Why I hate Vista

[Overkill]

A friend of mine needed me to fix her desktop...I reset it to factory and before it was even finished it bluescreens, then afterwards it bsod's again and IE crashed! nothing installed but the factory OS!
I had enough and installed WIN 7 and not even a hiccup out of 7...imo Vista is rubbish

 

[Ink]

Manufacturers usually bundle the OS with bloat/junkware that slow down PC performance, as well as making it unstable. Even with a Factory reset, that software is still present. I believe if you were (only if possible) you had a clean installation of Windows Vista, you wouldn't experience those problems.

Windows Vista may be heavy on the resources, but it has upped the requirements for a modern OS. Even mobile OSes are leaps and bounds better than the first iterations of their release.

And to be fair, Windows XP user can complain elsewhere.

 

[Overkill]

Yes it had a load of garbage that came with it...I have a vista disk but I always had some kind of issue with vista is why I used 7.

 

[Tom172]

The early releases of Vista were indeed painful to use, however as Service Packs and updates were released I found it getting better and better and had no real complaints with it prior to the launch of Windows 7.

 

[ZeroDay]

The early releases of Vista were indeed painful to use, however as Service Packs and updates were released I found it getting better and better and had no real complaints with it prior to the launch of Windows 7.

Yeah I had pretty much the same experience. Vista had a bad start but it did indeed get better as time went on, but mud sticks.

 

[Littlebits]

The factory reset does not install service packs, a lot of the OEM Vista versions didn't even come with SP1. You can contact the OEM vendor and get an updated OEM install disk which includes service pack but it might cost you like $20.

I had to fit some Vista systems for my customers which required buying an updated OEM install disk.

Like others have already said Vista was crap when it was first released but after the service packs it is almost as good as Windows 7.

Thanks.

 

[McLovin]

The early releases of Vista were indeed painful to use, however as Service Packs and updates were released I found it getting better and better and had no real complaints with it prior to the launch of Windows 7.

I completely agree with this. I've been using Vista for about 5 years till I got my main Windows 7 machine. Only reason I updated was due to hardware performance upgrade.

I even still use my Vista laptop for Trend Micro testing.