Wise registry cleaner geeks11/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Look how long it takes to browse a lousy little workgroup network with ten or twenty machines just to show you what’s there. Wait until at least Service Pack 5 before you’ll consider touching it. This pile of junk will be worse than NT 4 was. Given all our experiences with hardware over the years, how likely is that? Microsoft thought it would be a great idea to turn the clock back fifteen years regarding ethernet reliability, and have needless support for TOE network cards where much that was done by the OS is now put on to the network card.Ī working network depends greatly on you having NICs that play nice and do the right thing. This is the biggest reason why I won’t use Longhorn Server in particular, and won’t touch it. NICs restart are so slow and sometimes eventful Getting out of sleep mode will show that your network shares are offline while in reality if you click on them they are onlineĪnd they still haven’t fixed that years old chestnut. It’s as meaningful in Vista now as it is in Linux. I also wouldn’t pay too much attention to the memory indicator. You’re burning from a network share there, so Nero will be caching. Mobile computing anyone? Vista isn’t a mobile OS.īurning DVD from a network server share with Nero Buring ROM 7.5.9 (100% vista compatible) made RAM reach from 450MB to 990 MB! This becomes even more of a must with wireless. It cannot even intelligently think “Oh, this network isn’t available, I won’t try and mount them right now” – it just spends five minutes trying to mount non-existent shares. Watch what happens when you move around with your laptop or something, and don’t have your network plugged in where your network shares were. Mounting network drives 5 of them will cause vista to slow 2x during startup. oh … I cannot continue mentioning more because there will not be enough space for others on this form to write. Recovery tools on the DVD ROM is very very weak and will sometimes not be able to correct boot sector classical errors which fixboot was able to fix.ġ6. Way Tooooooo much clicks for administrators to reach their tools for troubleshooting tools still confusing and never works as intended especially “perfmon.msc”.ġ5. Uninstalling applications leaves huge fingerprints on the registery, so this OS seems to be prone for aging weaknesses.ġ4. Windows explorer still crashes and when happens it will take out the GUI with it untill it restarts successfully which is not the case always.ġ3. ![]() selecting text on IE7 for copy and paste task will deform the text and make it difficult to really know what you have selectedġ2. NICs restart are so slow and sometimes eventfulġ1. So supporting high resolution monitors are a jokeġ0. ![]() dpi scaling messes up the system fonts and windows, ie text overlap windows so some text from popup windows cannot be read. Huge initial memory usage 450MB after startupĩ. Cannot turn off some hardware acceleration of my graphics card to troubleshoot mouse jurks (greyed out)Ĩ. Getting out of sleep mode will show that your network shares are offline while in reality if you click on them they are onlineħ. Burning DVD from a network server share with Nero Buring ROM 7.5.9 (100% vista compatible) made RAM reach from 450MB to 990 MB!Ħ. searching from start menu will give you results but when you click on these searches it will not start the application associated with itĥ. Had regular IE7 restarts when opening 10 tabs and watching web sites with flash/quicktime/shockwave plugins. Installing nvidia dirver 9746 didn’t improve the graphics score or stopped the mouse curser from locking up and freezing sometimes up to 6 seconds which looks like a computer freeze.ģ. Mounting network drives 5 of them will cause vista to slow 2x during startup.Ģ. Well, I have been using vista final enterprise and ultimate editions (on 2 separate HDDs) for at least a month and during this I have discovered how doggy this OS is.ġ. ![]()
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