Vista?

[SteerPride09]

Well, I know you have heard many horror stories about Vista and all she does to everyone. So, here is another one.

I have a dell inspiron 1521, yes, kind of old but she is doing the job at a rather good and speedy job. So, one day she was running really slow, so I take it to work and a friend runs some diagnostics and it turns out that Vista has a memory leak and my hard drive is full. I wipe everything out and now she is running just fine.

[CoveMom]

You left out the category "Never had it, NEW computers loaded with XP Pro"

That's where I am.

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[mad_fan]

Well, I know you have heard many horror stories about Vista and all she does to everyone. So, here is another one.

I have a dell inspiron 1521, yes, kind of old but she is doing the job at a rather good and speedy job. So, one day she was running really slow, so I take it to work and a friend runs some diagnostics and it turns out that Vista has a memory leak and my hard drive is full. I wipe everything out and now she is running just fine.

I've never heard of one issue being related to the other...
A 'memory leak' is a reference to the physical RAM in the computer being allocated and not freed up when no longer needed...
A full hard drive is simply the storage of too much data...
I suppose it is possible for a piece of software to expand the 'swap file' to a very large size...but I find it hard to believe Vista did this...

[jtk1519]

I have Vista and have never had a problem with it. It's infinitely inferior to Leopard, but I've never had a problem with it. It's been my experience that those who do have problems with it, don't have the hardware necessary to run it in the first place. Vista is a f'n resource hog.

[jakerz]

People who have problems running Vista are people who don't have computers good enough to run Vista. The end.

[jtk1519]

People who have problems running Vista are people who don't have computers good enough to run Vista. The end.

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[WestPlano006]

I upgraded to Vista on my laptop but my hard drive fried when I spilled beer on it, so I had to get a fresh one which had XP on it. I didn't upgrade back to vista yet because Nvidia didn't have the video drivers for Vista for my video card, so any games I'd play were not top-notch graphics. When I used it, however, I didn't have any problems at all. I fully agree with the two previous posts, if you don't have a decent computer don't bother with Vista.

[Fleeman93]

For the most part Vista is XP fancied up from a visual perspective. The fact that you have to dump a bunch of money (hardware) into a box just doesn't do it for me. XP is the best operating system Microsoft has released and Vista won't change that.

[Pearland 06]

Ive never had any problems with vista, and I have a crappy 300 dollar circuit city compaq.

[mad_fan]

I upgraded to Vista on my laptop but my hard drive fried when I spilled beer on it, so I had to get a fresh one which had XP on it. I didn't upgrade back to vista yet because Nvidia didn't have the video drivers for Vista for my video card, so any games I'd play were not top-notch graphics. When I used it, however, I didn't have any problems at all. I fully agree with the two previous posts, if you don't have a decent computer don't bother with Vista.


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You spilled beer???:mad: