Comments on: Vista SP1 Leaked to BitTorrent

By: open_universe

open_universe — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

VISTA is acknowledged to be “bloatware”. For home use Windows XP is just fine thank you very much and SP3 is out this Spring. Who in their right mind would bother I mean seriously???

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@Open Universe
Totally…….I have already uninstalled Vista from like 3 of my buddies machines and put XP on instead….people like my bro for instance who insists on keeping Vista installed installed on his laptop are going to be looking for this first SP.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I would assume 95% of people that have vista got it from a recently purchased PC so not a big deal.

By: Hath

Hath — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I have Vista but not by choice. My Laptop cam pre installed with it and everyone know what a bitch it is to downgrade to XP. which I would really like to do. So this is thenext best thingI guess.

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I have Vista but not by choice. My Laptop cam pre installed with it and everyone know what a bitch it is to downgrade to XP. which I would really like to do. So this is thenext best thingI guess.

How is UPGRADING to xp a bitch? If you reformat you should have no problems! Unless you have some drivers you need after reformat but those should be available online.

If you are wanting to keep vista for a dual boot then THAT could be a problem. But upgrading to xp is not if you totally reformat your hard drive!

By: Hath

Hath — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Thats the problem right there. I really don’t want to reformat as I have stuff on it that is important and that I want to keep. I could temporarily move it to an external hard drive but I don’t have enough space left on it and there is nothing I can delete on there to make room either. I don’t have the money to buy a new external hard drive so basically I am screwed.

By: Spurge

Spurge — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Had Vista for about 1 week.. ? Was drving me nuts with prompts for this and that.. Turned all that crap off the the SLOW file transferring between drives and over the network (Lan) was pissing me off.. Then the slow reaction times of the GUI ..

That was the last straw.. Upgraded to XP and Linux dual boot now. Vista is terrible absolutely terrible to use.

By: BleedThroughMusic

BleedThroughMusic — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

You guys are full of shit… Vista is not anywhere near as horrible as you guys portray. Whats so horrible about it? I have it on my desktop at home and runs perfect… never had any probems. Just bought a new Dell laptop… runs slick… no problems! so whats the real problem? People trying to run Vista on machines not up to par for running Vista? Bandwagon?

By: plagio

plagio — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I must agree with #8 here. I have disabled the UAC aero and the crap I didn’t need and it runs all right now.
I had to disable a lot of crap on my previous XP installation so I am not complaining.

Obviously since I disabled most of the new stuff vista introduced it is now basically an XP with some nice featuer added but at least I have DX10.

It runs fast and without issues at all.

Going back on topic. I am one of those who will wait for the official release of the SP. I am not 100% sure this leaked version will be identical to the one being release in a month.

By: starwhite

starwhite — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I alpha and Beta tested both longhorn/Vista on at least 4 different hardware platforms for business/Home use. I tested at least 6 different builds of Vista SP1. My choice of OS still is XP pro. Vista simply has too many unecessary services running in the background. It is a known memory whore besides using too many processor threads at any given time. Microsoft touts ‘trusted computing’ meaning that Vista’s DRM will CONSTANTLY burden the OS down. This infection will NON stop monitor your every move to insure you’re not trying to ‘pirate’ blu-ray or HD DVD so called ‘premium content’. After switching bck to XP Pro I was incredibly happy. All my programs work with lightening speed. My machine is no slouch with Dual Intel 3.4 GHz Xeons 4 Gigs of DDR2 RAM 512 MB Nvidia Video card. I have found with games like BioShock Crysis that they actually run smoother with Direct X 9 on an XP machine versus Direct X 10 on Vista. Which is really sad.