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Can someone with more technical know-how than I please tell me why Vista is so bad?
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@abigpony 1. UAC. 2. Crashes all the time. (More than windows usually does, at least) 3. Bloats up very fast.
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@techdisk exactly, i mean my computer would happily run it like it does W7, but WHY, its an unstable unguided MESS
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@techdisk i don't know what "bloats up" or "UAC" means, but I literally haven't ever been able to use XP on a computer in my life because it crashes so often.
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@unhipdruid I think almost any OS would be better than having to use Vista.
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@tekkdan exactly, il have to use my Ubuntu boot every now and then... and one of my hard drives has a failed install of a GRUB boot manager...
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@abigpony user account control. Horrible in the vista version because it bugs you about everything. Bloats up means vista pretty much consistently declines in performance as you use it over time. If your thinking of using vista instead of XP because crashes, dont. 7 is astronomically superior. If you had problems with XP,dont expect vista to even boot.
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@techdisk I never had problems with Vista until about 4 years of using it, which is the longest I had gone without problems since 95. I like the priveleges more in vista than 7 in which I do alot of things witout even wanting to do it. XP is more garbage to me than Vista ever was.
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@techdisk i mean, admins just have to click "YES" why do we need it when an admin is logged in, sigh, as SOON as i install windows 7, i start chrome downloading, then UAC: Disabled!
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@abigpony xp was good for me. Then again i never really pushed my computer very hard when i used xp regularly. With vista, my moms vista laptop just kinda died. It would start, but then crash after you logged in. But not with a bsod. The mouse would work and you could move windows around, but nothing else. Just kinda hanged.
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@techdisk happens for me a few months after a windows install, but i THRASH my computer, all the time, so its not surprising,
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@techdisk only thing i believe XP has over Vista as far as i've seen is startup time, but my laptop had a bunch of default crap to loadup.
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@abigpony oh yeah, that. My xp computer took forever and a half to get to a usable state. Then i found the hibernate mode and i was happy.
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@techdisk hibernate is the best solution for Mechanical drives, it takes my computer with an SSD twice as long to resume hibernation than to just boot...
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@techdisk i was talking my vista that took long. I always hear of people leaving their computers on for long periods of time, but i HAVE TO shut mine down when not using it. Habit. Seems to last longer.
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@unhipdruid it was amazing when i first learned about hibernate. My desktop took 5 mins or longer to get to a completely usable state from cold boot. From hibernation, it was about a minute. I never turned off my desktop ever again.
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@abigpony same here. I cant leave a computer just running while im not there to make sure it doesnt explode or something.
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@techdisk hibernation Is meh... It is less quick, when you have 48GB of RAM..... not that I would ever want to hibernate the server.
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@techdisk hard drives, i hate them, so dam slow... my doesktop boots in about 9 seconds, and i can use it after 10, opening chrome, and other things instantly
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@techdisk it's a habit from having a laptop. Burned things with that hot-grapes charger
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@techdisk oh my, why even... (16 GB Reporting in)
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@abigpony one of those two dirt cheap ones i have is a furnace. I swear i could use it as a space heater. From what ive seen online, it partally uses the hard drive as a heatsink (aka where all the heat goes to cool down) and people have reported it killing off hard drives.
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@techdisk i once had to clear a virus off the thing. To keep it cool throughout the process i turned it on its side and pointed a fan at the bottom.
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@techdisk yeah, mine literally caught fire. My hard drive. It was very un-hype.
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