Vista Problems

[david96]

Anyone having problems with vista? Such as

Windows mail working intermittently on send and receive.Time out 1 min.

Error messages stating that a progam has stopped working

Vista not shutting down

Vista not starting up (locks on a splash screen)

All these problems can be resolved by shutting down the computer, disconecting power for 10secs and then rebooting.

Now I have XP on another computer and have no problem using the same router and the same broadband connection.

I am considering reloading Vista and see if that fixes problem. One does not have a diagnostic program to fault find with Vista, you do no know what it is doing.

Any ideas?

[Laawman]

Sounds like it has serious issues already. I would go with your suggestion and attempt to repair it with the Vista disc - failing that reformat the drive, it'll be quicker in the long run!

[nikster]

Vista is the problem.

Sorry, couldn't resist....

[dekka007]

Most people I know have uninstalled Vista after trying it and gone back to Windows XP SP2....or change to Mac

[Guest Reimar]

Using Vista on 2 Office Computers and 1 Laptop an all 3 more than 1.5 years without problems!

I strongly believe it's an Hardware problem and/or with drivers.

Need a bit of knowledge to get around of all of that but Vista isn't to blame that much. If you use Hardware which has the same age as Vista, there shouldn't be a problem. The most problems coming with older hardware!

Cheers.

[britmaveric]

^Most likely a hardware problem - been running vista on two notebooks and a tower without incident for nearly as long as reimar.

[nikster]

All the people I know have gone back to XP or even switched to Macs too. I guess it's a bit biased b/c it's a very techie crowd, developers and such

I know exactly one person who kept Vista b/c his Sony laptop came with it and it's unclear whether drivers would work on XP. He is putting up with it but it seems to be a continual annoyance. As a Microsoft product manager recently revealed, features like UAC were meant to annoy the user. It only makes sense, as in this regard it's truly a resounding success. I am not making this up. The reasoning was something along the lines that software developers will then eventually get smarter about _not_ triggering UAC dialogs and therefore write their software such that it doesn't change central system files. IMHO it's a strategy that befits a monopolist. Anyone else would be put out of business pulling such a stunt...

[lopburi3]

And it is a very simple process to turn off UAC if it bothers you.

[Crushdepth]

I had the no-shutdown problem for a fair while. Apparently this was caused (in some cases) by a particular update that you could get rid of, which I did. Anyway, no problems since...you'll have to google for it sorry (KB....XXXXX !)

[dingdongrb]

I bought a new laptop (HP) about 6 months ago and it has Vista loaded on it. I have had a few problems but don't use it enough to annoy me. Personally I think Vista is a memory hog and runs very slow compared to XP. It takes forever to boot up and shutdown. On the other hand my business laptop has XP and I'm loving it.... just my 2 cents......

[Guest Reimar]

As I wrote before, not any problems on that 3 machines.

But I installed Vista 64 Bit on an other computer:

AMD X2 Atlohn 5000

4 GB DDR 2 800 ( 2 x 2 GB) Apacer as Dual Channel

NVidea 8500 GT Extreme

320 GB SATA 2 Hitachi HDD x 2

I installed Vista Ultimate with full option incl. SP1

On the same computer I installed Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64 Bit, just use one of the HDD's for Vista and the other for Server 2008.

Running the same Application Software:

1. ADOBE CS 3

2. Corel Draw X4

3. MS Office 2007

The result is: everything on Server 2008 runs ages (150 - 200 %) faster than on Vista.

Within the next 2 days I'll add 4 GB more Memory, the same as above, because that Ram runs as Dual Channel, and than will run some Benchmarks. The Performance Index in Vista I get is 5.9, Server 2008 didn't have an Performance Index.

Cheers.