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windows xp or vista
henryandlesley:
who likes the vista to the good old xp the wife and I have vista on our new laptops and we prefer the good old xp
steve howes:
my brother in law works for a well known computer firm and he recons he wont touch vista with a barge pole its xp every time for him :clap:
thermidorthelobster:
I use XP, Vista and OS X all day every day.
I don't think Vista's as bad as people say, providing you turn off all the junk (Aero, UAC etc). That's not to say it's good; it's just saying XP isn't that much better.
OS X all the way for me.
waveydavey:
What is Aero and UAC? More to the point how do I turn it off?
I use vista as I have it and it seems silly to take a step backwards - would you change coils for leaf springs?
thermidorthelobster:
UAC is User Account Control; it's that thing that annoyingly nags you a dozen times every time you want to do a simple freaking task. Disable it like this.
Aero is the fancy graphical interface that they put in to try to make Vista look / feel like a Mac. Unfortunately, it just makes it feel like a piece of crap, because Microsoft just don't get it at all*, and it also has the same effect on the speed of the computer as cracking it in the kneecaps with a baseball bat would. Disable it like this.
Vista does have some benefits over XP (I find the wireless networking less unstable than XP, and it also has a much better tablet interface for us tablet users), but by doing these 2 things at least you're removing some of its most hideous features.
* This is cargo cult user interface design. Microsoft see the Mac planes landing, so they lay out the landing strip in the dirt, make the little control tower out of palm leaves, put on the little bamboo headphones, and just can't understand why the cargo doesn't come in.
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