Comments on: Consumers Demand XP Over Vista

By: Pmi

Pmi — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:15:05 +0000

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By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:54:19 +0000

I think the problem is that you are trying to install XP over Vista. Are you planning on a dual boot setup? If you are, then XP should be installed first then you install Vista next. If you are planning on installing over Vista then the best thing that you can do is to reformat your drive and start with a fresh install.

By: Himanshu

Himanshu — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:53:51 +0000

Hi have vista home premium installed in my laptop…i want to install xp …but dnt have a CD, instead i have the whole setup in my pendrive and the key aswell.How can I install it…whenever i try to install it thru boot sequence…it starts installing something and stops after a messsage”mouse driver installed successfully”. i am unable to figure it out…even tried with microsoft virtual machine application but the same thing happened again.

By: Wyliepops

Wyliepops — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:08:28 +0000

Windows Vista…I have found out the hard way about Vista compatability, it would be nice if developers would take previous o/s compatability into account when releasing new versions. Although compatability issues exist, Vista is a very nice o/s and will probably take a little while to gather a loyal following.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:41:14 +0000

I still think this is not much different than when XP came out. My brother and I both refused to upgrade from 98 to XP, because of system performance and game compatibility issues. At the time, Windows 98 ran everything faster and ran all our games with no issues, because the main kinks had been worked out of 98. And XP, while allowing for more memory and faster performance potential, also used more resources so ran slower on the same system. But, after a year or two, I upgraded. By that point, games were compatible, video cards were compatible, and everything ran more smoothly. I believe this will happen again with Vista, but of course I could be wrong.

By: HLWT

HLWT — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:35:18 +0000

Yep. I bought 2 games to play on my Vista machine, one (empire earth 2) was a hassle to get working, but wasn’t designed for Vista. The other, Defcon, was designed for Vista, but still had hiccups.

By: Tim Linden

Tim Linden — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:20:03 +0000

Jon is right.. My friends who have upgraded to Vista find themselves unable to play most of their games and use their programs. Sadly one of them lost his XP cd and can’t go back now..

By: Jon Symons

Jon Symons — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:58:09 +0000

Microsoft made a big mistake by releasing their “Vista upgrade analysis tool”. You run this thing and it tells you half your programs aren’t going to or may not work with Vista, so when you call Dell, of course you’re going to ask for XP. You’re right, it’s completely consumer driven, no way Dell wants the hassle of offering two Windows OS options.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:56:51 +0000

I’ve tried both and sold both (I sell computers), and I still like XP. Why? For me I need to squeeze every last drop of performance out of my machine and Vista doesn’t really do that for me.

Not to mention, lots of the specialized software I use doesn’t work well on Vista or at all.

I can sum it up in the following statement:

XP runs fast
Vista is a crawling beauty

By: Eli Tabs

Eli Tabs — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:39:37 +0000

Vista? They should have named it Waterloo.