Vista is gone - but it went down kicking and screaming

By Fuzzy Logic on December 6, 2008 9:59:09 AM from

Fuzzy Logic

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Some time ago I decided I'd had enough of Vista and would go back to XP. After 2 BSODS and explorer crashing when I tried to rename a file, I decided now was the time.

Sounds easy... I disconected 3 of my four drives, partitioned and formatted my O/S drive, and started the XP install procedure. Hmmm, evertime I got to the part where I expected it to say 'Press any key to boot from disk...' it just went straight into setup again. Nothing I did to the drive with either formatting or partitioning would get past this. Clearly, Vista still had it's grubby little paws on this disk.

So, back to basics. Thankfully when I built this pc I kept a floppy drive... Out came my Windows98 boot disk and straight into DOS. From there I used my equally ancient Killdisk. It took an hour and a half for Killdisk to finish, but it took Vista and erased its ass. Vista is no more, it has ceased to be - it is an ex O/S.

XP installed as smooth as ever. So here I am, in an O/S which so far has no drivers or programs installed. I'll get to that later. Meanwhile I can stick two fingers up (in the form of a 'V') to Vista. Hasta la Vista Vista, as they say

I wish I could.. I invested too much into getting Vista , I can't go back now. I'll just keep swearing.

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Vista has a BSOD? I've seen it many times on my XP box. I've had Vista Ultimate about a month after it came out and I didn't even know Vista had a BSOD. I thought it was only in 98 and XP.

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really? I have Vista and haven't really had any problems. admittedlly, t doesn't always shut down right and goes to sleep mode, but that problem isn't that big.

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Meanwhile I can stick two fingers up (in the form of a 'V') to Vista. Hasta la Vista Vista

And you know what, in a week or two you'll miss Vista like crazy... cos when something goes wrong on your PC, you'll have nothing to swear at. I mean, you won't be able to swear at your beloved XP, now will yer!

So long as you're happy, Fuzzy (could never get a handle on deionyc... er that thar dinosaur name) and you've got a computer that functions as you need it to. Personally, I like Vista and have had no real major issues with it, but that's me and each to their own.

I still have XP on my spare rig and enjoy getting on that from time to time, and it seems to play games better than Vista 32 bit (never tried the ones I have on Vista zx64), so I'll be sticking with XP for a while in that regard.

Anyhow, you take care, mate, and we'll see you around.

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Never really had an issue with Vista since moving over to it wit this laptop. Ultimate home edition runs without any issues other than the odd crash here and there when explorer fails. But that doesnt happen enough to cause me worry.

For me i will be sticking to Vista for the foreseable future.

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Even though I absolutely hate microsoft and any of there product, I had vista for a little of a year and so far I am completely satasified and it has only crashed once due to a restart on a windows update now that is very good statistics for a windows os.

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Congrats, Deionychus....I believe a fellow Englishman (1/2 American, but why quibble?) said it best (about Vista and your opinion of it):

And yes, I do know which "V" is which........

Good for you....glad you're happy! Happy Holidays, Deionychus.....Doc

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Fuzzy (could never get a handle on deionyc... er that thar dinosaur name)

Fuzzy changed his name? Where have I been?

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i used Vista before, the way it works, i mean where everything is felt weird, but there were not any problems for me. What were you people trying to make your computer do with vista installed???? if you have problems, why don't you get a book on vista, something like vista hacks or a vista the complete reference. I am sure once you know its secrets, you can make it tick and sing and dance for you instead of the othet way around.

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It's doesn't matter how many books you read you still can't get rid of that ugly start menu.

I haven't got any skins installed yet, so I loaded up Diamond. Looks better than Vista, and, woohoo, a start menu you can use!

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I might change my name again yet - we shall see

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Dont blame ya.

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I might change my name again yet - we shall see

Come on, change it back to Fuzzy. There's a whole bunch of noobs out there to ask you how the name came about.

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OK, changed the name - but the damn avatar doesn't want to play

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I have had Vista Ultimate for about 18 months and in that time i think i had one crash that forced me to restart my computer. Vista works mcuh better than my experiance with Xp, which crashed like once a day.

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Quoting Silveus,

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Hm your are unlucky I hda no crashes from xp at all but we never updated it to sp3, I think we got xp 6-8months after it came out.

What type of crashes are you talking about the type that the computer goes kaboom and has make sure you disk is not corruted or it just completely freezes up and you cant do anything wich is not a crash (its you cliking to much)

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I cheer your emancipation from Vista!

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I had more crashes on XP than Vista too. I prefer Vista 100%

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OK, changed the name - but the damn avatar doesn't want to play

I found best way use IE and click on my account when in forums and then can update ok.

Welcome back as Fuzzy Logic. much better than Deionychus IMO

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I've never BSOD'd in Vista and I don't think I ever did in XP either but when I had(shudder) ME, it was a daily occurrence.

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I had no problems changing my Compaq f500 notebook over to XP from Vista. And , lucky me, HP had all the XP drivers for my rig ready for downloading. Then I found 2GB of ram at walmart for an affordable price. Changed my notebook back to Vista, thinking the extra ram would matter.....NOT!!! Vista still sux, even with 2.5 GB ram. So, now I am thinking of going back to XP again. Dual booting worked, but I want to lose Vista altogether. The only thing Vista does for me that XP don't is Vista run dreams more smoothly. And UAC is driving me nuts!!! I know how to turn it off, but then I have nag screens, popup warnings, etc.

So as I think about going back to XP, again, I wish Fuzzy Logic, Spock, would come back to us. I vote Fuzzy!!!!

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I wish someone would give a valid reason why Vista is better than XP.

Looking at my screen now, I see no difference between the two. Well, that isn't strictly true. In XP I have a usable start menu, and Windows Explorer hasn't got any clutter or any mouseover nonsense.

Oh, and games like UT2004 (a favourite of mine) romps along at 2-300 fps instead of the miserly 75-80 Vista can manage.

People just won't admit Vista is a pup.

Vista was supposed to be a new visual experience blah blah. But really, with all these incredible Stardock programs to play with, Vista kinda missed the boat.

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Thinking about it, I hardly ever use the start menu, with all the Stardock's apps for short cuts. I find the Vista programs feature much cleaner to use than the XP's 2 or 3 full screen menus that pop out.

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People just won't admit Vista is a pup.

Vista was supposed to be a new visual experience blah blah. But really, with all these incredible Stardock programs to play with, Vista kinda missed the boat.

New Visual...not so new when we think how many SD apps and skinners came out with basically the same, and i might add better experiences on XP

My personal oppinion Vista is the new Windows ME or 2000, for those of us who were fortunate enough to have missed that OS...lol

I have both, now...and that's because i had to recently get Vista, because of work and things...and Vista slows me down on Production and i notice less functionallity on Vista than i ever had or have with the XP Doll...my name for my XP PC...because it's the one that i like best...

since when is less function...ever a genuine upgrade ???

and Fuzzy get the vote, also least the newbs can remember and say it...lol

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I'm feelin warm and Fuzzy..... I know we never spoke but I miss Scotty's expression, hehe

Welcome back.

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