Not another Windows!

[garymck (Gary)]

Got Vista on a new laptop, (Acer 5920 - cost after cash back $849 plus another $50 to upgrade to 4 gigs ram- yeah I know it wont access it all but I just hate empty slots) ran it for a while hated it. Hunted up drivers etc and installed xp.What do you know? XP wasn't any faster than Vista!! in fact in many ways XP seemed clunkier. As I had installed it as a dual boot I kept switching around and testing, trying to find a reason to stay with XP. Unfortunately I couldn't. After switching of all the eye candy in Vista, it actually seemed faster than XP!!! (mind you this was the SP! version of Vista) ALL my programs worked in Vista....so I got rid of XP and went back to Vista......

Now all I have to do is continue to figure out where Vista puts everything and remember which directoris are dummies for program compatibility.

cheers
Gary

[Tandum (Robin)]

Vista spent 5 minutes copying a 350meg video file to my samba server today.

That should have taken 30 seconds. Vista networking sux the big one IMHO.

[wraithe]

If you have an xp system in your network and a vista system, then that will stuff the network up, you have to set ipv4 instead of ipv6 like what vista uses by default...dont ask why, had a friend have probs and i did the research and found that out...
ps, ensure your samba server is set for ipv6 as well...I cant remember the line of code but if you left it to default it should have ipv6...

I never have problems with windows, i move the latch and open it, if the breeze blows its cool, if it dont and the sun is hot, then its hot...But for a pc, i prefer linux...
What turned me completely off windows, when i started logging how much was getting done and how much time was spent working on security and keeping windows running clean, and yeh people still dont believe how quick my little lappy was with windows...
Now i actually get bored with the laptop, only thing i do is use it, no security stress, nothing breaking in the os and so boring, no antivirus or registry protection...
and yes everything works, as i add something, i get it working and it stays working unless i mess with it...

someone said about vista being totally different, a friend of mine has vista looking exactly like xp, in fact it had me fooled for about 5 minutes, till i started looking, and yes it was vista....worked the same as xp and was quite quick, but then thats also his trade(windows tech)...He done an install from scratch and only put in the best of what he knew was good, left all the inflation out....

[Tandum (Robin)]

Wraithe, you don't have your facts straight. There is no ipv6 on the Internet. There are no routers that can handle it and there are no DHCP servers dishing out IP addresses for it. It is the next generation of IP addressing but it is currently not used at all. Get a dos box going on your machine and type 'ipconfig' for windows or 'ifconfig' for linux. You will see only ip4 addresses, nothing else.

For others, ip6 is a 32bit addressing scheme for the Internet while ip4 is the current 16bit method. The 32bit method will square the number of available ip addresses.

[wraithe]

IPv4 is 32 bit and IPv6 is 128 bit...


Microsofts technote on IPv6
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/n.../bb530961.aspx


Disabling IPv6 in Vista
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By now, you have probably heard that Windows Vista features a dual stack, which allows it to run IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously. Although Vista isn't the first Windows operating system to support IPv6 (I think Windows 2000 may have been the first), it is the first Windows OS to have IPv6 enabled by default. The fact that IPv6 is enabled by default in Vista, combined with the notion that almost nobody is really using IPv6 (yet), raises the question: Why not just disable IPv6?

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http://searchnetworking.techtarget.c...267038,00.html

I'll leave the links to do that explaining...

[Tandum (Robin)]

Yes you're right ip6 is 2\128 not 2\32.

[Quack24 (Guy)]

Hey Guy's id just like to say the blokes and i at the computer store are currently testing the beta version of Windows 7 the torrent of Mininova is only the pre-beta, i have to admit win7 is actually the most promising of the lot it is true that the beta versions are generally way off (well for microsoft always off) but tust me this one will be much better than vista. and yes it will have backwards capabilities. the reason the pre-beta runs faster is because the graphics is not all there but the amount of memory that win7 uses without graphics is substantially lower than vista. it is about the same a xp's beta. ill keep you posted when more information come in the the shop. and with the avg thing i dont know why it hanged becausewe use avg on all of our test computers and win7 is fine with it no haning or anything

[higginsdj]

My only issue with Vista is that Microsoft has chosen to make all my PC usage decisions for me and I'm no longer allowed to make my own decisions (unless I go hunt down and turn off all the features that MS turned on by default)