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Which is Better XP or Vista
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Replies: 32Last Post Jan. 14 10:47am by PineappleKiss
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Choice Votes Percent  
XP Home 21 29%
Xp Professional 22 30%
XP Media Center 11 15%
Vista Home Basic 1 1%
Vista Home Premium 16 22%
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I'm gonna say XP pro because I've only used Vista once and it was on my friends new laptop and it went sooo slow. Maybe it was the computer but w/e.

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Quote: from Chevy Jackson at 6:39 pm on Oct. 12, 2007

screw vista. i have it and i hate it. it makes my computer run slower, i needed to upgrade half my parts, and most of my games/printers/scanners/cameras/flashdrives/other peripherals arent compatible. vista doesn't even have windows help included; you have to download it from a third party website. stick with XP until microsoft realizes that vista needs some upgrades.

Clearly you don't know what your talking about. The help is included, there isnt a single flash drive i can think of that doesn't work and Ive not had any issues getting printers/scanners and especially cameras working. And i did upgrade my machine, but had i not it would still have run. I only upgraded my machine because i wanted to do the two at the same time.

And it doesn't make the computer run slower...

As for the original post, i have Vista ultimate (which for some unknown reason you didn't mention...) and i was a bit unsure about getting it at first. Now i have it i wouldn't go back to XP.

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Quote: from pleaseremove at 11:16 am on Nov. 3, 2007

Quote: from Chevy Jackson at 6:39 pm on Oct. 12, 2007

screw vista. i have it and i hate it. it makes my computer run slower, i needed to upgrade half my parts, and most of my games/printers/scanners/cameras/flashdrives/other peripherals arent compatible. vista doesn't even have windows help included; you have to download it from a third party website. stick with XP until microsoft realizes that vista needs some upgrades.

Clearly you don't know what your talking about. The help is included, there isnt a single flash drive i can think of that doesn't work and Ive not had any issues getting printers/scanners and especially cameras working. And i did upgrade my machine, but had i not it would still have run. I only upgraded my machine because i wanted to do the two at the same time.

And it doesn't make the computer run slower...

As for the original post, i have Vista ultimate (which for some unknown reason you didn't mention...) and i was a bit unsure about getting it at first. Now i have it i wouldn't go back to XP.


About the flashdrives. For those of you who have a u3 flashdrive you need to upgrade the u3 software otherwise it wont work in vista. (That is if you have a password on it)

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Vista can slow down computers much more as its more of a resource hog than XP.

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Quote: from Cingular Wireless at 9:03 pm on Nov. 3, 2007

Vista can slow down computers much more as its more of a resource hog than XP.

I see no difference between run speeds between XP and Vista Ultimate x64.  My computer isn't that powerful either, AMD64 3500+, 1.5GB RAM, 256mb 8600GT.  I suffer no slowdown due to operating system load.

I have actually noticed that Vista is booting up faster that XP ever did on my computer.  But, Windows 2K pro still boots the fastest of my Windows boots.  Fast boot comes from LinuxMint.

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XP wins!

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XP HOME PWNS!

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Quote: from AmazingAndy at 2:37 pm on Oct. 12, 2007

I got Vista Home Premium and ive had no problems with it
Same here  

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I upgraded to vista home premium due to instability in XP. Never going back. If your system is capable of running it, get vista. Otherwise, stick with XP.

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XP, Vista is a resource hog even if you strip it down to the basics.

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I ain't switching to Vista till it's absolutely necessary.

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Leopard FTW!

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Curretnly xp after they clear more and more bugs out of vista the answer is vista

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I like Vista, but it doesn't work well with my laptop's sound card. I installed the vista driver for it, but it still doesn't work right. Sound skips and it's screwy.

I'm getting XP reinstalled.

eh

Post edited at 9:43 am on Jan. 5, 2008 by Black Sheep

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vistas a bitch... chews thro RAM like one too... get xp home... unless you wanna have a few additional apps like internet information servicesa dn other stuff that youll probably never use unless your a PRO... funny that.... i have an even better idea tho... MAC OSX  

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