Moving to Vista

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:55 pm

I'm going to be doing my first ever Vista (business) install soon. If anyone has any good advice on installation procedures etc post here.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:40 pm

pray with a stick of dynamite

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:40 pm

pop it in and install. Its the easiest windows install yet.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:42 am

Beef up the RAM. It's still quite slow with only 1 gig, 2 gigs is tolerable, 4 gigs gets it moving better.

64 bit is right...easy install.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:25 pm

Sava700 wrote:pray with a stick of dynamite

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:26 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Beef up the RAM. It's still quite slow with only 1 gig, 2 gigs is tolerable, 4 gigs gets it moving better.

64 bit is right...easy install.

I went with three gigs for ram and 3 something ghz for the processor. Just got the Dell late today, will unbox and go at it tomorrow morning.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:30 pm

PS - I'm sure there is a way to turn off the visual features and just go classic like XP, right?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:37 pm

CableDude wrote:PS - I'm sure there is a way to turn off the visual features and just go classic like XP, right?

Ya there is, it shouldnt be that different from where in XP, but i forget the path to it. LOL

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:40 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Ya there is, it shouldnt be that different from where in XP, but i forget the path to it. LOL

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:40 pm

CableDude wrote:PS - I'm sure there is a way to turn off the visual features and just go classic like XP, right?

Not as quick to get to as in XP (nor are most things...Vista makes you drill several layers deeper to get to most functionality

) but yeah the Classic theme is there.

However....if you have a good graphics card, letting it run Aero on some PCs is reported to actually run faster than running classic theme...because Aero is fully offloaded to the GPU, whereas classic theme takes "some" CPU power.

David · Post by **David** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:25 pm

I works and works well, but there is no getting around it being slower with apps than XP.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:00 pm

Well, here we go. I can't open the control panel. I click on the shortcut and it opens for like 5 seconds and closes.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:19 pm

Start menu seems "choppy" along with opening windows. When I was able to.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:02 pm

XP leads the way HOOAH!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:06 pm

[YOUTUBE]FVbf9tOGwno[/YOUTUBE]

d2fanatic007 · Post by **d2fanatic007** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:06 am

CableDude wrote:[YOUTUBE]FVbf9tOGwno[/YOUTUBE]

I LOL'D irl,

, that was funny as hell...could have at least sold it to someone on ebay or something and got some type of profit back other than just wasting it like that

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:45 pm

Latest:

Wiped out the HD with Fdisk and did a clean install. I only installed the network driver. Figuring I could go to the Dell site for the other drivers.

That's it for now on this.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:35 pm

How good is system restore on this? I had to do a restore to early this morning, but I have a strange sense it is still picking up the intel chipset drivers that have caused me the latest grief.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:51 pm

3rd "clean" install...... let's keep it going!!!!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:47 pm

I'm sure nobody cares, but I did finally get this up and running.

Unfortunately, the people that were supposed to clone this "had no clue" what to do so I had to do 24 seperate installs.

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:00 pm

CableDude wrote:I'm sure nobody cares, but I did finally get this up and running.

Unfortunately, the people that were supposed to clone this "had no clue" what to do so I had to do 24 seperate installs.

oh yeah?

actually I care.

otherwise I wouldn't be reading your thread...

who are these inept "people"... 24 installs...

I hope you got paid extra!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:10 pm

ghettoside wrote:oh yeah?

actually I care.

otherwise I wouldn't be reading your thread...

who are these inept "people"... 24 installs...

I hope you got paid extra!

No extra pay.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:40 pm

I can tell you that I am pretty wiped out from this whole ordeal.

ARS · Post by **ARS** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:10 pm

ugh create your install cd with the quickness... 24 separate installs... I WOULD be insane! Or at least hire me within your department, and I will gladly create multiple install disks for use! :P

Good luck with Vista *ick*

OSULLY · Post by **OSULLY** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:26 pm

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:35 pm

ARS wrote:ugh create your install cd with the quickness... 24 separate installs... I WOULD be insane! Or at least hire me within your department, and I will gladly create multiple install disks for use! :P

Good luck with Vista *ick*

It was rough.... I'm sure there are some things missing from the machines, but oh well. I'm running out of time.

I still have one more possibly two to finsh. At least I have 22 others I can base it off of now.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:07 pm

Norton Ghost 11.5 ftmfw! Worked perfectly on the last install. Wish it would have been discovered sooner.