For All you Vista Lovers

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

Alright, So our new family computer runs vista. Nvidia 8600 GT, AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 3.0ghz, 2gb ram, you know, nothing special. It's not half bad, and after a little bit I grew to like vista.

I just get done loading ALL my ****ING Music. 1000 songs, with more on the way, in anticipation of my iPod which is going to arrive tomorrow. 2 movies, shit load of pictures, not to mention It has some of my school work on it still.

Turn it on and i get:

Windows cannot load because a corrupted file ____ cannot be loaded.

Vista is toast.

Along with all my shit on there.

**** VISTA.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

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[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Woohoo... 1000songs...

nG

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

Woohoo... 1000songs...
nG

don't be a dick. It's not a lot of songs, but I took me awhile because I had them on 3 different computers, a flash drive, dozens of CD's and some digitally recorded. Not to mention I had to manually add every single album cover as album art.

Do you know how long that takes?

 

[Pop da Hatch 10+ year member]

sry dude - vista has gotten the best of me as well.

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

sry dude - vista has gotten the best of me as well.

it wouldn't be so bad but my dad is being a dick about it- He was gone for a week, he comes back, it works for a few days then chokes. It's all my fault obviously, because programs like iTunes and DVDDecryptor are really huge viruses.

 

[SilverSquared 10+ year member]

Sorry for ya. I been running vista for over a year n a half, and I have had NO problems with it, and when I first installed it, I uploaded all my music, which was right at 5000 mp3s, my videos, over 2500, and all my show pics, way more than 10k, and I had NO trouble with it....

However, I cant run it in my mobile PC because the processor, to me, isnt fast enough.

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

Sorry for ya. I been running vista for over a year n a half, and I have had NO problems with it, and when I first installed it, I uploaded all my music, which was right at 5000 mp3s, my videos, over 2500, and all my show pics, way more than 10k, and I had NO trouble with it....
However, I cant run it in my mobile PC because the processor, to me, isnt fast enough.

I really started to like Vista. At first- the video card wouldn't work. Vista said the drivers weren't 64 bit (but they were, After downloading them 15 times from Nvidia's website) then we installed 32 bit and it said the drivers were 64bit and not 32. So finally, thank god, it works. All is good. Then this shit.

GAY.

XP here i come.

 

[redrocket 10+ year member]

I have over 5,000 songs in my iTunes and run Vista and have never had any problems. Personally, I love Vista. Seems like people just get shit out of luck sometimes.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

I have 65,000+ songs...

nG

 

[SilverSquared 10+ year member]

Look for XP Lite I think it was, its a STRIPPED version of XP, NO DRIVERS IN IT AT ALL.....you only have the ones u download. Tricky to use at first, but the speed of it...WOW....it installs using only 4 or 5gb, and with that, its fast as hell...what I run on my mobile PC, well worth it.

 

[SocMunky 10+ year member]

The Vista cd doesn't come with a system repair utility?

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[937DYTBOI 5,000+ posts]

Vista is cool, not to diffrent than XP imo jus more graphical

 

[J31Rob 5,000+ posts]

Look for XP Lite I think it was, its a STRIPPED version of XP, NO DRIVERS IN IT AT ALL.....you only have the ones u download. Tricky to use at first, but the speed of it...WOW....it installs using only 4 or 5gb, and with that, its fast as hell...what I run on my mobile PC, well worth it.

i'mma look that up i usually use pro.

 

[jdc753 10+ year member]

Sucks to hear about that, kinda why I keep all my mp3's and movies and games and such on seperate hard drives. I got an old 15gb drive I have had forever and the OS gets put in there along with MS office and whatever other little apps that can get corrupted or what not. If you have access to another computer pull out the HD from your "crashed computer" and switch the jumper to slave and plug it into the working computer and you should at least be able to salvage all your MP3's and movies and what not.

I'm still running windows 2000 Pro //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif and have yet to see a reason to upgrade

 

[SocMunky 10+ year member]

Yeah, pro is good. I don't tend to reccomend the vista upgrade at this point. Value-wise I don't see the point, and it is obviously still in need of some tweaking. Maybe after a few service packs come out I may re-evaluate that stance. Until then it'll be 2k/XP or linux. Slowly moving the family over to linux. Got my brother using it and loving it...now I just gotta ease my parents on to it...seperate /home directories are a godsend!