intecel

Here is what I wrote on another forum 2 hours into my Vista experience on my main PC a month ago:


I think I'll be going back to Win XP pretty soon.. This is my issue list from a total of about 2 hours total Vista use.

So far:

- Sound blaster Live = no support. I know, welcome to 1990. They sounded great still to this day though, so I never switched it out (until now).

- Nero 6.6 = not supported. I installed it anyways, and now it crashes any folder thru explorer that has a video in it. After uninstall of nero I think it's working again..

- Norton Antivirus 2004 = not supported. I ended up installing Kaspersky AV, which I've read is one of the quickest / best now.

- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 PRO - Not supported. Will not install. The funny thing is that Visual Studio FREE version works fine...

- Browsing folders through explorer is slow at times. I'm not sure if it's working through a caching process now, since it has seemed to speed up a bit since my initial few uses.

- The security feature that pops up every time you change a setting / install shit is very fucking annoying. That needs to go.

- Every file I had prior to the Vista install has permission issues. To move any folder, I have to hit 'continue' like 5 times before it moves anything. I've had to change folder permissions about 20 times already to do simple things so far.

- It takes longer to boot a base install of Vista than my copy of XP (including norton AV).

- CCXGUI - Will not connect. This is server software that can stream video to a modded XBOX. No matter what I try, I cannot get windows to open the port. I cannot even connect to localhost from my PC to test this software.

(Yes, I have disabled Windows Firewall).

- VNC - Will not connect from a remote PC. The service is running. The port is open. When I try to connect, it brings up the password box, but after login, it says 'Connection closed by host' or something to that nature.

I can't even get into VNC Config. It says I don't have permission to do it... I've even changed permissions on all the vnc files to me and it still does it.

I did later find out that there was a version that could be purchased from RealVNC that would work with vista.

- Nvidia video driver has crashed twice now. Never once had a video issue in XP.


I used Vista for 3 weeks before going back to XP. There wasn't a day that went by that I wasn't craving XP back on my PC. I also found that any time there was anything even remotely resource intensive (unpacking files, opening programs), the network would slow to a crawl and / or disconnect completely...