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[DAVID E]

I have to say this about Vista. To date I think I only recall one problem with it early on and that was mostly my fault. I don't know about Windows 7 but this OS has been one of the least troublesome OS's I've experienced. XP was terrible but I haven't had as much as a pop up box with Vista, no warnings about malware, trojans,viruses, etc. that I had with XP. I think I'll keep it awhile as it seems much more stable than it's predecessors.

[Berton]

I haven't any problems with Vista running on an older Dell Desktop since first released, actually less than with WinXP. Win7 seems to be even better, have it on a Desktop, two Notebooks and wife's Desktop. As soon as Alltel makes software available for Win7 and their air card her Notebook will have Win7.

[dobhar]

I agree with David and Berton's comments. The only issue I have with Vista is that it is a bit of a resource hog. I upped the ram on my Laptop from 2.0GB to 4.0GB and Lappy is much happier. I will however be upgrading (new install) Lappy to Windows 7 in the very near future. I have Windows 7 on an older Dell Optiplex 620 and it runs fantastic.

[Bubba]

Well I can't say it has been a flawless experience for me lol, but once I worked the kinks out it's been fine. Although i HAVE run across a problem that seems to be unfixable. Despite hours of research and trying many things, a re-install is the only option, which I find as an unacceptable "solution." Other than that one fault, I like it better than XP.

Having said that, I put Win7 on the computer I built my daughter lol. All Win7 is, is Vista with all the original bugs worked out and renamed........

[JohnT]

My new computer came with Vista and for a short 3 months I had it and was not too happy with it. Even with 8GB of RAM it would crash my graphics programs every time with no exceptions. Once I upgraded to win7 no problems. Of course the UAC is rather childish and I disabled it on both systems.

[DAVID E]

John-That must be a heavy duty program you've got. I had a lot of problems with my post processing program, Nikon's Capture NX2 on the 2G XP system and almost abandoned it but, when I got the new computer with Vista with 6G's of memory and a better processor it's been a real dream to work with. I guess I lucked out on this one.

[JohnT]

I had problems with all three of my Graphics programs and they have been stellar in win7. Just the luck of the draw I guess.

[Keeper]

Using Vista I have found that Disk defragging is a must at least once a week. Graphics programs are notarious for dropping bits and pieces of itself willy-nilly all over the place in Vista. I could defrag and then use one of my Video edit programs, go back and analyze and it's 3% fragged again and I have a Core 2 Quad and 8+GB of memory.Other wise once I had pared down the flashy, bling and bells like I did on my XP Pro machine,,,,,everything is nice using Vista.

[DAVID E]

I've been using Diskeeper for several years and have been happy with it doing defragging for me. The program seems to have gotten better over time.

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[JohnT]

I am super cautious and do weekly maintenance, security scans, and backup every Sunday and do defrag once a month.

[rokytnji]

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8+MB of memory

Gee Keeper. No wonder you need to defrag like crazy. Just Kidding.

[Smokey]

Keeper, on 24 March 2010 - 03:59 AM, said:

Using Vista I have found that Disk defragging is a must at least once a week.

I use all three operating systems all the time. I probably use Vista the most just because it's on my gaming machine that has two high end video cards in it. I haven't defragged in over a year and all is well. The only time I defrag and cleanup the system restore files, cache, cookies etc is when I make my yearly clone. During the year I use a program called FileHamster Advanced to backup my important files.

Crashes are caused by one or two files in a program that you are using. 9 times out of 10 it's just a corrupt file that needs to be replaced which is easy to do. Just disable the automatic restart tool so you will get a blue screen and google the error code.

My theory is that we've been brain washed to do all this stuff thinking that it's like a tuning up a car and it will run better. That said, I respect the folks that cleanup regularly, it can't hurt to do so. I just choose not to bother anymore.

[Keeper]

Keeper, on 24 March 2010 - 03:59 AM, said:

Using Vista I have found that Disk defragging is a must at least once a week. Graphics programs are notarious for dropping bits and pieces of itself willy-nilly all over the place in Vista. I could defrag and then use one of my Video edit programs, go back and analyze and it's 3% fragged again and I have a Core 2 Quad and 8+GB of memory.Other wise once I had pared down the flashy, bling and bells like I did on my XP Pro machine,,,,,everything is nice using Vista.

[Keeper]

rokytnji, on 29 March 2010 - 03:28 AM, said:

Gee Keeper. No wonder you need to defrag like crazy. Just Kidding.

sorry roky....I must have been having a senior moment. I've been getting more and more of them as I get older. It is 8+GB of memory.

[Vic]

Don't believe me but since i stopped doing defrag and all types of scans i haven't had a crash in a long time.Before i would do it once a week and had many problems, even crashes. Vic-Vic