Vista SP1 Guides for IT Professionals Released

I call it an upgrade to Windows XP Pro
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=643

You wouldn't consider the money spent on a car a "sunk cost" and write it off... but that is quibbling over unrelated things. I already mentioned what I consider to be advantages to Vista in past posts.


Preinstalled OEM may not, but my OEM version of Ultimate certainly does. Repeatedly...

OEM Vista doesn't need activation

it came preinstalled on this Acer laptop :/
and not all devices have drivers for XP

What advantages? Did I miss something about Vista?


And rationally, you shouldn't look at the money spent, because those are sunk costs.

Because there are plenty of advantages to go with the plenty of disadvantages. Not to mention as you said, I spent money on it!

Wutske, if I wanted to be downright mean I'd tell you to pull out your CMOS battery, laptop or not, and see what happens the next time you boot Vista. Booting Windows Vista with the incorrect BIOS clock will let you experience activation hell as a bonus feature that XP can't claim to have.

I don't have much problems with Vista. Okay, I sometimes have to clear the hibernation file to prevent some bluescreens when my laptop wakes up.
Everything works fine after some tweaking

I wonder why anyone would bother with Vista when they have troubles. Why don't they just write off their loss of money and reinstall XP.

Aye, I'm having so many repeating activation issues now that I am losing my patience. Not to mention every single game will crash when I attempt to exit from the game. For whatever reason they do not shut down correctly.

For anyone that usese Vista and must hard reset their BIOS... make doubly sure to correctly set your system clock in your BIOS before you even attempt to load Vista. If not it will put you through a never ending activation hell until you reinstall from scratch.

also noticed now CPU spikes when using WLAN, great :/
not going to troubleshoot this until SP1 releases, if afterwards SP1 doesn't solve it, I will consider downgrade to XP (again);

jmke, if you install processexplorernt then you can see in a histogram which program causes the spikes.
If you never use DRM-protected media or wma/wmv movies then you can disable the pipelinecache so playing regular mp3s is less stressing your cpu (you can still use media player classic to play wmv/wma files).

weird, it's also happening now without any music playing, just random spikes to 100% when browsing and visiting a page with video/audio embed, that will cause it too

I tried to reproduce this. Strangely playing music does not cause more than ~1% usage. However when browsing the music directory I noticed that is what causes 100% load spikes on a core. It is not the music playing, just the browsing in explorer. Simply using the back/forward button will do it.

also playing back music, over network, will spike CPU usage to 100% every few minutes, rendering dual core laptop useless. this is frustrating.

That is less than 25 years.

when is the final expected?

really hope to solve this