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4.9 EF Futura
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Okay.
Lot of questions about Vista getting around. Lot of people who have resolved such issues as well.
This thread is intended as a means for question havers and answer givers to come together.
Try and keep it on topic, plenty of other threads for abusing microsoft in... |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| You didn't like my million other threads re my problems with Vista? |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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No one did... The title should say 'All vista problems resolved'
put xp back on. |
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For those that would like to make a custom Vista install disc, use vlite: http://www.vlite.net/
It will allow you to automate the install, and remove useless features, integrate programs/drivers etc.
So that everytime you refromat and install, your greeted with Vista the way you want it.
I havn't used it, but I'm a big fan of nlite for XP, and it should work in a similar fashion. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| I just want drivers for my Creative Sound Blaster Live! SB0100 |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:19 am Post subject: |
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Ive only run into 2 main problems so far
No nortel VPN support
no cisco wireless support
Both non microsoft vendor problems.
Im reasonably happy with vista all things considered  |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| ch0c0 wrote: | Ive only run into 2 main problems so far
No nortel VPN support
no cisco wireless support
Both non microsoft vendor problems.
Im reasonably happy with vista all things considered |
If I could get sound I would also be happy with Vista. It's running perfectly on my laptop with all the XP drivers. |
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| voxace wrote: | For those that would like to make a custom Vista install disc, use vlite: http://www.vlite.net/
It will allow you to automate the install, and remove useless features, integrate programs/drivers etc.
So that everytime you refromat and install, your greeted with Vista the way you want it.
I havn't used it, but I'm a big fan of nlite for XP, and it should work in a similar fashion. |
i concur
nlite was awesome |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| twr7cx wrote: | | You didn't like my million other threads re my problems with Vista? |
meh, didn't bother me too much... suggestion was put forward for a sticky...
if it fizzles, ill unstick it... |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| i had no problems really so far just small things nero was messing vista up a bit got all drivers and it all works fine. |
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| I have a question. I just installed vista, and everything looks kind of fuzzy, makes text hard to read. Why would this be? |
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| LCD? Enable clear type or what ever its called fonts and make sure you have it set to the correct resolution |
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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^ true, also install drivers for your monitor, and if its lcd run it at its native res.
p.s. ive finaly made the trasition (after testing on another computer) to vista on my main computer and its great, no ticed NO gaming performance loss, actually the vista ati crossfire drivers are better than xp. |
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| blackjack_original wrote: | | I have a question. I just installed vista, and everything looks kind of fuzzy, makes text hard to read. Why would this be? |
Installed the driver for your graphics card? |
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Yes, I've done all of that. Correct resolution, proper fonts, installed drivers. It's not very fuzzy. It's almost negligible. It really gets to you when you spend a bit of time on the computer though.
As far as my impression of vista, I don't like it. It's too busy, and some things are needlessly complicated. I have lost a bit of performance but it's a lot better than I thought it would be. Starts faster than xp though. |
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| oh yeah, a huge performance loss if you use the side panel thing, it uses an extra 90mb ram on its own, could help you |
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| blackjack_original wrote: | | As far as my impression of vista, I don't like it. It's too busy, and some things are needlessly complicated. I |
you can turn all that off. in 2 minutes you can have it looking jsut like Windows 95. |
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| twr7cx wrote: | | blackjack_original wrote: | | As far as my impression of vista, I don't like it. It's too busy, and some things are needlessly complicated. I |
you can turn all that off. in 2 minutes you can have it looking jsut like Windows 95. |
Lol, done and done. And I mean done.
It's still not the same though.
| rushed wrote: | | oh yeah, a huge performance loss if you use the side panel thing, it uses an extra 90mb ram on its own, could help you |
I found the side panel annoying so I turned it off straight away, but I never noticed it using 90mb of ram. In fact, my computer uses about 34 just idling, and about 40 with that thing on. |
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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Gadgets suck the big one.
So what's the go with this fuzzy screen? What kinda monitor and card do ya have?
If its LCD just mash the auto button...
You dual booting XP? Vista sucks donkeys balls for gaming unless youve got 2gb ram and a $800 vid card lol. |
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| 4.9 EF Futura wrote: | Gadgets suck the big one.
So what's the go with this fuzzy screen? What kinda monitor and card do ya have?
If its LCD just mash the auto button...
You dual booting XP? Vista sucks donkeys balls for gaming unless youve got 2gb ram and a $800 vid card lol. |
Nah it's not an LCD, just an old CRT unit, and the card is just the integrated motherboard one. Nvidia, Geforce 6100 chip.
It's hard to describe, but you don't notice the fuzzyness at all, until you've been using the computer for about 15 minutes. It's not there in games like LFS, just on your normal desktop activities. It's not that big of a deal, because I mostly use XP anyway.
I'm actually not dual booting XP.. I'm triple booting XP. I have my normal XP, and a skin and bones XP pro. It's the shiz, as they say. All the useless junk has been taken out, makes he computer a lot faster. The only problem is the fact that I've had to install all the programs I frequently use, thrice. |
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