Reply to: Vista

[ChimpMaster]

I've got my drivers up to spec and still am not being offered SP1. has everyone in the world now got it except me?

I'm not even sure I want it, seeing as my Vista is running just fine... but can't help but feel that I'm missing out on something.

[YHB]

Just bought a top of range XPS, 2.5 GIG ram used with a few programs running- majority taken up by the desktop manager ie the fancy interface (dwm.exe).

Turn this off to basic and you may as well use xp

[xoggoth]

All seems much better now post SP1 and office aps do not take ages to open.

[Fishface]

Indeed. I've had various reports of crashes and graphical glitches, and it's turned out to be machine specific dodgy drivers. It's the same thing we went through with XP; if anything XP was worse as that was the first time home users started using a proper version of Windows. Everybody seems to have forgotten that.

yes, I got this - the ATI control center driver caused freeze, black screen then BSOD after waking laptop from sleep.

there is a compatibility problem with the service pack - the fix is to reinstall the driver manually and choose the Microsoft signed version of the driver which is several versions old and install that as the driver - seems to work.

It doesn't seem to effect the display just the 'ATI control center' gripes about not being the latest driver installed.

[Diver]

I've never had that problem, you sure your computer is up to spec?

I had the same problems when I first ran Vista on the new Dell Dimension 9200

Link

Took me a while to sort it, Now I prefer Vista.

[blacjac]

I've never had that problem, you sure your computer is up to spec?

[thunderlizard]

I have now turned off the search service.

oh thanks for that tip! Since doing that yesterday, those sudden 5-minute hangs are a thing of the past.

I couldn't even watch DVDs to accompany my dinner, because in the time it took Media Player to start up, I'd finished the meal.

[scooterscot]

SP2 is available for download next month...


just kidding

[Peoplesoft bloke]

SP1 removes all the indexing and so this has to be rebuilt. Your hard drive will thrash like crazy until this is done, but mine hardly light's up at all now (most of my work is done via RDP).

Cool thanks - I was hoping it might be something like that - cheers

[blacjac]

Thanks SP1 downloaded last night and installed. Installation seems to have removed some of my desktop widgets, and hard drive is thrashing like crazy this morning, but I'll leave it a bit and see if it calms down, maybe the install is still doing something?

SP1 removes all the indexing and so this has to be rebuilt. Your hard drive will thrash like crazy until this is done, but mine hardly light's up at all now (most of my work is done via RDP).

[Peoplesoft bloke]

How exactly is Ubuntu misbehaving? I'm no Linux geek, but some here are and might be able to help if you explain what's going wrong. It's even possible that my Unix knowledge (derived mainly from OS X's BSD base, not Linux) might be of help.

Probably best to start a new thread for that, though - unless Vista has a Unix core they've been keeping quiet about

Thanks - I will post a new thread.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Thanks SP1 downloaded last night and installed. Installation seems to have removed some of my desktop widgets, and hard drive is thrashing like crazy this morning, but I'll leave it a bit and see if it calms down, maybe the install is still doing something?

[blacjac]

Should have done. Mine auto installed at the begining of May

[VectraMan]

Are you running Service Pack 1? I believe the service pack contains some improvements with respect to file copying, explained in Mark Russinovich's blog. I've certainly seen improved performance when chucking files around network shares.

I was getting about 1MB/s copying from an XP machine, and it went up to 10MB/s once I installed SP1 (over 100Mb ethernet so that's about what you'd expect). Don't know how MS managed to cock that up.

Hasn't SP1 rolled out over windows update yet? I had to do mine manually, but that was 2 months ago.

[NickFitz]

I've been hoist by my own petard for advocating Ubuntu in preference to Vista. Ubuntu has started misbehaving and I can't get a good answer about why on the ubuntu forums. Although Vista is slower, it's behaving.

How exactly is Ubuntu misbehaving? I'm no Linux geek, but some here are and might be able to help if you explain what's going wrong. It's even possible that my Unix knowledge (derived mainly from OS X's BSD base, not Linux) might be of help.

Probably best to start a new thread for that, though - unless Vista has a Unix core they've been keeping quiet about