OT-> VIsta Users
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 4803 Registered: Jan-06 | So what does your desktop look like? Here is mine, Vista is pretty sweet! Polo..  |
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Gold Member Username: Th3pwn3rI compensate... Post Number: 8714 Registered: Jul-06 | To me it looks like you're wasting a sh1t load of resources by running a "full" Vista.  You need a hacked version so you're not wasting tons of your ram and processing power. |
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Silver Member Username: KravenbloodThat one, Ohio Post Number: 420 Registered: Aug-05 | i was told vista is pointless unless you have a minimum of 4 gigs of ram |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 4804 Registered: Jan-06 | Kevin it ran fine on 1 gig but with everything I like to run takes a full time 800-900 megs so it is on the edge. I have 4 gigs running and it is sweet . I also have two momentus 250G drives, I know it isn't all that impressive but that is all on a 12" notebook. Vista itself isn't bad just the way some of the stuff is implemented, like object transperency (sp) that takes up processor power. There are things you can do but I mainly download music, edit tracks, edit movies and surf the web so I really have no need to break it down. BTW Vista Extreme is really nice the way it is and those gadgets are the sh!t lol. Polo.. |
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Diamond Member Username: BestmankindPost Number: 22428 Registered: Oct-05 | i have been using vista with only 1 gig and i am fine. i even play games like dota and no problem. was wondering though. if i was to build a pc just to play a bunch of games, should i install windows 98? |
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Gold Member Username: Snowball123West Allis, WI United States Post Number: 1204 Registered: Oct-07 | or just XP chad. Why don't you try other OS's like ubuntu. |
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Diamond Member Username: BestmankindPost Number: 22430 Registered: Oct-05 | yeah xp would be good. but i just remember the games used to run soooooo smooth on windows 98. i will check out ubuntu snow.thanks bud. i was thinking of getting a ps3 or xbox 360 but since they have guitar hero for pc i want to build a gaming pc. that way i can play other pc games as well. |
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Gold Member Username: Snowball123West Allis, WI United States Post Number: 1205 Registered: Oct-07 | i love ubuntu. Wish i had a spare computer laying around to run it. |
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Gold Member Username: Snowball123West Allis, WI United States Post Number: 1206 Registered: Oct-07 | there's also fedora and open solaris, which looks the same exact as ubuntu becuase they're all linux. |
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Silver Member Username: TeamrevolutionATLANTA, GA USA Post Number: 393 Registered: May-07 | I was thinking i needed alot of ram when i bought this dell precision t3400 so i got 8 gigs, lol I have room for 8 more if i need it. It works well for me but it has shut down on errors a few times. That never happened to me once when i was using xp pro. I even have the vista ultimate and it has issues here and there. |
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Gold Member Username: BonhamdPost Number: 1182 Registered: Nov-07 | i have vista and i used to hate it, but now it seems to be running better |
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Gold Member Username: TanmanfoshoFi SSD15 Wangers Post Number: 1162 Registered: Nov-06 | olny thing that bothers me sometimes is internet explorer and vista. download firefox and fixed the problem |
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Gold Member Username: Snowball123West Allis, WI United States Post Number: 1211 Registered: Oct-07 | yeah internet explorer sucks. |
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Gold Member Username: Tatonka-[Team Audible Insanity]- Post Number: 2280 Registered: Mar-07 | In my house, I run: Windows XP PRO Windows Vista Linux Ubuntu Linux Mandrake (discontinued) Linux Suse I use to run Redhat a long time ago. Didn't like it. Vista runs well on my laptop. Haven't had a problem with it. My favorite would have to be Ubuntu. It is actually very user friendly for a Linux distro. |
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Gold Member Username: Th3pwn3rI compensate... Post Number: 8715 Registered: Jul-06 | I wonder why all the big computer gurus despise Vista, hmmm. A stripped down version won't bog performance but there are far too many issues with drivers for hardware conflicting with Vista. If you don't believe me you can do some research on www.xtremesystems.org I must say that Vista does have some nice features, the 64 bit version that my brother is running is nothing but problems =/ Some of the problems we've run into have been fixed but there are some that just can't be, it sucks. Normal Vista isn't as bad as it's 64 bit brethren but I don't know if I'm going to use Vista at all when I get my new CPU, Mobo, H.D.s, ram and video card(I'm waiting on Asus to drop the 4870 x2 TOP.). |
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Silver Member Username: CozcePost Number: 280 Registered: Mar-08 | XP>Vista all day. But I run Vista on my laptop. |
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Gold Member Username: Big_edge_headMilwaukee, Wisconsin Post Number: 2723 Registered: Mar-07 |
Who ever told you that is a dumbass lol. I run vista with 2 gigs and I've never had any problems. Heres my desktop: http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p173/stavenmist/desktop.jpg |
