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Just for future reference ("teach a man to fish"), you can usually google an acronymn like IMHO and find out pretty quickly what it stands for.
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One thing I have definitely found is the performance of vista scales with CPU and/or memory pressure MUCH more nicely than XP
Hands-down agree there. I was diagnosing random BSODs on my mom's laptop this weekend; turns out it was a bad stick of memory. When I pulled one stick out and rebooted (going from two gigs down to one), Vista didn't even flinch, apart from the unavoidable slight slowdown from cutting your available memory in half.
I'm still waiting for 7 to come out, though. Has anyone heard a definite date that they're going to start the public beta testing?
“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”
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Yeah SP1 was loads better; I was getting random windows disappearing pre-SP1.
But the biggest problem with Vista IMO is the DWM. It is a memory HOG. Even with three gigabytes I was getting low memory warnings every 20 minutes when running two instances of VS, Photoshop, and a few Chrome windows. dwm.exe was right up there at the top or close to it for memory usage in Task Manager.
I finally got fed up and researched what to do about the DWM and discovered it's just an Aero thing (which I guess I knew but it didn't click until that point). Which means if I switch my theme to Vista Basic, the dwm goes away. So I asked myself: are semitransparent title bars, drop shadows and live taskbar previews really worth low memory warnings every 20 minutes?
You can probably guess my decision.
“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
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...and i will defend it vigorously, until the day i have a machine that can run it.
---- You're right.
These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets .
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"bestest"
"evar"
That sorta tells you something about Vista-People 
-= Reelix =-
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Shog9 wrote: until the day i have a machine that can run it
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arguements -> arguments
/ravi
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err.. you meant arguments right?
DrewG, MCSD .Net
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Sorry, fat fingers! 
/ravi
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Actually that looks more like a good old fashioned spelling mistake, imo. 
“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
{o,o}.oO( Check out my blog! )
|)””’) http://pihole.org/
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