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See, this is a good post. Most of the vista posts I see are just "vista sucks" or "vista rules" blah blah. People chant that they love/hate it but never give reasons.

Vista was definitely released WAY before it was ready. Microsoft originally designed it with a TON of new features, but those features were pulled before Vista was finally released. Now there's not much new left to Vista, and a TON of bugs.

It just shouldn't have been released yet. Sure it looks nice on the surface, but there are plenty of problems under the hood. For example, in some configurations, Vista cannot save files, or create folders out on a network share (at least if the share is on Windows 2003 Server). If you try, it will complain that the parent folder does not exist, or will say you do not have permissions. We had a few Vista laptops at our office with that problem. The user was a local administrator, and everyone on the domain had "full control" of the actual share on the 2003 box, so permissions shouldn't be an issue.

Microsoft's fix? A registry hack. I don't know if they ever released an actual patch for it or not.

I'll stick with XP, or Linux.

IF there are TONS of bugs, you should can give me 10 of them?

Well perhaps I shouldn't say "a TON", but I know there were plenty of issues that I had with Vista RC2 and Beta versions. Of course I'm sure a lot of those were fixed before the final release. I haven't used the final release much myself, but two of the IT directors at my office have it on their laptops and hate it. The director I reported to had a lot of problems with Vista locking up at various times, the "permission violation" problems connecting to win2k3 shares, and other things. He got to the point where he got a copy of XP from our admins and "downgraded" to XP. The laptop runs MUCH better now.

It's not an old laptop either.

Make sure your primary boot device is set on the CD rom. Enter the Bios on start up and set it there.

Also expect to be asked for ASCI/SATA Drivers which are usually on a floppy with your Motherboard. But if it does tell me, I will explain you how to get past this annoying Driver thing. I had it happen on my laptop and I got no Floppy drive whatsoever on it,neither is it possible to do a boot disk with the drivers on it because the laptop only has one drive. So basically it was almost impossible to install XP on it unless I found a USB floppy drive. But I found a Topic that explained how to bypass the sata drive loop thing.

you must have a shit version of vista

ultimate 64bit is runnin fine here.

Google format C

if its xp professional, you can downgrade it
otherwise: format your harddrive (you can better put it into another pc and format it from there, much easier)

tbh, only reason i like vista is cuz of toolbar+gadgets