Just compared Vista with Windows 7 - Poor Vista

[ukgovsucks]

I just had to post this.
It's been a little while since I used Vista now. I purchased Vista a long time ago ( Vista Home Premium x64 ) and I decided to go back to my original XP Home Edition as Vista was generally a pain in the ass! Anyway, as I have been using Windows 7 now for a couple of weeks or more, I thought I'd just try out Vista on my spare hard drive I have lying around. Oh dear, oh dear. Now I remember why I dumped Vista! lol. The BIGGEST annoyance for me was the way that Vista would constantly access the hard drive even when I wasn't doing anything. And it wasn't just accessing it a little bit, it went hell for leather at it! Guess what? Oh yes, it was off again! It goes on for bloody ages too. It's not updates or anything else either as I have got Vista bang up to date. Even installed the RC of Service Pack 2 too! So pulled out the drive from my drive caddy and put in my Windows 7 x64 Build 7057, and ahhhh... bliss!

I'll be so glad when Windows 7 is out. Hey, I wanna be first in the queue!! lol.

 

[Iknewitwin7]

The BIGGEST annoyance for me was the way that Vista would constantly access the hard drive even when I wasn't doing anything. And it wasn't just accessing it a little bit, it went hell for leather at it! Guess what? Oh yes, it was off again! It goes on for bloody ages too.

This is my only gripe with Vista. Vista after some tweeking is the best OS I've used from M$. It might be the eye candy, DX10, Search, gadgets, or the overall experience of Vista that makes me think that way, but when I go to work and boot XP, I think to myself, I used to love this OS, now I can't wait to go home, and mess with Vista.

Then there's 7. If XP and Vista had a baby, and that baby was on steriods, it would be lucky number 7.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Vista always worked great for me - still does.

Boots faster than 7 too. I modified it a lot - similar to some of the things they have done with 7.

A few people have had problems with disk activity on Vista - not sure why - never was a problem for me.

There is some activity with the hd , but no different from what I get with 7.

In fact , after I booted into 7 today, I could hear the drive working for a good few minutes.

 

[kpo6969]

Vista x86 w/sp2 and Win7 x86 7057 dual-booting here.
Both run good and Vista is just a hair slower (not by much).
Of course this may vary by system hardware, user, etc.

 

[jfar]

Vista is the biz, and SEVEN is here just to prove it.

 

[chev65]

For the most part Vista worked well for me also after a bit of tweaking. Windows 7 seems more solid to me and has some nice looking upgrades and is just a better user experiance all the way around. I also noticed much faster file transfers on the network with 7048 and 7057.

 

[smarteyeball]

Vista is the biz, and SEVEN is here just to prove it.

lol Yep.

I find Vista can take between 5-15 mins for all the caching, pre-fetching to settle down after a re-boot.

Seven does the same, but in a much less intrusive way. The service-staggering is much better implemented.

Don't forget that Vista HD activity will be quite intensive right after a fresh install. So too with Seven.

Both Vista and Seven will have extended periods of HD activity when the index is being run for the first time, or you have moved or deleted large amounts of files.

Just watch the resource monitor>disk after a restart to compare activity.

 

[ukgovsucks]

My Vista is now locked away in a cold dark cupboard never to see the light of day again! lol. (Sad isn't it? :huh: Not)

Bring on Windows 7!!

 

[dahool]

The BIGGEST annoyance for me was the way that Vista would constantly access the hard drive even when I wasn't doing anything. And it wasn't just accessing it a little bit, it went hell for leather at it! Guess what? Oh yes, it was off again! It goes on for bloody ages too. It's not updates or anything else either as I have got Vista bang up to date. Even installed the RC of Service Pack 2 too! So pulled out the drive from my drive caddy and put in my Windows 7 x64 Build 7057, and ahhhh... bliss!

This drove me nuts about Windows Vista too. So much so that I spent hours scouring various forums and tweaking/stripping Vista down... removing indexing, shadow copies, RDC, backup services, etc... countess reinstalls...

In the end, I found out what was causing my HD activity LED to blink 24/7... It was Vista constantly polling my SATA DVD ROM drive. I just disabled the drive in the devices tab whenever it wasn't in use. I think certain SATA drive / mobo combos caused this problem.

 

[Lordbob75]

The BIGGEST annoyance for me was the way that Vista would constantly access the hard drive even when I wasn't doing anything. And it wasn't just accessing it a little bit, it went hell for leather at it! Guess what? Oh yes, it was off again! It goes on for bloody ages too. It's not updates or anything else either as I have got Vista bang up to date. Even installed the RC of Service Pack 2 too! So pulled out the drive from my drive caddy and put in my Windows 7 x64 Build 7057, and ahhhh... bliss!

I have not had this problem.... Or I am just too busy to notice. Plus, my case is loud, and I ALWAYS have music playing (loudly).

