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[Zygarth]

I tried vista, it wasn't all that bad. But there were hardly any drivers for my hardware. No drivers=no wireless internet. Then add the fact that I didn't have any sound drivers either and you come up with a pretty useless os. I'll just wait a while before I reinstall it.

[popinadam]

I've had Vista RC1 since it came out and have almost every driver I could need now, cept for SLI Support. But that's not too far away from what I can tell.

[Zygarth]

Hp has discontinued driver support for my scanner

[popinadam]

Yea, logitech discontinued support for my WebCam once any x64 OS came out.

[jmr]

im back trying vista again this month
just before xmas i made a vista ultimate disc with Vlite & it all worked fine with all the crap ripped out of it but it was still 1GB & slow
so today i made a home premium disc & got it down to 760mb
i ripped out all the microsoft junk now it runs way faster than my last version
plus ive got all my hardware working this time (yippee)

i think i might keep this copy

some of the junk i ripped out
card space
IE
Screensavers
Languages
SuperFetch
Windows Firewall
Parental Controls
Secondary logon
Cardspace
Media Player
Games
Etc, Etc, Etc

my rig
pentium D 805 @3.6 fsb180
1GB pc3200
ati x200 (mobo gfx)

[Hi]

DO NOT GET RID OF WINDOWS FIREWALL UNLESS YOU ARE USING A BETTER ONE!!! (an example of a better one being norton) FIREWALLS ARE IMPORTANT! WITHOUT A FIREWALL PEOPLE WILL HACK INTO YOUR COMPUTER AND DESTORY IT!

(Text is in caps to make a point, not to yell or flame or hurt feelings.)

[liquidnitrogen]

hm, i heard that Windows Firewall only makes you "invisible" and doesnt actually block any ports, so its pretty useless... maybe this changed in vista? (this info is on XP)

[Hi]

hm, i heard that Windows Firewall only makes you "invisible" and doesnt actually block any ports, so its pretty useless... maybe this changed in vista? (this info is on XP)

:shock:


Well even if it's true, being invisable is a good thing.

You see, "there are bots that crawl the internet looking for unprotected computers. If they find one, they will attack it. You'll be hijacked in ten minutes" - my uncle

If your invisable, these bots can't find you.

[liquidnitrogen]

heh, well, i'm under linux which is protected by the firewall on my router...

but, here - if your sharing files in ports via P2P, the firewall is kind of useless... like an umbrella full of holes...