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| | After having been a member for several months I've watched almost everything that comes across the board and I'm completely mystified by why so many people have so many odd-ball problems with Vista when I have had virtually none. I installed Vista HP the day it was released and installed it on my 2 year old HP Pavailion, a 3ghz P4 machine with 2gb mem and a 250gb disk and it worked perfectly from the first install and still is. I then did a full build on a brand new machine as shown below. Again I installed Vista HP on it and it has worked perfectly from day one. True enough, I've run into a few minor problems with some program incompatibilities but nothing major. Never once in all this time has either machine running Vista HP crashed, done anything stupid or come up with any of these wierd problems that people seem to have. My most recent purchase was an HP Laptop that had Home Prem loaded and it worked perfectly out of the box and continues to run without a single glitch, so thats 3 machines running Vista that have not given me any more problems than XP did when it first came out, or 2000 for that matter. As a matter of satisfying my curiosity, why are people having these problems that I don't have and have never seen happen. Any opinions? Since this is the main lounge I thought I'd ask what other people think about this. I couldn't be happier with Vista and wouldn't trade it back for XP for anything.
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Mother Board
Intel E6850 Processor, oc'd to 3.4ghz
4gb DDR2 800mhz G.skill Dual channel ram
MSI GeForce GX8600GT Twin Turbo Video
Aspire Xdiscover case with lots of fans
Antec 650 Watt PSU, 250 gb SATA HD, 2 Samsung DVD writers
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| I want to say it has something to do w/ the incredibly large after market for computer parts and accessories. The large mix of manufacturers and part combinations makes for a large variety of computers systems. With such a large variety of systems their is bound to be compatibility problems. Add in the choices of software packages and you have a real mix to deal with. It's very hard for MS to program in compatibility for such a wide selection of combinations which is why I believe there are odd problems here and there.
Then again a lot users (non-enthusiasts) do not do clean installs, rather an upgrade which I believe is asking for compatibility problems.
Just my .02
Jason
AMD64 X2 5200+ 2.60GHz | 3GB DDR 667 | RAID 0 SATA3.0 WD Caviars 320GB total | Foxconn MCP61VM2MA-RS2H Geforce 6100 nforce400 chipset | Vista Ultimate x86
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Last Login: 9/23/2008 8:37:15 AM
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| | Well my problem is always too big a hurry and not enough patience to do it right the first time including documenting what I have done right in the first place. And for that matter keeping better records. Thats never been me. But, on the other hand I am going to have to start doing it now. After all nothing went very well about getting things back together this time. And sure it's equipment also, as I running a 7 year old computer with a bunch of stuff that is far newer thats been added since I got it. I have one problem that I can not get rid of and it appears to be erroneous too boot. I have an 80 gig. internal Maxstor that gives me a 1720 error which is disk is about to fail. It works fine and I rechecked the cable, the power cable, and the jumper settings. All are correct. The big deal occurs when Windows Home Premium backup comes up all the time and says I need a backup because the disk is about to fail. I have yet to find out how to remedy that particular problem. And then again it may well be the problem is that (what do call it????) two of the drives are very new and have I believe you call it hardware control while the Maxstor does not. One thing I have been learning about is do not nessessarily allow any program that fixes problems with your registery to do everything it says it needs to do. For instance I ran one and it came up with something say like 500 problems it needs to fix. Great, except thats a rather big number and in looking at it closely it well might reveal that by doing that you may have a big deal in rebooting or shall we say getting your computer to run again. One other problem that I am famous for is eye candy and for that matter trying everything out there. Again great but, I can suffer in the end for doing this simply because I can cause big problems in the end. So I guess in the end for me anyway, it's hardware, software, and me in this mess together. I would also say, pardon the smile but; I would not want it any other way. Too old to change just yet. |
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| | Good point!!!! And which do you trust??????????? Let's see I either Premium Booster or Vista Manager. Actually where is there good info on shall we say what so called hidden settings in Vista should either be on or off??????? Also I assume (pretty well know) that one should use custom settings in Vista as far as memory both physical and disk is concerned. That one may well have gotten me last time. |
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| | The vast majority of these less serious problems happen because your average user decides to fiddle with things they don't understand, they download allsorts of tweaking tools and follow quite arbitry advice on how to make things better which of course they don't. Most if not all of these can be avoided by one of two methods, if your a user and don't know what goes on inside, fine keep it that way and don't dabble and if you must, because that's how you learn sometimes, ensure you have read all the information about what you are doing and all the things that will go wrong and how to correct them. Always the easiest way to avoid problems is back up your data regurlarly, it's amazing how many people still don't until they have a major data loss and even when you do know what you are doing make a restore point before making any changes so you can always revert back. I've been fixing PC's for years and the very first thing I do is to attach external drive cables to the main hard drive so I can make an image of it's contents before even booting an unknown PC, I am probably tempting providence but I have yet to loose or corrupt a single byte of someone elses data\files.
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| | Very good points. Ah I can't help myself as I love to tincker but, it does cause problems certainly because luck does run out sometimes. Eye Candy depending on what it is of course, I assume can leave you with some nasty problems. I love the stuff from Stardock but, it does not always like me I guess. Have a good Thanksgiving All Of You Here, I know I will!!!!! |
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| | Don't get me wrong, it's how I started to learn, I made mistakes so had to find out how to fix them, that got me interested in learning more, I was already a graduate Engineer and have always enjoyed learning new things, since I've become physically less able in fact I depend on daily research into a number of topics, computing and others, to keep my tiny mind amused. 1st mistake, Win 95 looking through files find one called system.ini, rational thought, 'well now it's initialised it wont need that again' so I removed it, of course 95 let you do that sort of thing so I then had to find out, having had the thing 2 days how to reinstall it all. 
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