Why I don’t hate Vista
Back in August, I purchased a Gateway ML3109 laptop and it came with Vista (Basic, I believe). At first, I was upset because I’d heard only horrible things. I’d seen screenshots of the changes and new features and wasn’t impressed. I was even less impressed because I’d heard Vista was a memory hog so when I bought the laptop, I had them upgrade the RAM to 1.5GB instead of just 512MB.
I took the laptop home and first thing off, I reinstalled Vista, taking out the unnecessary software. I installed a few of my own programs and now I’m actually pretty satisfied. I turned off all the enhanced security features and don’t use any of the new stuff - not sure I actually have any though and it works pretty well. I mainly use it for word processing and simple surfing because I feel less distracted on it than on my Mac. Once you get passed all of that, it’s really not that bad of an OS. It certainly beats Windows 2000.
What I like about Vista
- Start search box (which you can turn off)
- New control panel - confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s better
- Not running all programs as administrator - helps with security
- Network and sharing center - same with control panel, confusing at first, but much better for novices
- It’s pretty - I like the new look, it’s simple, but nice
- It’s much, much better for non-geeks - everything is simple and it doesn’t let you mess with things unless you know what you’re doing
I don’t have anything negative to say about Vista now that I’ve used it. Good job Microsoft.
This page was last modified on November 18, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
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Sydney, totally agree with you. I got a Dell laptop about 4 months ago with Vista on and I’m no geek, but love computers. Found vista to be much more interactive and easier to use - had to upgrade from 1GB of RAM to 2GB as even in MS word the laptop was running slow. Once I upgrade, it was really good.
Overall, I really like to user-ability of Vista.
You’re the first person I’ve heard say something positive about Vista. Makes me less afraid to upgrade, if need be.
I bought a laptop with Vista recently also and it works fine. A few of my old programs won’t run on it but that’s the only problem I have had. I don’t think I would uninstall some of the security stuff though. That can lead to problems maybe.
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