Is Windows XP Obselete? Page 7

Started by Dawn May 13th, 2010 5:55 AM
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open source os do gaming it depends on who programs it. this comp has a gig of ram the other has 6 gigs running xp home gaming edition. i said stop mentioning uac i know what it does i dont install any software unless i trust it and uac all it does is f*** up all of the keygens and other programs. vista wasnt good it never was too many d*** question to close a frigging window.
And it also depends on what games you play. Keygens are technically illegal anyways. And you obviously didn't look around enough to know that you CAN turn UAC off in Vista. And you sound like you're going off of the words of others, and not personal experience, because Vista was nowhere near as annoying to use as you make it sound.
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open source os do gaming it depends on who programs it. this comp has a gig of ram the other has 6 gigs running xp home gaming edition. i said stop mentioning uac i know what it does i dont install any software unless i trust it and uac all it does is f*** up all of the keygens and other programs. vista wasnt good it never was too many d*** question to close a frigging window.
Okay; there are a few things I find wrong with this:
  • Name any modern (as in, past 2006) computer game that runs on any variant of *nix or any other open source OS (like Solaris). Emulation of another platform through WINE (this includes Crossover Games) or any virtualization software doesn't count.
  • XP Home Gaming Edition? Are you referring to XP Media Center Edition? Gaming Edition doesn't exist, unless it's bootleg.
  • As much as UAC can be a pain in the a**, it does protect against some types of malicious software. It's always a good idea to at least keep it on the setting where it doesn't dim the screen, just so it doesn't lag a Vista or 7 system.
  • Keygens and the like are illegal. Even then, to the best extent of my computer knowledge, UAC shouldn't completely mess up a program. Chances are, it's the new architectures implemented by Microsoft that's causing incompatibilities.

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And it also depends on what games you play. Keygens are technically illegal anyways. And you obviously didn't look around enough to know that you CAN turn UAC off in Vista. And you sound like you're going off of the words of others, and not personal experience, because Vista was nowhere near as annoying to use as you make it sound.
yes it was i had vista i couldnt even make a d*** word document each time i tried to close the window it pop out a bunch of dialog boxes asking me if i wanted to close i said yes and she pop out another one and it was very annoying. then whats the point of having uac at all i know i can turn it off.

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Okay; there are a few things I find wrong with this:
  • Name any modern (as in, past 2006) computer game that runs on any variant of *nix or any other open source OS (like Solaris). Emulation of another platform through WINE (this includes Crossover Games) or any virtualization software doesn't count.
  • XP Home Gaming Edition? Are you referring to XP Media Center Edition? Gaming Edition doesn't exist, unless it's bootleg.
  • As much as UAC can be a pain in the a**, it does protect against some types of malicious software. It's always a good idea to at least keep it on the setting where it doesn't dim the screen, just so it doesn't lag a Vista or 7 system.
  • Keygens and the like are illegal. Even then, to the best extent of my computer knowledge, UAC shouldn't completely mess up a program. Chances are, it's the new architectures implemented by Microsoft that's causing incompatibilities.
Do you know spanish or have google chrome so i can give you the link so you can see it yourself, xp gaming edition was coded by me and like 7 other guys i worked on stability and errors and they worked on memory usage and other things. Do i care if keygens are illegal i use them on xp with panda antivirus gold 2010 and it doesnt get deleted but i did try it on a brand new vista that didnt even have an antivirus and it deleted it, it was very annoying if i have to turn off uac then whats the point of having it in the first place?
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yes it was i had vista i couldnt even make a d*** word document each time i tried to close the window it pop out a bunch of dialog boxes asking me if i wanted to close i said yes and she pop out another one and it was very annoying. then whats the point of having uac at all i know i can turn it off.
That'd be the document editor, not Vista. UAC only pops up when you run an installer or when changing a system setting.
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I originally hated vista. Honestly, I thought it was a POS. But now I <3 it.

XP has become...a technological lunchtray to me now. A bunch of crap you DON'T want, yet you decide to deal with anyway. Vista and Windows 7 are like Homemade Cookies, whereas you know what you're getting(kinda), and you always enjoy it...kinda.

