God, Vista is slow.

[Guest]

I have just upgraded all our PCs to Vista and now sometimes I wish I hadn't
bothered.

Despite the fact that all our PC's are now brand new Vista 'Originals',
everything seems much slower than with XP. The constant nagging screens to
confirm this and that (yes I know you can turn it off), the persistent
scrolling 'doing something' circle, more frequent lockups, and a hard drive
that is working for England (you sould sit in an office full of Vista
machines - there is not a moment's peace).

OK we have Aero, it looks a bit nicer, but it is slower than XP in almost
every way and how many of us have ever used the pretty scrolling thingy to
move between apps?

Something inside me tells me that Vista is not a huge leap forward for the
general user, more like a polite step sideways.

Overall, I am thoroughly disappointed.

 

[Shane Nokes]

What hardware do you have on those machines?

Also UAC prompts for the most part stop nagging you once you get all of the
applications and settings setup.

 

[Guest]

P4 Duo 2.13 GHZ 2GB Ram. Score 5.1

I just mean on ever machine I have ever seen Vista run on, is disappointing.

It is not the HUUUUUUUGE leap I was lead to believe.

Using it every day now drives me nuts.

 

[Terry]

On 4/12/2007 2:50 PM On a whim, Paul pounded out on the keyboard

I have just upgraded all our PCs to Vista and now sometimes I wish I hadn't
bothered.

Despite the fact that all our PC's are now brand new Vista 'Originals',
everything seems much slower than with XP. The constant nagging screens to
confirm this and that (yes I know you can turn it off), the persistent
scrolling 'doing something' circle, more frequent lockups, and a hard drive
that is working for England (you sould sit in an office full of Vista
machines - there is not a moment's peace).

OK we have Aero, it looks a bit nicer, but it is slower than XP in almost
every way and how many of us have ever used the pretty scrolling thingy to
move between apps?

Something inside me tells me that Vista is not a huge leap forward for the
general user, more like a polite step sideways.

Overall, I am thoroughly disappointed.

Why did you decide to do "all" of your machines? If it's a business, I
know most of my clients want an "all or nothing" when it comes to
software, not just one or two machines.

You are a good example of why most businesses are NOT moving to Vista
anytime soon. And what do looks have to do with productivity?

"Sideways" is a good way to put it. No advantage for you, only for MS.

Sorry to hear,


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[Dave Cox]

I have just upgraded all our PCs to Vista and now sometimes I wish
I hadn't bothered.

Despite the fact that all our PC's are now brand new Vista
'Originals', everything seems much slower than with XP. The
constant nagging screens to confirm this and that (yes I know you
can turn it off), the persistent scrolling 'doing something'
circle, more frequent lockups, and a hard drive that is working
for England (you sould sit in an office full of Vista machines -
there is not a moment's peace).

OK we have Aero, it looks a bit nicer, but it is slower than XP in
almost every way and how many of us have ever used the pretty
scrolling thingy to move between apps?

Something inside me tells me that Vista is not a huge leap forward
for the general user, more like a polite step sideways.

Overall, I am thoroughly disappointed.

Did you ever think maybe you should of just upgraded one and tested
it for awhile to see if you liked it before upgrading them all?

There are many varables why your systems runs slow now..without more
details it is impossible to determine.

Ram is a good place to start

Dave

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[Andy]

The 5 systems i bought for a manufacturing office run great with a 3.2
rating, only 1gig ram, entry level video nV 7300 LE.

I'd say ram was important, but not for what were doin. (dB access, internet)

/shrug.

 

[Guest]

I did upgrade one first and ran it for a month.

Deep down I wasn't raving about Vista but I guess I like many others thought
it was the way forward.

Maybe in RC2 it will be.

 

[Guest]

Even down to Microsoft's own Vista enhanced 'Live' website run far slower
than any regular website, as does live search, gadgets gallery etc.

Pretty, but slow.

 

[GBK]

god doesn't care

 

[Alun Harford]

I have just upgraded all our PCs to Vista and now sometimes I wish I hadn't
bothered.

Despite the fact that all our PC's are now brand new Vista 'Originals',
everything seems much slower than with XP.

