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eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

.......pretty good, so far. I'm in my 4th day. Lots of hours put in installing and tweaking.

I really like the GUI. It's a lot more slick and intuitive than XP.

I 'acquired' a good working version of Vista Ultimate (tm) Laughing

. Apart from more than a few cases of software incompatibility, which I see as being understood as we are dealing with an OS for the future here, our old versions of our favorite software should not be expected to live forever, I'm more than pleased. I feel at home with Vista already. I feel it's working on my side.

The gadgets on the Windows sidebar are cool. I'm using the system monitor and the BBC radio player at the moment. They will evolve to be even cooler as they are user created.

Stability. A few games I installed have crashed. But Vista was able to come out of the freeze and bring me back to desktop and give me a reason why the game crashed. Better than XP there............ I would like all the games I have to work on Vista.....afterall, Sony make all their Playstation games backwards compatible, but I understand that this is a new OS and that new games will be designed for it soon........where are you Crysis??!!

There are bugs. I couldn't play avi. video right after the install. Not even VLC would play avi. I decided to install the Vista codec pack. Not something I liked doing. MS should have all codecs covered in Media Player 11. But the codec pack worked so all is good.

Anything else? Oh yeah. It does eat up the RAM. Run uTorrent, Media Player and IE7 at the same time can bring the RAM usage up to 800mb. I even saw all my 2GB of RAM used when I opened a 200mb JP2 picture of a Hubble pic. I would say that if you are doing any video intensive then 4GB of RAM is very desriable. But vista seems to be able to handle all jobs which your system is maybe not up to without crashing. I think it's a fair bit more stable than XP.

Last thoughts?

This is an improvement on XP. I think most of you will like it as long as you don't see it as a do-everything-right-now OS. It won't run everything designed for XP. But when everything is designed for Vista.....you'll love it.

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

Thanks for the info. I still think Vista is a long way from compatibility. I am extremely pleased with XP and won't be switching until support is no longer offered for it. Then again, did I ever or do I ever use their support option? Laughing

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

Same with me. I just don't see a need to upgrade right now. XP and DX9 do everything I need. I am probably going to buy a DX10 card as my next purchase just so I have the option of upgrading to VISTA if I want.

I'm looking at the 8600 GTS XXX. Looks pretty good, more than enough for what I'd be playing. I'm still playing MOH and some games from the late 90s.

KPRROK

hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

Yeah, upgrading right now seems like a real pain in the a$$ for nothing, really. I got the Vista Transformation Pack (link below) on my XP and its pretty as anything.

Vista gives you nothing right now, and it slows your games (if they're even compatible). It was the same with XP when it first came out. Give it the summer and then I'll probably upgrade and NOT pull out my hair in the process 'cause they'll have everything worked out by then.

http://www.windowsxlive.net/index.php?id=208

esetters21 · Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Location: Seoul

I upgraded to Vista Home Premium on my PC and my laptop. Everything is peachy on my desktop, except Nero 7 is not compatible yet(?). The only issue I have with the laptop is that there are no update drivers for the Nvidia Go 6800 video card yet.

Anyway, so far so good. It definitely gets some cool points. I think that I am happy Smile

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Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

DX10 is still a ways off. Heck, we have only seen the first gen of DX10 cards. Ploding with DX9? No, DX9 will run games faster, but it may not look as good as 10. May, I say. For now.

I will get Vista, no doubt. It will not be until the games arrive in force and the cards are more mature in their 2nd or 3rd gen.

Good review though eamo...thanks. Yeah, it had better be "better" than XP...how else could they justify forcing people's hand with DX10, etc...?

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

demaratus · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

Vista is nice on the right machine, still its improvements are mostly poor ripoffs of Os X 10.4 which has been around for over a year. Either way in the windows world, Vista is a definate improvement esp for multimedia apps if you have a kickass computer.

julian_w · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject: Thumbnails...?

Hey, do yous know any arcane, secret methods for getting Vista to show thumbnails of photos?

(I've got basic put on my new machine. Didn't care either way... until I came to check my photos. ... I can't tell which one is which! 'Give me my thumbnails back!')

SeoulFinn · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Location: 1h from Seoul

In your photo folder, or where ever you keep your pictures, there's a pull down menu (on the upper left side) called "Views." Choose one of the "Icons" (XL, L, M) or "Tiles" and you get your thumbnails back.

julian_w · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject: No Thumbies

Erghm, yeah, thanks for that.

Yes, I did try that already.

No, it still doesn't work.

I wonder if that's the difference between Vista Basic and the other versions ...?

Anyway, still no thumbnails for me.

Any other ideas?

SeoulFinn · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Location: 1h from Seoul

That's strange. I'm using ultimate version, but I think that it shouldn't matter if you use ultimate or home version. Okay, here's how to disable thumbnails. Check if "Always show icons, never thumbnails" is checked or not. It should be unchecked. Taken from HERE.

corroonb · Joined: 04 Aug 2006

SeoulFinn is right. Thumbnails should be automatically activated. I'm using Vista Ultimate and I have thumnails for all my photos. My movie thumbnail are often black and annoyingly can't be reset.