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Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

VBAssassin
United Kingdom
Contrib Level: 17
Total Posts: 5,730
Which do you prefer and why?

Personally i prefer XP.

Reason being nothing seems to work properly on vista and they just seem to do a great job at really annoying you. For example when updates are made they ask to restart your computer with a countdown... you can only postpone it to a max of 4 hours... now what happens is there are always updates because of how new vista is and you find that if you leave your computer on overnight downloading for example you wake up to find it has been restarted!!! Or if you take a break from your computer. They also ask your permission for everything! Oh and you have to make sure you click run as admin when ever you install something else the program does not work after it has installed.

All in all vista is a real pain in the

XP is nice... it does everything how you expect and want it to.

Kind regards,
Scott
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

Hav0c
Póvoa De Varzim, Por...
Contrib Level: 1
Total Posts: 2
I never tried vista, but I've heard so many bad things about it, that I can't even think in installing it.

If I should use windowz, it would be definitively XP
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

VBAssassin
United Kingdom
Contrib Level: 17
Total Posts: 5,730
Yeah, the thing is my work computers came with vista pre installed! Damn it.

Though i should think Vista will become better over time as Microsoft keep correcting things and listening to customer feedback.

Thought for the time being my vote is on XP
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

Rajakk
United States
Contrib Level: 4
Total Posts: 84
XP Professional will remain my vote until hardware that can run Vista is free, like mine was.
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

flaming-ace
United Kingdom
Contrib Level: 3
Total Posts: 31
I use Windows 98, it is'nt that bad

but out of Vista and XP i prefer XP, i think they spent to much time developing the layouts and the colours on vista
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

Rajakk
United States
Contrib Level: 4
Total Posts: 84
I agree. Far too much time trying to beat Apple's Aqua and developing their delusional security software. "Onoez, filez bein' deleted by you...are you sure you want to do thissss!? Why not play Solitaire instead!?"
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

VBAssassin
United Kingdom
Contrib Level: 17
Total Posts: 5,730
Lol... something i should admit is... i actual run a vista theme on XP

So that way i got the nice look of Vista, but the reliability and usability of XP
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

Rajakk
United States
Contrib Level: 4
Total Posts: 84
Windows X's Vista Transformation Pack 7?

I prefer Royale Noir with Vista icons/cursors/sounds ;)
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

VBAssassin
United Kingdom
Contrib Level: 17
Total Posts: 5,730
Post Quote - Direct Reference
Ay, what the heck

I don't get that post? lol

It could just be the fact i am so damn tired and off to sleep in a minute lol

Kind regards,
Scott
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

Darkvengance
United States
Contrib Level: 8
Total Posts: 549
Well I like Win. XP Pro personally although my laptop (which I use most of the time) has Vista on it, don't get me wrong Vista is a good operating system as long as you have UAC disabled (just made an article on that http://www.coderprofile.com/coding-article/11/disable-uac-on-vista) as it annoys the hell out of everyone!

The main thing I don't like is a lot of my favorite apps (includeing Dev-C++) doesn't work on Vista...

So my vote goes to XP
Posted: 4.85 Years Ago 

Rajakk
United States
Contrib Level: 4
Total Posts: 84
Not that I support Vista or anything (in fact I'm a fan of GNU's BadVista =P), you could always recompile Dev-C++ on Vista if you have Borland Delphi installed. I managed to get Delphi 7 Personal running on Vista back when I tried out the beta.
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