A sad day for me - Uninstalling Vista

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My NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT video card works beautifully with
Windows Vista. Make sure you download and install
the latest Windows Vista drivers available here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_97.46.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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Hi, I thought I'd share my sadness with everyone, as I'm about to uninstall
Vista :(

Like many of you, I've come to love the subtle differences that makes my day
every time I use it (I'm not talking about you anti-MS trolls). Sadly, my
hardware is just not good enough for it.

Do I blame MS? No, I blame the driver makers... Especially, nvidia!!! Shame
on them for holding their drivers away from everyone. My 6600GT is just not
performing the way it should be... With their latest drivers, I have noticed
a decrease in performance and overall stability.

I hope to come back to it again as I really enjoy using it.
 
In message (e-mail address removed),
Gary <[email protected]> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:


And as far as SPP and DRM I personally have never had any problems.
But of course I only use software and music that I have actually paid
for unlike some.
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I've heard all sorts of horror stories and rumours about DRM in Vista. Stuff
like if you are trying to play a protected video file(that you've paid
for!), for example, any video outputs except the ones that can be controlled
by DRM are disabled or at least 'quality-reduced'. This is to stop you
making copies of the video, except this still happens, even if you have no
intention of making illegal copies, so legitimate honest users suffer, in
case dishonest users want to try and get round copy protection!
This sort of 'feature' is not turned on by default, but it's there, and can
be enabled remotly at some time in the future.

Don't know for sure how much of all this is true, and how much is plain old
scare-mongering, but as I said in another post 'Vista. Proceed with
caution', on the basis that even if only 25% of what I've heard is true,
that's enough to put me off upgrading until I've found out a few more
details/let the dust settle a bit.

Chris.
 
I agree, I have many machines running Business and they all perform very
well. I've also used laptops that are blazing fast when compared to my home
machine which runs horrible! It's all about the drivers!!!!

Anyway, Troy, the Nvidia drivers were leaked!

Enjoy:
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=4841
 
I don't understand the DRM issue. Don't buy DRM protected content and you
wont have a DRM problem!

Music - buy a CD
Video - buy a DVD

Then pirate it all you want! Or don't! Keep Win98 around to rip anything
you want.
 
I don't base my decisions on what could happen, or maybe, or someday, or I
read somewhere types of posts. I use the software for my purpose, and make
my decisions on what is available today to meet my needs based on facts.
 
Alias said:
Semantics. It's not ready for general release. MS always releases their
progrmas before they're ready to use, using people like you as guinea pigs
to test it out. They've even said as much.
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Your opinion only.
It has nothing to do with whether someone uses something legit. It has to
do with the fact that Vista reports back to the mother ship if you change
hardware, which should be none of MS' business. What else it reports back
is anyone's guess but the fact that MS is in bed with the NSA is fairly
disconcerting.

Alias
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As you have no idea what its doing, you have no idea what your talking
about.
If your that paranoid close the connection at your firewall or better yet
unplug your computer and find something better to do.
 
There are many non-MS programs that will 'convert' audio from CDs into WAV
files, MP3, WMA etc. And there are quite a few that will allow making
backups of DVDs, again none of these are MS programs so not an issue.
 
Gary said:
Your opinion only.
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Um, I wrote, and I quote:

"They've [MS] has even said as much."

Now, when out of ammo, the usual ad hominem attack rears its ugly head:
As you have no idea what its doing, you have no idea what your talking
about.
If your that paranoid close the connection at your firewall or better yet
unplug your computer and find something better to do.
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LOL! Can't you do better than that?

Alias
 
No question about that, Richard.. it is an ideal opportunity for them to
dump support for older products..
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
I don't belive any of your lies.
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And I don't believe your lies. I have a 3Ghz P4 with 2GB RAM, ATA 100 and
100 hard drives and ATI Radeon X800XT video with 256 megs RAM. Not exactly
a state-of-the-art machine! Vista is much faster on this machine than XP,
and my XP install is only about 6 months old, so the old line that "of
course your new Vista install is faster than your 3 year old XP install"
doesn't apply here.

Everthing is faster - boot, shutdown, apps loading, window scrolling,
general response, etc.

Mike
 
You were out of ammunition months ago! (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
ROFLMAO..

Ubuntu is no six shooter for sure.. help file reads 'load one cork at a
time.. ensure string is attached'
 
Mike said:
ROFLMAO..

Ubuntu is no six shooter for sure.. help file reads 'load one cork at a
time.. ensure string is attached'
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And Dick's sidekick has to pipe in his supercilious insult.

All, of course, for the lame attempt at sidetracking the fact that Vista
comes bundled with malware and spyware. If you can't debate the issues,
try to distract from the issues by insulting the messenger and making
fun of him or her.

Alias
 
And what was this quote to Gary?

"Now, when out of ammo, the usual ad hominem attack rears its ugly head"

You sir, are not above abusing people who pose here.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Richard said:
And what was this quote to Gary?

"Now, when out of ammo, the usual ad hominem attack rears its ugly head"

You sir, are not above abusing people who pose here.
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Stop posing then.

Alias
 
Well I don't know what you are having problems vista. I have a p4 2.4gig
with 1gig ram and I find it fast and reliable. I find it better then XP
which I run on another machine and I also run xp x64 on my laptop and it is
fast. I would not give that up but I would the std xp pro that is on my
other machine.
Tony
 
Vista flies on my pc too and I have a Nvidia geoforce 6200 agp card it's
handled Aero perfectly from the first time I installed Vista beta2

But looking back through a lot of threads it seems to be quite common for
people with AMD systems and SLI capable cards to have probs specially
complaints of their systems being very slow
This shouldn't be seen as a negative comment towards People with AMD systems
and SLI capable cards, to me it looks like a driver Issue
 
Ripping dvd's and cd's works great in vista why keep win98 ?

Fabdecrypter and DVD shrink work very well in Vista
 
will said:
But looking back through a lot of threads it seems to be quite common
for people with AMD systems and SLI capable cards to have probs
specially complaints of their systems being very slow
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You might have something there. Vista on my Athlon 3500 64 machine is
significantly slower than XP on the same PC (ATI Radeon X550 PCI-E
graphics). I haven't tried it on an Intel-based PC so can't comment
there.
 
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