About 6 or 8 months ago I bought a new HP Pavilion desktop. It came pre-installed with Windows Vista. While I liked the interface at first, I really wanted dual monitor support so that I could watch my Scottrade account on one screen and work on the other. Well, Vista didn’t allow for that easily because it couldn’t load two video drivers at the same time… so I “upgraded” back to Windows XP.
I was soooo friggin’ amazed at the performance improvement XP has over Vista. I mean, sure Vista has some nice bells and whistles… but I found I didn’t use most of them. I was sorta’ excited to finally get to use Windows Media Center… but I find myself using WinAmp most of the time instead. Media Center wasn’t as user-friendly as I had hoped.
But, about a month ago I found my XP install a bit cludgy due to all the program installs, uninstalls and reinstalls… but I left my master XP discs at home. My only hope was to install Vista from the ‘recovery sector’ on my desktop. So I rebuilt the thing from scratch.
Long story short, it’s only been a month now, and I’m ready to go back to FreeBSD! I am so frustrated with the slowness and frequent “Would you like to report this error to Microsoft?” prompts whenever Firefox or some other application quits working. As this is actually my primary work computer, I feel lucky that I haven’t yet lost anything important. Good thing I’m a DR guy.
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