While I can't say i still don't HAVE XP(Bleh, My Video Game Budget prevents me from updating unless I pirate it...unless it's free, then slap me for stupidity), the only reason it's on my PC is because I can't buy it. Vista confuzzled me with the 64 bit and 32 bit crap, but what the hell is the point of caring anyway?(Computer techies, you can inform me of this if you care, because I'm not the smartest computer whiz kid)

As stated earlier, XP is, indeed, a computerized epidemic. Time after time again, I've had to erase everything and re-install the friggin XP because of some unknown Trojan problem, or some virus, or some other BS from browsing regular sites.(How the hell do you get a Trojan from a Flash Game site?? Not cool, man) While vista and 7 might not have some things that you might've liked on XP(IDK what that might be), can you really complain when you don't have to worry about getting viruses and trojans as much as you have to on vista or windows 7?

While XP isn't, shall I say, dead, I find it hard to bother to use it now when you decide to upgrade to a newer OS. And as much as I enjoyed XP, I think it's about time to move on. It's 2010, and no one wants to spend half an hour or so trying to install windows XP pro. =/

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Personally, I think that Windows XP IS obsolete, anybody who still has it, just isn't willing to change (which imo is perfectly fine) or is scared of Windows 7 since Vista failed or maybe not willing to spend the money...

My Windows XP was the most customized and the most useful Operating System that could be. I tend to do a lot to make my Computer... mine.
And at that time, I wasn't willing to shift to Windows 7. But then I tried, set up dual booting and stuff. And it worked, and it was pretty good.
I had tried the betas, and I hated them (with a passion)... But the release was amazing.

I'd disagree with anybody who hates UAC:
It was necessary to implement something like that, especially with so much software coming up just to f*ck up your systems.
Anybody heard of viruses that spread through pendrives? Or those registry edits that limit you. These are small programs that make use of administrative permissions to be contagious and cause harm.
I work on a lot of computers, and help a lot of people with technical problems, and someone who is not an advanced user needs the UAC.
And if somebody has used Linux, we already had something like it in Linux (sudo, gksudo etc.)

And I love Windows Aero. Eyecandy without the performance problems like in Windows Vista. It's beautiful.

The new taskbar too, it's so easy to manage things now.

The only thing I don't like about Windows 7 is that I miss the old Paint (I don't like ribboned paint) And some legacy Chinese hardware that won't run.

Nonetheless, my opinion, give Windows 7 a try, if I hadn't, I would have been one of those who are arguing here, like die-hard Windows XP fans.

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ok you want to see aero here a pic of xp with aero
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thats my xp with aero if thats not enough proof that xp does whatever 7 and vista do even better than them here is the 3d view of my xp
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i have dx11 i could have uac if i wanted i could have anything that vista and 7 do with the reliability of my xp if you have gotten viruses bad for you the most i get in this comp is spyware also for the record my friend has 7 he got a really bad virus in the first 3 weeks of his computers life while i that have had this installation of xp for over 2 years now not even a single virus and she is running perfectly.sorry for the big pics.o and 1 last pic that proves that she is xp.
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Do you know spanish or have google chrome so i can give you the link so you can see it yourself, xp gaming edition was coded by me and like 7 other guys i worked on stability and errors and they worked on memory usage and other things.
"XP Gaming Edition" is nothing more than an nLited XP with a few components removed to make it run faster, something I could do myself in 20 minutes. There isn't any coding involved that I'm aware of, except perhaps some very basic scripting.
i have dx11 i could have uac if i wanted i could have anything that vista and 7 do with the reliability of my xp if you have gotten viruses bad for you the most i get in this comp is spyware also for the record my friend has 7 he got a really bad virus in the first 3 weeks of his computers life while i that have had this installation of xp for over 2 years now not even a single virus and she is running perfectly.sorry for the big pics.o and 1 last pic that proves that she is xp.
You do not have DX11. At best, you have the hacked "DX10" that is floating around, which is mostly emulation and redirection, not true DX10. As for your friend getting a virus, that is merely anecdotal evidence. I have used Vista for two years and not gotten any viruses or any other malware.
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@locoroco, DX11 can't be run in WinXP, like twocows said it IS one of those hacked things.
That skin of yours is UGLY.

