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19. August 2008 @ 09:34 |
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Intersting, it sure as hell fooled the hell out of me, I agree there are many vista haters out there myself included but for many reasons not just cause of the drm crap, but it wasnt just bloggers, I read from reputable sites like pcworld, logergnome, techrepublic, znet and on, all of them were saying the same things.
I remember wanted to buy a new pc and could not anymore at my local circuitcity or bestbuy etc. cause I was to late for XP, even all the people at those stores said the same thing, I remember asking could they revert xp back for me and all said oh to much trouble cant be done, I even asked a local computer repair shop cause as many people know the people at best buy or circuitcity are not the smartest, so the people at the computer shop told me it can be done but they cant gaurantee anything cause they to said it could cause many problems, go figure.
Now I read many people do revert back to xp, we even have sites you can order computers from they sell vista with xp downgrades they supple for you even though I would call it an upgrade thats how much I think of vista, and now you say you can do all these things with no problem, man would I like to sit all those experts on a table right now and ask what the hell was that all about, it was big news in the beggining, and not even one little statement to recant any of it now, bad policy. Thanks for the comeback LOCOENG
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19. August 2008 @ 10:04 |
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I was one of those guys who said he'd never go to Vista, but I tried it on my new rig and loved it...now I have to intention of going back to XP.
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19. August 2008 @ 15:12 |
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i've been using anydvd, imgburn, dvd shrink, alcohol 120%, and nero with no problems on vista. they have never given the "works for older OS" popup.
UAC is annoying, so disabling it is recommended.
it is possible to get a standard 32bit vista to see 4gigs. you'll have to do some tweaking to enable it. LINK to guide.
ps2: v7 scph-39001 - independence exploit - hdloader 0.8c - maxtor 300gb hdd
(+[__]%) psp slim ta-085v1: 6.60 PRO B10
wii (powered by bootmii/priiloader): 4.1u - d2x v10beta53-alt (base 56) - configurable usb loader v70r51/devolution r188 - wd scorpio black 7200rpm 320gig w/ ams venus ds2 enclosure
got a whole lot more to list . . .
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19. August 2008 @ 17:25 |
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Originally posted by LOCOENG:
I was one of those guys who said he'd never go to Vista, but I tried it on my new rig and loved it...now I have to intention of going back to XP.
Ya, I may not 'love' it per say, but I've grown used to it. When I got my graduation laptop, it came with Vista - what a shock. I was too lazy to install XP or even Linux so I just started putting my programs on Vista. Now, I have so many programs already installed, it would be more of a pain to move all my files and settings and stuff over to another OS than to just deal with the problems that come up in Vista, not that I have many. After disabling UAC and all of Vista's other security stuff, then installing AVG free and ZoneAlarm, I haven't had many/any problems as far as security goes. Of course, I just recently installed Fedora, so I will probably only be using it for playing around with WEP cracking and Linux proprietary stuff.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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31. August 2008 @ 14:19 |
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Hi, I have a question relating to vista.
I'm leaving in a while to buy a new acer laptop that comes with Vista home premium (and maybe even SP1). I asked the salesman if the laptop came with a recovery CD or not. He said laptops no longer come with Vista recovery CDs, but that I can make one myself. He didn't know how, so here is my question:
Can I make a recovery/installation CD of vista, and if so how?????????
This is the first thing I want to do when I get the laptop to be on the safe side
Thanks
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31. August 2008 @ 15:40 |
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31. August 2008 @ 15:54 |
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So I can use this CD/DVD to do a full format and re-install in case the laptop comes with a ton of bloatware???
Thanks again
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31. August 2008 @ 16:16 |
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NOTE
The Recovery Disc created here does not install Vista. It is also not like the OEM Vista recovery DVD that comes with most store bought computers. Instead it is used to boot from to repair your already installed Vista. See the example below for the options available from the recovery disc when booted from.
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This can be useful if you only have a OEM Vista recovery DVD or partition and would like to have a dvd to boot from to repair your Vista instead of reinstalling it. Plus, the recovery disk files are small enough to fit on a CD if you do not want to or can use a DVD.
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31. August 2008 @ 17:03 |
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Originally posted by Ray92:
Hi, I have a question relating to vista.
I'm leaving in a while to buy a new acer laptop that comes with Vista home premium (and maybe even SP1). I asked the salesman if the laptop came with a recovery CD or not. He said laptops no longer come with Vista recovery CDs, but that I can make one myself. He didn't know how, so here is my question:
Can I make a recovery/installation CD of vista, and if so how?????????
This is the first thing I want to do when I get the laptop to be on the safe side
Thanks[/quote
Laptops may not have recovery dics but they di cine up with their own recovery disc makers from any laptop you get soo all you need is a dew blank DVD's. I did this when i bought my laptop and my sisters in dubai.
