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02-23-2009, 10:08 PM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | | My most recent reminder that Vista is a joke...
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I just bought a new laptop. Sick system. Gateway P-7811fx. 2.3ghz Core 2 Duo processor (with a 1066mhz FSB and 3mb LS cache), 4gb DDR3 RAM, a *very* high end NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS video card with 512mb DDR3 dedicated mem, a 200GB 7200rpm HD with an extra bay (I since added a second HD for all my data), and... 64-bit Windows Home Premium.
As soon as I got the 'puter, I fully formatted and reinstalled Vista. It's a straight-up Vista disc. No bloatware or crap at all. Kudos to Gateway for that.
Anyway... It sucks. I've had a few random BSOD's (which I have not seen since Win 98!), it's sluggish, and just acts funky. Before you ask, ALL of the drivers are current. I have Aero turned off (the joke that it is...Bill Gates' attempt at being Steve Jobs for a day  ) and all unneseccary services turned. off. I always have over 2gb of ram free, and the CPU hardly ever breaks a sweat.
It's just pathetic. My old Gateway M680 system running XP was snappier and NEVER crashed... and that had archaic specs in comparison. I'd LOVE to go back to XP Pro SP3, but many of the drivers (audio, cam, and mic) are not available for XP. I've checked several forums and Googled it, with no luck.
So for now, I'm stuck with a sick system in terms of hardware, and a pink elephant in terms of operating systems. What an effing joke!!! It amazes me how many people (Vast minority, but still) swear by this piece of crap OS. I don't even want to bother with Windows 7 I'm so frustrated. Just give me the effing drivers for XP and I'll be THRILLED!!!!! 
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02-23-2009, 10:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | who's the asshat now?   LOL hahahaha
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02-23-2009, 10:11 PM
| | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | Quote:
Originally Posted by NJL who's the asshat now? LOL hahahaha | LOL! Shouldn't you be in a Benadryl coma by now, jurk?
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Originally Posted by macaroni tony Back in the day, I thought I was hard. I think we all know I was pretty much lying to myself | |
02-23-2009, 10:12 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | I have had my new computer with vista for three months now, and no crashes. Your doing it wrong. |
02-23-2009, 10:14 PM
| | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric618 LOL! Shouldn't you be in a Benadryl coma by now, jurk? | Must have taken the non-drowsy by mistake. |
02-23-2009, 10:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric618 LOL! Shouldn't you be in a Benadryl coma by now, jurk? | dude, i'm really trying to fall asleep. 
btw, my dad is the only person i know that has vista, everytime i go over, i have to help him with vista.. he mumbled out one time, "i really wish i just had a commodore 64" i was on the ground laughing so hard...
he just shot out a grin like this:
LOL hahahaha
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02-23-2009, 10:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by joeinsprings Must have taken the non-drowsy by mistake. | Carlos Fail:
buys non-drowsy sleeping pills LOL hahahahaha
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02-23-2009, 10:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | | Wait for Windows 7. Vista is the next Windows ME.
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02-23-2009, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Santiago de Chile | | | Vista sucks!!!
XP is just perfect ù_u |
02-23-2009, 10:51 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | I've had Vista systems since they first came out and never once did the actual systems ever go wrong on me. |
02-23-2009, 10:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | Another LOL VISTA reply. |
02-23-2009, 10:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | Just wack XP on it. Much more stable, everything runs faster.
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02-23-2009, 11:09 PM
|  | Working on successful. Got the first syllable... | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huddinge, Sweden | | | I've actually had a better experience and snappier performance with the Windows 7 beta. Vista was OK, but not really that much of an improvment over XP, and a definite derailment as far as shell performance is concerned. Windows 7 is a whole different ball of wax, and yet it's just the first public beta. I think Microsoft got better by taking a hit where it hurts: the wallet.
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02-23-2009, 11:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | | I'm another who has had very few problems with Vista. Network file sharing kind of sucks, but if you manually map everything instead of using that useless wizard, it works fine.
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02-23-2009, 11:31 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Why are you even messing with it? Just get a Mac. If you really need windows, you can run windows with it too, but I bet after a few months of only going into windows to run updates, spyware, adware, installing driver updates, blah blah blah, it will get old. I dropped Windows a long time ago. Right when 0SX came out, I pretty much abandoned Windows. Not to start a war here, but I see you obviously know computers Eric, but why put all that nice hardware to work for such a crappy OS. If not Mac OS, then why don't you look into Linux? |
02-23-2009, 11:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Birmingham AL | | | Mac all da way. |
02-24-2009, 12:39 AM
| | | | I've discovered something yesterday. When I create a .bat file and try to open it with notepad using right click -> edit, I get an "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" error. This is due to the edit command itself is incorrect: it should be something like "notepad %1". On XP, you go Folder Options -> File types and change the open command. You can also add new options.
That dialog is removed from Vista entirely. You can only change the default program that is runned on double-click, but cannot alter anything else. I had to go to the registry and edit it manually.. Why remove a completely normal and useful OS function? |
02-24-2009, 12:56 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Why are you even messing with it? Just get a Mac. If you really need windows, you can run windows with it too, but I bet after a few months of only going into windows to run updates, spyware, adware, installing driver updates, blah blah blah, it will get old. I dropped Windows a long time ago. Right when 0SX came out, I pretty much abandoned Windows. Not to start a war here, but I see you obviously know computers Eric, but why put all that nice hardware to work for such a crappy OS. If not Mac OS, then why don't you look into Linux? | I use both Mac and Linux. In fact, I'm using Linux now and for all my web browsing to keep virus crap off my computer.
But I use Windows for about 80% of my apps. Once all the bugs are worked out of Vista by the suckers who use it first, I'll go ahead and get a copy.
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02-24-2009, 04:00 AM
| | | | Vista doesn't have telnet, that should pretty much tell you it's a joke right there.
+10000 to hbarcat on the linux, personally I think Linux runs better after a few bad porn sites :P |
02-24-2009, 05:59 AM
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Originally Posted by mothmonsterman Vista doesn't have telnet, that should pretty much tell you it's a joke right there.
+10000 to hbarcat on the linux, personally I think Linux runs better after a few bad porn sites :P | Sure it does. http://www.bridgetonova.com/2007/09/...-in-vista.html | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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