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Oct 25^th, 2008 at 3:30pm

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I'm pretty much done with Vista right now Undecided

Constant updates etc the most recent made me waste 4 hours of MY time to fix it back/restore and "Windows may (MAY?!) restart during this process" 8 TIMES. Angry

That's where I'm at. I see XP Pro 64bit on eBay from 50-90 bucks. Worth looking at? I have a valid copy of Vista Home Premium so I can somehow contact Microsoft to get them to send me a non resell copy of XP? Worth a shot? Vista has it's ups and downs. But more downs than ups. Opinions? Help here?

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Reply #1 - Oct 25^th, 2008 at 3:56pm

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SP2 for Vista is coming out. Lets just all hope that SP2 for Vista will be as good as SP2 for XP.

I use my Vista Laptop for general use and family use but for hardcore gaming and performance I use my Homebuilt XP Pro. Wink

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Reply #2 - Oct 25^th, 2008 at 5:02pm

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I have read that the main problem with Vista 64 is the lack of 64-bit drivers from sotware vendors, and of course it's compatibility glitches.
Many are complaining about thousands of registry entries in Vista.
In many cases an XP 64-bit machine is up to 64% faster than an identically prepared Vist 64-bit, even after driver updates for Vista.

Vista 32-bit seems to be more compatible with current apps and software than Vista 64, but then what's the point?

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