Couldn’t agree more. I have Vista on two different laptops, and the system ‘think time’ is absolutely over the top. It once took nearly 10 minutes to come out of hibernation.
I'm already thinking about going back to Windows XP. It's slow on our home network, my Excell spreadsheet program won't work on it. Now I have to get Office 2007 and it's way toooo pricey!
I'm ticked!!
I’ve seen that, too. We have a company laptop that came with Vista, and it would take 5-10 minutes to wake up, even after a reinstall.
It also would blue screen when running VMware.
The same Latitude D630 was very responsive, usable and stable with Debian Linux installed.
You got that right. I do some side work for a client, and he was forced to buy a new PC from a retailer. Vista was his only option as XP wasn't available on the new OEM computers. I told him to buy an XP Pro disk. I go to install XP on his new computer, and it wouldn't even get passed the initial installation steps before bombing out. HP said the computer would only run Vista, so we were stuck with it.
Setting the computer up for the guy was dreadfully painful. It was slow, having to 'think'(this is on a brand new fast machine that was designed for it, mind you) for a few seconds to do just about anything. The interface and layout of the OS is inefficient. Doing even the simplest administrative tasks require too many clicks and navigation steps. You almost have to go through hell just to configure a network adapter. lol Turning off the UAC makes using Vista not as frustrating, but even then it still sucks badly.
Microsoft had better get this heaping pile of bloatware junk out of the way fast, or they are gonna take a beating. I just can't believe how a company as big as theirs can do something so unbelievably stupid in releasing such an OS. Who in the hell working there could have actually thought Vista was a good idea? I wonder if they still have a job? LOL!!