris!

Sincerely

Fatal1ty

By: Fatal1ty

Fatal1ty — Sun, 27 May 2007 10:37:51 +0000

Damn, wish I could fix your problems though…

Cheers Chris!

Sincerely

Fatal1ty

By: Wayne H

Wayne H — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:04:10 +0000

Yep, I think I agree with pretty much everything I have read here. I, myself have persisted with Vista for quite some time (because my job as a software developer trying to support Vista pretty much demands it), and there’s even some things I like about it, but then there are some annoying little things I hate with a passion (like when I paste an icon near the bottom of my desktop it jumps to the top of the screen upsetting other icons I had layed out, just to name one). Vista really does appear to be a lot of hype and pain, for not much gain at all. Also I bought my machine to double as a gaming PC (for the few hours a month I find to do that kind of thing) and I tried it the other day, and it’s totally useless. Games freeze and crash. It was at that moment I realized that the image I kept of my previous XP install was going to be more useful than I had though it ever would be….