For All you Vista Lovers

[SocMunky 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

Thats an excellent plan. 2k pro is fine, only difference is potential bug fixes and different drivers. 2k is really sufficient for a majority of the people out there.

 

[jer_stud56 10+ year member]

Put the harddrive as a slave drive. Put another harddrive that is bigger than it as the primary (Master). Copy and paste all your files you want to keep onto the new harddrive.

Reinstall vista on the bad drive. All is well.

I've had to do that a few times. On ME, 2000, XP Pro. Not Vista yet though...

OR if you know what file is missing you can google it, and put it back in the spot it should be.

Just use the Master/Slave thing like I said before.

 

[jdc753 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!

This is what I can't stand (my conspiracy theory.) Used to be computers didn't need internet to operate, I still have quite a few computers at home that are never connected to the internet, I feel they got too lazy building this OS with the knowledge that "oh well if it sucks we can always 'update' it via the internet." Gone are the old days when stuff HAD to work out of the box cause there was no easy way to update/fix bugs and other issues. Now they can produce a sub par product and just issue bug fixes.

 

[SocMunky 10+ year member]

This is what I can't stand (my conspiracy theory.) Used to be computers didn't need internet to operate, I still have quite a few computers at home that are never connected to the internet, I feel they got too lazy building this OS with the knowledge that "oh well if it sucks we can always 'update' it via the internet." Gone are the old days when stuff HAD to work out of the box cause there was no easy way to update/fix bugs and other issues. Now they can produce a sub par product and just issue bug fixes.

Unfortunately this seems to be the case for many other programs out there. Todays motto seems to be, "If it's BETA, its good enough to get released!".

 

[jer_stud56 10+ year member]

Unfortunately this seems to be the case for many other programs out there. Todays motto seems to be, "If it's BETA, its good enough to get released!".

Doesn't mean it's good enough to get released. It's released so the ability to check for errors is multiplied by the number of people that download it.

And the OS running computers do not need the internet to run. They internet usually makes the OS worse off. That's why updates are available via the internet to counter-act the whole thing.

If you want to get updates for a computer that isn't connected to the internet, find one that is. Download the updates via windows update, THEN burn them all to a CD, take it home, and install.

Vista has SP1 beta out btw.

 

[armitank]

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?

ya.. it takes awhile... try doing it for like 4000 songs..

quit crying:crying:

 

[Jmac 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

Repair the OS ?

 

[SuperchargedRS 10+ year member]

Vista sucks, if you like it you dont know jack about computers.

The whole point of vista was winfs which was scraped in the early longhorn trials as they could never get it to work right.

Xp lite sound interesting never used it but my current install of xp pro is only 4 1/2 gb so I guess uhh anyway.

Just install XP Pro or 2000 or suse or something, optimize it (kill the the stuff you dont need running in the background), turn off some of the dumb fluff stuff and bada bing.

also that computer you have should be a screaming fast system if optimized properly.

 

[90accordman 5,000+ posts]

I have 65,000+ songs...
nG

same here and with vista no problems also. I deal with people with vista problems all day long, its annoying most of the time because peopel buy it preloaded then feel they should get xp free.

I say research your programs first before buying vista, dont just expect it all to work. its just like anything else in the world.

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

ya.. it takes awhile... try doing it for like 4000 songs..quit crying:crying:

Actually I have 2040 songs that are currenty being downloaded from Yahoo Music. They are going at about 15 seconds a pop, so that is 8.5 hours. Then they need to be digitally recorded from tunebite, so at 27 speed maximum (assuming 3:30 average per track), it will take an additional amount of time.

Then office needs to be loaded. And my movies need to be reloaded. And all other shit I have needs to be reloaded.

And btw, Vista says it cannot be repaired. It must be reinstalled. Everything was ran in raid (i forgot to mention that) so its all gone.

I loaded up XP and I'm just going to use that. I'm not going to mess around with Vista any more. This, along with the countless crashes that happen almost everyday make it a pain in the ***.

I'll wait until they come out with SP1, then maybe try it. AFTER i back everything up though. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I made this thread because I was venting. Don't criticize me. It's not my fault that when my computer turned on it said Vista was corrupt and needed to be reinstalled. I know I may not have a lot of songs. but you know what? It takes time. Time that I don't want to spend re-doing everything. Everyone is saying, oh you don't have a lot of songs, blah, blah, blah, but your songs are on your computer. Your computer didn't crash.

I must also note that my aunt works for microsoft, and she told me things are so bad there they actually started to sell XP again in the microsoft employee store because everyone started to return/stop buying vista.

 

[SuperchargedRS 10+ year member]

same here and with vista no problems also. I deal with people with vista problems all day long, its annoying most of the time because peopel buy it preloaded then feel they should get xp free.
I say research your programs first before buying vista, dont just expect it all to work. its just like anything else in the world.

Dont expect it to all work, holy chit are you serious? If you bought a car and the windows didn't go down the next day and the service guy told you that line what would you say?

Trying to say the vista has the same support / problem rate of the other OSs is ludicrous, heck look at all the ram is uses, lack of support for hardware, software etc. etc. you can't polish a turd, just like ME.

Also how do you deal with it all day, are you working in one of those call centers or something?

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

Dont expect it to all work, holy chit are you serious? If you bought a car and the windows didn't go down the next day and the service guy told you that line what would you say?Trying to say the vista has the same support / problem rate of the other OSs is ludicrous, heck look at all the ram is uses, lack of support for hardware, software etc. etc. you can't polish a turd, just like ME.

Also how do you deal with it all day, are you working in one of those call centers or something?

Everything worked w/ XP when it came out, right ? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[kidwolf909 10+ year member]

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.

HAHAHA! I feel your pain, anything that goes wrong with out desktop, it's immediately "What the FUK did you do!?!" i don't even use the **** thing, I got a laptop for a REASON!

Sorry about the crash though man, try recovery console. It should have given you an option at startup to try to repair the install?

EDIT: Supercharged...you need to check your facts. XP was the biggest hunk of shit when it first released it wasn't even funny. People clung to 2000 like they do to XP today, Vista will get better. And FYI, Vista uses SOOOO much ram because it prefetches your most commonly used files/apps into ram for faster startup of those apps. It's very useful and a huge advancement over XP. Do a little research before you open your trap and bash.

 

[SuperchargedRS 10+ year member]

Everything worked w/ XP when it came out, right ? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

yup... all my hardware that worked on 2000 worked on xp (as did the software), and I wasn't running XP I was running whistler.

Like I said if your trying to compare the issues with 2000 or xp to vista, I would say you should do one of two things, 1) play with different computers a little more to get a feel for what different configurations run like, 2) put the crack pipe down.

I have installed xp on quite a few systems, each system worked like a charm, programs from the maritime world all the way to very old realestate programs, from old thumbdrives to old (and I mean OLD) printers, to new scanners, even slide scanners... gps units... I cant even remember them all.

I played with vista (both as vista and longhorn) and had immediate issues even in multiple configurations (something I never experienced (at any level) with xp or whistler).

you may call this anecdotal but I believe this is the general consciouses for people who know and build/fix/see different computers.

 

[jrouter76 10+ year member]

This is what I can't stand (my conspiracy theory.) Used to be computers didn't need internet to operate, I still have quite a few computers at home that are never connected to the internet, I feel they got too lazy building this OS with the knowledge that "oh well if it sucks we can always 'update' it via the internet." Gone are the old days when stuff HAD to work out of the box cause there was no easy way to update/fix bugs and other issues. Now they can produce a sub par product and just issue bug fixes.

yep I agree, and the public are the testers for companies like microsoft.