And if you really can have all those features of Win7 using software available, might as well get Win7? I mean, you have pretty much converted your WinXP to Win7?

Windows however has a reputation of being a Virus attractor, the version doesn't matter. Though I do believe that the software that comes with 7 actually does a lot to prevent them.
I've heard of people just leaving a new installation of Windows connected to the internet for 5 days, (without even using it) and the machine fills with viruses.

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i know that the skin doesnt match XD i just chose it so you can see the effect better. ok ill come clean as why do i dont want 7, too much resources ok i love win 7 but the use im gonna give it i know is just not gonna work i love xp also win 7 is just xp with a lot of new things, they didnt use vista to make 7 not even the aero is the same as vista. though ive considered converting to 7 but my xp is just way too much my style and just upgrading means letting go of many of my childhood memories, yeah i remember back in the days running an amd duron @997mhz 256mb of ram those where the days, i cant let go of xp and i probably wont, a lot of coders and i are working on win xp sp4 progress is good we gonna make it and its gonna be awesome. i hope you have good luck with your 7 and vistas because im having a good time with my xp so i really have no complaints windows xp is: light on new comps,stable,really customisable, great for gaming i just cant say anything bad because my xp the use i give it i really dont get anything more than spyware so like i said i love 7 but dont like its resource usage.
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Windows 7 and Windows Vista are identical. Windows Vista is Windows 6.0, while Windows 7 is Windows 6.1, speaking in technical terms, that is. And that's just like Windows 2000 was Windows 5.0 and Windows XP was Windows 5.1.

Around XP's release, people absolutely hated it, as it was a resource hog for the time. 256 MB was a lot to ask as a minimum requirement of computers at that time, as most mid-high range retail machines came with at 512 MB. Well, 3 years down the road, it's the most common version of Windows, as a typical computer had doubled its RAM to run Windows XP. People also hated it because it was a big change, like Vista and 7 were from XP. Those same 3 years later, people had become accustomed to XP.

The only issue with Vista was that it was released when mid-low price range machines had just reached 1 GB, so most people who had it experienced quite a bit of sluggishness because it demanded every resource they had. 3 years later, people hailed Windows 7 as the savior, when it really isn't all that different from Vista - it just came at a time when 2 GB is the norm in the mid-low price range, which may not have been true if Vista were never released.

Also, I've had a higher percentage of XP installations corrupt or crash on me than Vista or 7 installations within the first year, and it wasn't the hardware, either. XP's stability has nothing on the stability of Vista or 7.

And the guideline for malware that I operate by is this: If you've gotten one infection that you can see, you've probably got 5 or more you can't see.
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yes it was i had vista i couldnt even make a d*** word document each time i tried to close the window it pop out a bunch of dialog boxes asking me if i wanted to close i said yes and she pop out another one and it was very annoying. then whats the point of having uac at all i know i can turn it off.
I would thank UAC if it did that. It would mean my word processor was trying to do something probably illegal or dangerous. Use your brain.



Do you know spanish or have google chrome so i can give you the link so you can see it yourself, xp gaming edition was coded by me and like 7 other guys i worked on stability and errors and they worked on memory usage and other things.
What the...
I wouldn't brag about your so called programming skills unless you're willing to prove them with a test.

Do i care if keygens are illegal i use them on xp
Keep it to yourself.


ok you want to see aero here a pic of xp with aero

thats my xp with aero if thats not enough proof that xp does whatever 7 and vista do even better than them here is the 3d view of my xp
That's not aero, it's not as good as aero, and since I know how you did that, I can safely say it eats plenty of memory. No, your "XP" cannot do whatever 7 or Vista can and the suggestion that it can is ridiculous.


i have dx11 i could have uac if i wanted i could have anything that vista and 7 do with the reliability of my xp if you have gotten viruses bad for you the most i get in this comp is spyware also for the record my friend has 7 he got a really bad virus in the first 3 weeks of his computers life while i that have had this installation of xp for over 2 years now not even a single virus and she is running perfectly.sorry for the big pics.o and 1 last pic that proves that she is xp.
You can't have UAC, and you can't have DX11. Furthermore you aren't safe or secure. You've been proven wrong on this point like 3 or 4 times in this same thread. Enough is enough. You can't force the argument down our throats.