Given that on my machine, everything seems faster than on XP, you
probably have driver issues.

The constant nagging screens to
confirm this and that (yes I know you can turn it off),

It's annoying when you're setting the machine up, but doesn't get on my
nerves in day-to-day use.

the persistent
scrolling 'doing something' circle, more frequent lockups,

I've not managed to crash vista yet. My uptime is always the time
between windows updates that demand a reboot (same with XP though - but
then again I use rock-solid server hardware - crashing and losing work
is too expensive for me). I suspect driver issues.

and a hard drive
that is working for England (you sould sit in an office full of Vista
machines - there is not a moment's peace).

It's indexing the machine's file system - it takes a few days. It's
pretty stupid that MS doesn't ship an 'initial' index on the install
disk, but it goes away after a few days.

OK we have Aero, it looks a bit nicer, but it is slower than XP in almost
every way and how many of us have ever used the pretty scrolling thingy to
move between apps?

Something inside me tells me that Vista is not a huge leap forward for the
general user, more like a polite step sideways.

Personally, I think it's a small step forward. I wouldn't buy a machine
and put XP on it these days, but I wouldn't be rushing out to upgrade
machines to Vista. For starters, driver support is still *very* poor
from many hardware manufacturers, which I suspect causes many of the
problems in this group.

Alun Harford

 

[Justin]

Vista should haul ass on that machine. Can you post hardware specs?

Mainboard
Video Card
Sound
NIC
.....everything?

 

[Guest]

I guss my main gripes are....

Click a folder on the network...xp is faster
Startup/shutdown...xp is faster
Editing files...xp is easier
etc etc etc
Vista is just too locked down. Another user in this forum hit the nail on
the head when he said Vista is like living in your own house where every
single internal door is padlocked five times. It makes the end user
experience so very cumbersome.

Initially Vista looks great but when you actually use the thing on a day to
day basis, it really isn't that far removed from XP.

.....and as for drivers.....Has Vista only been thought about of the past
couple of weeks? I am astonished at the big boys who have little or no Vista
support for some of their major products - including Microsoft as we have
learned to our peril.

 

[kirk jim]

THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING ONCE AGAIN

The things I have been saying again and again for MONTHS now!


THE TRUTH WILL SHINE!

 

[kirk jim]

Given that on my machine, everything seems faster than on XP, you probably

have driver issues.

HUGE SLAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry dude... you needed that!

 

[kirk jim]

Should but doesn't...

it should also have the same results on many people I talk to who are
disgusted about vista...

Its not some isolated cases here.. I see people saying the same things
everywhere...

when will it pass through your hard boney skull that I was right about vista
all along?

 

[Justin]

Should but doesn't...

it should also have the same results on many people I talk to who are
disgusted about vista...

Its not some isolated cases here.. I see people saying the same things
everywhere...

when will it pass through your hard boney skull that I was right about
vista all along?

You have been proven wrong often so why would I do that?

As for the "doesn't" comment, let's see if we can get some specs first
before we apply your usual blanket statements.

 

[Justin]

THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING ONCE AGAIN

That makes it what?

10,000,000 to 10,000? Not in your favor.

 

[Justin]

I guss my main gripes are....

Click a folder on the network...xp is faster

I don’t see that, even on a slower Vista machine.

Startup/shutdown...xp is faster

My Vista machine start up and shut down much faster.

Editing files...xp is easier

Easier? What's easier?

etc etc etc
Vista is just too locked down. Another user in this forum hit the nail on
the head when he said Vista is like living in your own house where every
single internal door is padlocked five times. It makes the end user
experience so very cumbersome.

When you browse the network and open a file to edit it then save it and
close the app, what PADLOCKS are you having to unlock? That doesn't make
sense.

We still need your specs to look at this further.

 

[kirk jim]

When have I been proven wrong???
Remind me.
Or is this some interpretation of real events that you are making up?

 

[Justin]

Easy, do a NG search for kirk jim/jim kirk/just jim/just kirk and you will
find many topics where people have provided factual links to your incorrect
ramblings and unjustified opinions.