06-08-2011, 02:31 PM
I have my XP gaming computer, and a Vista laptop. Now, Vista has plenty of nice features, but the overhead -- it requires a lot of backup process running a lot, eats up RAM, and after it had been turned off and not turned on for 2 months, it took 10 minutes to get to the log-in screen and half an hour to get sufficiently loaded to pull up an Internet window. (This with CA antivirus being used before and after it was turned off, which is somewhat annoying in that it stops ANYTHING it suspects as not being right -- it even wouldn't let me play Roblox for a while. During the time it had been turned off it had not been plugged in, so it had pretty much no power.)
Wheras my XP gaming computer, which I am on right now, took the normal amount of log-in and load-up time after a similar time off the grid.
Now, Vista may work fine for you if you have a nice new computer with a fast processor and about a gig of ram, but on my 512-gig Acer Laptop, it's slow. Even after a complete reinstall. Whereas my XP computers (also having gone through a complete reinstall) are still going relatively fast.
I have nothing against Vista except that it takes up a lot more memory to run, and is so complicated -- well, it took me and my dad, who having used both Vista and XP for 3 years, 2 days of almost nonstop work to get a network between them to transfer files.
Wheras my XP gaming computer, which I am on right now, took the normal amount of log-in and load-up time after a similar time off the grid.
Now, Vista may work fine for you if you have a nice new computer with a fast processor and about a gig of ram, but on my 512-gig Acer Laptop, it's slow. Even after a complete reinstall. Whereas my XP computers (also having gone through a complete reinstall) are still going relatively fast.
I have nothing against Vista except that it takes up a lot more memory to run, and is so complicated -- well, it took me and my dad, who having used both Vista and XP for 3 years, 2 days of almost nonstop work to get a network between them to transfer files.