MicroSoft updates WAIT !!!

It does work but there's a difference between works and works well. A friend of mine put xp on an old 486 for his 2 year old to play with. It worked, didn't crash or anything, but it was really slow

Vista is a train wreck in my opinion. They finally got it working ok but I'd have to get a new machine to use it. Since I have to save up for that, I may as well wait for 7 to come out. It might be the first copy of windows I buy since that copy of 98se that ate my machine 10 years ago. Then again, linux is looking pretty good.

 

I'm running Win7 RC 64 bit and it is only using .8gigs. It boots up faster than vista or Xp, and so far have had zero issue..

 

I have Windows 7 installed on my netbook (Acer Aspire One, running Intel Atom N270, 1.5 GB RAM), and it works like a charm...
I also have it installed as a dual boot on my desktop(Intel Quad Core Q9650, 4 GB RAM), and it works like a charm...
Have it installed on both of my kids computers (one is a P4 2.4 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, second is the old Celeron 1.7 Ghz, 512 RAM), and it works like a charm...also on my Toshiba Laptop(Intel Centrino, I think 1.7 Ghz, 1 GB RAM)

It runs about the same one every computer...runs well

This is the first OS that Microsoft released, that actually works as advertised, since Windows 2000 (XP was not so good when it was released, it took SP1 for it to actually work good)


We will see how the final release looks like, but, so far, it looks promising. Aero works good even on old Celeron with a on-board video card

 

I have a house full of XP machines at home, all being used by my wife and daughters with little or no computer skills, and as with most of us truckers, I'm not there to help maintain them. Windows XP has been a nightmare in the last year. Yes it was a stable OS, but the fact that it lacks Vista's User Access Controls, which by the way was an idea that was stolen from several linux distros, viruses and malware too easily slip by and get installed without the user even knowing it. Not that I'm championing Vista, it's a bloated piece of crap. But XP is getting a little long in the tooth if you ask me. Every time I walk in through my front door someone hands me an infected computer and wants me to fix it. Last month a nasty bug found it's way on to my daughter's laptop and spread through my home network and infected every computer in the house. I've tried turning the family on to Ubuntu, but to no avail.

As for waiting to apply a windows update, which is what started this thread, bad idea. When those patches come out, it shows the virus authors the security holes the Microsoft team has found. They in turn take immediate advantage of those holes, and your unpatched PC is a target. Driver updates you can skip, but security updates I would apply immediately.

 

Google Linux Mint. It is by far the most impressive Linux I've ever seen. It is extremely easy for beginners. If you are used to windows, you'll feel right at home with Mint. As I said in an earlier post, I tried to turn some of my family to Ubuntu, had big problems, because it lacks out of the box java, mp3, and flash support, but with Mint all that stuff works right out of the box. If I had known about Linux Mint earlier, I think it would have won them over.

 

yep..installed sp2 for vista.. thinking im bored on my 10 then went to restart and BAM....!!!! my air card all of a sudden crashed.... uninstalled sp2 just so my air card would work..1hr lost

 

Yes, but who is going to write a virus for linux? The virus writers want to infect as many people as possible, so they are going for the OS that the majority of people are using....windows.

 

I don't even have antivirus on mine. Computer viruses work the same way real ones do. You have to be exposed to an infected person or contaminated surface to get one. I have all ads blocked so they can't get in through malicious scripts or whatever ( I loathe advertising anyway), I don't go surfing porn sites (the number one easiest way to get infected quick), and I really don't do much else to expose myself to them. I install an antivirus every once in a while just to check and see if they've made a version that doesn't mess with my stuff, treat me like a child, and generally piss me off (they haven't), but I never have any viruses, trojans, etc.

Probably the best way to keep from being infected is to figure out where the infections are coming from and don't go there anymore.