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Well...I'll say XP isn't obsolete because I'm now using it on my back-up laptop and it still works fine. I'm a noob when it comes to programming and stuff but XP was always my favourite OS because for me Microsoft got everything about the interface right, and it was highly customisable. :>

But I'm not hating on Windows 7 because my Dad has it on his desktop, and he worships it, mainly because of its compatibility mode.

Vista, on the other hand...;~; I used it for two years at university and oh god, the pain. It just felt half-finished and kept erasing my files for no reason. Or crashing. Or throwing up a million dialogue boxes when they weren't needed. It was pretty though, I guess...

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Well...I'll say XP isn't obsolete because I'm now using it on my back-up laptop and it still works fine. I'm a noob when it comes to programming and stuff but XP was always my favourite OS because for me Microsoft got everything about the interface right, and it was highly customisable. :>

But I'm not hating on Windows 7 because my Dad has it on his desktop, and he worships it, mainly because of its compatibility mode.

Vista, on the other hand...;~; I used it for two years at university and oh god, the pain. It just felt half-finished and kept erasing my files for no reason. Or crashing. Or throwing up a million dialogue boxes when they weren't needed. It was pretty though, I guess...
That's partially because Enterprise networks with Vista are usually locked down like an airport in a terrorist attack - reasonable well.

And locoroco, I'm still waiting on a screenshot of your crazy powerful gaming rig.

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@locoroco I'm sure you've never tried Windows 7. It's not even a major resource hogger... (Blinds hogs more...) :? Your thoughts are prejudiced...
And have fun playing games without DirectX.
I don't believe anything about the SP4 part... Prove it :P Moreover, I'm still trying to imagine what you are coding for a closed source OS?

@donavannj Windows 7 and Windows Vista are identical...? I LOL'd hard at that O.o
Moreover, locoroco is at least right about one thing (even in his useless post)... Microsoft did have to redo the Aero and stuff.

The only issue with Vista was that it was released when mid-low price range machines had just reached 1 GB
I disagree with half of what you said. For most people, WinXP wasn't a hogger back when it was released. We had Celerons, P2/P3 and stuff which had windows 98 at that time. We did install XP, and it really wasn't a hogger. It's still my preferred windows OS on old computers. (Works fine on second hand PCs from the 80s-90s (don't exactly remember the dates but it's around that time))
Vista was an actual disaster... And even now my Win7 works faster than Win Vista that I had long ago.
Tbh... I had a genuine copy of Vista which I replaced with a counterfeited Win XP... And now running genuine Win 7.

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@locoroco I'm sure you've never tried Windows 7. It's not even a major resource hogger... (Blinds hogs more...) :? Your thoughts are prejudiced...
And have fun playing games without DirectX.
I don't believe anything about the SP4 part... Prove it :P Moreover, I'm still trying to imagine what you are coding for a closed source OS?

@donavannj Windows 7 and Windows Vista are identical...? I LOL'd hard at that O.o
Moreover, locoroco is at least right about one thing (even in his useless post)... Microsoft did have to redo the Aero and stuff.

I disagree with half of what you said. For most people, WinXP wasn't a hogger back when it was released. We had Celerons, P2/P3 and stuff which had windows 98 at that time. We did install XP, and it really wasn't a hogger. It's still my preferred windows OS on old computers. (Works fine on second hand PCs from the 80s-90s (don't exactly remember the dates but it's around that time))
Vista was an actual disaster... And even now my Win7 works faster than Win Vista that I had long ago.
Tbh... I had a genuine copy of Vista which I replaced with a counterfeited Win XP... And now running genuine Win 7.
Actually, XP was a pretty big resource hog back when it was released, especially compared to 2000. It came out only two(?) years after 2000 but was quite a bit more heavy. I know because I have XP installed on a Pentium II computer, and even heavily nLited, it runs quite slow.

