kefin11
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Ok, first off for all those bandwagon jumpers who hate vista. try it out first. I have had vista premium for almost a year now on a amdx2 4200 system with 3 gigs of ram and 7800gt card. Vista is the best os ive had yet. It is just about the most stable one i have used. it has never crashed on me once and i love all the new features (media center included) that it has.
I admit you need a decent system to run it, but comon, who doesnt have a good dual core system or better now. As far as being compatible, Ive played every game on it and havent had a problem yet (newer games in the last 2 years or so) and even some older ones.
There has only been one item that it had problems with as far as installing drivers go and that was a mylo personal communicator, which i just had it install as xp(which is a feature it has to let in install an item as if it needs an older os system, xp also has this feature for programs designed for older os.)
It did take a few weeks for me to learn all the new features on the os but they are great. The voice activate command is awesome if you do web serving a lot, so you dont have to type in commands or use the mouse. Anyways, give it a try for a month and yourll not want to go back to xp.
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mattmartell
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steevieg wrote:thats interesting, i got a dell on black friday weekend, it's got vista home premium, and i've never had any signs of a faulty operating system
maybe you people having problems with Vista just don't know how to maintain a working computer well. the only problem i have with vista was getting files/folders shared, but i figured that out through microsoft website.
remember: everyone hated XP in the beginning, so i guess everyone will hate Vista as well. as for me, i like Vista. it can only get better.
Oh believe me, I am careful to take care of my pc. I had a strange problem with a trojan... it infected my backups as well as my operating system. I ended up having to erase all my backup data from one of my hardrives and then reinstall the os for a fourth time to gain full functionality to my os again... I guess it wasn't vista per se but that never happened on any of my other xp systems. I am pretty much happy with alot of vista's features though. It is pretty fun to use, but alot of my hardware won't work with it which is a pain. The main thing is my bluetooth dongle and some of my older flash drives... kinda frustrates me
"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then flingest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
mattmartell
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cshupe wrote:How is it even possible for an "older flash drive" to not work on your computer?
And Bluetooth dongles are even cheaper than flash drives.
Are you kidding me. The drivers are not compatible with vista.. and since they are older and have the labels scratched off (and I have no idea what brand, so I don't know what drivers to install) it's impossible for me to get them to work on my pc. I just tossed them though, cause they were like 256 megs anyway. The point is still valid though, I had to go buy new stuff for vista.
"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then flingest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
mattmartell
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cshupe wrote:This makes no sense at all. What drivers?
In fact, I have a 2 gig san disk cruzer that wouldn't work for the first few months after I bought it, till sandisk released a driver for it to work on Vista. I had to go to the sandisk site and install it... I guess I don't know how to answer your question? Um the driver that makes the flash drive work?...
"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then flingest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
mattmartell
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cshupe wrote:That had to be some third-party program you installed on the drive...U3 or security or something. Any flash drive will work in any usb port, if the os is properly installed and you use the correct motherboard drivers. Same as with any modern video card/drivers.
People saying that you should build your own instead of buying this: given the level of hardware understanding I see here, these people need any tech support they can get. Bilingual 90 days is better than none.
Well yeah it does have u3... sorry I didn't mention that. Doesn't matter... I still had to install a driver for it, right?
"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then flingest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
