4 reasons why you should not buy Windows Vista OS

[lostprophet]

whats a computer??

 

[caspertodd]

whats a computer??

My friends tell me it's a porn surfing device, but I wouldn't have knowledge of that.

 

[Rhys]

It definitely eats up the RAM, that's for sure! I bought more just to support. At least I can be fairly confident that my data is somewhat secure. Good that you found an antivirus program that you like better, maybe I will check it out.

I had Norton once. It was the most useless piece of junk I ever had. It bogged the system down scanning for viruses and then didn't recognise real viruses. I had to download and install AVG to get rid of the viruses Norton calmly ignored. After that I dumped Norton and my system speeded up tremendously.

Norton used to make a decent set of PC maintainance tools. Sadly those are no longer up to much. IMHO the finest combination out there is AVG antivirus and WINASO registry optimiser.

 

[Overread]

hehe norton!
Personaly I use AVG and Zonealarm - both free and both very good
Then I use spybot and adaware as well (I's gots the ram to spare ATM)

whats a computer??

It's that big shiny thing with lots of buttons infront of you

 

[lostprophet]

hehe norton!
Personaly I use AVG and Zonealarm - both free and both very good
Then I use spybot and adaware as well (I's gots the ram to spare ATM)



It's that big shiny thing with lots of buttons infront of you

really??? looks more like a phone to me

 

[Overread]

naw that is a computer in disgise -- its pretending to be a phone


that or is a phone pretending to be a computer - the two are very similar

 

[Dubious Drewski]

My younger brother bought a laptop just yesterday. He turned it on for the first time and it began initializing. It continued to do so for just under an hour. It would start/stop, reboot repeatedly throughout that hour, sluggish as hell. It was a brand new machine, and it had us both cursing Vista before the machine was even usable.

 

[Overread]

An hour?
might be an idea to get it a RAM update - vista has a min amout required and specified, but its short - upgrade the ram (cheap and simple to do) and it should run at the speed it should - that was microsoft releasing rather more conservative values for min spec than are idea for most users.

 

[Rhys]

My younger brother bought a laptop just yesterday. He turned it on for the first time and it began initializing. It continued to do so for just under an hour. It would start/stop, reboot repeatedly throughout that hour, sluggish as hell. It was a brand new machine, and it had us both cursing Vista before the machine was even usable.

I have OSX on my new laptop. My old one had XP but might soon have my spare hard drive and Linux. Windows is only any good when there're no updates and no antivirus and it's used offline. Break any of those rules and it all goes to hell in a handbag.

 

[RyanLilly]

Do you think that vista will run OK on my Comadore64? I'm thinking of upgrading my monochrome yellow monitor, and using a spare 13" color TV, I hope service pack 2 addresses my needs. Maybe I should have gone for the Comadore128.

 

[Rhys]

Do you think that vista will run OK on my Comadore64? I'm thinking of upgrading my monochrome yellow monitor, and using a spare 13" color TV, I hope service pack 2 addresses my needs. Maybe I should have gone for the Comadore128.

The C128 was 3 machines in one wasn't it? I believe it was a CP/M box plus a Commodore 64 plus a C128.

Unfortunately for all those manufacturer that was when the home computer bubble burst!

 

[mrodgers]

Don't blame Norton, blame the idiots that have created viruses, spam...and so on that made Norton a requirement.

Norton is not a requirement. I would be OK if you stated an anti-virus program or a firewall is a requirement, but Norton is not the only one out there.

For those that do not use antivirus software, that is just careless. Do you think your pc is above getting a virus? That your computer is too good to be infected with a virus? How do you know your computer is not already infected if you don't have anything that detects it?

I am careless? Yes I do think my PC is above average of not getting a virus. Unless www.thephotoforum.com or my racing sim forum is full of viruses that they automatically send to you without you knowing, then I feel pretty secure. This forum is not virus central, is it? So, am I the one that is careless because I don't subject myself and my computer to places where you will get viruses? Or is the person who downloads music at P2P sites and surfs porn all evening and clicks on anything and everything in email without knowing who it came from and must run an anti-virus the one who is careless?

I do have a virus program installed. I don't have it sitting monitoring constantly. I have run it on some occasions just out of curiosity. It's never
told me I have any infection. I surf here, a racing sim forum, a flight sim forum, and an RC flight forum. Other than racing online and flying online, that is all I do on the net short of looking at Amazon or Walmart on occasion.

Do you think a popup is going to come up and tell you "oopsie...you just got a virus"?

Nope, as I said, I don't have my anti-virus running and monitoring.

My friends tell me it's a porn surfing device, but I wouldn't have knowledge of that.

Reminds me of hearing a comedian on the radio a while back..... "I am finding it disturbing that I'm teaching my kids to read on the same piece of equipment I later use to mast......ate to."

Personaly I use AVG and Zonealarm - both free and both very good
Then I use spybot and adaware as well (I's gots the ram to spare ATM)

AVG and ZoneAlarm as completely free to download and use, kicks the rear end of any other program free or purchased in all reviews and comparisons you can find.

PestPatrol.com is a great program for adware and hijackers. We had a huge infestation at work that affected every PC from every location in the US. It started with Webshots that people were installing to autochange their backgrounds. Many people were also using P2P programs as well. We use Norton at work. One machine in our equipment control room was just destroyed with adware, popups, browser hijackers, and more. The PC was rendered nearly completely useless. The IT department spent 8 hours in front of that computer using every anti-virus and spyware/adware program around. They found NOTHING. The following day, I installed PestPatrol and scanned the PC. It found over 10,000 problems on it and cleaned it all. It's definitely a fantastic program.

Now I'm late, I have to go on the servers and go do some racing! :mrgreen:

 

[Dubious Drewski]

I'm another fellow who doesn't run antivirus, but I have a good firewall running all of the time. I've done it this way on this machine since I built it 4 years ago. No problems so far.

If I'm feeling a bit cautious, I'll do one of those free online scans to clear out any data-mining cookies that some websites give you, but so far I've not had any incidents.

I'm not saying it's impossible for this machine to get a virus. It is still only Windows. What I am saying is that if a machine has a virus, it's almost always there because of carelessness on the part of the user.

 

[peterbj7]

I know lots of people who've tried Vista, mostly for at least several months. Most had it pre-installed on a new computer, but some had chosen to "upgrade".

Not one of those people still has Vista. They all went back to XP, and everyone of them reported that suddenly their machines ran much better and faster. Even those machines supposedly "designed for Vista". I and most people I know regard Vista as an abomination. I have used it (I bought a computer which had it installed) and found that as well as running like a dog the machine also would not run quite a few of the specialist software packages I've acquired over the years.

I will never again use Vista. I believe MS will drop it (they may not drop the name, but the substance of what is Vista is I believe for the chop). If they don't and XP is no longer supported I'll simply go to Linux or Apple. Period.

 

[Antithesis]

*Cough* ...macintosh *Cough*