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Old April 4th, 2008   #23 (permalink)
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This is what I don't understand as well. I have a Pentium-D 2.8ghz, 1.5gb of RAM and a GeForce 8600GTS, not exactly a high end system and I just don't get why people who have better systems than I do have so many problems with Vista. The only software I needed a new version of was Nero and the only hardware that needed a new driver was my Lexmark All in One. Gaming is also very good, if there is any difference I certainly haven't noticed it and in the case of some older games Vista runs them better than XP, even with the dual-core hotfix installed.
One thing that was a major pizzor for me is the same thing as you, the Lexmark drivers. I don't blame Vista for that though, I blame Lexmark's lazy asses who didn't want to create a Vista compatible driver for my printer.

Luckily my father was able to get a new printer so he gave me his old HP printer/scanner so all is not lost.

Generally my experience with Vista has been quite pleasant so far besides a few minor annoyances.

UAC is a small annoyance, but it's not so annoying that it leads me to disabling it.

For some emulators/games to work properly I had to give permissions for Vista to write to the emulators/games folder in the C:\Program Files directory.

Right now I'm only using the 32-bit Vista, I plan on picking up the 64-bit version soon when I get some more money.

Right now I currently dual boot XP64 and Vista 32-bit, only reason I have XP64 right now is to test games via Dolphin 64 Beta 3.

However once I'm able to purchase Vista64 I'll be ditching XP altogether.
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