whats is your reason for not swiching to vista?

[Minicoop503]

Used in on my laptop for about a month and really wasnt impressed with the new layout, made things harder to find for me plus i got about 10 crashes BSOD's in the month i was using it, i much prefer windows xp, neat uncluttered and no fancy interfaces that hog resources

Ive got a vista premuim 32 bit disk if anyone wants it, Im staying with xp for the time being :)

I'll take it! :)

[Chris_Redfield]

About 600mb idle with Anti Virus and a range of background programs running.

:shock:

Holy sh!t

[=98=]

That's low for my sort of desktop. For a laptop or something that's killer. But, i do run a lot of background processes :O

[Chris_Redfield]

Thats still a whole messload. Right now, I have AVG antivirus, 3 internet windows, Mediaplayer and MSN running along with DivX and Im at 350MBs. CPU usage 3-6%.

[sava700]

Thats still a whole messload. Right now, I have AVG antivirus, 3 internet windows, Mediaplayer and MSN running along with DivX and Im at 350MBs. CPU usage 3-6%.

yeah I agree...600MBs is really too high.... I'd be killing off some services or finding another anti-virus if thats the big puller. To be honest...anything on Vista or even XP over 400MB's is too high.

[jake_]

yeah I agree...600MBs is really too high.... I'd be killing off some services or finding another anti-virus if thats the big puller. To be honest...anything on Vista or even XP over 400MB's is too high.

When you have 3gb?

[jesus]

About 600mb idle with Anti Virus and a range of background programs running.

wow that's great, I can't wait to get SP1. I usually idle around 800mb - 900mb with IE7 and a few tabs open and MSN open too

[peeth]

MSN, xfire, 6 Firefox 2 tabs, Avast!, 6 Sidebar gadgets and speedfan puts me at 1365MB with standard Vista, but i have 4GB so i don't really care.

[sava700]

When you have 3gb?

what?? Doesn't make no difference even if you have 16GB of Ram... the OS is still using too much!!

wow that's great, I can't wait to get SP1. I usually idle around 800mb - 900mb with IE7 and a few tabs open and MSN open too

FYI for anyone else waiting on it to come straight from Microsoft:

Microsoft will release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 next week to a wider audience, according to information posted on Amazon.com and reports from a Web site that correctly called SP1's ship date last month.

Amazon currently lists Vista SP1 retail copies as available next Wednesday, March 19, while TechARP.com, the Malaysian Web site that nailed the update's release to manufacturing (RTM) date several days early, said users would be able to download SP1 starting Tuesday, March 18.

[jesus]

what?? Doesn't make no difference even if you have 16GB of Ram... the OS is still using too much!!



FYI for anyone else waiting on it to come straight from Microsoft:

I'll be able to get SP1 through automatic updates, right?

[sava700]

I'll be able to get SP1 through automatic updates, right?

Unless what I posted isn't true or Microsoft delays it again..then yes sometime mid day you should see it on "Windows Updates" ....do a manual search don't wait on the automatic to pull it down unless you want to wait a few more weeks.

If it doesn't happen tomorrow pm me

[theminx]

wow 4 pages later ...
id say this was a topic to be discussed...

FYI my xp runs at desktop 99.00 megs of ram with bitdefender av, and windows blinds.
total of 15 processes..
with out av ...
67.5 sumthing megs of ram on desktop..
so in saying that ...
swiching from xp to vista and its given 600 megs of ram at desktop...

THAT IS A HUGE DIFFRENCE!!!

[.Gunfire]

how many processes should a person have?

currently running with 22 processes at 252 (Firefox with 2 tabs)

[=98=]

I run about 50 processes idle.

[sava700]

I run about 50 processes idle.

JESUS!! :cry: that makes me wanna cry!


I just took a gander at my gaming rig and I counted 8 :p

LEAN AND MEAN BABY!