Re: "Forced" back to XP, loving it

Your laptop was corrupted before it even left the factory because it had Vista
installed on it.

Congrats on your upgrade... Ben Myers

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:05:31 -0700, journey <> wrote:

>One of my laptops became corrupted yesterday. I was running Vista
>Business on it. I changed a battery but (duh) forgot to plug it in
>first, so it was an abrupt shutdown of the OS. When I tried to reboot
>the registry was corrupted and I couldn't repair it.
>
>So, I took it as an "opportunity" to "downgrade" to XP. I am now
>running XP on it and like it so much better. I can run all my utility
>programs on it. I can sync to my Zire 72 PDA without losing
>functionality that Palm never added for Vista. Things run so much
>faster (on this 2.4Ghz 3GB RAM notebook). I can control the amount of
>disk space for system restores.
>
>I have defended Vista to a certain extent, mainly saying that it was
>more of a lost opportunity to add new features than a bad OS in its
>own right. However, bottom line for me is that I like XP much more
>than Vista and there are fewer "gotchas" to worry about.
>
>I do like Vista's Windows Explorer a lot more than XPs, but my
>favorite is xplorer^2 at http://zabkat.com/index.htm and I like that
>better than Vista's or XP's.

"Von Fourche" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Ben Myers" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Your laptop was corrupted before it even left the factory because it had
>> Vista
>> installed on it.
>
>
>
> I'm so glad I did not upgrade my laptop to Vista! lol XP is stable and
> fine for my
> needs.
>
> But you people with Vista need to stop your complaining. It's not like
> Vista is Windows Me!
>


I remain committed to XP on my primary system(s) right now. I'm no fan of
Vista.

But... I can tell you that I'm encourage by the performance increases I've
seen from a fresh install of Vista (not a factory or image restore) on a
couple of machines.

The difference is significant, and the performance is much closer to
acceptable.

IMO, what people are seeing are the 1-2 punch of Vista combined with the
OEM/trial bloat of a factory image.

Couple that with an underpowered hardware configuration and it guarantees an
unhappy user.

Von Fourche wrote:
> "Ben Myers" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Your laptop was corrupted before it even left the factory because it had
>> Vista
>> installed on it.
>
>
>
> I'm so glad I did not upgrade my laptop to Vista! lol XP is stable and
> fine for my
> needs.
>
> But you people with Vista need to stop your complaining. It's not like
> Vista is Windows Me!
>
>

Who's complaining? It seems to me it's the people still using XP that
are complaining about Vista.

Bob