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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: kimba1 on August 01, 2007, 02:25:55 AM

Title: vista
Post by: kimba1 on August 01, 2007, 02:25:55 AM

I just entered the pretty blue side
It`s so sluggish now
good lord is this thing a memory hog.
anybody have tips on dealing with vista?
that mac commercial ain`t lying
I gotta give permission for everything  now

Title: Re: vista
Post by: The_Professor on August 01, 2007, 01:51:59 PM

see http://www.cnet.com/windows-vista.html?tag=pm

I still use XP and will for some time. Vista is a memory hog and early benchmark results show it to be unbelievably sluggish. I wouldn't run it on anything less than 1GB RAM and 2GB would be preferrable.

I just ordered another Dell laptop and I had them load XP NOT Vista!

Title: Re: vista
Post by: Lanya on August 01, 2007, 02:59:38 PM

I still have XP.
I have another thing I wanted to ask.
The recent Firefox update had a recommended new weather thingie to download, so I did.  Acufox or something like that.  It shows up all the time in the lower bar of the window .   It's very distracting, and I can't find how to get rid of it.  There are three suns, three days of temps all displayed on the bottom bar of the window.  I was way more comfortable when I didn't know how hot it was!  Firefox is great, but nowhere can I find "How to uninstall" something you got from there.
Thank you.

Title: Re: vista
Post by: Amianthus on August 01, 2007, 03:48:09 PM

Try Tools->Addons and disable or remove it from there.

Title: Re: vista
Post by: kimba1 on August 01, 2007, 04:33:17 PM

this is what happens when you buy a $150 computer.
I get what i paid for

Title: Re: vista
Post by: Lanya on August 01, 2007, 05:13:20 PM

Thank you Ami, it worked.

Title: Re: vista
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on August 02, 2007, 01:17:20 AM

Buying any MS product before the second version comes out is always a shaky idea.

I have no complaints about XP.

Title: Re: vista
Post by: kimba1 on August 02, 2007, 01:43:43 AM

I figured it`d be a pretty good gamble
it cost like 20-30 dollars more than the os by itself.
so it`ll be not much of a loss
so far it`s a very good downloader
surfing sucks on it,but that`s not the computers fault
learning how to use it by myself is not too much of a challenge though.
I wanna see how long it`ll be before I break down and get a book.
GQ6140 sempron is not too bad of a computer.
but it needs a more memory and a better videocard

Title: Re: vista
Post by: Brassmask on August 03, 2007, 06:47:10 PM

Every other call I take on my new job is helping people who hate Vista.  I'd say nevermind to it till at least this time next year.

Title: Re: vista
Post by: kimba1 on August 03, 2007, 07:33:35 PM

this might help ,unless your already doing this

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/35086

Title: Re: vista
Post by: Religious Dick on August 04, 2007, 11:07:32 AM

Quote from: kimba1 on August 01, 2007, 02:25:55 AM

anybody have tips on dealing with vista?

Yeah. (http://store.apple.com)

Title: Re: vista
Post by: The_Professor on August 04, 2007, 01:24:55 PM

http://www.cnet.com/windows-vista.html?tag=pm

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/using/windowsvista/tipsandtricks/default.mspx

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2088459,00.asp

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=499870

Title: Re: vista
Post by: kimba1 on August 05, 2007, 02:37:26 AM

thanks
this will help

RD
thanks also
I had not idea apple was had those
it looks like the iphone maybe actually be the 1st gen wearable computer from the looks of it
if only they get the interphase worked out