Vista: good or bad?

[P_RePTiLe]

Originally Posted by psychodude

The server editions are a charm though, it's essentially no different from the mainstream versions but with most of the unneeded stuff taken out.

Xp + N-lite is the way to go.
At risk of being tiresome and repetive, my custom n-lited windows-install-disc (At about 150-200 MB) is the best darn thing i have ever run, and have been doing so for about a year.
No issues, and every shutdown and boot is as quick and instant as the first one were.

internet explorer gone,
commandline-tools gone,
firefox 2 slipstreamed
fresh enough nvidia-drivers slipstreamed (fresh enough for my system)
theme-support gone.
indexing gone.
about 10-15 services, not disabled but completely removed as _i_ don't need them.
And a lot of configuration done already.
And much more details.

I run no firewall or antivirus software, and surfs with my trusted router and common sense and cautios experience.

I am a system-performance addict, and the bottom-line is that my system is a gift from above.

- I'll promise to stop "bragging" about it from here on forward.

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( #1 Core2Duo E8400 @ 3.61 Ghz, 3072 MB DDR2-RAM @ 802mhz, XFX Geforce GTX260 XT - N-Lited WinXP SP3 and Arch Linux 64-bit).

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[Glaedrin]

Originally Posted by runawayprisoner

Too much hassle. And there are articles all over the place to disable the license forcing thing. Plus Microsoft doesn't do anything about them (some are even from Microsoft employees) so maybe they are really giving Server 2008 out for free.

Yeah, I remember doing the SysPrep Trick for Server 2003, it wasn't really a trick, more like an app that you could download from Microsoft that has the ability to erase/change the ID of the Windows OS that you had, allowing you to bypass the whole timer thing.

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CPU: AMD 4600+ 2.41Ghz
RAM: 2Gb of Corsair DDR2 4-4-4-12 800Mhz
Graphics Card: ATI X1900XT
OS: Windows XP SP2 FTW

[QuantumDelta]

Originally Posted by S.SubZero

HAY VISTA SUXX ON MY IBM PC AT DOS 3.0 IS SO MUCH BETTER VISTA SUXXXX

I think you mat have missed that this was an XP related list....
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