I just received my new laptop yesterday. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium installed. I booted it up, read the tutorials in about a half hour, and it's all over - no pain, no confusion.

I actually think that it is a significant improvement over Windows XP. The layout is clean, and understanding it seemed to be quite intuitive. The graphics are great, and the rotating 3D display of your running programs is a pretty cool piece of eye candy. It runs my old Office Professional 2000 suite, and Bibleworks 5.0 (after a patch for the fonts) without a glitch. The 3GB of RAM allow it to run very smoothly, and I have had no problem with freeze ups, crashes, or slow performance.

The OS came pre-installed, and I wonder if most of the complaints have come from people attempting to upgrade from XP as opposed to a clean installation, or with insufficient RAM?

Anyway, I'm very pleased with it. No problems here.

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Adam J. Myer
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Evergreen PCA
Salem, Oregon

I like it too for the bells and whistles Adam. Vista is a bit buggy on a couple of my upgraded machines but the bugs don't keep me from getting things done. I find the new Explorer interface to be the most convenient.

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Northern VA
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My only problem with Vista is the annoying "must check every bit of info for a virus" thing that it does.

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church, Sewickley, PA
Candidate Under Care Pittsburgh Theological Seminary & Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary

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Sure Adam, if a guy reads tutorials and instructions.
I suppose that approach could work.
I hear that works with all kinds of stuff. You have almost convinced me to start doing that.

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Providence PCA
Lubbock, Texas
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Adam, it works fine for me. I have 6 gigs of RAM (overkill) and no problems.

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Grace Baptist Church
Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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Turn of the User Account Thingy, and it won't bug you about that anymore.

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Sweetness. You da man Josh.


(How do I do that?)

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Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church, Sewickley, PA
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How Bad is Windows Vista?

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My Dads is terrible but I just found out he only has 1 gig of ram. Does he need more Ram?

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dumb question Josh , how do I get there?

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Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church, Sewickley, PA
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Control panel ===> User Groups

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Bill Brown
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Got it thanks!!! (Have to Restart)...

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church, Sewickley, PA
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My PC has 1.0 GB Memory and 200GB Hard Drive and a 3500 AMD Athlon 64
processor. I am not computer savvy so I don't know if that's good or not. When I bought it two years ago I thought I had enough but now I'm not so sure. It's a lot better then what I used to have though. My last PC ran Windows ME and was real slow and Kept crashing all the time. made me wish I never had bought or looked at a PC.

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Opp, AL
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If you can get to 2 GB RAM, then it will be just great for Vista. You know, I used Windows ME once.

Once.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

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Adam J. Myer
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Evergreen PCA
Salem, Oregon

'Tis true. The reason being that the Vista OS takes up 80% of your 1 Gig just for itself, leaving you with a measly 200 MB. Everything that I had read stated that 2 Gigs was the satisfactory minimum.

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Adam J. Myer
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Evergreen PCA
Salem, Oregon

And you really ought to just get 3 Gig for the best performance. You can use most of 4 (3.4 to be exact, if memory serves, but because of the limitations of a 32-bit system you can't practically use all 4 Gb). Bill's 6pack is truly overkill ('cause unless he's hotwired something, or if he's using Vista-64, he can't access more than about 3.4Gb).

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I've just ordered a 2.4 GHz tablet PC from Toshiba, and it'll run Vista, with 4 Gb installed (plus a 1Gb disk cache for faster access time).

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It does, but understand that Vista utilizes the RAM and processor on faster computers much better than XP. While I am not a big fan of Vista, I must still be balanced and acknowledge the perks.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

Best Buy finally replaced my old computer (after 8 separate trips to get it fixed!!!). The new one has 3GB of memory and seems to run very well with Vista Home Premium.

Adam, how do you get the rotating 3D displays of your running programs? I have heard of it but never knew how to do it.

Dennis

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