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post #1 of 14
8/16/07 at 1:10pm
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Just curious, for those of you that are using Vista and or have had Vista and are reverting back to WinXPSP2.
Those of you that are experiencing difficulties with Vista, are you gamers, or is there problems that you are experiencing in other areas. If so, where???
I am going to be in the market for a new laptop and I am not a gamer. I have had exceptional results with my Sat A70 and with XP2.
If given my choice when ordering, I would prefer to have the XP2 installed but I dont believe Toshiba does this. I have seen where Dell has started to do this because of laptop/Vista problems.
Any and all feedback appreciated
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post #2 of 14
8/18/07 at 7:36pm
I haven't used vista so I can't really comment. You caould browse the Operating Systems and Software section of NBF (LINKY in case you haven't seen it) in the meantime until you get some responses here.
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post #3 of 14
8/18/07 at 8:17pm
saugen, I bought a new desktop Thursday night (extremely cheap eMachines - $400). FWIW: the new machine has an AMD 3800+, 1Gig RAM and an nVidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (whatever the hell that is ). There aren't any serious problems, but the machine seems much more sluggish than the equally El Cheapo eMachines XP desktop it replaced, and I have cleaned it up. Deleted TWENTY-TWO apps, stopped startup programs, background processes, etc. Given a choice, I'd have taken XP.
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post #4 of 14
8/21/07 at 4:09pm
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That's sort of the general consensus I have been hearing that Vista is very slow in most applications than XP. I really wish Toshiba was still giving an option of either XP or Vista. I see all kinds of people who have switched back to XP having a difficult time trying to get different aspects of their Toshiba laptops to work ie, Media buttons, FN buttons etc. If I did get a new laptop, I would definately want to get the restore disk in XP
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post #5 of 14
9/4/07 at 3:06pm
I have Vista on a Toshiba P105-9337 which is pretty high-end laptop hardware and my capsule review is that the OS is slow, bloated, unreliable, overpriced, and not ready for prime time. Specifically it can take up to THREE minutes to fully boot, I've had far more BSDs on this rig than a previous Acer w/ XP, the OS does a bunch of things in the background without informing you what they are, many functions and features are counter-intuitive or just plain clunky (or don't work), and six months after purchase Toshiba has yet to issue a driver or new BIOS that fixes the infamous Vista on 7900GS framerate stutter problem.

No doubt in my mind: go with XP, and if you want or need a truly state-of-the-art OS that just works buy a Mac.
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post #6 of 14
9/4/07 at 6:18pm
I used Vista for a month then I have to go back to XP, same application took almost twice the memory and CPU, the Windows media don't play any of my video collection. I guest windows Vista was resource hog bad that why they put out all this extra feature like ready boost, more memory requirement, until then Vista is just another sloppy put together by MS
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post #7 of 14
9/5/07 at 8:44am
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I have noticed a lot of people on here have reverted back to XP but thought it might have been mostly just the gamers. The only other problem I see about reverting back is to find all the XP drivers, utilities. I know about going to Toshiba and manufacturers websites. You also used to be able to find older model toshibas with the same hardware that was running XP which also made it easy, but now, with the passage of time, finding older models with the same hardware as the newer models just dont happen
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post #8 of 14
9/5/07 at 12:22pm
I use Vista Ultimate x64 on my Desktop and really i have not noticed any performance slow down from XP or maybe that was due to the fact that i removed and disabled a crap load of services that i did not need in Vista. Now my performance is the same and sometimes better than in XP.

Btw....Dekstop system is. X2 3800+ @ 2.6, 2GB ram, 7900GTX 512mb, 720GB total hard drive.
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post #9 of 14
9/5/07 at 3:08pm
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I am more concerned with the performance re: Laptops as I plan on getting another laptop. Never had nor do I want a desktop. But thanks anyway
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post #10 of 14
9/5/07 at 4:08pm
Well anything that has a Core 2 Duo or Turion X2 CPU with at LEAST 1GB ram and a X1600 and above Video card then you will not have any problems.
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post #11 of 14
1/29/08 at 10:01am
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Originally Posted by saugen48 View Post
Just curious, for those of you that are using Vista and or have had Vista and are reverting back to WinXPSP2.
Those of you that are experiencing difficulties with Vista, are you gamers, or is there problems that you are experiencing in other areas. If so, where???
I am going to be in the market for a new laptop and I am not a gamer. I have had exceptional results with my Sat A70 and with XP2.
If given my choice when ordering, I would prefer to have the XP2 installed but I dont believe Toshiba does this. I have seen where Dell has started to do this because of laptop/Vista problems.
Any and all feedback appreciated
I tried using Vista on my P105-S6084 Satellite, but had problems. My Flash Card program quit working and there was nothing I could do to fix it. Went back to XP and now everything works fine agaqin.
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post #12 of 14
1/30/08 at 6:40pm
I have got a quick anwser for you...STAY AWAY from Vista...it's absolutely awful...I've got two laptops a Toshiba A-200 with 2GB of ram and another with 700mb. The one with 700mb its faster than the toshiba with Vista...

Can anyone explain me how do I take this shit out of my laptop and get back to XP?

HELP NEEDED ASAP!
THANKS YOU ALL
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post #13 of 14
1/30/08 at 8:09pm
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Originally Posted by Well_Man View Post
I have got a quick anwser for you...STAY AWAY from Vista...it's absolutely awful...I've got two laptops a Toshiba A-200 with 2GB of ram and another with 700mb. The one with 700mb its faster than the toshiba with Vista... Can anyone explain me how do I take this shit out of my laptop and get back to XP? HELP NEEDED ASAP! THANKS YOU ALL
Look upon some guides on tweaking the actual vista install. Also try removing any type of pre-loaded crap software that came with the laptop which could also be affecting performance.
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post #14 of 14
1/31/08 at 1:44pm
I have Vista Home Premium on my P105-9722. The only reason I considered reverting back to XP was because of gaming (video drivers are horrid for vista).

Bootup did seem a little slugish, even after tweaking the startup services. The system would take quite a bit of time to run its processes, before it would connect to my wireless network.

Currently I'm running Vista Service Pack 1 (beta), and it's made quite a difference. The system feels quicker in all areas, including booting up. Gaming is still an issue though.
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