vista home premium

[tinkertontom]

what is your opinion of vista home premium? I have been on this for about two months now and I am slowly getting to grips with it ,mind you I am nearly bald from tearing my hair out. I would love to hear of your experiences with it

[LeMarchand]

Very few problems here.

Mouse used to occasionally freeze at boot, but I guess some update cured it as it's fine now. Only current problems are that the sidebar won't display if I start it with windows (it is running, though) and I have a similar problem with WMP not showing the video occasionally (though I think the latter is most likely due to the recent DivX update); also won't print from Word 2007. Haven't had time to investigate those 3, but they were all originally working fine. I can't remember if they stopped working properly at the same time as SP1...

Mind you, I did download something to tone down UAC's constant questioning of whether I REALLY want to do something!

[ACtheTROLL]

I love my vista - love it, love it, love it.

sometimes we just sit and watch a sunset
(then I realise it's frozen again!)

It's just like when XP came out ....
95, 98, 2000 all looked and worked pretty much the same - things changed very little for 6 or so years and PC sales increased quite rapidly

.... then XP came out ... and everybody complained ....
boo hoo - I can't do this ... I can't find that .... none of my games work ....boo hoo!

now time has passed ... XP has settled down.... and all of a sudden the same people are crying again ... but this time wanting to hang on to XP - cause now IT's been round for years - and vista is the spotty youth wearing a leather jacket and looking sullen.

What we realy need is to throw away the whole shebang ... and start again ... 60% of all the operating system's bloat (yes! linux as well!) and a fair chunk of the processor are only there to provide backwards compatibility.

problem is most people don't have the �3000 it would take to completely start again.

so give it a chance (which you sound to be doing) and keep plugging away.

[SlackAlice]

Using Vista home Premium 64bit.
No problems except for one program, which was cleared by getting a more up to date edition.
Got fed with UAC control so disabled it.

[tinkertontom]

I agree ACtheTROLL like everything new it takes time to get used to changes but once you've got the hang of things you realise that things have improved ,as I said I am slowly getting used to vista ,now that I've sorted and download extra bits it's fine------------until the next change comes in ,oh dear hear we go again