I can't download anything, Vista is driving me nuts!

[the wharf rat]

Are you sure you are a *WHARF* RAT?

Sure! Everyone said I'd come to no good...

 

[DanS]

And Vista-speak is your first.

Cheers.

Hey I think I figured it out !!!!

PhalyxB being an AI script thing running on a light-particle super computer
being beamed to us from some distant galaxy is a little far-fetched.

Maybe.....he's a blind quadrapelegic doing Usenet utilizing Microsoft's
Text-to-Speech to read and Vista Voice Recognition to post.

 

[Ron]

Hehe, I may get chance to look at my Vista machine tonight, pretty good
hardware which is all new although not state of the art and have been
playing with Media Center that seems to have worked very well for, oh,
say 5 weeks and now is crashing all over the place. Something has
changed because I have not added or removed anything so it is either an
update or the electricity supply - have just moved. Also just had an XP
machine start crawling instead of running at usual speed. Wonder if
there is some common update connection? Again nothing changed except the
location and thus the electricity supply.

Good response to the assumption that the user with the problem must be
an idiot though.

Although I like the rural area response...if you have transported your
PC any distance in a vehicle, chances are the vibrations caused by the
transport could have knocked a connection or 5 loose. SATA connections
are not nearly as reliable as PATA. Open your PC, pull all of the
cards and memory out and reinstall. Do the same for all cables from
the drives and the power supply to the mobo.

Normally when transporting a PC all cards should be removed. Drives
as well.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Actually it is you who is probably the least useful moron here, your
advice to the OP was almost entirely useless and your ramblings below
say much about you

Don't agonize, NoSpot. You are crying nonstop.

There is absolutely no law as far as I can see for idiots to do their
Linux.

Why do we have to smell your fa*rts around here?

Vista overall is faster than XP. Had he adjusted it on the first rounds
of installing his new software Vista would have shown itself. Neither
this guy not you are able to understand this.

Even head to head benchmark tests showed that Vista's kernel is SUPERIOR
to XP by a wide margin. It does have many extra features that a
thoughtful consumer may suppress if they want, perhaps temporarily.
|You, idiot, instead of whining should have taken a simple step: open up
your Vista to your fellow gangsters--malware writers by disabling UAC
and many other security features. You could have done so and dove into
your burrow to live with other skunks. You do not want to do that. You,
idiot and antisocial character, throwing your rotten 250 pound as*s
around trying to convince us that it is a bloated system. I've heard it
already many times. Your purpose is to make the world around you less
secure because you are losing business. You are using Vista for your
criminal purposes but want us to use Linux. Thanks.

Vista is not a bloated system. Even fully loaded in a rather unfair
matchup with XP it shows much better performance on a number of scores.
It is about 10% slower on some and the media make a big deal out of it.
But those benchmark tests DO NOT SPECIFY if the conditions were
precisely equal. Had they removed some startup programs that were not
necessary for the performance, Vista would have flown off charts.

You are an IDIOT as always. It is hard to understand what you are doing
here. You don't like Vista--go fu*cking away.

Could not read your "composition" to the end: got nauseated. I've made
an educated guess for the rest.

Here's a translation of Vista-speak ...

Listen here,

I'm a Vista fan boy, so you need to listen to me.

In addition to what Mick Murphy said (which is 100% reasonable) I
want to
add some "behavioral advice."

At times Vista is very, very slow but it does not give you any reason to
panic.

No need to panic, although you've spent money on the latest and greatest
hardware to try and get some speed out of Vista. Just learn to live with
this bloatware and slow responses. It's just part of the Vista
experience.

Such slowness/tardiness can be explained by many things you do not see.

Although real operating systems like Linux don't experience this slowdown
when called on to multitask, Vista does. But live with it because it's
doing things "you do not see". Out of sight, out of mind.

Vista could have been doing some downloads concurrently and
coincidentally, perhaps that I Spy c*rap (no offense) could have
caused it
to do some type of adjustment.

I really can't explain the slowdown, but it must be justifiable. Vista
must
be just adjusting itself. We Vista fan boys can live with it.

Adobe Flash is running on 1,000,000 Vistas
now with no problem whatsoever.

What happened was that you, very used to a quick XP reaction to
things in
general, jerked the system BEFORE it could finish the job(S).

Admittedly, XP reaction time is much quicker than Vista, but please be
patient as Vista tries to do the job.

It would
have shut down on its own 10 min later but the next time you would not
have any problems at all and tit would have shut you down in no time.

I do not know if somebody has already given you this advice
downstream, I
have no time to read, too busy,

Too busy, as I'm waiting for Vista to do its job as it "adjusts" to
getting
the job done.

but my personal suggestion is to restart
it in safe mode and unless Vista does not shut down next time in 2-3
hours
(Just kidding!) do not touch it at all.

I'm just kidding, but give it at least an hour to adjust.

Your situation is salvageable. Just try to learn your new car.

Just learn to accept the fact that Vista is bloatware that impedes the
speed
of the hardware you throw at it.

Vista is a much large OS in terms of the Internals, this is why you are
seeing it.

Vista is bloatware and this is why you're experiencing how slow it is.

[End of Vista-speak translation]

Cheers.


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