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Friday, December 26, 2008
Windows Vista - It's Worth it now
So recently I got a new computer, a pretty good HP Pavilion. It came with Vista home premium pre-installed. and one of my first thoughts was, "I hope Vista is down gradable to XP", but apparently you can't downgrade, but I'm not 100% sure.
I still tried it out though, pretty excited because I had longed for a new computer for a while (I had a Pentium 2 motherboard!) and so the excitement made me forget about the OS. But Vista actually turned out to be great, and is still great.
First, I updated, and everything came in smoothly exept for one update for some fax thing, but that's just one out of 50 updates. The updates included Service Pack 1, which I was very excited about because I knew that people were having issues with Vista and its bugs, and I was not aware SP1 had been released. After that, I changed settings and did registration for everything, like the Norton software it comes with (60 days, but I'll install the Norton I have when the trial is over). I also got rid of the side bars on the desktop, those are just extra crap, so now my desktop looks nice and clean.
*One setting I was VERY great full for was that I was able to change the theme to windows classic! On my other computer, I became accustomed to using the classic theme from windows '98 on XP. So now, Vista on my new computer has SP1 AND it looks and feels simple and solid like Xp and '98. Delicious.
So it now seems as if I'm using XP, but much, much better! It's awesome! :)
One thing is that Vista still requires more ram usage than normal, so get Vista only if you have a pretty good Pentium 4 (or equivalent) computer or better. I, personally, now have a Pentium Dual core (2GHz), with 3GB of ram, and a 7100 GeForce Graphics card.
In all, I would say that it is very safe to purchase Vista now for all those who are afraid. It is reliable and has the majority of its bugs fixed with Sp1, and with how customizable it is, it is very easy to become comfortable with it.
I still tried it out though, pretty excited because I had longed for a new computer for a while (I had a Pentium 2 motherboard!) and so the excitement made me forget about the OS. But Vista actually turned out to be great, and is still great.
First, I updated, and everything came in smoothly exept for one update for some fax thing, but that's just one out of 50 updates. The updates included Service Pack 1, which I was very excited about because I knew that people were having issues with Vista and its bugs, and I was not aware SP1 had been released. After that, I changed settings and did registration for everything, like the Norton software it comes with (60 days, but I'll install the Norton I have when the trial is over). I also got rid of the side bars on the desktop, those are just extra crap, so now my desktop looks nice and clean.
*One setting I was VERY great full for was that I was able to change the theme to windows classic! On my other computer, I became accustomed to using the classic theme from windows '98 on XP. So now, Vista on my new computer has SP1 AND it looks and feels simple and solid like Xp and '98. Delicious.
So it now seems as if I'm using XP, but much, much better! It's awesome! :)
One thing is that Vista still requires more ram usage than normal, so get Vista only if you have a pretty good Pentium 4 (or equivalent) computer or better. I, personally, now have a Pentium Dual core (2GHz), with 3GB of ram, and a 7100 GeForce Graphics card.
In all, I would say that it is very safe to purchase Vista now for all those who are afraid. It is reliable and has the majority of its bugs fixed with Sp1, and with how customizable it is, it is very easy to become comfortable with it.
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