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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 24 March 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 From my experience, at my first attempt I had exactly the
same problems that most of us get but conveniently forget about later
whenever we upgrade to a new OS - some of the old things in the new
system didn't work. For me, it was just one thing, my trusty four year
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Upon upgrading to Vista from XP SP2, I noticed three things: a nicer interface, a more robust OS, and better performance. Yes, better performance! I upgraded my 2G Dell Latitude 620 notebook without changing any hardware specs and everything ran faster and smoother with Vista. Oh yes, there was all this vitriol I kept hearing about the 'maddening' Vista UAC (User Account Control). I knew I could simply turn it off but truthfully it has just never bothered me enough to do so. In fact - shock, horror - I actually think it's a pretty good thing to have a box that pops up whenever you want to change settings in the control panel, run software at administrator level, and so on. Despite my own positive experiences with Vista on four different machines, all I keep hearing are complaints of what a dog Vista is and what a monumental stuff-up Microsoft has made of its release from fellow journalists, bloggers and posters to the blogosphere. I don't doubt for one minute that some of these complaints are valid. I also don't doubt that many arose from early adopters, while others have arisen from users with inadequately configured hardware. There's probably some truth to the belief that Microsoft, Intel and hardware OEMs have all contributed to the problem by being a less than truthful about what constituted a 'Vista capable' computer. That said, maybe all the Vista haters have forgotten what an absolute dog XP was until SP2 was released. So what I have now are a number of computers all running Vista with good performance. None are giving me any major issues at present that need to be addressed urgently. So should I download Vista SP1 to address the reported 551 issues that I didn't know I had? |
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