More vista sh*t
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You idiot, these are all features, let me explain:
If you can see all the wireless connections in the area it is a security risk, while you "wait" windows vista has to submit all your secure information to each connection so that they can identify whether or not to ban you. After that if your computer is not yet hacked it then submits it to 10 random porn sites. After that it gives you the icon... DERF its an obvious feature right there!
Thumbnails? Well why would you want to turn those off? Communist! Thumbnails is what makes vista so great, didnt you see the demo how they make thumbnails of everything as you alt-tab? If you disable that you may as well disable democracy!
Look, obviously FireFox does not know what it's doing. If Microsoft says the site is down then ITS DOWN! Windows Media Video format? Who the heck uses that? Certainly not windows! And who uses the keyboard, its the Microsoft mind-raper i mean mind-reader that all the cool kids go with now days.
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@dhromed said:
@asuffield said:
@misguided said:
Absolutely zero of the original poster's problems happen to me.
This is something that I've seen a lot of. As best I can tell, Vista is just incredibly unstable - no two people get the same behaviour from it. It's probably a huge ball of race conditions and invalid assumptions about how software will behave, so even minor variations in hardware and configuration give different combinations of defects.
It's like Windows ME all over again. Half the people loved it, and for the other half it was unstable junk.
Time for Vista XP.
Windows ME user appeal:
1) Came pre-installed with some crap computers
2) Works slightly worse than windows 98
3) Had a big ME at the end of it... WOO
4) I knew noone who willingly installed it. Actually i knew noone who didnt have it or changed it to windows 98 in a minute.
Windows Vista reviews from people i know.
1) Its slow
2) It crashes too much
3) You have any idea how to get my printer working on it?
4) I would rather have XP
5) You have a windows xp cd, can i borrow it?6) I cant login to work with it.
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What?
I'm running Vista since Mar 07 and so far 'suffered' exactly ZERO Vista-related crashes. I'm not sure what you guys do to make it crash. (Using bugged drivers doesn't count, I admit I've been swearing at Nvidia's glacially slow graphics drivers since forever)
Granted Vista is slow on older computers, but who installs Vista on a WinXP system anyway? Any new computer is good enough to run Vista with no problems at all. Back in the days, nobody installed XP on a Win98 box either because it would be far too ...slow. Wait until your next major upgrade or until you buy a new system.
I did get a few dozen Acrobat freezes, though. When Acrobat is loading a page in the browser and you hit search or close the window, it hangs. When the .pdf file stops coming in, Acrobat sits there forever and you can't do anything about it. When you finally close the window, something fails to unload and Windows hangs on shutdown. Adobe you incompetent €$%àç&!1!
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@Brother Laz said:
When Acrobat is loading a page in the browser and you hit search or close the window, it hangs. When the .pdf file stops coming in, Acrobat sits there forever and you can't do anything about it. When you finally close the window, something fails to unload and Windows hangs on shutdown. Adobe you incompetent €$%àç&!1!
Any competently designed operating system should not suffer such an issue.
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@Brother Laz said:
Granted Vista is slow on older computers, but who installs Vista on a WinXP system anyway? Any new computer is good enough to run Vista with no problems at all. Back in the days, nobody installed XP on a Win98 box either because it would be far too ...slow. Wait until your next major upgrade or until you buy a new system.
The lameness of this kind of non-thinking is astonishing. If you ran winxp on your new computer instead, it would run hugely faster. It is stunningly unimpressive to say "oh wow, I bought a whole new computer, and it runs just as fast as the old one did", and the fact that you're willing to accept this state of affairs makes me wonder how much medication you are on.
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Its great to see just one brainwashed baby here... If vista would be any good I would expect a MUCH higher percentage of vista happy people around. I ain't seeing. In stead I see my boss happily using the corporate license agreements benefit of rights of using previous versions...
PS: I installed XP on win98 machine. Its not the fastest but it runs without major grievances. I installed it because XP had stability/security advantage over 98....
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@death said:
Its great to see just one brainwashed baby here... If vista would be any good I would expect a MUCH higher percentage of vista happy people around. I ain't seeing. In stead I see my boss happily using the corporate license agreements benefit of rights of using previous versions...
IIRC that applies to all windows licenses (though, certain definitions of "previous" apply for XP home), but I've always wondered where people get the keys to do that (particularly for XP on a vista license, as XP requires activation)
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I skipped going to school when Windows ME came out just to get it, and to eagerly install it on my computer. I didn't manage to, after all that. The installer wouldn't let me because I needed at least 166Mhz clock speed.
My 133 was state of the art once, damn it! :|
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@Random832 said:
IIRC that applies to all windows licenses (though, certain definitions of "previous" apply for XP home), but I've always wondered where people get the keys to do that (particularly for XP on a vista license, as XP requires activation)
Oh, it's easy - just take a photo or scan the Genuine Vista sticker, send it to your local Microsoft representative and spend the next hour convincing the MS phone support that you really want to run XP and not Vista. Then just find an XP OEM CD and you're set up.
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Any competently designed operating system should not suffer such an issue.
OH really? Now how do you intend for this to happen? Since, obviously, you've developed some System-level code, I'm sure you have an obvious and complete solution.
2) It crashes too much
I'm still awaiting someone to show me a Crash caused by Vista and not a crapplication. Power related issues need not apply unless you've at least done the favor of updating :)
The lameness of this kind of non-thinking is astonishing. If you ran winxp on your new computer instead, it would run hugely faster.
I saw an overall usability increase with a 3 year old computer with virtually no performance loss. I'm sorry, but the lameness if this non-thinking is also absurd.
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PS: I installed XP on win98 machine. Its not the fastest but it runs without major grievances. I installed it because XP had stability/security advantage over 98....
And you should install Vista for the same reason :)
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@error_bot said in More vista sh*t:
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.... The fuck? Go back to making !mandelbrot !
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@error_bot I got something and it goes thumpin' like this
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Here I was seeing this thread up top asking, "Who the fuck still uses Vista?"
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Status: OMG I found the AutoDeck project!
It's not technically the latest version I had, and it was last updated Feb 2014, but holy crap I'm very happy about this!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in More vista sh*t:
holy crap I'm very happy about this!
I... should.... stop........
I'm sure I posted this elsewhere, but this is a lovely little gem...
Also this (I'm not in this conversation, I think)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in More vista sh*t:
@Tsaukpaetra said in More vista sh*t:
holy crap I'm very happy about this!
I... should.... stop........
The memory graph looks like a child has drawn the sea.
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@Gąska said in More vista sh*t:
@Tsaukpaetra said in More vista sh*t:
@Tsaukpaetra said in More vista sh*t:
holy crap I'm very happy about this!
I... should.... stop........
The memory graph looks like a child has drawn the sea.
I think it was during some calculation in Excel.
Also, I just realized this isn't the Status Thread. Oh well....
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I did not realise we still had any 10-year-old threads to
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