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brand new pc. the amount of trouble and stress I've already gone through in the space of a week is utterly ridiculous. now whenever I shut down my pc, I get an error on booting up. the problem can be fixed by inserting the vista disc, which takes about 5 minutes. once it's done it boots up all tidy. shut down again and BAM. some bollocks again. bill gates is a dickhead |
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some = same |
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Probably a hardware or driver issue. Regardless, I would still use the 32 bit version at the moment. |
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Vista's been out for almost 2 years and the 64-bit version still isn't 100%? bill gates IS a dickhead. |
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such a dickhead |
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just ordered a new PC and the second I get it i'll be putting XP on it. I've heard horrorstories about 64bit vista - is the same the case for 64-bit XP? |
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the only reason i got vista was so i could run directx10 games in all their loveliness. that however is the one and only benefit |
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vistastic! |
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you're the moron. don't try to blame other people |
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i'm not a mormon! |
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I think 64-bit XP went through its shitty phase as well, but by now, I'd hope it's pretty smooth. I haven't heard anything specifically bad about it in a while, at least. I agree with raz0r in that vista doesn't do much for me, with the exception of directx10. |
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anyways, in this particular instance it's Steve Ballmer who's more directly responsible |
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I don't mean to laugh at your misfortunes, but I went through the same ordeal around this time last year when I bought my laptop. When I use to sell computers back in the day (for a big retail store) it was the same story with XP. Took about 5+ year for them to bring it up to good standards if you look back on it. This whole Vista mess reminds me of the XP mess, though, Vista mess seems to be a little more distressing because of all the manufacturers FORCING YOU to use Vista. The one thing that pissed me off most about it was the UPDATES. I once started my laptop on a bus, hoping to pass the time (about 2-3 hours) when Vista greeted me with a UPDATING WINDOWS SCREEN. It did all this stuff, it ended up finishing but not doing anything because I obviously was not getting any internet on a Bus driving on the highway ! So I look at the battery life I had left after that complete waste of time that I had no option to skip at the time... and I had no battery left ! I was sitting on a bus, hoping to watch a movie or something, only to have babysat this poorly planned update for half the duration of the trip. Shouldn't have checked to see if an active wifi connection was available before doing this ?! Just one little story of many inconveniences that occurred. Oh and I was headlining a breakcore show in Montreal, and to my surprise, as I'm standing in front of a bar full of people about to play, my live file had been CORRUPTED. I had no back up, but suffice to say, it was another Vista related issue. I hope you get everything straightened out, I know how it feels :P |
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PLUS What a pain in the butt that 100$ or so of the cost of your computer goes towards this OS. I would have gladly taken the thing with no OS, for a 100$ discount. |
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just use windows 98, works fine and less buggy |
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'Oh and I was headlining a breakcore show in Montreal, and to my surprise, as I'm standing in front of a bar full of people about to play, my live file had been CORRUPTED. I had no back up, but suffice to say, it was another Vista related issue.' that must've been one of those moments where you feel a sudden rush of blood to your face! |
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install ubuntu and xp on the other side. |
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different music software crashes about 1/10th of the time I work on something, but that shit happened on XP as well... WINDOWS!!!!!!!!!!! |
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my shitting spastic vista machine was on sleep earlier, then 2 hours ago i go to use it and it freezes, the only thing i could do was turn it off. now i'm fucked and can't boot the bastard schmohawk up for love nor money. it won't boot from the disk, safe modes or last working hootenanny, f8 doesn't work and i can't get into system repair! arrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh! what sort of cunnyhead spunklizard computer geeks made this shit? i can turn my mac off at anytime and it'll boot straight away, no messing. anyone remember that film pay it forward? well i'm gonna pay my fist forward in the face of the first windows loving dicksplash that ags me in pc world tomorrow. sweet baby hitlers ghost, i'm raging! |
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Is regular 32bit Vista better than XP? I was thinking about buying it for cheap from my school. |
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this is why i laugh when people complain about macs. at least apple moves forward. i can not imagine unning mac 's os from 10 years ago yet pc users best option is still windows 98? yikes |
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windows 98 is a good platform, but hardly the best option for pc's. That goes to windows XP. |
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imagine if you went to the loo to do a poo and out came vista. would you try and install it or flush it? |
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lol vista |
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http://www.rainrecording.com/vista/ if i can ever get the drivers, i'm there. |
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but it's shit niall shit |
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well by the looks of things it will ages before I'll be using it, and by then, it will be what XP is to you now. YAKNAOW?! |
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i think you just blew my mind |
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vista sucks and will always suck. it's just a bad design. |
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Well, I'm using a timecracked vista 64-bit, and it works perfectly with my quad-core cpu. It's nice not to be bottlenecked by my O/S, anymore. |
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can you use xp progs on vista? |
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I use 32 bit vista and haven't had any problems since installing sp1. Well, that's a bit of a lie. I started experiencing problems when I installed itunes. Vista has been out for how long and apple still can't write a good port for itunes? Sounds like I am being sarcastic, but I am not. |
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get osx, its far superior. i dont understand why anyone buys microsoft products. |
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Apple products are overpriced. You have to pay through the nose for basic tech support. Almost all of the current 'vista doesn't work' rhetoric is smear marketing by apple. Most PC products have a lifetime warranty from the manufacturer. |
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vista is a joke, but most people don't mind a little joke. |
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i've been using vista for a year and a half and never had any problem maybe i'm doing something wrong |
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yep, if you right click a program shortcut, go to properties, and then to the compatibility tab, there's an option for running with XP compatibility. I've found that that is rarely necessary, most XP progs just work automatically. |
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I built this PC last May with Vista 64 and I have had zero problems. Most Vista problems I notice stem from PC's you'd buy from a store with V64 and a load of other b/s preloaded on there. Once I customized Vista a little bit, such as toning down the security and turning off the UAC I lost any headache it was giving me. |
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cool zeph! :P |
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I did my current install from OEM for system builders disks, and I can not stress enough how true this is. I was coming from a hewlett packard vista install, which was a bloated mess that gave me its fair share of issues. Now that I'm running on a clean install, my computer is performing much better than it ever used to, and the O/S isn't the pain in the ass it used to be. It really is a night and day difference. I'd encourage anyone who feels tech-savvy enough to manage their own O/S install to go for it. |
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would u like some advice from an honours student in computer science or is this just a bitch? |
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