Kudo's for Vista

[JerryM]

This will probably throw a little cold water on some of the people that only
know how to complain, but never show any way how to help.

I bought 2 new HP computers from Circuit City with XP installed, but with a
provision to upgrade to Vista.

All went well on both computers during the upgrade to Vista and I never had
any problems of any kind.
What amazes me is how fast the computers boot up,
They only take 49 seconds to full running Vista.
I have never had a computer before that took less than 2-1/2 minutes.

All my pictures and music have never been so clear,
And I am still running an old Windows Entertainment pack from Windows 3.1
just to play some of the old games.

The new Vista games are a real pleasure to play also.

Well off my soap box,

To all the complainers,
Get a life,

Jerry McMullin

 

[Dave T.]

Vista runs great here as well. And I run it in 10 very different
machines. But only 2 are running x64. My main rig that I am using now
and my acer laptop. Its just got a single core CPU and 1 gig of ddr2 533
and still runs great.

joel406

I agree with both of you, but please don't feed the trolls. Any second
now this thread will be 50 posts long with a contribution from every
troll on record.

 

[John]

After you log on, please tell me how long until you are able to get Internet
Explorer to connect to the Internet. My Vista takes forever to finally get
networking going despite an apparent quick logon. I'm curious if I am the
exception.

Thanks

 

[Dave T.]

After you log on, please tell me how long until you are able to get Internet
Explorer to connect to the Internet. My Vista takes forever to finally get
networking going despite an apparent quick logon. I'm curious if I am the
exception.

John, with a stop watch, after reading your post, the time to shut down
my machine was 13 seconds from my click to power off. The subsequent
startup was 2 minutes 9 seconds from power on to explorer open.

Vista home premium x86
HP Pavilion
AMD Athlon x2
3 gigs RAM

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

"Any second now..."
Fortunately you were mistaken.
As you obviously know Windows Vista works great for some.
And posts like these are some of the proof.

They do nothing to suggest others do not have problems however, just
that success is possible.
The real test is finding the difference that allows Windows Vista to
work well for some while being less than satisfactory for others.

 

[Adam Albright]

After you log on, please tell me how long until you are able to get Internet
Explorer to connect to the Internet. My Vista takes forever to finally get
networking going despite an apparent quick logon. I'm curious if I am the
exception.

Depends on IF you have things configured correctly and if you use
dial-up or broadband. Also by stopwatch, I just tired. Clicked on IE7
shortcut, my home page; Google appeared in 1.3 seconds. I have
broadband Internet access. Apx. 4 MBPS.

 

[Dave T.]

The real test is finding the difference that allows Windows Vista to
work well for some while being less than satisfactory for others.

Jupiter, Weigh in on this. I may be wrong (probably am), but it seems
that the majority of problems posted here are either laptops or upgrades
to older machines. Do you notice that, or am I in left field.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

I am not sure.
What I am sure of...
I have Windows Vista Ultimate installed on two older computers, a
Desktop and a laptop.
The only addition for Windows Vista is more RAM, both now have 1.5 GB
RAM.

Other than that, the newest component between them is a nearly 3 year
old video card in the desktop.
Laptop does not have Aero, but the need depends on the individual.

In both cases, I performed a Clean Installation.
Many report success with an upgrade, but to eliminate possibilities, a
Clean Installation it was.

Some having problems leaped before they looked as is evidenced by many
posts.
Others have problems with seemingly no cause also evidenced by posts.

What makes the difference between those having success and those not
when both have prepared their computers?
That is the trick, locate the difference that caused the problem.

A good portion of problems are inadequate computers whether new and
supposedly sold with Windows Vista or upgrades.
With new, all the junk given by OEMs hog a lot of resources and kill
performance.
Inadequate memory even on new Vista computers.

All problems, known and unknown, need to be resolved BEFORE attempting
an upgrade.
No one should expect an upgrade to resolve anything unless that is one
of the specified purposes of the upgrade.

 

[Steve Easton]

For me it's instantaneous.
Click, blink, the page is open.

I have a DSL connection and use a NAT router so my connection
is made to the NAT router as the computer boots.

The NAT router maintains the connection 24/7

 

[Charlie Tame]

Jupiter, Weigh in on this. I may be wrong (probably am), but it seems
that the majority of problems posted here are either laptops or upgrades
to older machines. Do you notice that, or am I in left field.

Actually most of my problems have been with rather newer hardware, one
older machine needed a new graphics card (and more memory but that's a
given) and worked okay right away but 3 new motherboards gave numerous
headaches and ended up causing me to have to re-activate several times
due to "Hardware changes" that were not made. Turned off at night,
reactivate again the next day.

Since then that has happened on XP machines twice and on W2003 machines
twice or 3 times. Obviously that is not directly to do with the local OS
but this only started after the release of Vista retail so obviously MS
did something.

Assuming my experience was not that common then I'd agree that most
trouble seems to be laptops and upgrades to older machines.

 

[DanS]

I agree with both of you, but please don't feed the trolls. Any second
now this thread will be 50 posts long with a contribution from every
troll on record.

Where are all the trolls ?

 

[JerryM]

Hi, John,

When I said my boot up time was only 49 seconds, it included being on the
Internet, ready to receive and send messages.

About the only things I have on my startup items down by the clock is Avast!
my antivirus program, Volume control, Network access, Adobe Photo downloader
and the safely remove hardware Icon.

My internet provider is MSN.COM.

Jerry

 

[Robert Miles]

Where are all the trolls ?

Thet seem to be staying away from quoting anything from this thread.

 

[Adam Albright]

Thet seem to be staying away from quoting anything from this thread.

What's to quote? The OP said his system is working as expected. You
were surprised it does?

Hold on... I just walked into the kitchen and patted my toaster on
it's top and said nice job making toast this morning. While there I
also told my coffee maker nice job!

It never ceases to amaze me that people don't understand the vast
majority of posts to a newsgroup like this is from people experiencing
problems. Hint: That's what these groups are suppose to be for!

You don't turn on the evening news and see story after story of how
well things are going do you? Nobody would watch.

Instead of having a bit of sympathy for your fellow users having
problems all too often those not currently having any problems gloat
and worse often label those experiencing issues as dummies.

Anyone wants to call me a troll, be my guess. That tells me you're for
sure are a dummy.

 

[Dave]

Maybe they think kudos is a linux distro....

Thet seem to be staying away from quoting anything from this thread.