"Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those possible with Windows XP? Something obviously went awry. As Computerworld is reporting, a number of Vista users are none too happy about Vista boot-up times. Some are questioning whether Microsoft is advocating that users just put Vista into sleep mode, as opposed to shutting down systems on a daily basis, to mask the sluggish boot up."
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Member since:2005-07-28
It is not a pirated version - I have activated it and everything. I'm no saint but I do buy all the software that I use frequently, especially my OS.
As far as the display issue - if you go to Nvidia's message boards, you'll see that I'm nowhere near the only one to have this problem at all. If you do some research, you'll find out that people with S3 cards (I know they're considered crap but that's mostly in terms of gaming and they're still a known brand) and several others experience it too.
Also, I'm no Microsoft hater either - I use a lot of their products on a daily basis (SQL Server, Visual Studio, .NET, etc - all great products) and I generally like their OS's but I think they messed up really bad with Vista. Again, that's just my personal experience so far and personal opinion - take it or leave it.
Thank you.
Member since:
2005-10-02
Now now. I am not the one to use Vista.
It was the original poster that used Vista and had that bug:
http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=17671&comment_id=229654
However, if it is pirated one is asking for trouble. Don't use warez. It's not healthy for your machine and more often than not illegal (though with exceptions).
Personally I run Win2K3 Server from MSDN AA (well, mostly I run Linux, but I do have Win2K3 installed).