"Kris" <> wrote in message news:...
> I've done 3 installs in the past 2 days - one with a Vista SP1 combo
> (don't
> do this at home!), and 2 with a regular legal Vista OEM for my own build
> (I
> screwed up on the first one! heehee) Install is about 20 min. SP1 takes
> less than 30 min. Even things I consider "wierd, like coretemp 97,
> speeddisk, and si meter all work without a complaiint. The system with
> everything on is certainly not slower than XP - maybe faster? snappier?
> Currently using Comodo firewall and AVG A/V. I have been able to find all
> the nitty gritty OS settings - it's all there. I messed up the Documents
> first time around and screwed my Canon camera which accounts for the
> re-install. Re-thinking Documents and realizing how this can be a lot
> easier. - just backup before you play - I use Acronis 11 TI - I stopped
> shadow copy and cleaned things up. Takes about 13 gb on my 27gb
> partition.
> But images to only 5.8gb so there's a lot of air (compressable stuff) in
> there.(and 2.5gb paging file). And at first glance, yes, memory use is
> much better and paging is way down from XP. I can still dual boot (using
> MS boot as set up by Vista during install) to XP, But I don't use it. I
> even found out yesterday, on one of my builds, that NWN2 installs and
> runs,
> seemingly fine - something we were all assured a year ago would not be the
> case.
>
> So, yeah, I like it. It has a lot of security features that are good for
> multi-user situations, but which can be disabled if you choose.
>
> I think the whiners have simply found a home here to talk with each other
> in a language they relate to, regardless of how untrue it is. And they
> seem to get lots of attention which just makes then keep doing it. But
> they are pretty easy to plonk and are harmless to anyone really interested
> in finding out about Vista, as I did last week (earlier this week).
> (thanks for all the quick and useful answers I got to my questions!!!)
>
> I set up defrag to just do the 2 volumes I need, and wondering just how
> well that will work. (thoughts?)
The default defrag was once a week -- and mine would never compete. Kept
restarting until it hit the 3 day limit. Of course, there's no indication of
what it did 8-(.
Once I reset the schedule to nightly, it sometimes runs 5 minutes, sometimes
5 hours..... but it does complete.
Mike
> (I use FF and Tbird)
> (experience level - I am a geek and was using XP RC1 when it first came
> out
> - cut my teeth on 3.11 and 95)(also IBM mainframe opsyses for 20 years)
> --
> Kris
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> DFI Infinity Blood-Iron P35-T2RL | E2200Alen 2.2@2.86 TtP0310 |
> | 2x1gb Mushkin HP 800@1040 | MSI NX8600GTS-OC 256mb |
> | Raidmax RX530-SS psu | Vista Ult 32 SP1
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