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Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade Review (continued)
More User Submitted Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade Reviews
Date: 2008-11-16
Mojave Experiment is an insult!
Only the makers of this horrible, tragic system would have to trick people with a different name to get them to try it.Have had this on my computer for almost a year and let me say it has just about made me hate the internet!Everytime i see that commercial for the Mojave Experiment where they have people who are either(1) paid or (2)liars talk about how "cool" this product is, it makes me wanna jump thru the tv and strangle them!Microsoft dropped the ball on this one, it is absolutely without fail, a failure!So, if you are a martyr, or maybe need a few more grey hairs to get the complete Richard Gere look, try this, if you would rather enjoy your computer and the internet avoid this at all costs!
Date: 2008-11-14
GIve it a go you might like it
I'm not going to start by saying a computer programmer or helped design the rocket ship because lets face it its a review over the web and you can be anything you like. Anyway....
I brought and updated to vista from xp and all I can say is boy am I glad that I did, the install process was fine took a while, but was problem free, the real problems started when vista loaded up, like everyone else I had some old programs/equipment plugged into my system, so I started to get some errors and the odd crash. thing was most of these problems were easily fixed with a update, there was still a couple, my printer was to old and not supported, now I was a bit upset at this as the printer was fine, but a quick Google search reviled that I just needed to install it as a newer model. yes vista seemed slower at first but again a quick search of the internet will revel that there is 2-3 programs that run in the background that can be switched off, the main one and the reason that your hard drive light might be on all the time is that vista archives everything and sorts it constantly (like having disk defrag running all the time) no worries turn it off in the settings, same as the scan it likes to run, turn off defender while your there, I installed spybot and AVG (both free) and grab yourself Firefox as a alternative to Internet explorer, if one isn't responding the other can take its place for a while and not had any problems, the machine is stable very fast to load up and to power down I have multiple applications open and its fine, and I have found the photo/video editing to work really well without having to spend lots on separate software.
there was a lot of early problems that have now been ironed out, like there was with XP or any early version of electrical item's that comes out, just don't expect to much if you have a old machine and less then 2 gig of ram, hell stuff 4 gig in your machine its so cheap now.....
Date: 2008-11-10
Works fine for me!!!
I have a newer PC and laptop that both came with Vista already installed. So far, so good. I actually like it a lot better than XP and hate going back to XP computers when I come across them. Just like anything, it takes some time getting used to it, but once you do, you will realize that it has some great, new little features. I would assume that some people are having problems with installing it on older machines. That might be because older machines may not have the all the requirements that a program like Vista requires. It is new, so it requires more than XP probably does. Also, some older programs may not have been made with Vista in mind and only work up through XP, so of course, those programs are going to have issues with Vista, but that isn't necessarily Vista's fault. The way they keep coming out with new programs and features, we all have to upgrade all the time!
Bottom line, I like Vista and haven't had a single problem - going on 6 months now.
Date: 2008-11-10
Views of a web programmer
I am a web programmer and have made millions (yup millions) of dollars using Microsoft products. I have to be on the leading edge (or bleading edge) so I know what my clients will want in the years to come. For me, upgrading to Vista wasn't an option -- I had to do it.
OK, let's not confuse upgrading to Vista with upgrading Office 2003 to Office 2007. Upgrading Office is a huge change but upgrading your operating system to Vista isn't providing that the following is true:
1) You have a fast computer (like one made in the last two years)
2) You have a fast video card (and I mean fast -- like for gaming)
3) You have a to have a lot of memory (4GB is, in my opinion, the minimum)
If you don't need the multi-media features, then stick with Vista Home Basic or just stay with XP. If you have a bunch of pictures, videos and music then Vista Home Premium is the way to go. If you are running a small business, then Vista Small Business is good because it allows you to create a backup of your entire disk (which none of the home versions allow -- WTF?).
Aero is pretty cool; but, if that's your only reason to upgrade then save your money. The real bang-for-the-buck is Windows Media Center. Let's say you have a Sony PS3 on the same subnet (your home network) as your Vista Home Premium computer. The PS3 sees your Vista computer as a Media Server. That's really cool because you can watch videos, listen to music and view photos on your HDTV with no additional cabling. The only trick is to load all of you media into the \users\public area and not into your machine-specific user account.
The cons:
1) You need a fast computer with tons of memory and a fast video card
2) Windows 7 is coming in a few months (but is uses the Vista engine)
3) Vista asks you to confirm everything operation at least three times -- sometimes more. The repetative nature of this process kind-of defeats the purpose because Vista asks you to Confirm, Accept, Agree, Install, Run, etc. so often that you just fall into the bad habit of saying "yes" to everything. Once I say "Go" then just do it and stop asking me questions.
4) Adminstrator access is diffferent than XP. Even if your account has Administrative rights, you have to "Run as Administrator" things like CMD.EXE to perform many functions (like ipconfig). If you don't understand this statement, then this doesn't apply to you and don't worry.
5) There's backward-compatibility issues. If you have third-party software (e.g. not made by Microsoft), then make sure it is Vista-compatible or be prepared for possible problems.
All things considered, I like Vista in the home despite the shortcomings. I don't know of a single business that uses Vista -- and they probably never will. At this point, I would just wait for Windows 7 which should be released late in 2008 or early in 2009. I already have access to the beta version of Windows 7 but haven't installed it yet. Windows Server 2008 is going on my dual xeon server this week. Vista Ultimate is on my laptop and one desktop. I still have an old Dell with XP. Vista is pretty good but far from great. XP works and Vista just doesn't measure up.
Date: 2008-11-10
Simply fabulous!
I highly recommend Vista Home Premium. The safeguards that you can choose to turn on or off for children are fanatastic! Our system runs much soother now that we have this installed, and we have less security problems as well. The installation was super easy. With SP1 already on the installation disks, the process didn't take long at all. It is also great not to have to learn a new operating system like you do with Mac. All the rumors about Vista being bad are simply not true!
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