I'll be so glad when Windows 7 is out. Hey, I wanna be first in the queue!! lol.

NO!!!!!! I AM GOING TO BE FIRST!!!!!!!!

:devil:

~Lordbob

 

[bhuulo]

Vista was Ok for most of the users as seeing the Hardware Specs (Without Tweak) but Seven Rocks

 

[jeutie]

I swapped some parts within my computer a few days ago,
The store where I bought the parts said it was better to first install vista to see if everything worked good before trying the windows 7 beta again

Well...
Vista gave me: No sound, lots of drivers not found, the UAC screen with every step I took, ... ... I am sure after downloading all the drivers, and tweaking it a little, it would have run good,

But I decided to install windows 7,
All drivers were installed automaticly, never saw an UAC screen, and most of my vista tweaks were already active in windows 7

for me, vista was good after putting alot of work in it,
Windows 7 just went 'Pwnzor'

 

[Zanarkand]

First. Vista build 6000 is not that cool... Use at least SP1 or SP2 (pre-rtm or whatever version you can get now), second: of course it won't install your drivers for sound and printer etc. because it's older. I bet a basic XP can't find your drivers for that.. Windows 7 is fresh, it's new, it will easily install a new, recent hardware today. Try Windows 7 in a PC bought in 2012.
" most of my vista tweaks were already active in windows 7 ": well, Windows 7 is basically a tweaked Vista, no matter what people say. As WinXP is a tweaked, more reliable, more perfect, more secure, easy to use edition of Win2000. That's about improving

But as for so many people saying that every Win7 build is faster and better, it will end up like my old pentium 2 can actually run GTA 4 or Crysis with 1024x768 med settings with 30 fps at least

 

[swarfega]

I would not go back to vista. They have lightened the gui up nicely with the light blue. The constant disk thrashing was probably the indexing service which has not been replaced by the windows search service in win7.

There were a lot of broken drivers and software when vista was first released, not so with win7.

 

[jimbo45]

............... I purchased Vista a long time ago ( Vista Home Premium x64 ).....

I'm not a VISTA supporter but the essence of your post is in the Brown letters - A long time ago.

Since then SP1 plus updates AND improvements have come out, as well as some flavors of SP2.

This actually does improve VISTA - although I am not going back to it for any reason other than maybe to install it ONCE MORE so I can qualify for an "Upgrade" version of W7 when retail is released. I'll still do a "Clean install" however.

The Disk thrashing can be improved by switching off VISTA's indexing and superfetch.

Hardware has also improved since the original VISTA release -- I'll bet half of the people on these boards weren't running 8 / 12 GB RAM machines qith QUAD CPU's back two years ago or so.

Anyway its time to move on -- VISTA is History now -- XP will live on probably longer than VISTA as there is still some perfectly good legacy stuff that won't run on anything newer than XP (even on a Virtual Machine).

In the future the Microsoft and VISTA saga will be written in the textbooks as a "Classic" case of how NOT to market a product.

The reverse was true when ESSO (as it was called way back when) came out with car Bumper stickers with the logo "Put a Tiger in your Tank" with a picture of a tiger on it. You actually had to PAY for these.

Originally the conventional wisdom was that this was mad as consumers wouldn't PAY to advertise someone's product. How wrong they were -- Logo advertising is big big business now. -- One up to ESSO (Standard Oil Co).

Cheers
jimbo

 

[skunksmash]

Vista is a GREAT OS..

my vista install runs like a charm & certainly gives W7 a good run... , i personally have never had an issue with vista even pre-SP1....it simply performed straight out of the box...(it did require a bucket load of minor tweaks though)

W7 is far more responsive & looks a lot better, but i still have a lot of love for my aging vista....






SK

 

[RST101]

Never had any problems with vista myself even before the service packs come out. I also preferred it to xp which although stable (which was achieved through it's years of existence) was lifeless and bland. Windows 7 to me is far better than vista and has for more potential than either of those two in the same development cycle they once were. I would go as far as saying I find it to be just as stable as those two now and it's still beta. The performance is more superior in every way and the gui is a pleasure to look at and its tweakable to suit the end users desires.

Overall it gets a 9.99% out of ten from me in all departments and I'm sure upon it's release I will be able to find the other 1% to give it the perfect ten.

 

[Shak 10]

Tbh i like vista im running vista ultimate x64 on a dual boot with win7 rc x64 and think its a worthy upgrade from XP. I use it far more than i do 7.

 

[bhuulo]

Overall it gets a 9.99% out of ten from me in all departments and I'm sure upon it's release I will be able to find the other 1% to give it the perfect ten.

Sorry, I think it is .01% and not 1%:roflmao:

 

[kpo6969]

Remember this thread when anyone who installs Vista SP2 RTM and runs it for a while..