Comments on: Why some people hate Vista

By: Windows 7 Ultimate on the Acer Aspire One Netbook « WordPlop - Reviews, news, tutorials, gaming, web, gadgets, and more

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:28:13 +0000

[...] Microsoft that people actually seem to like. Although Vista was actually a great operating system, many people trashed it for no apparent reason, other than just wanting to jump on the Vista-Hate [...]

By: Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets are Nothing New « WordPlop - Reviews, news, tutorials, gaming, web, gadgets, and more

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:45:22 +0000

[...] 7 does have many new features, but this is not one of them. This just proves people are ignorant about Vista and never gave it a real chance. var addthis_pub="wordplop"; Posted in Operating Systems [...]

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:26:49 +0000

What Vista is giving me a hard time with….

I’ve been trying for some time now to resize some photos.What photo gallery is giving me the option to do…is to resize only if I am going to e-mail.I want to be able to just resise so as not to consume too much memory.With XP it was easy using “office picture manager”.

By: WordPlop

WordPlop — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:11:31 +0000

@ wellsoul2: Creative makes the worst drivers for Vista imaginable. Try getting some custom drivers for your sound card for Vista. I'm guessing you've missed the whole Creative protest that happened online?

By: wellsoul2

wellsoul2 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:06:08 +0000

Here’s why I end up not using Vista on a dual boot setup….

I have a 5.1 receiver connected to my comp with spdif Audigy ZS.

Boot up XP…run Itunes (or Winamp) and listen to those speakers…

Reboot and select Vista…Run Itunes or Winamp..and listen.

Nevermind that you lose lots of audio controls in Vista..fine..

The sound has less dynamic range..it won’t do spdif out cleanly.

Don’t tell me to adjust something..you can’t fix it..

You won’t care if you use a laptop or crap speakers..probably.

Still..if sound is important…if you have a home theatre comp..
XP is superior for audio..in every way..

Guarantee me a certain sound card gives me equal sound in Vista and I will buy
it. I paid $200 for Vista w/remote and can’t stand the sound.

By: WordPlop - Vista taking up your memory?

WordPlop - Vista taking up your memory? — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:06:53 +0000

[...] start up faster. This is what’s taking most of that extra RAM. It’s not a bad thing as some people think. This is why Vista is actually faster than XP if your computer has 2GB of RAM or [...]

By: J. Donner

J. Donner — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:31:26 +0000

I run Vista 64 bit SP1, have zero issues with hardware, have zero issues with software. I installed over 50 programs and they all run fine, like Photosohop CS3, diagnostics sofwtare, backup software, DVD emulator, Nero, virus scanner, forewall, UPS monitoring software, Office 2007, all well known media players and codecs, Acrobat, Illustrator, Cinema 4D, Diskeeper, DVDShrink, all 3 popular browsers, all popular compression sofware, etc, etc.

Vista, 64 bit that is, also performs much better than XP. Vista 64 balances loads much better over the cores, XP has a high preference for the frist core. Programs on Vista 64 run smooth and reliable.

I’m not much into gaming, but did have a test with some popular games; CallOfDuty 4, Company of Heroes, Bioshock, Word in Conflict, no issues whatsover.

Your article is good article, it explains very well that comments like Vista sucks are simply not justified, they were more than a year ago, but certainly not with SP1.
I also hear complain about slow booting; it’s not justified, on XP I had to wait for almost 1 1/2 minute to get started with file explorer after loggin in (I load a lot of crap during boot), on Vista I can start after 5 seconds.

Vista is the best OS Microsoft ever made and it’s sad that it’s getting such a bad name. Oh well, as long as I am happy, right?