Those of You Who Have Used Vista

[Dav0s]

Did you

a) Continue Using it

b) Switch back to XP

Personally I switched back, because there are some fundamental things I don't like.

The biggest issue I have, is the new documents system. It is no longer possible to switch the location of the "my documents" folder. True, you can individually reassign the location of "pictures","music","documents" etc, but this is laborious and in vain because...

You cannot reassign the location of the main Users folder. ie, when you click your username on the start menu, it takes you to c:\users\username (i think) and you cannot change the location of this folder!! Useless to somebody who keeps their my docs folder on a different partition!

True, with a hack it can be done, but i should not have to hack an operating system to gain functionality which has been present in every other version of windows. surely they must know that 99% of vista users will be upgrading from previous versions of windows!

There are other things I didn't like, which i suppose I will just have to get used to eventually, but personally, I went back to XP!

 

[mVp24]

Wow a mod should've used the search function aye?

There are two polls similar to your thread, one discussing permanent Vista users, the other wondering the changes you made XP>Vista Vista>XP etc

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=10733&highlight=vista+poll

and

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=8375&highlight=vista+poll

 

[Dav0s]

They were from February and June. This is the sort of thing which is ongoing so I'm trying to gain an updated view. In Feb, Vista was not even released, and hardly anybody upgraded on release day. 2 months on, i bet the number of people who have tried vista has doubled. Not to mention the June one is very confusing...

And if you can find a thread discussing the main problem ive been talking about then be my guest, or did you even read the thread?

 

[JN]

I've gone back and forth about 3 times. My major gripes are the document system as you mentioned and the fact that my printer doesn't bloody work

 

[mVp24]

They were from February and June. This is the sort of thing which is ongoing so I'm trying to gain an updated view. In Feb, Vista was not even released, and hardly anybody upgraded on release day. 2 months on, i bet the number of people who have tried vista has doubled. Not to mention the June one is very confusing...

And if you can find a thread discussing the main problem ive been talking about then be my guest, or did you even read the thread?

Yes, I did read, thank you for asking. It seems to me, your question is if people used Vista and went to XP or they have Vista (either from XP>Vista or something else).

The thread posted by the guy that's not Frag had all those options. June isn't that far anyways, and there was already poll data there (32 votes).

Anyways, I went from Vista RTM > XP MCE. However, I'm back on Vista Ultimate now since I have Service Pack 1.

 

[Rastalovich]

I`m keeping Vista installed on something for professional reasons, so I don`t consider that installing Vista and sticking with it. U pretty much have to cos it`s the way things will be one time or another. Too bad there`s nothing much u can do about it.

Other than that xp for my productive stuff and gaming.

It`s a good question to keep asking, I think the results will be different next year out of necessity than anything else.

 

[Dav0s]

U pretty much have to cos it`s the way things will be one time or another. Too bad there`s nothing much u can do about it

yeah, i agree that we will all have to upgrade, but i think much needs to be done before it becomes a suitable alternative to XP/s2003, in my eyes anyway. I'd really like to see a feature to rectify the problem i stated in my first post.

Other than that xp for my productive stuff and gaming.

see, most people are still using XP for gaming, which says something about performance issues in vista.

It`s a good question to keep asking, I think the results will be different next year out of necessity than anything else.

im glad you agree And the necessity point is what it will come down to, which is why i think polls at this sort of time when people have a genuine choice are interesting.

 

[PV5150]

I use Vista predominantly, but switch to XP for review benching or gaming (dual boot). Yeah Vista has its quirks and annoyances, but on the whole I like it.

 

[Rastalovich]

yeah, i agree that we will all have to upgrade, but i think much needs to be done before it becomes a suitable alternative to XP/s2003, in my eyes anyway. I'd really like to see a feature to rectify the problem i stated in my first post.

see, most people are still using XP for gaming, which says something about performance issues in vista.

im glad you agree And the necessity point is what it will come down to, which is why i think polls at this sort of time when people have a genuine choice are interesting.

They don`t care that much about things that `need` to be done, the consumer is grabbed by the balls and will plod along at whatever pace is dictated.

