Quote Originally Posted by Raptor View Post
Can't say I've ever had any issues with speed. My games and programs have always loaded quite quickly, but that's also dependent on ram/processor, as well as OS. Resource hungry? Can't say that it is, but that might be that I have enough ram that it doesn't matter. Mind you, I also tend to do a lot of resource intensive things. About the only time I can get my computer to start having problems is when I start rendering a 1000x1000 image. About the only resources issues I ran into had to do with my video card. Primarily a drop in fps back when I was running skyrim on ultra. Since I stopped doing that, I haven't had issues. UAC? Disable it. Complex menus? The default, yeah. Just switch it to classic.

Who knows? Maybe it's just the build I have.

Support for XP ends in April of next year, by the way.

I've messed with 7, and I quite honestly can't see very many differences, beyond aesthetics.


I'm saying that compared to 7 Vista uses more resources. For people like you and me that's not an issue, I have 16GB of RAM so I can run multiple VMs, so it's not a problem. 99% of what my computer does while I'm using it is nothing unless I'm playing Crysis 3 on ultra, then things slow down a touch. But someone on say a laptop with limited resources will have noticable slowdown.

You can disable the UAC, but it does serve some purpose. And you misunderstood what I meant by complex menus. Having the control panel look different is no problem at all. It's when you're trying to get to things farther down than that. I just made my own MMCs so I didn't have to deal with it as much. Having to use the Vista GUI in Server 2008 is probably the thing I dislike most about it. And I didn't realize they extended the support cut off for XP again haha. Time to delay the Win7 rollout at work some more.

And as far as not seeing many differences aside from aesthetics, if you are actually looking and this is the case then you aren't looking very hard.


Quote Originally Posted by Raptor View Post
I do all my own work on my computer and around the house. I'm also the one that fixes most of the issues with the computers. If I need to do any tweaking to get a game running, I do it. I do my own repairs, hardware upgrades, the rare virus removal, etc.
Me too! And at work since it's my job. But you brought up the good point of tweaking a game to get it running. That's another problem with Vista (Although 7 also has a lot, but less issues with it. Microsoft really dropped the ball) backwards compatibility is usually sketchy to noexistant for really old games. But even some 'newer' games like say Republic Commando have to be run on lower settings or they crap the bed. If you go too far back you end up having to use the DOSbox emulator.