Vista is officially pissing me off

[Ualaa]

I initially found vista to be a complete pain in the ass. Since service pack 1, its been a pretty decent operating system.
Prior to service pack 1, every single time I installed a creative update to my sound card or a windows security update, my system sound and dvd player stopped working until I did a system restore.
The second time I installed the updates everything went fine... which was more then a little annoying.

Since SP1, I've had no issues with it.

[Yamio]

When Windows 7 finally releases, will we think of Vista like how we think of Windows ME? Unnecessary, useless and a utter waste of time?

[Stealthy]

It's not just indexing that hammers the crap out of your hard drive after Vista boots... the prefetcher does it too. You might want to look into disabling that as well, although it'll probably increase certain application load times.

Interesting - I've only had Vista installed for a week but I can say this is the first time it's happened. I also don't have anything installed except firefox, WoW, and keyclone - not sure what it would be prefetching.

If you've only had it a week, did you have auto updates on? This kind of activity could be from Vista trying to install SP1...and a reboot wouldnt fix it - it would just reset the whole process.

Cheers,
S.

[Sam DeathWalker]

I still use Win2K on my main computer, but I bit the bullet I upgraded to XP on my 5 slaves.

I tried Vista about 8 months ago and gave up on it.

I hear good things about Win7 though.

Also for I thinks AMD duel core is faster for our use (I am pretty sure I will know for sure this week when I upgrade my motherboards) cause the clock rate is faster ....

I shut down a lot of those services that I dont use also.

[cairnz]

This thread made me laugh

Mr Admin, in your years of being an overpaid Unix/SAN-whatever, did you not learn not to use hard reboots?

So what if the disk is working, just leave it, it'll finish sooner or later.

Also, Resource monitor from the performance tab in task mangager, expand the "Disk" area, then watch what processes and files are being written and read to and from.

[d0z3rr]

Vista is officially pissing me off

Welcome to what 95%+ of the PC user base has already realized.

Vista is shit. Hence the reason Microsoft is pushing Windows 7 so hard.

98% of all facts are made up on the spot. Way to spread the FUD.

[d0z3rr]

Third, I'm a Sr. Unix/SAN System Admin (which by the way pays almost twice what windows system admins get paid)

HA! I lol'd pretty good there. I guess that means you make twice as much as I do?! I am inferior, I bow to your immense salary.

[Svpernova09]

Vista pisses me off too. Specifically because I spent 8 hours Saturday reverting BACK to XP from the colossal clusterfuck I created trying to move 2 XP machines to Vista 64. Then I got to spend 45 minutes in line returning my 2 vista boxes.


But what pisses me off even more, is regulars around here being dickheads to other regulars. Go be dickheads on WoW General forums.