how do you like vista now?

I find it great. I really like how the filesystem is presented and there's always a quick search field. And it seem to boot up quicker than my XP system even.
There's a couple of glitches here and there but it's due to third party software not 100% compatible with Vista yet. But all in all I'm very happy and I find XP to be more and more awkward to go back to.

i love it, no probs at all

I also love it too. I been enjoying the themes I downloaded.   


Teri

Mostly ok. One thing I hate is the download dialogue - instead of XP's drop down folder list you have an address bar which looks like a throwback to a DOS tree, or a tiny box to browse posibly dozens of folders. Just trying to find the folder you want to download to takes a frustrating amount of steps. My keyboard isn't going to last long at this rate I keep banging it so hard   

Like it now...
Didn't to begin with but once I took "control" of it, tweaked it exactly the way I wanted it and gave it a few obedience lessons, it's great!

What is it that George Carlin says..
"As soon as I shove this red hot poker in my ****, Im going to chop my **** off".

That's what I would rather do than to buy Vista right now.
When ALL my normal programs, and hardware work on it, then I will consider it.The upgrade advisor says that I would have issues with some things.

You mean IE7's download window? The one where you have "Show Folders" button in the bottom left corner giving you a normal file dialog window?

Question for those who made the switch.


If given the chance to go back, would you pay any substantial upgrade costs and do it again or would you stay with Xp and spend your money on something else?

Nope! I've grown very comfortable with my Vista Ultimate. And I didn't even have to upgrade my 3 year old computer to get all the bangs and whistles. 4.2 Performance rating.
And I got an OEM System Builder edition so it didn't cost me much.

So far I've been using Vista in some flavor for a long time, now that it's released
I like the fact I can choose a network share to search and it happens nearly instantly. I like dreamscene but some have CPU usage thats a bit high and affects laptop runtime on battery. My home system has a Core 2 Duo extreme in it and still sees up to 25% usage on some scenes.

Aside from that I'm liking the experience very much and recommend it to everybody.

EDIT: Stay away from any upgrade edition as it requires XP to be installed, my experience upgrading over XP (shame on Microsoft for forcing this on people) has been it stinks, don't do it.

Great way for Microsoft to force power users to buy the full version to do a fresh install. Thankfully OEM versions aren't too expensive.

There seem to be loopholes for that.

Btw, I'd recommend everyone to do a fresh install of Vista if possible. For one reason to avoid clutter from previous Windows versions, but also because the upgrade is slooooooooow. But a fresh install is done in 20-30 mins.

The only install path for the Upgrade versions of Vista is to install a fresh copy of XP first, or install over a currently configured system otherwise there is no way to install an upgrade version of Vista by formatting and starting fresh, if you've found one post it.

I proof-read War And Peace in the time it took......twice....

When I get a full ver of Ultimate it'll be a clean install....

I installed it on 4 different machines. The slowest was 33 minutes. The fastest, (my own Core 2 Duo machine) took less than 25 minutes.

All systems are running smoothly. All devices and their associated drivers work as they should. Two of the systems act as Media Centers and perform their function extremely well. The other two, my main system and my wife's home business system actually work better then when XP was installed on them.

The printer and scanner drivers were native to Vista and installed as soon as I plugged them in to USB ports.


All-in-all I'd have to say it's been a very pleasant experience. 

BTW, one of the installations was done using the Upgrade version of Vista Ultimate. The installation was easy. Yes, I had to have XP installed, which I did, and I had to initiate the Vista installation from within XP, but it was possible to do a clean installation. When prompted I simply selected the alternate installation option and then selected a clean install. Vista put everything from the XP partition into a folder called Windows.old and then installed the new OS to the remaining empty space on the partition. When the installation was finished I simply found the Windows.old folder and deleted it. Voila! New OS. Clean install. No remnants of the old OS.

viking396 I sent you an e-mail

It's My Secret

once i disabled that windows defender and did some other tweaking its starting to come
around. still looking for a decent file manager to replace this crappy one.


Fourtyacres

Vista has not made life suddenly easier, but it has made it more Blissful to enjoy things like DreamScene & Added Content, well lets just say, Microsoft is in the right direction, but can't they just admit OSx is better and Copy the File System and ADD features to OSx, why can't AAPL and MSFT be
partners?

I am generally happy with Vista.  The performance has been pretty good and has improved greatly since bumping my RAM up to 2GB. 

I'm still debating whether to go to Vista full-time because I really can't stand dual-booting.

 

After some issues trying to install a new SATA drive, I finally have Vista installed. I have the upgrade version of Home Premium. I ended up installing XP on the new drive then choosing the clean install option of Vista. I've only had things up and running for a day so far. There's a lot that I like, and there are some things that I am not sure of yet, like navigating the file system...I'm sure I'll eventually get used to it, and get to like it.

My system is still bare, only installed a few apps so far. Trillian Pro works fine, and Rainlendar works fine.

From a skinners point of view.. I still hate it. Otherwise.. it's ok.. and still no where near supported enough. I made two Vista compatible updates to two skins of mine, made zero difference to download %'s or new comments. That along with the relatively low download numbers for Dreams leads me to believe that skinning predominantly for XP is currently the best bet.

Im use dual boot xp and vista, no prob.
Otherwise agree with vStyler : from skinners XP is currently the best .

  100% love it!


Everything but one Black Laser (3 yrs old) worked. I purchased Ultimate, I am running a Dual Core AMD 4200 with 2 Gigs of Ram, X1300 PCIE vid card, ASUS 32/64 Bit Motherboard (running under 32 bit). Runs like Cream... not a chance to go back to XP Pro.

I'm liking Vista just fine....Ultimate on AMD Athlon 64x2 4600 @ 2.6; Asus A8N VM mobo; 2gb DDR 400 RAM (back to 3gb soon); Nvidia 7600 GS PCIe and a Soundblaster Audigy 4 card.

Apart from some functions (record, EQ & EAX Console) on the Audigy 4 card not working at present, all my other apps & hardware run just great.

I also find that Vista loads and runs more quickly than XP, despite several arguments to the contrary because it has more processes to load/run. I have a clean install of both XP Pro and Vista Ultimate (done the same day on the same machine) and each are loaded with the same apps, etc......so it's not that my XP install is slow due to bloat, but rather that Vista is more efficient.

Starkers:

I am not sure if you ever go to Creativelabs.com and read their forums but I hate to break the bad news to you about this : Apart from some functions (record, EQ & EAX Console) on the Audigy 4 card not working at present, <--- It well never work at all, creative has never released any actual drivers for the Audigy 4 that well support EAX, in fact in Vista that is history(sorry to say) that is why I am using my High Definition built in card.
Yes Vista does run alot faster and installs faster to then XP could ever do!
I love vista now that i did a clean install, for some reason the Upgrading isn't such a good idea to say the least.

The main users I've heard with the complaint of the slow load/run time have been people running Vista on close to the minimum system requirements. Anyone with ANY experience with Microsoft operating systems knows you NEVER run it on the minimum system requirements. If your PC won't take more than 512 mb RAM, give it up. You're not going to be happy with the results, period.

As I've said, I have nothing wrong with Vista as an O/S. My chief complaints are: 1) cost (although OEM versions of Home basic can be found for $130, I won't run Home on my machines); 2) lack of backwards compatibility; and 3) the fact that Microsoft plans to release its next operating system, which will almost certainly better utilize 64 bit processing, in two years. Upgrading the whole network seems rather silly in light of that.