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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit (7-years later)

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There are times when I work on friends computers that are Vista and it's so hard because I know that computers that came out when Vista was around are usually not that great. Everybody I knew who had it had a horrible system. Mostly single core with 1gb of RAM or less, seemingly very few people ever updated to either SP1 or SP2 which fixed almost all of the original issues. When I used it with my Core 2 Quad q6600 and it ran Vista awesome.

 

One thing about using Vista now is that it's so much like a hodgepodge of Windows 7 and Windows XP... the start menu is kind of like 7 but there is no windows snap, the taskbar is like XP with a separate quicklaunch bar instead of being able to pin... I love pinning.

I really miss the Window Snapping and the taskbar from 7. Even then you can turn on quick launch in 7, but you have to make it manually.

 

I've always loved the overall visual look of Vista, more then 7 to be honest. It felt more visual appealing compared to 7's "ironed", if that's a word to describe flat 2D'ish design compared to Vista's 3D look with shadows and such, especially with the taskbar and start button. 

I found it weird that my aunt's Packard Bell PC, which had much more powerful hardware a Pentium 5200, 4GB RAM and GT120 compared to our Pentium 2200, 3GB RAM and low end GT8xxx card to be exact.

It just couldn't run Vista 64bit properly. It crashed and blue screened a lot of times. Now I know that the PC is just a pile of crap, the hardware is failing one by one cough..OEM's coughh.... 

 

Anyway, I still liked Vista on "stable" systems and great that you did test and run the OS even after 7 years after it first launched. 

Not even test. It's my daily driver from here on out. :D

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  • 5 months later...

I still got a Vista Key, just the disc is missing. Nice Review

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I'm actually running 32bit Vista on my HP laptop, and back when Win7 was yet to be released, I was running my main gaming rig with 64bit Vista HP. After SP1 updates, it was pretty good, and with SP2, it ran like a champ. Most of the bad crap about it was due to the fact that upon release, many devices lacked drivers for peripherals like printers and whatnot. I actually enjoyed using Vista, still have a retail box of Vista that I'm thinking of installing into my 4th/HTPC rig. This would free up one of my license to be used on an upcoming X99 build I have planned. I actually look forward to using 64bit Vista on my HTPC rig, it has light gaming duties and is more about screening BR movies and music. And yep, all my licenses are from retail copies of Win7, I use original OS'es only.

 

BTW, nice review of Vista, tmcclelland455. ;) 

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I seemed to be the only one not hating on Vista, and I was actually super excited when I upgraded from XP to Vista. It's just unfortunate that a lot of the OEM parts that were put out with the launch of Vista were not up-to-spec, which contributed to the degraded experience many users had.,

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I actually had a really positive experience with Vista, even though everyone was bad mouthing it at the time

 

I was super happy

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To be honest I feel like the majority of complaint on Vista were the companies that were shipping low end hardware with it. I remember my mom buying an AMD based machine with a single core and 1GB of DDR2 and it was very slow with Vista.

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I remember running windows vista on my old old old pentium 4 machine which I had 512mb of ram in it was OK at the time. But I don't think i was doing anything to intensive at that time.

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I remember when my family had a desktop and it had 512MB of ram and it came pre-installed with Vista. My brother was so convinced that Vista was made by the Devil that he put Win 7 on it and the computer could barely even run it. Instead of putting Vista back on it he just put XP on it and it worked just fine. The thing about that family desktop was that it wasn't meant for any gaming or anything like that. It was meant for someone to go on the internet and write essays for school on it, because of that, XP worked just fine for it. 

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I always thought Vista was just a nightmare I had once...  Now I know it's just a bad memory.

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Inb4 Vista flaming?

 

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I got Vista 64bit with this laptop when we bought this laptop in beginning of 2009 :) It ran pretty smoothly, and i never knew why people bashed it (at the time i was so out of technology i'm ashamed... :()... But the driver support was almost nonexistent... :(

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i bought vista at launch i guess they have patched it now but trust me i have seen wild shit none should ever witness 

edit : forgot to say specs 2 gb ram, gt 9400 ,core 2 duo 

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Still running vista on my core2duo q8300 with 5GB ram and no real issues, my cad program dropped official support but It's still working.

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I still got a Vista Key, just the disc is missing. Nice Review

Thanks.

 

I'm actually running 32bit Vista on my HP laptop, and back when Win7 was yet to be released, I was running my main gaming rig with 64bit Vista HP. After SP1 updates, it was pretty good, and with SP2, it ran like a champ. Most of the bad crap about it was due to the fact that upon release, many devices lacked drivers for peripherals like printers and whatnot. I actually enjoyed using Vista, still have a retail box of Vista that I'm thinking of installing into my 4th/HTPC rig. This would free up one of my license to be used on an upcoming X99 build I have planned. I actually look forward to using 64bit Vista on my HTPC rig, it has light gaming duties and is more about screening BR movies and music. And yep, all my licenses are from retail copies of Win7, I use original OS'es only.

 

BTW, nice review of Vista, tmcclelland455. ;) 

Cool, and thanks.

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Thanks.

 

Cool, and thanks.

 

15k post and you still forget to follow them  :P

 

I just got Vista up and running and I can only agree to your review. Vista made was fine back than, but now it works really great and stable. Even better than Win 7 did on that Laptop.  :)

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15k post and you still forget to follow them  :P

 

I just got Vista up and running and I can only agree to your review. Vista made was fine back than, but now it works really great and stable. Even better than Win 7 did on that Laptop.  :)

I just don't follow shit so I don't get notification rape.

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