As usual Vista sucks

Thing runs fine on XP but sucks wind on a new HP Vista machine

"It's when I'm playing a game that it takes a while for it to Maximize
and when I hit Post My Play it takes about 40 seconds to do it. With my
old computer everything was instantaneous. I have 4 games going with 4
different friends and they aren't experiencing any slow down with the
game."

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M$ stuff never works early on.

"LouB" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Thing runs fine on XP but sucks wind on a new HP Vista machine
>
> "It's when I'm playing a game that it takes a while for it to Maximize and
> when I hit Post My Play it takes about 40 seconds to do it. With my old
> computer everything was instantaneous. I have 4 games going with 4
> different friends and they aren't experiencing any slow down with the
> game."
>
> Site is here: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/index.htm
> Home page is: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk
>
> M$ stuff never works early on.
>


Is your new HP machine up to the task? How much RAM?

--
Mike Hall - MVP
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx

Why do so many of these incoherent posts come from the UK? No question, no
point, just bitching and moaning about...nothing really.


"LouB" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Thing runs fine on XP but sucks wind on a new HP Vista machine
>
> "It's when I'm playing a game that it takes a while for it to Maximize and
> when I hit Post My Play it takes about 40 seconds to do it. With my old
> computer everything was instantaneous. I have 4 games going with 4
> different friends and they aren't experiencing any slow down with the
> game."
>
> Site is here: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/index.htm
> Home page is: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk
>
> M$ stuff never works early on.
>

The amount of ram above 1 gb has very little effect on performace unless you
are doing CAD, video editing or heavy high res photoshop work.
Trust me, I have tried both XP and Vista on the same machine...
XP is faster and better on the same hardware my a margine of at least 20%...
and whatever you feed vista in ram it wont get better especially in the case
of this guy who is trying to play games....

Can you just accept that the only difference between Vista and a Bucket of
sh*t is the bucket?

From what I have observed over the last 1 year installing Vista for clients
on a multitude of machines, the only way for vista to be at least
functionable (for tasks more that email and browsing) is to have an
extreamly powerful cpu, so that even though Vista will be slowing everything
down, the amount of added slowness will not annoy you to the point were you
want to throw it out of the window.

A client of mine who has dual boot keeps telling me how slow vista is, an a
very fast 2 core machine with 2 gigs of ram...
each time I go to his place for various things, he keeps telling me this.
You see he can compare the 2 OS because I have set up a Dual Boot for him.
He ends up using XP 99% of the time.. LOL

Mind you that there is NOTHING wrong with the Vista install... everything is
ok.. its just Vista...

You know vista.. the failure OS from Microsoft?

By wondering like a fool to this poster if he has enough ram you are trying
to imply that its not Vista that is the problem, you are trying to mislead
him, and make him think that there is something wrong with the computer
itself.

That is revolting, and its not honest. Be a man and come out of the closet
and tell the truth (if you know it that is) because there are only 2 options

a) You are totally ignorant that vista is a slow and bloated POS OS. and you
should not be a MVP
b) You are misleading people on purpose which is worse than a)

in any of the above cases you are not displaying any kind of intelligence...
I suggest you either learn the basics or put a sock in it.

Attention Microsoft Windows Vista RTM And Windows Vista Service Pack One RTM
Naysayer's: If You Hate Either Windows Vista RTM or Windows Vista Service
Pack One RTM, You'll Love Microsoft Windows Server 2008 RTM, Just FYI. It's
Much More Stable Than Windows XP Service Pack 2 RTM And Windows Vista RTM
Combined, Just FYI. There Are Many People Out There Who Prefer To Run
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Release 2, Service Pack 2, Instead Of
Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Just FYI. If You're One Of Those
People Who Can Justify Spending A Slightly Higher Amount Of Money For A
Server Product To Run On Your Desktop Computer, Microsoft Windows Server
2008 RTM Is The Product That You Are Looking For, Just FYI.

