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How stable your Vista in your computer?

Hi everyone! :D

I will open a thread about how stable vista is? If there are still a bugs and if running it smoothly in your PC or Laptop?

CHEEEERS!!! :D


08-18-2007 04:12 PM
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RE: How stable your Vista in your computer?

I have Vista on my desktop machine, and it's working very well there. Even my tv tunner card which was designed for XP MCE 05 only works with vista 32 bit.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with vista, it's fast, and pretty stable for me. They only thing is that my Office 03 seems a bit unstable, CD/DVD burning app doesn't work (roxio easy cd and dvd creator), and Firefox crashes a lot.



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RE: How stable your Vista in your computer?

OK :) plz poll on the top... :D

Well I'm planning to have Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 soon on my new PC cuz this PC can't meet the requirements, maybe if I upgrade few specs I think it's only Vista Home Basic.
Yet I can't vote cuz I'm using Windows XP SP2 + Vista Transformation Pack 7(make your XP looks & feel like Vista)

CHEERS! :D remember to vote in the poll plz.


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RE: How stable your Vista in your computer?

I already voted. :)

Just wondering, what are the specs of your current rig, and what are the specs of the one that you are thinking of getting?



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RE: How stable your Vista in your computer?

rig? you mean my spec? well currently I have 1.5ghz AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 256MB of RAM, ATI Radeon 9600SE, JETWAY MOBO, 80GB ATA Hard Drive, ProView 17" <--really old! :(
well if I upgrade 2GB of RAM, AMD Athlon XP 2800+ --->  will it run Vista Home Basic? that runs smooth and stable? :P

What do you think? :)


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RE: How stable your Vista in your computer?

Well, the Athlon XP is a really outdated CPU. I recommend something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6819115004
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6813131153
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814150229

2GB of RAM is fine for vista, that's what I have, and it's very smooth. With the parts above, you should be able to run it with AERO with no problem. :)

If you do stay with the Athlon XP, I would really recommend upgrading the graphics though, to this:L http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814241040

But I think you should really just get the parts that I said, or keep what you have and stick to XP.



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RE: How stable your Vista in your computer?

Well the spec obviously can run Vista Ultimate which I want. :) thx! :D
Well I'm planning to just upgrade this PC just a bit cuz I already have a new PC and maybe it can run Vista, this PC will be given to my cousin, I think she don't need very High-Spec PC cuz she's not very knowledgable on computers and just a simple user, typing a word doc or make powerpoint & she's not a gamer so Vista Home Basic will just fine to her, It say's to my Vista Upgrade Advisor that my RAM will be the only problem to run vista. I will juz wait for delivery of my new one & focus on that. :)

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RE: How stable your Vista in your computer?

So, I decided that I'd update this thread.

I had my PC running for a week without any major problems. explorer.exe crashed a few time, but that was when I was refreshing the wireless network list, and my wifi drivers are not Vista compatible, so it's not windows fault. The only times that I've had problems with Vista was because of a bad driver. For example, I installed the NVIDIA display drivers and my wifi stoped working, I removed them, and the wireless card started to work again.

On another note, I tried installing Leopard on my PC, and it didn't even get past installation boot screen, it just rebooted there. So, there is proof that Macs are inferiour, as windows can run on any PC, but macs are stable only on Apple computers.



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RE: How stable your Vista in your computer?

my friend has vista and is obviously unsatisfied. says its slow.

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RE: How stable your Vista in your computer?

Matt Wrote:
On another note, I tried installing Leopard on my PC, and it didn't even get past installation boot screen, it just rebooted there. So, there is proof that Macs are inferiour, as windows can run on any PC, but macs are stable only on Apple computers.


Just like I tolled you on IRC. You a boot legged copy and your installing it on none Mac hardware so your statement isn't relevant.


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