The only real "disaster" with Vista was that Microsoft overlooked that most of the drivers available on release would still be using the old model and it would take a while for manufacturers to transfer to the new model. That resulted in a lot of incompatible hardware.
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@donavannj Windows 7 and Windows Vista are identical...? I LOL'd hard at that O.o
Moreover, locoroco is at least right about one thing (even in his useless post)... Microsoft did have to redo the Aero and stuff.

I disagree with half of what you said. For most people, WinXP wasn't a hogger back when it was released. We had Celerons, P2/P3 and stuff which had windows 98 at that time. We did install XP, and it really wasn't a hogger. It's still my preferred windows OS on old computers. (Works fine on second hand PCs from the 80s-90s (don't exactly remember the dates but it's around that time))
Vista was an actual disaster... And even now my Win7 works faster than Win Vista that I had long ago.
Tbh... I had a genuine copy of Vista which I replaced with a counterfeited Win XP... And now running genuine Win 7.
Well, the file structure is EXACTLY THE SAME between the two OSes. The only difference is the features that are used, which happen to be better designed so they use slightly less resources in 7. And they are both Windows 6.x. I guess they're not EXACTLY IDENTICAL, but they are similar enough that, in 15-20 years, the average user wouldn't be able to tell you which was which, just like I know most of my peers can't distinguish the differences between any of the Windows OSes that Microsoft released in the '90s.

I doubt it was able to work with any PCs from the '80s, since the bare minimum for Windows XP is 64 MB for the bare minimum of features, and fully featured it needed 128 MB of RAM, which is double what Windows 2000 recommended, and four times that of what Windows 2000 needed to run. It also took double the hard drive space of Windows 2000, needing 1.3 GB. Now consider that only a year and a half had passed between the releases, while 5 years had passed since XP was released when Vista went retail. Those jumps seem much larger now, don't they?

And what were the specs of the machine you had Vista on as opposed to the Windows 7 machine? And, like twocows said, for the first few months Vista had minimal driver support because manufacturers were slow to release drivers for it.
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@donavannj It's the same computer with almost no changes. (I'm sure any upgrades that I have done, I had when I had Win Vista installed)
You guys aren't ready to believe that Win 7 is actually faster than Vista...?
I didn't have Win Vista in the first few months :P They bought some licenses later, and we were given some.

I find it weird that both of you found Windows XP a resource hogger. We had a really old computer at home, and it had been here since long before Windows XP was even released (I don't even remember since that computer was my mom's, so you get the idea)
We didn't upgrade our computers a lot back then, it was probably what you would have found in the trash, still it was used for many scientific calculations, and it was pretty fast.
Can't list the specs though, it has actually gone into trash now.

We had another machine in the lab, much older than this (it was a second-hand machine) And with lower specs than the one I was talking about. It ran Win XP (again used for calculations) perfectly until almost every part of it died.

Edit: Maybe not machines from the 80s, I guess. They say we had a P3 when we installed Win XP on both of them. RAM must have been around 256 MB. I wouldn't be surprised though, since the PC we bought in 2000 already had that much, so by 2001/2002 at least all new computers should have had much more than 64 MB, and 128 MB. I still don't understand how people disliked Windows XP for being a resource hogger.

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My retired 9 year old laptop is running on '97, and works without any problems. I've bought my current laptop with Vista, and had nothing but problems with. So, I skipped back over to the computer shop, demanded a free XP professional (which I got) and tossed Vista in their face. ;3

This laptop is now 3 years old, and working without any serious problems. I've heard lots of good stuff about 7, but I see no use in replacing my perfectly working XP for 7, also because I don't need a new laptop yet. If I buy a new one, it'll probably have 7, though I'd like Linux on it as well.
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You guys aren't ready to believe that Win 7 is actually faster than Vista...?
I know from experience that 7 is slightly faster than Vista. Much of that perceived speed is probably because 7 loads up 75% of the startup stuff while it's still showing you the "Welcome" screen after you have successfully logged in, whereas Vista loads maybe 25% of that stuff while showing you that "Welcome" screen, and does the rest while taunting you with your desktop, just like XP.
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it depends on how much stuff your comp has on startup my comp barely has anything on startup and she boots extremely quick i can even see the option to enter the bios. o and mr.ck ill show you the pics of my gaming comp later i got too much s*** on my plate
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And locoroco, I'm still waiting on a screenshot of your crazy powerful gaming rig.
Wouldn't get your hopes up.


