Yes
No
I never used it
Sometimes it was good, other times it was bad
I have been using Windows vista in Virtual PC 2007 for a little bit and it doesn't seem that bad. It has been using less ram than Windows 7, and it has been pretty smooth. It is a little slow, but I blame that on it being in a virtual machine. So, do you think that Windows Vista was so bad?
I never had any problems using Vista. Ran perfectly fine for me. A lot of people who sang XP's praises during the whole Vista thing forget how much of a ropey launch XP had when that was first released. It was a lot worse off than Vista.
i was put off installing vista for a long time due to all the negative criticism.
i eventually tried vista x64 and ran it with no problems for a couple of months until i came across windows 7 RC, which i did admittedly prefer, but that is far from saying that vista was bad - it just wasn't as good.
I never had a single problem with Vista.
Most of what I heard was the driver issues, and people not liking the different look and navigation through the system.
Still have it on my boys PC, and it's run flawless since the day I got it. I liked it more than XP, and in reality, I still like it better than 7, even though they aren't that far apart.
yes it was it kept giving me black screens even after all updates. I did a fresh install 3 times and went extremely slow even though it had all its drivers updated with 3gbs of ram and nvdia card , so I suggested to my uncle to change it to windows 7 and I installed it for him with all the drivers and everything. The problem was fixed no more headaches and it ran really smoothly.Basically my opinion is that windows 7 is what vista should have been in the first place. It's not bad but with all those bugs and troubles I went through trying to fix it, made me hate it.
I found it a heavy program that functioned well enough but once used I didn't see any need to switch my XP machines for Vista. Windows 7 having heard it was light like XP changed my thinking and once used there was no going back. I see Windows 8 like Vista and nothing I'm going to upgrade to.
When I first bought Vista I opted for an upgrade DVD and had various problems after installing it: updates took forever and a day, Windows Explorer froze intermittently and the system seemed slow and sluggish.
I then discovered I could use the upgrade disc to carry out a clean install and after that it seemed fine.
By and large I got on pretty well with it and still have it an old laptop that has a couple of older programs on it. So far, Vista hasn't let me down, so I'd say it was rubbishy at first, but a lot better after the clean install.
My PC came with Vista pre-installed and it was terrible. Very slow, crashing every day on first boot and never really felt right.
I uninstalled it and bought my own copy. Clean install with all drivers. Rock solid from then on. Much faster at loading programmes (FSx in particular) than Win7, on same machine using the same HDD.
In some ways I regret upgrading to Win7.
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