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Directive · #1 Post by **Directive** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:15 am

I finally upgraded to Vista Premium from XP pro. Other then a TON of updates and some programs taking a LONG time to install, I like it a lot so far.

#2 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:00 pm

Not sure why you would upgrade to Vista other than to have 64bit with 4GB+ RAM.. But yes, Vistas not bad, I have it on my desktop.

What I like most about Vista is that the pirated versions I find are BRILLIANT. No need to enter a CD key, activate, or make genuine. Yet, it is fully functional and can even do Windows Update! All for free AND with less work than installing a legal copy! Piracy just raped.

Let me try to remember what I like.. I've been wanting to construct a list anyway.
File copy progress window shows copy speed.
Press Start key, type what you want to run, press enter. Quicklaunch and shortcuts got PWNED. I miss this the most when on XP on my laptop while at school.
Graphic performance doesn't drop when not in the primary monitor. It always did for me on previous PCs, sometimes by 20fps, although the perceived fix in Vista could very well be a trait of my 4850 instead.
Default image viewer program can open multiple instances and allows click and drag to scroll across an image.
Individual application volume control.
Windows' own icons in the task bar next to the clock are grouped separately from third party icons.
Various other "why didn't XP have this" features.
And finally... AERO!!

EDIT:
removed redundancy.

Directive · #3 Post by **Directive** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:50 pm

I upgraded because I had the disk and not in use. I got the vista premium disk for free with my wife's laptop. I installed it but after a day shes like, take this crap off. I can understand because the laptop, no matter what was advertised, wasn't vista ready. The disk was put up for about a year and a half. I took it down recently and wondered if it would install on my system. It did, activated and everything. I do like the way it looks and AERO is great. I would have never gone out to buy it but it was free. I also noticed it updated my pirated office 2007 without any warnings. Cool, and wasn't expecting it. I was considering a 64 bit edition but decided against it. Would I really need 4 gig of ram to run a 64 bit edition?

Now I wonder how windows 7 will turn out like.

#4 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:13 am

You don't need 4GB for 64bit, but uh.. the primary benefit (the reason I was forced into the Vista path) is that 64bit allows full use of 4GB+ RAM. I found it too crude to waste away about 700MB of RAM by running 32bit XP. For you, the only reason I could think of was my own, that you needed to go 64bit.

Directive · #5 Post by **Directive** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:28 pm

hmmmmm I wonder if 32 bit windows 7 will utilize 4 gig ram.

#6 Post by **palmboy5** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:41 am

LOL no. In fact, I hope they don't even have a 32bit version by then. RAM utilization limit is a problem with 32bit, no OS is going to fix that.

Directive · #7 Post by **Directive** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:11 pm

Oh, you have no idea. Microsoft thinks there OS's can fix ANYTHING, that is until SP37.

#8 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:09 am

But.. then they wouldn't have released 64bit editions already..