Windows Vista: The Ow starts now.

[bigguy]

AREO is running on my laptop. Not sure about the others though.

[t2t2t]

So... when following occurs?

Win 98 > Win XP > Win Vista
All WIN < LINUX

[he he hee]

[mikel2k3]

I use a version of xp that somebody made on a forum im on... tis called 'tinyXP_version3'

Its more or less a stripped down version of windowsXp professional, works great and fast on my amazingly crap computers :-)

[t2t2t]

I use a version of xp that somebody made on a forum im on... tis called 'tinyXP_version3'

Its more or less a stripped down version of windowsXp professional, works great and fast on my amazingly crap computers :-)

But same time it ain't legal...

Just run every time An app a day Quickkill

Offtopic: Firefox bankcard, not bad eh?

[Joker Boy]

Niiice bank card!

I'm running windows Vista on my mac right now, I need RAM bad only got 512 Megs ='(

[Equiflux]

Even if my system was built wrong(Which I see kind of being unlikely, as putting a bunch of parts into a Mobo and case is pretty much straight forward IMO) and Vista is perfectly awesome, there's still one thing I'm not too sure about: http://www.nowpublic.com/government_...ft_build_vista

Hey, even though I'm not a terrorist, I'd still hate to know that I'm being watched when I IM a friend, watched when I play a game, watched when I work in Photoshop, watched when I do anything else.

[dest581]

The NSA additions are 99% likely to just be actual security stuff since, you know, the NSA would like their own data secure. Though, yes, I am paranoid about it as well :P

As I'm going to college next year, and will need a new computer (current one is awful :D), my plan is as follows

I will get a pc that can actually run Vista well. Then, I'll use gParted to take a large chunk of the main partition out. I'll leave a few GB for Vista to expand. Then, I'll make a second NTFS partition for storage space of programs/games. On a second drive (probably stolen from my current computer) I'll put XP, Ubuntu, and a FAT32 drive for sharing stuff between all 3 operating systems.

That way, I'll be able to do anything with the computer (except survive the apocalypse).

[Micro]

Trixter[/B]]

ROFL

That’s not entierly true micro iv done over 40 upgrade installs and not a problem on one of em.... well nothing that isn't just bad planning on Vistas side.

Vista requires atleast 1gig of ram to run correctly more if your running it with the areo system enabled. Its also built to ask for the administrator password every time you make even the slightest change ( alittle something thay stole/borrowed from linux but atleast in linux you can disable it) thay call it a security feature.

Heres a little something mose people iv talked to dont know,its called the five point rule, microsoft alowes you to change upto five points of hardware , with each peice of hardware having a point value if i remember correctly your MB has a point value of between 2-4 depending on what it has onboard, if you exceed the five points you have to buy a whole new OS from Microsoft!! At FULL price!!! this means if your building is struck by lightning or a power surge and fries your computer (or even certian componints in your computer) you have to not only buy new hardware but new software as well!!!! all this is NOT even mentioning the Machine ID code they wright to a chip on your MB that is checked every time Vista is installed/reinstalled Its “Job” is to record (A)The current Hardware installed in your machine and (B) how many times youve installed Vista on that machine. After a certian number of Installs/Reinstalls it requires you to buy a new product code from Microsoft this is kinda like the verification on XP(which you have to do on Vista aswell) but it now uses the hardware as well as the software key online.

So what do i say to all the people buying and installing Vista? Knock yourself out. Ill install the sucker for you but as for me? Ill be giving it a complete skip. XP was intrusive and constraning enough for my taste. Im currently migrating to mac and linux, something which i see more and more of the tech people who went for longhorn/vista training and were involved in beta testing are doing.

Maybe there is a way around this.

1. Install vista
2. Make an image

so if you need to re-install, the activation and hardware id are the same, and it dosn't know its a new install?

It won't know, brandons right.

You can disable UAC, its in System somewhere (Or User Accounts, i c ant remember and i cant be bothered to install the beta again...)

[Equiflux]

http://****microsoft.com/content/whatsbad.shtml

This site may have a somewhat offensive name in your opinion, but it gives many valid points.

Don't just read that page, look around the entire site.

Edit- The filtered word is the eff(F) word.

[Spartan Erik]

Anyone here use ReadyBoost?

I'm gonna buy a new comp soon, and I'm wondering if I should spend an additional $130 for an additional gig of RAM (2 GB, 2 DIMMs), or if I should just get a 4 GB ReadyBoost enabled flash drive for $50 to save $130