"LouB" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Thing runs fine on XP but sucks wind on a new HP Vista machine
>
> "It's when I'm playing a game that it takes a while for it to Maximize and
> when I hit Post My Play it takes about 40 seconds to do it. With my old
> computer everything was instantaneous. I have 4 games going with 4
> different friends and they aren't experiencing any slow down with the
> game."
>
> Site is here: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/index.htm
> Home page is: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk
>
> M$ stuff never works early on.
>

In article <>, cheen <> wrote:
>The amount of ram above 1 gb has very little effect on performace unless you
>are doing CAD, video editing or heavy high res photoshop work.

I'm sure you'd see a difference if you did a lot of file i/o or
opened a lot of applications at once.

cheen wrote:

nothing worth keeping

Umm Mike Hall is both knowledgeable and good.

Mike Hall - MVP wrote:
> "LouB" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Thing runs fine on XP but sucks wind on a new HP Vista machine
>>
>> "It's when I'm playing a game that it takes a while for it to Maximize
>> and when I hit Post My Play it takes about 40 seconds to do it. With
>> my old computer everything was instantaneous. I have 4 games going
>> with 4 different friends and they aren't experiencing any slow down
>> with the game."
>>
>> Site is here: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/index.htm
>> Home page is: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk
>>
>> M$ stuff never works early on.
>>
>
>
> Is your new HP machine up to the task? How much RAM?
>

Sorry about the subject but no one answered my Scrabble post.

Brand new HP. Will check. I am wondering about firewall and / or other
security stuff.

Lou

What do you expect? Just look at the side of the road they drive on! <grin>

Bonus Points: Why do the English drive on the left and Americans on the
right?


"Cameron Snyder" <> wrote in message
news:#...
> Why do so many of these incoherent posts come from the UK? No question, no
> point, just bitching and moaning about...nothing really.
>
>
> "LouB" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Thing runs fine on XP but sucks wind on a new HP Vista machine
>>
>> "It's when I'm playing a game that it takes a while for it to Maximize
>> and when I hit Post My Play it takes about 40 seconds to do it. With my
>> old computer everything was instantaneous. I have 4 games going with 4
>> different friends and they aren't experiencing any slow down with the
>> game."
>>
>> Site is here: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/index.htm
>> Home page is: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk
>>
>> M$ stuff never works early on.
>>
>

--
Mark R. Cusumano
Skype Name: mark.cusumano
Web: http://The-Padded-Cell.spaces.live.com

<> wrote in message
news:uQ%...
> Attention Microsoft Windows Vista RTM And Windows Vista Service Pack One
> RTM Naysayer's: If You Hate Either Windows Vista RTM or Windows Vista
> Service Pack One RTM, You'll Love Microsoft Windows Server 2008 RTM, Just
> FYI. It's Much More Stable Than Windows XP Service Pack 2 RTM And Windows
> Vista RTM Combined, Just FYI. There Are Many People Out There Who Prefer
> To Run Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Release 2, Service Pack 2, Instead
> Of Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Just FYI. If You're One Of Those
> People Who Can Justify Spending A Slightly Higher Amount Of Money For A
> Server Product To Run On Your Desktop Computer, Microsoft Windows Server
> 2008 RTM Is The Product That You Are Looking For, Just FYI.

I thought you were so hot for Ubuntu? Now you are telling people to put
Windows 2008 Server on their desktop? Only YOU would suggest that because
you don't know what you are doing or what you are saying. Just FYI.
Windows 2008 Server is more money, doesn't run some applications, needs
modifications. NOT what someone should be doing. For you, it's OK because
as they say, you have nothing better to do than to install and uninstall
Operating Systems. You actually don't do any work, or can't do any work.
I've been reading the threads.

Get a brain in that thick skull of yours. Geeze.


>
> "LouB" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Thing runs fine on XP but sucks wind on a new HP Vista machine
>>
>> "It's when I'm playing a game that it takes a while for it to Maximize
>> and when I hit Post My Play it takes about 40 seconds to do it. With my
>> old computer everything was instantaneous. I have 4 games going with 4
>> different friends and they aren't experiencing any slow down with the
>> game."
>>
>> Site is here: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/index.htm
>> Home page is: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk
>>
>> M$ stuff never works early on.
>>
>