Windows Vista Discussion Thread

[greenhorn]

a lot of people seem to have tried windows server 2k8 and loved it.

of course it costs more , but then again.....

[Thad E Ginathom]

The software pros have no alternative but to follow Microsoft's every move.

They cannot afford to develop software that doesn't run on the customer's new machine. Even if Vista was ten times worse than many are saying, whilst it is being supplied on new machines, developers absolutely must cater for it.

The rest of us are free to stick with our XP, 2000, 95 ---- or 3.1 for as long as we want. The microsoft police are not yet knocking at our door and forcing upgrades upon us.

Come the day something stops working, or we need to run something new that is not supported by our favourite OS, or the glitter of the latest hardware becomes irresistible then we have little choice but to run, bleating, back to the MS flock.

Or join the Mac or Linux one, of course.

[greenhorn]

but the point is , they're beginning to realise that they're being held to ransom by microsoft's upgrade cycles. This time we do stand a chance to break the vicious cycle

At least the Vista business on our workstations has been rolled back to XP pro

[vivekiny2k]

Originally Posted by vikram_d

Also note once you do this you are wholly and solely responsible for the security of the system. Any program you run will run with admin privileges and intenet explorer (if you use it) will run with protected mode off.

this is the reason I always use a generic account even though I have created two admin accounts on my comp. at least my registry and other sensitive areas are safe from unwanted activity.

in XP I would have to logout and login with admin access to install stuff, I like vista because I can do it by just typing my admin passwd. i like it better.

[vikram_d]

@rsjaurr - what you can do is to use the files and setting transfer wizard and transfer all your customisations and files fromt the joy account to the administrator account. Once everything is transfered succesfully, you can delete the joy account and rename the admin account to whatever you want. This is the only way of having just one account at this stage.

[vikram_d]

Originally Posted by normally_crazy

tx 1003 AU

Software & Driver downloads*HP Pavilion tx1003au Notebook PC

Win XP drivers for your system N_C.

[normally_crazy]

Originally Posted by vikram_d

Software & Driver downloads*HP Pavilion tx1003au Notebook PC

Win XP drivers for your system N_C.

Thanks Vikram. It's time to ring in the old.

[rsjaurr]

Originally Posted by vikram_d

@rsjaurr - what you can do is to use the files and setting transfer wizard and transfer all your customisations and files fromt the joy account to the administrator account. Once everything is transfered succesfully, you can delete the joy account and rename the admin account to whatever you want. This is the only way of having just one account at this stage.

But this wizard will only allow to transfer files to other computer and not other account??

Is there any other way so that i dont get user login screen when i boot my machine?

Probably i followed what is mentioned in this link posted by you in post no.234,will replacing active to inactive (net user administrator /active) help me?

[rsjaurr]

lol...finally i did it myself by opening command prompt and typing "no" after active instead of earlier thought inactive.

[vikram_d]

yes there is another way for you to bypass the login screen. Go to start > run and type in control userpasswords2 and click ok. A window will open in which you can select your default account. Also you can disable the lOgin screen from he. When you disable th

[2theMax]

Originally Posted by normally_crazy

Browsing feels faster (the pages load faster)

What browser and version do you run with xp ?

[normally_crazy]

Originally Posted by 2theMax

What browser and version do you run with xp ?

XP ? I am not using XP now, I run FF 2.0.0.13 on Vista home.

[gkrishn]

Yesterday installed the vista ultimate(system builders version...) on my new rig. Probably the cd drive was a let down. It took roughly 15-20 mins for complete installation. The stupid bios has set the fsb ratio to minimum by default. I noticed it only after the installtion...

Since then, have been browsing for about 20-30 mins. Opened up couple of browser window and about 6,7 tabs in each of them and the response was pretty good in switching between them. Thats all the stress that i have done so far... will keep this thread updated with my experiance.

The vista score was 5.9 for the cpu,hard disk and gfx card. And 5.6 for the memory. Not sure what to make out of this...

[clevermax]

Originally Posted by vivekiny2k

in XP I would have to logout and login with admin access to install stuff, I like vista because I can do it by just typing my admin passwd. i like it better.

Even in XP, you can "Run As" any program (even IE) from any user account. This means you can run the browser with a non-admin rights privileged user account even thout you have logged in interactively as an admin, and vice versa.

Thats what I do. I log in locally as an Admin, but when I run the browser, I run it as a normal user without Admin rights.

And of course in WinXP, you can install programs from a non admin user just by selecting "Run As" on the setup.exe, and providing Admin password.

[2theMax]

Originally Posted by normally_crazy

XP ? I am not using XP now, I run FF 2.0.0.13 on Vista home.

Darn! Thought you had reverted back to XP from Vista. Anyway cheers !