The way it sells will be on the basis of how nice it looks, not what any tech guy says about the crap going on in the background. It does web pages, it does mail (albeit not as well as OE), so those 3 factors plus a gimmicky 1g pretty thing, will mostly decide the numbers.

I don`t feel it is anywhere near as embraced as XP was. But there they had the advantage of ME being a non starter. Every1 should`ve had a refund over that. Most companies would`ve gone bust over such an abomination. U may think Vista has driver issues ?!?!

At this moment in time, I see Vista as a downgrade for windows, mostly determined by inefficient performance vS `nice looking mac-like gfx` and useless, however nice looking, gimmicky stuff. Plus an extra 1g.

It works tho. Everything else aside, so u can sell it.

 

[llwyd]

I came back to XP for most of the reasons you mentioned. Plus my FPS in source became erratic and unsteady with the NV vista drivers I had. I'll probably move back with my next upgrade / dual boot when I get another HDD

 

[Rastalovich]

nVidia drivers arent` very clever in themselves. The latest ones I tried "offering some HDTV blah blah" are crapping out after a day or so of seeing my Samsung.

Tonight I be installing 91.xx/94.xx to get something known to be stable, but perhaps not so much HDTV options >.<

 

[FarFarAway]

I use Vista as my main OS and dual boot XP in case I need it. As has been said it does everything I want it to and gaming is ok.

Personally I like the filing system as I never bothered using "my documents", but I can see how that would be annoying.

 

[Elven]

The single reason I am not on Vista is down to my gf's dongle for wifi to her DS LITE and Wii not working in Vista no matter what I tried.

 

[ionicle]

my webcam had no vista suported drivers, but the xp ones worked fine

i can move the music, and pictures folder, but the c:\users\namehere folder cannot be moved, as has been previously said, and yes, that is anoying

hopfully the service pack will sort some of this stuff out

one thing i did really like was the search feature in the start menu, so rather than having to find a program, you just typed it and it came up, that was good, even if that was all that was good

 

[darkorb]

i like, but the hit in performance is huge!

in dirt i would get 30 fps in XP maxed everything 1680x1050

vista its 15-20!

 

[nathan]

You couldnt move your profile in XP, only the documents folder which you can do in vista?

Or am i wrong?

Found an easier way than folder redirection. Select the 11 folders or so, right-click and drag them into there new place (best on a new hard drive). Choose "move here" Vista will copy them and change the path to them all.

Also, i'd recommend installing these two patchs, one for performance and one for reliability. Would be good to see if these make any difference to anyones gaming.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...9d-c33d-48db-a7e3-62eef7c1f7c2&DisplayLang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...b9-d832-425b-b42c-d3eb2071bbec&DisplayLang=en

Both above are for the 32bit version. 64bit ones are available.

 

[Rastalovich]

Being able to move a users` dependant stuff around is the next thing I wanna really get into the next couple of weeks.

Doing an install for a client and sticking their vitals on another partition away from c: and imaging the c: drive is a god-send. Add a little backup thing to that also.

Looks like a 5min easy re-install to me.

 

[Bungral]

Installed Vista and had a few teething problems but once over that i'm happy with it. Not going back as it works fine for me.

 

[SuB]

installed vista but after finding out no adobe cs2 apps worked and 3ds max was impossible to get running i i went back to xp, not to mention the 'transfer files and settings' thing completely screwed up since vista doesn't pick up xp's version :S wtf?!

anyway i've basically made xp as close to vista as possible as i like the gui layout for most thing such as the explorer shell and stuff...

i've also now got cs3 master collection more or less so i might give that a try when i move back, but the main one is 3ds max, until a new version of it or a patch arrives allowing it to work in vista appears i doubt i'll be moving over tbh.

i use my macbook pro more than ever now anyway i can never get the quicktime browser plugin NOT to crash in windows:S

 

[PV5150]

i like, but the hit in performance is huge!

in dirt i would get 30 fps in XP maxed everything 1680x1050

vista its 15-20!

Are you running DX 9 alongside the included hybrid vers. 10 that Vista ships with? If not, I suggest you do. Simply go to Microsoft downloads and install the DX runtime