I disagree with half of what you said. For most people, WinXP wasn't a hogger back when it was released.
Excuse me excuse me... I hate to interrupt but I provided evidence otherwise earlier in the thread. Here, allow me to show you an even more insightful piece of evidence than the last one.

http://macosx.com/forums/apple-news-rumors-discussion/10622-windows-xp-sucks-compared-os-x.html

and the one I posted earlier

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=6958

If you look over these near decade old forum posts about how much XP sucks (From 2001-2003) you'll find they look oddly familiar! "SLOW! IT JUST LOOKS PRETTIER. NOTHING NEW. INCOMPATIBILITY" ....They're even so similar there's no evidence! =D /thumbs up

XP - Proof that mindlessly bashing superior things is good for your future. /eyeroll


I know from experience that 7 is slightly faster than Vista. Much of that perceived speed is probably because 7 loads up 75% of the startup stuff while it's still showing you the "Welcome" screen after you have successfully logged in, whereas Vista loads maybe 25% of that stuff while showing you that "Welcome" screen, and does the rest while taunting you with your desktop, just like XP.
The software performs significantly more efficiently and I think pointing out that it's technically just as "fast" is something the end-users don't care about, to be honest.

The only real "disaster" with Vista was that Microsoft overlooked that most of the drivers available on release would still be using the old model and it would take a while for manufacturers to transfer to the new model. That resulted in a lot of incompatible hardware.
I'll have to disagree with you there. Not that what you said isn't true, but that there's more than one real disaster that ruined Vista. The second major disaster was that Criticism was let run wild. Anti-Microsoft propaganda was just EVERYWHERE if you remember. It was being forced down throats, people accepted it by brute force, people hardly bothered defending it. This was possibly due to a case of mass "Oh, somebody else will do it. I don't need to." or something similar, and Vista was successfully demonized. This huge mistake is the reason people like Loco can run around lying their faces off about how terrible Vista is and stand a chance at being believed.
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I still can't agree... I have already posted about my personal experiences...
And I'm mostly with people who are doing scientific calculations (my mom and at the lab) They did not have any problems. In fact those machines have run fine until they died or were replaced.
They did not have server grade machines, and super fast hardware until a year ago.

Excuse me excuse me... I hate to interrupt but I provided evidence otherwise earlier in the thread. Here, allow me to show you an even more insightful piece of evidence than the last one.

http://macosx.com/forums/apple-news-...ared-os-x.html

and the one I posted earlier

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=6958

If you look over these near decade old forum posts about how much XP sucks (From 2001-2003) you'll find they look oddly familiar! "SLOW! IT JUST LOOKS PRETTIER. NOTHING NEW. INCOMPATIBILITY" ....They're even so similar there's no evidence! =D /thumbs up

XP - Proof that mindlessly bashing superior things is good for your future. /eyeroll
I still didn't see many arguments about the OS's speed... I'm not talking about security, lane graphics and stuff... It wasn't slow back then for most people...

it depends on how much stuff your comp has on startup my comp barely has anything on startup and she boots extremely quick i can even see the option to enter the bios. o and mr.ck ill show you the pics of my gaming comp later i got too much s*** on my plate
Haha... I can no longer believe any crap you say.

EDIT: Have a look at how MS Advertises Win 7
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/performance-improvements.aspx?tabid=2&catid=3

Dawn

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I still didn't see many arguments about the OS's speed... I'm not talking about security, lane graphics and stuff... It wasn't slow back then for most people...
Didn't the older article have something about that? Hmm...
Take this one then. Lookin' nice and familiar.
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/16086-slow-windows-xp-hard-disk.html

Haha... I can no longer believe any crap you say.
Good to see I'm not alone in this.
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