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31. August 2008 @ 17:33 |
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Originally posted by borhan9:
Laptops may not have recovery dics but they di cine up with their own recovery disc makers from any laptop you get soo all you need is a dew blank DVD's. I did this when i bought my laptop and my sisters in dubai.
Sorry, but I really get what you are saying. could you explain what you mean
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31. August 2008 @ 19:15 |
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@Ray92-
I don't think Vista itself has a recovery disk maker. However, usually the manufacturers install some sort of proprietary program that you can use to create recovery disks. For example, my Sony Vaio came with a Sony Vaio proprietary program that I used to create my restore disks. I suggest finding the program that came with your laptop (look for a start help center as it may have a link or directions), make the disks, then either (a) remove all Vista/manufacturer crap programs, or (b) trash Vista altogether and install XP, Linux, or something. I would recommend (b) if you have enough know how to do that. I probably should say though, that I am still running Vista because I was too lazy to deal with it at first, so now I've got all my programs and stuff on it.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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31. August 2008 @ 21:11 |
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I'll stick with Vista, as I don't really mind it. I just wanted to know if it was possible to create a restore disk before I bought my acer, as I've I heard they come loaded with tonnes of crap.
Once I'll get it, I'll look for a program that will let me make a restore disk
Thanks for your replies
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31. August 2008 @ 22:23 |
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Originally posted by Ray92:
Originally posted by borhan9:
Laptops may not have recovery dics but they di cine up with their own recovery disc makers from any laptop you get soo all you need is a dew blank DVD's. I did this when i bought my laptop and my sisters in dubai.
Sorry, but I really get what you are saying. could you explain what you mean
Sorry ment that laptops may not come with recovery discs. but they do come with revovery programs besides the windows based one. And they just require a few DVD's and you can create your own recovery discs for the laptops you buy.
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1. September 2008 @ 00:39 |
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Originally posted by Ray92:
I'll stick with Vista, as I don't really mind it. I just wanted to know if it was possible to create a restore disk before I bought my acer, as I've I heard they come loaded with tonnes of crap.
Once I'll get it, I'll look for a program that will let me make a restore disk
Thanks for your replies
No problem. As a side note, it's quite shameful that customers nolonger get physical copies of the actual installation disk of the OS with the computers they buy. We shouldn't have to make restore disks with our own disks because our already expensive license doesn't come with a physical install disk.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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1. September 2008 @ 01:45 |
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So what happens if your laptop doesn't have a burner?
You have bought nothing with vista.. that's the scam, and it's a disgrace!
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11. September 2008 @ 19:48 |
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When I got my laptop I used the included software from Acer and it took 2 DVDs to make the recovery disk and one with all drivers/software.
I have another question.
Every time I open a folder for the first time in Vista the default view is list/details which I hate.
Is there any way to change the default icons in Vista to tiles, so that every time I open some folder all the files and sub folders are shown as tiles???
Thanks
Help is much appreciated
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12. September 2008 @ 00:30 |
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12. September 2008 @ 09:49 |
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Thanks LOCOENG
It was just what I was looking for
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12. September 2008 @ 12:06 |
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You are very welcome ;)
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14. September 2008 @ 03:25 |
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hi every1 plz help me on this
i have a hd with 2 partitions. win xp is in partition c while my backup files are in partition d. i want to install windows vista by formatting the c drive.(clean new install).everything is fine till here.but the problem is that if i do not like vista,can i go back to xp by just formatting the c drive and istalling xp again??(not doing anyting to d partition since i have important stuff in it).
also can my pc handle vista without any problem specs are below
intel core 2 dup e45oo 2.2 ghz
corsair xms2 2gb ram ddr 2(single stick)
xfx 9600 gt xxx edition
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14. September 2008 @ 08:00 |
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You shouldn't have a problem with either upgrading to vista or downgrading back later, by formatting you C drive. Nothing will happen to your D drive, because your pc will treat each partition like a different drive.
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14. September 2008 @ 09:34 |
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14. September 2008 @ 19:06 |
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@moon1990
If you're so worried about what will happen to your important stuff on your D drive, I would have those files backed up to another HDD or a very least on cd or dvd discs. HDDs do crash now and then. Back up your stuff, before $hit happens!
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21. September 2008 @ 05:21 |
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pardon my newbness on the forums, but i just registered my account fairly recently. here's my question (network related):
i just recently got charter internet service installed in my apartment, but i wasn't aware the they were going to give me a wireless router/modem combo instead of just a modem. i currently own a linksys wireless-n router (that i rigorously setup to my specifications) and would much rather use that than the crappy netgear one charter provided me with. i have never experienced setting up a network with modem that is also a router, however. so my question is what do i have to do within my linksys router and the netgear router/modem to make it so that the netgear is only acting as a modem and the linksys is acting as my home's router? be as detailed as you like :)
thank you in advance, and i don't know what i'd do without afterdawn!
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