12 thoughts on “Vista Problems?”

  1. Did you ever manage to get any of the information about the bluescreen?

    I had a crash problem with a laptop. Ultimately I needed to take a picture of the BSOD because the autoreboot went by so fast I couldn’t write down the information. With that you can google some of the details. Maybe it’ll help you diagnose the problem.

  2. I haven’t had any problems with Vista, but apparently from commercials and press release news stories, I’m one of the few who hasn’t.

  3. Did you ever manage to get any of the information about the bluescreen?

    Never really tried.

    I haven’t had any problems with Vista, but apparently from commercials and press release news stories, I’m one of the few who hasn’t.

    I haven’t either, but my only experience is on my laptop, which came with it. I haven’t tried an upgrade.

  4. I haven’t done upgrades since windows 98. My own experience is that you end up with a bloated system at best. However, I recognize that you have a specific problem in wanting to maintain aspects of your previous system. An upgrade should do that, but I would upgrade in the hopes of making the system stable enough, long enough, so I can recover what I needed. Then I’d wipe and reload.

    If it is just the data you need to protect/recover, and if it is not heavily encoded. I’d buy a new harddrive and a harddrive enclosure. I’d uninstall the old harddrive and put it in the enclosure. Install the new harddrive in the computer, and put on a fresh load of your operating system of choice.

    My opinion, though I’m sure its not very helpful. Sorry, but it really is what I would do/have done in the past.

  5. Very few problems for me running Vista, though I went with the 64bit version so I could use 4GB of RAM.

  6. Rather than spend $279.99 for XP Pro, you might consider putting the money toward a new box and using the Home version of Vista that typically comes at virtually no charge. Vista really isn’t so bad, especially since SP1 came out.

  7. When my wife and I bought a new system back around Christmas, we spent about $400 extra to remove Vista and install XP.
    My experience with a good quality notebook that had Vista installed was very negative; to the point that my 800MHz notebook from several years ago is less prone to failure.
    (I don’t watch video on any system, so I can’t judge that aspect). The drawback on my older notebook is that it can’t run any recent games and that 40 gig hard drive is almost full.
    I dread the prospect of buying another notebook because I’ll face a choice of poor performance with Vista, or adding several hundred dollars to system cost.

  8. Cool kids on the street are installing Windows 7 beta these days. Maybe just go that route. Just something to consider. I’m not joking.

  9. Cool kids on the street are installing Windows 7 beta these days. Maybe just go that route. Just something to consider. I’m not joking.

    I actually have been considering that.

  10. For $279 you could buy a HP Pavilion a6700z series desktop computer.

    Not the bleeding edge of tech but comes with 2 gigs of ram with is probably the bare minimum I’d recommend with Vista.

    Instruction for instruction Vista isn’t nearly as efficient as WinXP on systems with 1 or 2 cores. Vista will only start to shine when processors reach more than 8 cores. At the current rate we will probably see octo-core processors in late 2010-2012 time frame. The playstation 3 already has 8 cores in its cell processor but is not entirely suited to the PC experience. Intel offerings will be along shortly.

    8 is the magic number because that is the limit to what Windows XP can utilize — 2 discreet processors with 4 cores each. I think Vista can support, in theory, an unlimited number of cores.

  11. “Sean Says:
    March 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 am

    Very few problems for me running Vista, though I went with the 64bit version so I could use 4GB of RAM.”
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    You could support 4 gigs of ram in a 32bit environment. The maximum dword size of the address registers in a 32bit O/S is 4GB.

    Vista x64 can support up to 128GB of RAM on the higher end versions. This is no where near the theoretical limit of RAM on a 64 bit architecture. A 64 bit processor has the potential to access up to 16 exabytes of RAM or 17 billion gigabytes.

    Now, in reality I’d say your probably running slower on a 64 bit O/S over a 32 bit system. Unless you are running a specific suite of applications that hav been compiled in 64bit your processor will spend most of its time thunking down to 32bit mode to run all the 32bit encoded applications.

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