thanks for the hack info but save it as WinXPS3RC.cmd file–MS gave it to me as canidate #1 lol. I found it a little faster running prog like nero7. gl all

You’re all ridiculous if you think the big “M” gives steaming pile of crap about any of you. Profits and margins, and profit margins are all they give flying flu-flu bird about.

XP is just starting to work properly and now they M$oft expects people to waste even more money on a new system (hardware & software) and upgrade to their latest OS so that the general public can do mundane things like check their email, show off their privates via webcam over MSN, and upload their latest video to YouTube of Beethovens 5th redone in armpit farts to the key of C-splatter.

If you’re reading this and have never had a problem with Windows then you’re one of those poofters who bought a computer just so you could watch the screensaver and because it added a certain decorum to the rest of your living area.

Anyone else who has put up with the -years- of bugs, bologne, and bull-feces understands exactly what I’m talking about.

Personally I think we should get more for our money but some ding-dongs don’t seem to give a damn or don’t mind settling for an unfinished product. Would you buy a painting that is only half finished? Pay full price for a large pizza only to find that half of it’s been eaten? Buy a pair of shoes only to find out that you’ll receive the second shoe once you’ve worn in the first one?

You wanna go out and buy Vista, a piece of software that can be described as Craptacular at best (a title that was reserved for XP but they recently moved it up to almost-work-worthy), that’s great. But if you wanna hoot and holler about it and promote it for microsoft as if it were the next coming of Christ then you might as well be giving the VP’s and new CEO of M$oft a free handjob.

Keep up the great work M$oft, I’ll be dead before you create a fully functional OS but at least you have a world full of beta testers at your whim and beckon.

The problem with Windows is that many programs, when installing them, unnecessarily add themselves as services. This doesn’t happen as much in Linux, and is not a problem with MS, but with software developers.

The fact that XP outperforms Vista is a given –
a) Vista is using the hard drive more than XP – some low I/O operations that are scheduled (like defragging), and then there’s Superfetch. Despite that, if you give Vista some time to learn about your habits, Superfetch will begin to *increase* performance.
b) XP is full 2D and renders through DirectDraw. Vista combines 2D and 3D and renders through Direct3D.

You cannot compare these two operating systems: It’s like comparing Ubuntu with eyecandy installed (forgot what it’s called, but Linux Mint has it preinstalled) to Xubuntu. The latter will perform better.

I still think TinyXP says it all about the operating system. That you can have it under 1 gigabyte install and run it at that. It also proves that the more Micro$haft adds the bulkier it becomes.

Linux does the whole Live CD thing. Windows Vista DOESN’T do the whole Live CD thing and we will leave it at that. XP all the way. For the time being. Either that or go to Linux and the whole virtual machine deal.

On the other hand all you seem to care about is how fast an empty operating system loads… without loading into memory your applications.

Notice how you need 2GB of ram memory! Heck my old laptop with XP boots up in about 60 seconds using a 1.8Ghz P4 CPU with just 512MB ram memory…

And there are more than 20GB of applications on that Laptop.

Vista is crap and you know it. Telling everyone you got to have a Intel Duo 2 Core with 2GB or ram just to turn on your computer, isn’t impressive at all.

On the other hand, Linux rules, as you don’t need to spend the bank here to boot up an operating system. And unlike Windows, Linux can boot from CD/DVD/USB/eSATA and Network, without being told it’s illegal to do so…

In addition, unlike Vista bloatware, Linux is more efficient and stable, smaller and obviously way cheaper, as it’s legal to download it for FREE…

Vista = $$$ ransomware (with DRM limitations and restrictions)

Pretty much, wait till the service packs come out for vista before you get it. It has a lot of bugs as well.

Vista’s problem has nothing to do with XP itself and everything to do with the fact that it doesn’t offer enough advantages to make the purchase worthwhile.

Lame methods of stating how XP came out everyone experienced the same issues as Vista… Where were you then, as it wasn’t like that at all…

Nobody had to buy the best new computer to just use XP like Vista, and certainly nobody had all them DRM restrictions over media content like Vista does…

But, of course these fanboi types want everyone to think otherwise, in that it is really okay to spend the most money on a new computer and for the operating system, that you hope can use your already paid for software investment…

Ah ha.. sure thing…

Stick with XP Pro I say until something really has something better to offer than all “wow” hype.

I do agree with some comments here, when XP came out the exact same scepticism occurred but everyone made the switch anyway, as will happen with vista over time.

The only real beef i have with Vista is the interface (which you can disable _almost_ completely, but not quite enough) and older hardware drivers, sure this is the manufacturers problem but this doesent mean it can be shrugged away.