It took each of them about minutes to reach the desktop after answering all the usual initial startup questions. Yeah, I called tech support this morning and figured out what the problem was. She told me that when they install the OS's on the machines in the factory, they are doing it from like one HUGE machine connected to computers at a time. So we changed it back to ATA and 20 minutes later I was up and running!
They also had another piece of hardware enabled in the BIOS I think it was the "flash cache memory card" or something like that, which I don't have, so she said the computer kept looking for that as well but it couldn't find it, so we disabled that as well. John1GHz 2 Iron. Morpheus Phreak 3 Zinc. I can do a complete clean install of Vista and Office in a grand total of 15 minutes on my XPS Post Reply.
Top Contributor. Microsoft launched Windows Vista in January and stopped supporting it in April last year. Any PCs still running Vista are therefore likely to be eight to 10 years old, and showing their age. Vista was a pretty good operating system, at least after Microsoft released the Service Pack 1 update, but very few people still use it.
Microsoft has since launched Windows 7, 8, 8. You are also at a greater risk from malware. Microsoft no longer provides Vista security patches, and has stopped updating Microsoft Security Essentials. Whatever you have already installed should be OK as long as the supplier keeps updating the virus signatures.
You will also run into more problems with browsers. I assume that the one browser you can use effectively is Firefox. The good news is that your vintage desktop PC looks powerful enough to run Windows 7 or a flavour of Linux. You could even upgrade the W power supply to a W version. The point is that if it fails, you should be able to replace or upgrade faulty parts without junking the whole machine.
This may not even cost very much. The 2. While we cannot test everything, we have not run into any new issues with SP1. Ultimately, any user who has felt slighted by the poor copy performance of Vista will find relief in SP1, as will anyone whose pet-issue has specifically been fixed in Vista SP1. Compared to where we were a year ago, our general recommendation for Vista is unchanged.
We are however impressed with the progress of the x64 versions of Vista over the past year, after feeling like it was lagging behind Vista x86 from beta up through the release version of Vista.
Vista x64 is now clearly on par with Vista x86 and we have no concerns about its compatibility or performance. Stay tuned for that in the coming weeks. Vista vs. Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment.
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