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5 stars
Version: Windows Vista Home Premium upgrade
"DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES"
Pros: OK, first , my computer...?05 Gateway with an Athlon 2.4G dual-core, 2G RAM, 256MB video...so it's not that great a computer, OK? I upgraded the CPU, RAM, and video card, it came with XP Media Center. I waited to get Vista because all the complaints I heard about it; driver issues, incompatible programs, incompatible hardware, etc, etc. Well I went ahead and got Vista Home Premium. I have been using it for a few weeks now and I have one question...WHY THE HELL DID I WAIT SO LONG??? During install, Vista found and installed all but 2 or 3 of my drivers, I went back and manually checked and everything was up to date except for the video card and wireless mouse. WHOOP-DE-FRIGGIN-DO!! So I simply clicked on update driver and BAM! it found them all by its self!! Imagine that! And as far as the old programs and incompatible hardware...no problems. NONE. The biggest complaint I have is with the mouse. In XP I had to search and search for an update to fix the wireless mouse/screen saver issue. It seems they included it with Vista, BUT, if it's been idle for a bit but before the screen saver kicks in then I grab the mouse there is a SMALL delay before the cursor moves. And if that's the biggest problem I have with Vista then fine by me! Oh, and that User Account Control is very annoying so I turned it off. No big deal.
My Vista experience: A great upgrade to an aging OS. they really put some thought into this, it sounds like they listened to what an end-user wants. A well laid-out, smooth-running OS. The search function is much better as well as the control panel layout. Disk defrag now includes a scheduler. The visuals are great too! Sidebar, eh, I could take it or leave it, doesn't use as many resources as I've heard other people complain about. And on that subject, yes it does use more resources, but we were WARNED that it would. Also, you can turn off features like Aero and the Search Indexer, the biggest resource hogs. But you know what? I paid for this RAM and I'm going to use it!!
Cons: My biggest problem with Vista is other people bashing it. It makes me wonder if these are the same people that can't figure out how to set up a firewall and then give it one star because they are stupid. Or maybe they're the ones that install a program and just click-click-click and then complain when they have five toolbars on their browser. GET VISTA!!!!!
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