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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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 Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:41 am Post subject: Installed Vista Ultimate 64bit today |
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I Installed Vista Ultimate 64bit today. Everything went really smooth, haven't installed my printer yet, but since it comes with a Vista CD I am not worried. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the manufacturer for my 3 year old web cam had vista drivers that work.
I love the gadgets - got two clocks installed, two memos, a calendar and a cpu 4 core monitor installed. I like the black look as a big change away from XP blue which was getting a little stale.
Haven't looked at aero yet; actually don't even know where the settings for that are. One thing I quickly took care of was turning off that annoying pop up everytime you installed a program or even ran winrar.
It took me a couple of minutes to get used to the new "my computer" interface and navigation to find files, but I like it much better than XP. The other thing I like is that windows update is built right into the control panel so no more launching a browser to get there (not important really, but I like it).
It does look like I lost my network to my laptop and other desktop so no file sharing for now. But I'm sure that with a little poking around I'll have everything networked together in WORKGROUP.
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Any advice for a Vista newbie? Any apps, utilities or tweaks that you feel are necessary? Or even better a recommend site to read on tweaking vista to run better.
quad core and 4gbs of ram makes VISTA sweet for sure... |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:08 am Post subject: |
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Vista's not so bad, eh?
I'm not sure what you mean by settings for aero. Aero should be running automatically. It's the default GUI. You can turn Aero off or lessen its effects, but with the power of your new 'puter you don't need to.
The gadgets are cool. And constantly evolving as users make new ones. I'm using the 2-core cpu and ram meter, a calender and the currency converter.
I haven't really tweaked my Vista. I think Vista is pretty well optimized. There doesn't seem like there's much the user can do. It defrags the drives automatically unless you turn that off. I think mine does it every Wednesday night.
I did try Dreamscene and thought it was pretty cool. But soon got tired of my desktop moving all the time, so I turned it off.
I'm sure there are lots of tweak-vista sites out there. Like I said, my Vista Ultimate runs very nicely so I haven't bothered to mess with it. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:33 am Post subject: |
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What about games?
From what I have read, there doesn't seem to be many installation issues even with relatively old titles, but my main concern is the 32 bit performance in a 64 bit environment.
I read a recent review that illustrated that the differences are almost nil across the board for titles now that drivers have matured. Is this the case?
I want to move to Vista 64 bit myself, but this is the one area I don't want a major compromise.
Eamo....I know you are a gamer...shed some light please.
To all who may search back for my many my anti-Vista posts...that was before I looked into 64 bit computing and there is no way I will walk down the half-paved path of XP 64. So there. 
This list helped me review some programs, though, in typical Wiki fashion, many people who contributed didn't stick to the rule of stating 32 or 64 bit compatibility.
I think I am pretty much Vista ready now anyways. New printer (HP C7280), O/Ced the shy E6550 to 3.0, installed the monster Zalman, pumped up the 3850 and got some better airflow in the box. Let's see what tomorrow brings. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Vista's not so bad, eh? |
quite right.
compatibility issues with Partition Magic - won't install. Partition Manager won't let me merge c: and e: despite being physically on the same drive and next to each other. I need to merge these partitions as c: is already running out of space.
Any suggestions on a partitioning program for Vista? Microsoft, why can't you have a good partitioner built into the OS - really should be standard.
still having trouble getting my other (xp) computers to access my vista computer on the network. Though going the other way is not a problem. |
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Korlingus
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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You're going to have to pay for 8.5 if you want compatibility with Vista. Money is better spent on XP SP2 IMO.
http://www.partition-manager.com/ |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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that's what I have and it won't merge c: with e: or even resize c: (it's grayed out) |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, I admit that I am not techno savvy, so please tell me what the difference is between 32 and 64 bit? |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
| Ok, I admit that I am not techno savvy, so please tell me what the difference is between 32 and 64 bit? |
32 bits - really it's simple math.
speed, no ram limitations (32bit only recognizes 3.2gb) and more |
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Korlingus
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't believe that XP 64 is supported. I should have read the OP better. I was thinking you Vista. |
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Wangta01
Joined: 03 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Dood, go back to XP Pro SP2. Vista 64 has some serious bugs and it's not compatible with a bunch of stuff. Seriously, go back while you still can and MAYBE upgrade to Vista when they release SP1. There is a reason why most corporations and colleges, etc don't yet support Vista. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Acronis Disk Director.
or DL Gparted |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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I want to re-partition (merge) but the key gen for that isn't coughing up any valid keys...  |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
Acronis Disk Director.
or DL Gparted |
disk director hosed my system or rather I probably did something wrong. Gparted also wouldn't merge or resize c:
Anyhow I finally got disk director to do what I wanted (or so I thought) I hit commit watched it reboot and do every thing it should and then reboot again into windows. Windows loads up and then I go to check my drives and I have 2 C: drives and they're both logical - Ack!!! As soon as I saw that the computer rebooted and couldn't boot again due to their not being any primary partitions.
Time to reinstall - no problem. I go do that and when I get into windows I discovered that two other partitions on the same physical drive are now unallocated space. One of those partitions has 35GBs of teaching materials. Needless to say I wasn't impressed. Too bad it's time to go to church.
Just got home and ran Stellar Pheonix Fat & NTFS and yeah the files are all there and in the process of recovery to a seperate physical drive. Also did some googling and apparently disk directory has an option to recover partitions - I'll try that out after I've 100% recovered all my data using stellar phoenix.
Advice, be sure to have C: the size you want before installing VISTA because it is a real pain to resize it afterwards. Also found out that my copy of diskkeeper won't install in Vista - I think the crack is screwed as it installs fine, but won't run after cracking though it did fine in xp. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Hint to self: make Vista smaller and delete the "Windows.old" folder! 
Bought back 14+GB of disk real estate. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
Hint to self: make Vista smaller and delete the "Windows.old" folder!
Bought back 14+GB of disk real estate. |
I don't have a windows.old folder. |
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