Windows Vista Day 24 for me

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Hey I'm on Day 24 and vista after a few days of settling in running perfect
even the event viewer quiet It's day 24 and I'm Lovin every minute of it.
 
Mikro said:
Hey I'm on Day 24 and vista after a few days of settling in running
perfect even the event viewer quiet It's day 24 and I'm Lovin every
minute of it.
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I now have Vista RTM running on three machines and I'm happy with all of
them. One is a three or four year old HP TC1100 tablet pc with Vista
Business, another is a two year old IBM\Lenovo T43 Thinkpad running
Ultimate and the third is a brand new HP Media Center Desktop running
Home Premium. The brand new pc provides the best Vista experience from
a performance stand point but that is to be expected given the constant
advances in hardware.

Reading the forums it makes me wonder if I've just been lucky with my
hardware and drivers or whether the fact that each was a clean install
rather than an upgrade could be the reason my installs all seem to be
running trouble free. I have been running Vista in some form since beta
2 so I also knew which of my applications might be problematic.

Vista certainly isn't perfect but I expect it will improve with each
service pack and overall I like it. I can also say this after having
given Ubuntu, SLED 10 and openSUSE a try on most of the same hardware.
I'm not going to bash Linux because I liked it also but in the end Vista
won out over Linux at present for my needs.
 
Kevin Young said:
I now have Vista RTM running on three machines and I'm happy with all of
them. One is a three or four year old HP TC1100 tablet pc with Vista
Business, another is a two year old IBM\Lenovo T43 Thinkpad running
Ultimate and the third is a brand new HP Media Center Desktop running Home
Premium. The brand new pc provides the best Vista experience from a
performance stand point but that is to be expected given the constant
advances in hardware.

Reading the forums it makes me wonder if I've just been lucky with my
hardware and drivers or whether the fact that each was a clean install
rather than an upgrade could be the reason my installs all seem to be
running trouble free. I have been running Vista in some form since beta 2
so I also knew which of my applications might be problematic.

Vista certainly isn't perfect but I expect it will improve with each
service pack and overall I like it. I can also say this after having
given Ubuntu, SLED 10 and openSUSE a try on most of the same hardware. I'm
not going to bash Linux because I liked it also but in the end Vista won
out over Linux at present for my needs.
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I've only had my new Vista Home Premium PC (was time for a new computer
anyway, old one wasn't really fast enough for the "multimedia" things I
wanted to do, so gave it to my son after buying this new one) for a little
over two weeks, but I haven't found anything major wrong with it yet. Works
great when running most things as administrator. Most of my old software
runs on it (including Webcam32 and Paint Shop Pro 7). ONLY thing that won't
work at all is my old trusty HP Scanjet 4100C scanner... but that thing was
purchased when I bought my first computer back in 1999(this new computer is
my third), so probably time to replace the darn thing anyway!
 
As having read the following posts, I too have run Ultimate x86, since RC1.
I liked RC1 even knowing there were "things" that didn't quite mesh.
Understandable at that point. I was tickled to be able to work with the
program/OS, find "things," and contirbute to the final product. I did the
same with Office 2007 and was an actual beta tester for MS Accounting 2007.
I'd rather work with things and be a part of the improvement process rather
than bash.

It's easy to stand and point out things that are not quite right. On the
other hand, given the complexity of this OS, the Office apps, and the almost
infinite number of machine hardware and software configutrations, I think MS
deserves a tip-of-the-hat. You know, Apple brags about their gear and all. I
guess it is simpler to do things when you're so proprietary. To develope
OS's and apps that work with most everything, that's something.

I remember when I ran Win95, then 98, then Me, each was a little better than
the last (Me was a bit hinky, no matter what people say). When Win2000 was
available, I switched. That was an eye opener. Lots of drivers needed. Some
not available. Had to change out the vid card and CD drive. Everything else
was findable. I did homework ahead of time, so I had things ready. Going to
2000 was then no big problem. I read posts of much weeping and wailing. Same
with XP (my going to 2000 made going to XP easy). Similar story again with
Vista. Did homework, changed out vid card, off we go. I build my own
machines, so goosing hardware here and there is not that big a deal.

Anyway, much talk. I guess all I want to say is:
1.) Software and hardware are made/developed by humans, therefore, there is
no perfection;
2.) The Companies that do this work also are not perfect;
3.) It's interesting that many people who use the products made/deveolped by
these Companies demand absolute perfection (bet their personal lives are not
so perfect);
4.) The Companies genrally do a pretty good job in getting as close to
everything working together as they can. Most also do a pretty good job in
fixing their problems (of course there are exceptions, but most try and
generally suceed);
5.) It is up to the individual user to do his/her homework when working with
their hardware and software, especially when changing OSs. Get the needed
drivers ahead of time. Be sure your hardware has updated or new drivers. If
not, decide whether to get new hardware or even to upgrade your OS. BUT
DON'T MOAN AND GROAN about stuff not working when most hardware and software
developers are not shy about saying whether their stuff works with Vista or
not.
6.) Make use of these newsgroups. What a wealth of information and
experience (despite the sour that floats about)!!! This is where I find 98%
of my solutions when things come up (and they do sometimes).
7.) Be part of the solution, not a sour, bitter, nay sayer. Do beta testing.
Contribute. Help find the things that aren't working quite right and help
fix them. Tech support is usually only as good as the information they get
to work with.
8.) Ultimately, it is really a marvel that the infinite number of machine
configurations and the OSs and all the various applications actually work as
well they do.

I know, more talking. I just want to thank the folks in these newsgroups,
both MS folks and the users. It makes figuring things out alot better,
easier, and even consoling if solutions aren't yet apparent or findable.
THANKS TO ALL!!!!!

DMills
 
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