UAC? Elaborate, as I'm stupid right now.

The thing about Vista is it's like the iPhone, don't get the first or second gen. The longer they have to find all the obvious flaws in it, the more likely they are to have them fixed in later versions.

But it's still a great OS. And for all its bugs and flaws, it's introduced a lot of good ideas, like much of office. It's actually a lot better once you get used to it.

User Account Control. Its the feature built in that makes you confirm everything before it'll actually do it. You can turn it off from the User Account settings in the control panel.

I advise everyone to do so. It saves many headaches.

That's kinda what I have against me. My computer - although new grrr... - has a limited capacity for RAM. It can only accept a maximum level of 1GB, and I only have 512.

Since I bought it as such a low cost - $250 - I probably shouldn't complain too much.....

I'd amend that statement; I'd advise everyone who knows what they're doing to disable it. It's a quite useful safety feature for the technologically illiterate.

Annoying for me, though.

Yeah, that could be dangerous advice if someone isn't careful...

It's probably still a useless feature for the technologically illiterate, since they'll either be too terrified to do anything or they'll get so used to clicking through it that they'll click through whatever malicious or undesireable changes the system is asking them to authorize.

UAC is what keeps those of us "in the know" from doing something we "should know not to do." Disabling it just makes your system as vulnerable as XP.

As for performance, I tend to sit on older games (BF1942) and for those Vista is just not worthwhile. If you are sticking to newer games, then it should be fine, just make sure you have 2GB+ in RAM before even trying.

In a lot of ways this is like the migration from 98/2000 to XP. Don't have 512MB? Tough titties...

I have Vista; pretty fond of it, all together. I hated XP with a passion, so being able to get Vista for my own personal laptop was a relief. I've had it for about a year and use the computer everyday, and much to my surprise -- it hasn't CRASHED! I'm so happy.

I did have to play around with it to get around some of the annoyances (thank you tweakvista.com and how-to-geek.com). I even still have User Account Control on, and it's not annoying, yay!

My biggest complaint is that Vista Home Premium has some really STUPID things disabled. There's stuff I want to do and change, but apparently I need Ultimate to do this and that. Like, most importantly, the Local Policies and Security Options MMC, which allows you to change User Account Control settings. Vista Home Premium doesn't HAVE it (secpol.mmc), which is ridiculous. However, the stupidest part of all is that SOME (but not all) of the things that you supposedly can't do with Home Premium but can with Ultimate do ARE possible if you edit the registry. ARGH. It's horrible enough that they want us to pay more money for semi-necessary features, but it's somehow WORSE when those features are so... lazily disabled! :P

Erm.

But I like User Account Control. Correct me if I'm horribly wrong (which I definitely could be), but I though UAC was less about stopping clueless people from doing stupid things and more about stopping malware and yadda from changing stuff without you knowing it. I don't know how successful it is, but it does make me feel better. :D

Also, Vista is pretty. :P

So, in summary: like Vista. Don't like strange Microsoft business practices. Apparently.

I'll shut up now. *blinks*

Vista's pretty eats my RAM. Also, I'm working out-of-the-box fresh on the version. That first update? DISABLES YOUR ABILITY TO TURN OFF THE ACCURSED TAP-TO-CLICK! If there were any feature that deserves to be treated to perpetual Hell-fire, it is the one that opens fifty-some-odd windows in the process of me trying to get to any given folder on my desktop.


Plus, as I have mentioned, it doesn't seem to want to boot XP Home from my external, at least without considerable knowledge and effort.

Now that I have my new fancy-pants Christmas present computer running, I am also a Vista user.

I haven't had any real problems yet. Just gimme a few days, and I'm sure I'll fuck something up =P .

You might have a point. Much as I like me my Spider Solitaire, I'm sure I never needed a version that looked so shiny and full of special sound effects for every damn thing. As it is, one of the first things I did was go back to the Windows Standard look for my desktop. It's less sparkly-shiny and I just like it better. (But does it matter in terms of eating up RAM? I'm genuinely curious.)