I'm going under the knife

Well, not me, but my Computer is going under the knife tonight.

I've had it with Vista and am getting my machine ready to reformat and I'll be installing XP Pro again.

I'll post again sometime tonight/tomorrow when I'm back up and running. CYA Vista, I'd say it's been fun, but I can't.

5 Comments

  • What sorts of problems have you been having?

    I'm running it on desktop and laptop. It works great for VS2005.net development. But trying to play any of my games just sucks.

  • My PC has become slower than bearable. I have a 2.8ghz p4, 2gig of ddr2 4200 ram, nvidia 7900GS.

    At first Vista ran alright, but lately I can't even open my computer without having to wait for 5 minutes.

    I've backed everything up, time to reboot. Cya on the flip side.

  • I had installed Vista a while back by doing an upgrade and it totally didn't work. Vista didn't work until I did a fresh install of it and then it seemed to run alright.

    Also, the antivirus spyware detector thing really really slows down a computer I think so next time, make sure it's totally shut off. It made everything go horribly slow until I disabled it and then Vista was really fast.

  • Good call.

    I waited until the final RTM before I installed it on my primary laptop.

    It lasted a day before I was sick of it and reformated back to XP.

    It was only once I'd installed Vista that I realised there was absolutely zero compelling reason to run it. All it did was run slower, chew more idle CPU (which caused my laptop fan to switch on constantly) and all the changes just made everyday tasks slower, not faster. Plus the built-in image viewer sucked compared to the one with XP. Oh, and it completely hung solid on me twice in the first day. Which XP has never done - I've always been able to recover eventually.

    On the other hand, I am testing Longhorn Server on one of my web servers. I think the extra security could actually be useful there.

    - Boris Y.

  • I haven't tried Vista, but IME it can be worthwhile to move to server 2003 for the desktop.

    Much cleaner and more secure by default.

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