To vista or not to vista....

General Computing Microsoft Windows
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I’ve just got Vista 32-bit Home Premium Upgrade edition for the cost of an evening’s work.
My not-very-IT-aware mate brought it for his Dell Dimension 5000 (“But the blokes in PC World said it was good enough…”). It ran like a 3 legged dog and eventually he decided to go back to XP. Which he couldnt, so he called me.
One night’s work later and he’s back using his original XP-Home SP2 with all the upgrades, and I put some freebie AV and utils on there for him too.

I even managed to get MS to send me the 64-bit version for the price of P&P :smiley: I’m currently housekeeping my HD so I can expand the defunct WinXp-64 partition I made to the 15gb minimum needed for Vista.

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You and I both, DT…even on my new laptop (T7200 processor w/ 2GB RAM and making use of a 2GB SD card for rediboost) with Vista Home Premium I still run the Windows Classic theme :slight_smile:

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vista64 enterprise is now installed on a rig I’ve marked to be mine when I finally get a desk sorted out in the new house …

Just a shame the X1950 that came was faulty, will put up with the X200 in the rig for now, surprisingly the aero theme wasn’t that bad, windows classic theme a lot nippier though :lol:

DT.

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Well I’m going to be ordering vista, a long with a few “minor” upgrades coughQuad Corecough with some of my bonus from work.

I’ll be getting Vista x64 Ultimate so I guess I’ll see how it goes :slight_smile:

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I’m sorry to burst anyones bubble, but seeing as some of the old classics, such as Homeworld 1&2, Starcraft, Warcraft etc etc; some of which some people may not play anymore or ever played in the past; do not work, nor will ever work with Windows Pista… I can say, stay with Windows XP for as long as you can. Which is regardless of the fact of all the rubbish and ‘half-finished’ feel of Pista; and the DRM system which slows it to a crawl when doing the simplest function (moving, copying, deleting).

This is my own personal opinion and I am probably alone, but something smells very badly with Windows Pista. This is not just a simple case of a 98->2K->XP change, this is something more … sinister if you will.

Just my 2cents

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Oh might have to stay away then. Starcraft is great.

Mind I never got Homeworld 2 to work with XP :shrug:

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[QUOTE=drezha;378132]
Mind I never got Homeworld 2 to work with XP :shrug:[/QUOTE]

It does, but think takes a while to install … you probably got fed up and hit the pub :wink:

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I installed it, it wouldn’t run. IIRC that is.

Maybe your right :lol:

I do remember it went back to Cex and the refund paid for the next pint! :lol:

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I play on HW2 on XP all the time :confused: How strange!? Not teaching you to suck eggs, but did you have the patches/updates for HW2?? I didn’t need to run it comp mode either :confused:

Of course there’s always the upcoming StarCraft 2 xD Oh yay!!! Which I must say looks amezzin!!! Which of course will be completed upto around 85% taken over by at least 4 design groups and then ditched … cough StarCraft: Ghost cough … I’m not sour … honest …

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Just remember though, for the older games, MS have made virtualisation software available so you can run your legacy software in a VM. Thus meaning you get all the benefits of Vista whilst still being able to run your legacy software

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Ahhh well then if that’s the case … :confused: oO( Why am I not convinced ?? )

Sorry, what benefits to Windows Pista are there ?? I missed that memo … :confused:

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Will it run? I thought the VM’s don’t have 3D support or is this more along the lines of a 360 emmulator for running older Xbox games? (fairly transparent VM)

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for me computability isn’t such an issue. I have no old games and recent hardware that now all has drivers.

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Of course it will run, as long as you spend another £1,000 on hardware (which is MS certified) and buy another couple of £99 Micro$haft licences; it will always be the ‘best operating system yet!’ …