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Originally Posted by bonjurkes
I am wondering how much are those "turn off vista and use xp" advices works?
I am also using Vista at my laptop, i had to uninstall my antivirus even using vista faster. But trust me, its not easy to turning off vista and using xp because i have loads of stuff in vista installation so if i want to make a good backup, it will cost my whole day, and reinstalling xp and restoring backups takes another day.
So it costs me 2 days to downgrade to vista, which is actually not a good idea
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Unless you're using old hardware (most notably anything with less than 1.5 - 2 GB RAM) or run some very specific non-Vista compatible applications, it's really a perfectly fine OS - even if it might be somewhat more error prone at this time than XP (not particularly surprising given XP has been around for 6+ years).
As I already mentioned a few months ago when I got this Vista laptop, I love Vista and haven't had neither functionality nor performance problems.
The only unfortunate things that did start to crop up after the first few weeks were blue screens of death - on average one a week (something I can live with considering the system is otherwise operating fine around 16 hours a day, but obviously it still pisses me off when it happens), and while occasionally with different error codes, all pointing towards one or several less than optimal drivers, though unfortunately I haven't been able to narrow down which one(s) yet, and I haven't felt like trying to upgrade/downgrade drivers left and right just to see what happens (and possibly risk making matters worse in the process).
I still have this strong feeling that many of the people who are quick to say "go back to XP" either haven't actually used Vista themselves for more than ten minutes on a friend's computer, if at all, or they have but didn't bother to spend the 10-20 minutes it takes to find (and execute) some basic tweaking info to improve on some of the less than optimal default settings (something any remotely experienced computer user should know is needed with pretty much any OS - and most software in general).
Here's my simple take on it.
If you're currently using XP and are (almost
) perfectly satisfied with it - then don't upgrade to Vista and risk potential (if often easily fixable) problems, unless you're madly in love with all the extra graphical "fluff" (like I was
- and still am).
If you're currently using Vista but experiencing assorted minor or major issues, use Google and find a solution. In many if not most cases they will be readily available, as you're very likely not the first person to run into said issues.
If all else fails, then by all means, spend a day or two downgrading to XP.