Team-BHP - Windows Vista Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by GTO (Post 668615)

Try a software like partition magic or similar.

You can create new partitions within Vista, no need to buy partition magic.

Go to disk management, right click on your hard drive and choose "shrink volume" and reduce the size of the current partition. Then with the available free space, you can create new partitions. It will not take more than a minute and there is no need to reboot the computer!

You can also try freeware such as Parted Magic or Gparted etc.

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Originally Posted by adya33 (Post 668625)

And I have question to all people saying Vista sucks because it can not run XYZ software.

Well, on my laptop, if i play more than 4 video clips in WINDOWS Media Player, and go back and forth between them two or three times, it crashes the entire system, forcing a hard reboot.

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Originally Posted by amitoj (Post 668702)

Well, on my laptop, if i play more than 4 video clips in WINDOWS Media Player, and go back and forth between them two or three times, it crashes the entire system, forcing a hard reboot.

There are wayy to many parameters included in this.
Starting from drivers to video codecs to video encoding errors.

So yes, Vista may have quirks but it definitely doesn't suck.

Adya,

Even though I upgraded to 2GB RAM - Vista still is slower than XP. And there is a particular problem - suddenly the laptop starts making funny sounds even though there is no song/video playing and after a few minutes it starts dumping memory and shuts down.

When I start it up again - it is fine.

For me - Vista does suck - BIG TIME.

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Originally Posted by adya33 (Post 668853)

There are wayy to many parameters included in this.
Starting from drivers to video codecs to video encoding errors.

So yes, Vista may have quirks but it definitely doesn't suck.

Oh the same thing works just fine on VLC Media player, btw. Which, i installed after getting fed up with the windows media player, which i got with the OS.

And its not just a fixed set of clips i was talking about. Random clips!

all os will have problems in the forst year of their release xp was like that to initially
if u want to enjoy vista you need a dualcore cpu 2.2 ghz and upwards,minimun 2 gb ram upto 4 gb if u game on it also u need dx10 video card with min 256mb video mem also vista drivers are being updated everyday so u need to keep up with the latest drivers all this may be 2much for a laptop in the budget range
if u are pc gamer then desktop is the one to install vista 64 bit

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Originally Posted by dockap (Post 668957)

all os will have problems in the forst year of their release

And the first year of release for Windows was what? Nineteen-eighty-something?

Seems like a pretty long year to me, in which MS have been expecting us to pay, over and over, for every 'upgrade' :(

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Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom (Post 669002)

And the first year of release for Windows was what? Nineteen-eighty-something?

Seems like a pretty long year to me, in which MS have been expecting us to pay, over and over, for every 'upgrade' :(

Indulge me going OT here.

Microsoft Windows was covered by a magazine called Creative Computing in December 1985. I remember browsing that magazine in TCS's tiny library on the 10th floor of Air-India building, Nariman Pt., 22 years ago.

As a TCS software project lead, I got to design and build a cargo container transhipment planning system around the Microsoft Windows ver. 1.03 API in the summer of 1986 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Like to think I was India's first Windows programmer. If anybody has data to the contrary, I will happily stand corrected.
The Windows graphical environment was a layer that ran on top of MS-DOS. We chose Microsoft's Windows over two other contenders, IBM's TopView and Digital Research's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager).

There was no Microsoft Europe back then and we clarified our doubts over the phone with engineers at Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Other interesting gadgets for which we wrote Windows device drivers in the summer of 1986 were Hewlett-Packard's Laser Printer, Novell's first LAN card and IBM's Enhanced Graphics Adapter which provided a graphics resolution of 640x350 and a 16-color palette. This was the world's first graphics adapter to let Windows work in color.

Sorry, got carried away.

Ram

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Originally Posted by ram (Post 669287)

Microsoft Windows ver. 1.03 API in the summer of 1986 in Rotterdam
The Windows graphical environment was a layer that ran on top of MS-DOS. We chose Microsoft's Windows over two other contenders, IBM's TopView and Digital Research's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager).

Ram you are as old as me (now that is not good). I worked on IBM's EZ View at both Poughkipsee, NY and later Cary, NC. Lets see. the half life of Carbon is about 5000 years...so we are about ...fuggetaboutit years old.