if you never had a virus that means you don't download anything!
i gotta learn more about vista!
If you have a nice computer with a good processer and plenty of RAM it should work fine. (The only reason I have it because Toshiba does not support Windows XP and Windows Vista looks good)
(10-04-2009, 10:07 PM)QBANBOY407 Wrote: [ -> ]if you never had a virus that means you don't download anything!
i gotta learn more about vista!
What are you talking about? I download stuff all the time. It's just that I have a decent AV and make sure I know what I'm opening. Avast usually picks up any viruses I get. I've had Vista since it was released so don't say I need to learn more.
Yeah, ive never had a BSOD on vista. Never had a virus either.
I prefer the UI of Vista to XP but my Vista laptop is so God damn slow. I'll be upgrading to 7 ASAP when it comes out.
(10-05-2009, 05:33 AM)Raptor Jesus Wrote: [ -> ]What are you talking about? I download stuff all the time. It's just that I have a decent AV and make sure I know what I'm opening. Avast usually picks up any viruses I get. I've had Vista since it was released so don't say I need to learn more.
I said i need to learn more about Vista not you!
i thought you said you didn't need an anti virus that's why i wrote that!
i have Avast too!
Vista came pre-installed on my Dell 1545 and to be honest its not a bad operating system. I dual boot it with Ubuntu 9.04 with the ubuntustudio packages, and Dell officially supports Ubuntu so all newish laptops from Dell just work with it.
I do use Vista as my primary OS at the moment though, and for the permission issues navgate to Control Panel>Users>Turn User account control on/off and disable it. Be aware that this may be a security risk though.
The only thing good about Windows Vista are the looks.
I've had several BSOD's actually, all because of a stupid faulty old driver that Vista kept trying to load.
One thing that bugged me to hell with Vista was its "Security Management" or something? I can't really remember it right now, but it'd stop me from running Firefox or something. The same happened with my sister-in-law's laptop when she had Vista. I really wish I could remember the name. It's like, Security Digital Protection, maybe? Whatever. All I know is that even if you turn it off, it still stays on.