10-30-2008, 12:36 PM
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BARCLONE Rocketry
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Posts: 5,357
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Originally Posted by Solomoriah
So WHY did you install Vista?
The only "good" reason I've seen so far is gaming. Not good enough for me, and I sell the dang things. We've sold very little Vista so far (though, of course, the XP systems we are delivering now have Vista licenses on them).
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Mostly for the pain. I like having holes bored into my skull, wild birds pecking out my brain, and having my teeth yanked out without Novocaine.  
(There's a new quote for Bill's tagline... )
Vista has a bad rap sheet, and the "activation" issue is just one of many reasons why. Getting drivers to function properly is another.
Actually, in my case, my mom bought a laptop with Vista on it, and I figured I needed to learn the ins and outs of the OS so that I could maintain it. Vista does have some good points. It installs much easier, meaning the process of putting it on the computer is smoother and less painful than previous versions. It found everything on my system except the sound driver, and even that was quickly resolved. I also had to do something on my XP installation, as I had run out of disk space on the "C" partition, and it was affecting performance. This gave me a good opportunity to slide in a 500 GB drive, and put the old 300 GB drive into an external case.
Vista adds a feature that I could have used on XP - being able to expand or contract dynamic partitions without damaging the data. You can also take those external (or internal) slave drives and use some of the unallocated space from them to pad the size of a dynamic partition. |