Vista or Vistrash?

[cookieCAM]

Re: Vista or Vistrash?

I Use:

Hp Mini: Xp Home
Compaq Prolaint ML(?515-310?): Xp Pro
(1)Dell Inspron 8200: Win 7 Ult.
(2)Dell Inspron 8200: Xp Pro
Alienwear Desktop: Vista Ult.
Dell Mini 10: 7 Starter
Dell Mame: Xp Pro.

+ More!!!!

[Scenic]

Re: Vista or Vistrash?

haha senic, I love your avatar, though I don't know why you have it though, abit is pretty much dead, as is epox

unfortunately... for both

reason why i've got that avatar is the board i used for my Core 2 Quad a while back. Abit IP35P.
pretty much perfect layout (except the floppy connector location), no BS functions and it OCed very well..
i just can't part with it.. allthough i have no use for it at the moment..

http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/mothe...ARCHTEXT=IP35P



caps on mine are all Nichicon, Sanyo and Nippon Chemicon.. (they learned their lesson after the crapcap disaster..)

Other boards i've got are the good ol' Abit BX6 and the IC7 (Socket 478, i875 Chipset). i also have some random EPoX boards, most notably the EPoX 4PCA3i R2 (Socket 478 ; i875) .. came with crapcaps (GSC & Teapo) and was dead as a rock. recapped it and it still works fine to this day..

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Vista or Vistrash?

Wait 10 minutes to delete 50MB of files.
Watch it error at the end on 1 file and undo the whole operation.

That sounds like the Microsoft installer for Windows Live, IIRC, it would wait until almost the end then error out and roll back the changes.

The cause was a registry entry that somehow had a messed up ACL.
And I would get an access denied error when trying to access the registry entry.
It mysteriously had the ACL set to deny write access and read access to the registry entry.
And it was an important registry entry.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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micro$oft actually now had unlimited activations for any OEM key if you're using an OEM disk.

Sorry, that's not correct. Microsoft's activation server punished me for reformatting, reinstalling and requesting an activation one day. It told me that I exceeded the max activations for the product key!

(Back in 2007)

[c_hegge]

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If that happens, you can ring them up and they will activate it for you.

[Topcat]

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Sorry, that's not correct. Microsoft's activation server punished me for reformatting, reinstalling and requesting an activation one day. It told me that I exceeded the max activations for the product key!

(Back in 2007)

They reset that every so often. It did that to me with a copy of X64 a couple years ago (had it on 4 systems at the same time). Soon after i tried it again, it activated no problem. C_hagge is correct though, if it does that to you, just call them....they'll light up your install.

[c_hegge]

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C_hagge is correct though...

Hmmm. I've never heard of him before

[Uranium-235]

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what i'm taking about is OEM (HP, Dell, Toshoba) keys I have activated 10 times so far with no problems. Mind you incase micro$oft decided to start adding key limitations I keep track of the number of activations so far. But I have a dell Pro key from the gx280 I have activated at least 8 times this year

I know its legally gray, but no one cares

[TheLaw]

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vista sucked, I don't like 7 any better. Still using XP and have no plans to change.

Nahh...I was in your boat, but once I got W7, I realized how old XP was. You shouldn't try running 7 on an ancient machine, but for new computers, don't even think about XP.

[goontron]

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Winblows7 vistrash it's all microshit!

[ratdude747]

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Winblows7 vistrash it's all microshit!

Holy thread revival Batman!

[Junk Parts]

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W7 is just fine.

[dumpystig]

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I run Win 7 Ultimate 64bit on a desktop and a Workstation, and 32bit on 2 laptops - overall I think it is a great OS, I have very few complaints/niggles. I found Vista to be a pain in the arse. Much like IE9 64bit.

[Ami Sapphire]

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lol my mom still runs vista on her laptop

But seriously, she adapted to Vista from XP pretty quickly when she had her first Vista-based laptop. On another note, I never had problems running Vista on any PC I had installed, even on my old Dell Dimension 8200. It was surprisingly fast. (It was a test install at the time.)

I moved on from Vista, however, I still use it in some test installs.

[Agent24]

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vista sucked, I don't like 7 any better. Still using XP and have no plans to change.

^This

[shovenose]

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I'll take Windows 7 (or even Vista) over XP any day, even if it's a tad bit slower...

[dumpystig]

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I preferred XP to Vista, still do. In fact I've recently been contemplating a Win7/XP dual boot on either my workstation or desktop.

[Shocker]

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there is nothing wrong with vista. it was a decent operating system!

On top of the excessive resource consumption and the annoying UAC:

• The "ask me what to do" action for the power button was removed.
• WinHelp was removed (be it for better or worse; better for MS, worse for us).
• Multiple problems mentioned here. (You can use compatibility mode to install older software that won't recognise Vista.)
• Plus many others.

[ratdude747]

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On top of the excessive resource consumption and the annoying UAC:

• The "ask me what to do" action for the power button was removed.
• WinHelp was removed (be it for better or worse; better for MS, worse for us).
• Multiple problems mentioned here. (You can use compatibility mode to install older software that won't recognise Vista.)
• Plus many others.

way to revive a 2 month thread.

(posted from a vista pc)

[Newbie2]

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Windows Vista? I almost forgot that it even existed after Windows 7 came out.

Back when Vista was the latest thing I jumped right on the bandwagon from XP, because I'm the person who wants the latest thing. Before 7 came out I actually liked Vista and how it looked compared to XP, but after getting 7 I'm not looking back.

I put Windows 7 on newer computers, and XP on older computers. Windows 7 doesn't need better hardware than Vista, plus it's newer and much improved. That said, there's no point for Vista anymore, IMO.