I receive a copy of vista ultimate thru my employer about 3 months ago and never installed base on reviews, forums, blogs, etc.
Yesterday, I said how bad it can possible be, worst than 95? Me? 98 ?, I mean come on every time there is a new windows release even Linux there is a few quirks that ALWAYS needs to be take care of, and Linux user don’t come here and say that you just installed xyz distro and EVERYTHING worked right after 1st reboot with out opening script windows, users permissions, drivers, etc.
Therefore, I went ahead and download the appropriate drivers, mobo (nforce4), video (7300gt), printer (ip4300), and audio (realtek ' 97). I ghost my current xp setup "just in case" something "bad" happened and could restore my pc in less than 15min. so put my DVD in restart pc, change bios to start from DVD, DVD started ask me if I wanted to make a fresh install, selected yes, selected region, keyboard, time zone, and done in aprox 15-20 min I was booting into vista, I'm single user so selected auto logon, so I went lets see what’s broken, only my audio didn't install (its weird that ac '97 drivers didn't install since they are probably included in 90% of motherboards out there).
Installed latest drivers for mobo then reboot, then video and reboot, audio and reboot. I even rebooted when software did not demanded. so far everything working fine, aero its ok vista index 4.9 (supposable good), so I'm ok what’s all the "fuss" about, let's try some x86 app to break it, installed winamp 2.95 installed just fine music plays thru speakers nothing hangs, opened 8 different instances of winamp all playing different mp3s in 2 separate hard drives and no glitches no skipping, so I'm like what is broken in here ?, lets tried to keep breaking this thing, installed vista x64 codec pack (you know how codec’s pack can mess up windozes) all my media play perfectly, lets keep trying to break this thing, installed office 97 same thing all working, all loaded all software that I have and only 1 didn’t install (diskeeper 10) said it's not compatible with my vista version (ultimate) ?? Why go figure, I even authored a DVD using DVD author (comandline app) and worked.
So I thinking what's all that "bad" talking about vista, I have been using computers since my precious Tandy-radio shack trs-80, all the x86 way up to sun systems. All windows flavors and some linuxes (redhat, fedora, caldera, suse, ubuntu, kubunto, dsl, knoppix, etc) and so far this as been same as every os. actually I did experience a problem and I couldn’t install latest flash player directly with activex control (I lowered my security setting and still refuse to install) so I had to download the offline installer and problem solve, actually I feel kind of safe that the activex control didn’t install even with my security setting all the way down.
Again, this is my personal experience, so far, ok. As I said as every os, requires sometime to tweak and setup every setting as you like.
Software proven to work in vista x64:
Convertx to DVD
Nero
Dvdfab HD
DVD author
Audacity
Winamp 2.95 (yes it works, yes I know there is a new version out there)
Ccleaner
Utorrent
Avg free
7zip
Office 97
Edit:
I'm not a gamer, so I cant speak about games, I do have some old games (quake II) and some other that came with old video cards (comandos ?), age of empires I, II, will try those tomorrow.
Yesterday, I said how bad it can possible be, worst than 95? Me? 98 ?, I mean come on every time there is a new windows release even Linux there is a few quirks that ALWAYS needs to be take care of, and Linux user don’t come here and say that you just installed xyz distro and EVERYTHING worked right after 1st reboot with out opening script windows, users permissions, drivers, etc.
Therefore, I went ahead and download the appropriate drivers, mobo (nforce4), video (7300gt), printer (ip4300), and audio (realtek ' 97). I ghost my current xp setup "just in case" something "bad" happened and could restore my pc in less than 15min. so put my DVD in restart pc, change bios to start from DVD, DVD started ask me if I wanted to make a fresh install, selected yes, selected region, keyboard, time zone, and done in aprox 15-20 min I was booting into vista, I'm single user so selected auto logon, so I went lets see what’s broken, only my audio didn't install (its weird that ac '97 drivers didn't install since they are probably included in 90% of motherboards out there).
Installed latest drivers for mobo then reboot, then video and reboot, audio and reboot. I even rebooted when software did not demanded. so far everything working fine, aero its ok vista index 4.9 (supposable good), so I'm ok what’s all the "fuss" about, let's try some x86 app to break it, installed winamp 2.95 installed just fine music plays thru speakers nothing hangs, opened 8 different instances of winamp all playing different mp3s in 2 separate hard drives and no glitches no skipping, so I'm like what is broken in here ?, lets tried to keep breaking this thing, installed vista x64 codec pack (you know how codec’s pack can mess up windozes) all my media play perfectly, lets keep trying to break this thing, installed office 97 same thing all working, all loaded all software that I have and only 1 didn’t install (diskeeper 10) said it's not compatible with my vista version (ultimate) ?? Why go figure, I even authored a DVD using DVD author (comandline app) and worked.
So I thinking what's all that "bad" talking about vista, I have been using computers since my precious Tandy-radio shack trs-80, all the x86 way up to sun systems. All windows flavors and some linuxes (redhat, fedora, caldera, suse, ubuntu, kubunto, dsl, knoppix, etc) and so far this as been same as every os. actually I did experience a problem and I couldn’t install latest flash player directly with activex control (I lowered my security setting and still refuse to install) so I had to download the offline installer and problem solve, actually I feel kind of safe that the activex control didn’t install even with my security setting all the way down.
Again, this is my personal experience, so far, ok. As I said as every os, requires sometime to tweak and setup every setting as you like.
Software proven to work in vista x64:
Convertx to DVD
Nero
Dvdfab HD
DVD author
Audacity
Winamp 2.95 (yes it works, yes I know there is a new version out there)
Ccleaner
Utorrent
Avg free
7zip
Office 97
Edit:
I'm not a gamer, so I cant speak about games, I do have some old games (quake II) and some other that came with old video cards (comandos ?), age of empires I, II, will try those tomorrow.
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