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Silver Member Username: CozcePost Number: 281 Registered: Mar-08 | Steve thinks he's cool taking a screenshot while having an IM with Chadly. Rofl! |
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Gold Member Username: Big_edge_headMilwaukee, Wisconsin Post Number: 2726 Registered: Mar-07 | Lmfao. That was from a couple weeks ago. |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 4805 Registered: Jan-06 | Hey FatChicks, if your brother would have read before he installed it that the 64 bit version has compatability problems because microsoft will not be creating the needed drivers for it do to the lack of popularity of the 64 bit version. This is why he is having problems, 32bit is having less and less problems. I had the choice of upgrading to either the 32 or 64 and once I read about the 64 I got the 32 bit extreme, haven't had a single glitch but service pack 1 is a must. Polo.. |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 4806 Registered: Jan-06 |  |
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Platinum Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 18315 Registered: Jun-06 | Vista is, well, what it is. Out of the box my new pc had over 70 processes running and that was just starting up. Most aren't versed enough to hack a copy so we are stuck. None of my printers/scanners worked and I also have 2 gigs of ram. My HD was constantly grinding and was annoying as fluck. I've settled down into it now and have "adjusted" to it. |
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Platinum Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 18316 Registered: Jun-06 | Forgot this:  Yeah I know it's busy. |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 4807 Registered: Jan-06 | Paul 70 processes lOl that isn't normal. I have 29 with all my crap running, but look at all that crap you have running, get rid of those security holed search bars, those are straight killers! Polo.. |
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Platinum Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 18317 Registered: Jun-06 | Well that pic is old. And I had 70 processes running at day one. I've cleaned up a bit but it's still busy. |
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Gold Member Username: Big_edge_headMilwaukee, Wisconsin Post Number: 2728 Registered: Mar-07 | Thanks Polo. Didn't feel like resizing lol. |
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Silver Member Username: DuckaHoughton/Hancock while..., MI United States Post Number: 499 Registered: Jan-08 |  Im not very good at resizing pictures |
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Diamond Member Username: BestmankindPost Number: 22432 Registered: Oct-05 | here's mine. i like to keep it clean.  |
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Gold Member Username: Big_edge_headMilwaukee, Wisconsin Post Number: 2729 Registered: Mar-07 | wow chad. lol |
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Silver Member Username: DuckaHoughton/Hancock while..., MI United States Post Number: 500 Registered: Jan-08 | lmao 500th post... Chad, Give out a prize for me lol. |
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Gold Member Username: Snowball123West Allis, WI United States Post Number: 1215 Registered: Oct-07 | internet explorer on kevin's ftl. |
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Gold Member Username: Snowball123West Allis, WI United States Post Number: 1216 Registered: Oct-07 | [URL=http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fdfdsfskv3.jpg] |
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Silver Member Username: MesodummTri-City, Az Usa Post Number: 525 Registered: Apr-07 | I still don't know if I like Vista or not!! Lol After reading all this I am going to get more Ram for sure!! my Dell Inspiron only came with 1gig, so that is probably why it freezes up all the time, i hate watching video with it!! Hey does anyone have a list of which processes can be disabled |
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Gold Member Username: Skibum12189Cleveland Post Number: 2976 Registered: Mar-06 | mac os x |
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Gold Member Username: Th3pwn3rI compensate... Post Number: 8719 Registered: Jul-06 | "Hey FatChicks, if your brother would have read before he installed it that the 64 bit version has compatability problems because microsoft will not be creating the needed drivers for it do to the lack of popularity of the 64 bit version." I think what you meant to say is that hardware manufacturers aren't providing drivers that run smoothly with Vista 64Bit. We actually have 4 versions of Windows here, XP, XP Pro, Vista, Vista 64 bit. My cousin is running a hacked "tiny" Vista and it's pretty nice, it uses as little resources as possible and doesn't waste all that H.D. space. I'll still stick with XP, there's no reason to step up to Vista at all for me. Mac's suck fat D. Any machine that is made for a few things only flat out sucks when you can have a machine that does EVERYTHING well. Macs are good for rendering, editing music and video and...oh wait, there is no and...that's all they're good at. Try putting up a nice score in 3D Mark. Not going to happen. |
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Silver Member Username: ShadeMoxee, Wa U.S. Post Number: 749 Registered: Nov-06 | there's a website called blackviper.com and basically this guy went throu all the applications that run in the background and found out which ones u need and which ones u do not need, he did this for every operating system that microsoft makes. and the results are awsome i must say. back when i ran xp pro, i was able to get my PF usage down to 86mb. On vista 32bit, i think im down in the 400's. |
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