Stability Survey

> My advice would be to keep the dual boot, and as Vista has new builds
> moving into the RC builds you can move onto them and compare XP. But if
> you need the space, then go on and format XP and put Vista there if that
> makes you happy. I'd clean install. I'd advise against an upgrade
> although they will eventually get an upgrade working much better than now
> I suppose.
>
> You can reach the XP desktop conveniently via C:\Documents and
> Settings\HagarTheHorrible's Profile on XP\Desktop Your definition of
> "rock solid stable" and that of many others are markedly different, and
> while many of us have been able to use Vista for months as a production
> machine, it has major flaws and thousands of bugs. The are also failing
> to retain some of the helpful features in XP like the Arrange Icons
> by>Show in Groups Explorer folder organization. SFC a major repair tool
> in XP, trashes the registry unless you run it with the SFC/verifyonly
> switch which will check the files and not fix--the Window Vista team's
> version of Dress Rehearsal not ready for prime time RTM.
>
> CH
>
>
> "HagarTheHorrible" <HagarTheHorrible@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:5F69768B-B124-4DD8-AE9D-4C385339228B@microsoft.com...

>> Athlon XP 2500
>> ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250
>> 512 mge DDR
>>
>> Well it's been almost a week since Vista was installed as a dual boot
>> option
>> on my system - and so far it has been rock solid stable. Not a hitch,
>> glitch
>> or bug to be found. In fact, it's been good enough that I am now thinking
>> of
>> reinstalling it on the drive that I have XP on.
>>
>> Which brings me to my question.
>>
>> Am I the only one with this experience thus far? Or am I just absurdley
>> lucky with this install? I'd like to know what experiences others have
>> had
>> out there. Good, Bad or just plain UGLY.
>>
>> What I hear will determine if I go with as my primary OS.

>

>>> Athlon XP 2500
>>> ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250
>>> 512 mge DDR
>>>
>>> Well it's been almost a week since Vista was installed as a dual boot
>>> option
>>> on my system - and so far it has been rock solid stable. Not a hitch,
>>> glitch
>>> or bug to be found. In fact, it's been good enough that I am now
>>> thinking of
>>> reinstalling it on the drive that I have XP on.
>>>
>>> Which brings me to my question.
>>>
>>> Am I the only one with this experience thus far? Or am I just absurdley
>>> lucky with this install? I'd like to know what experiences others have
>>> had
>>> out there. Good, Bad or just plain UGLY.
>>>
>>> What I hear will determine if I go with as my primary OS.

>>

>

> Athlon XP 2500
> ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250
> 512 mge DDR
>
> Well it's been almost a week since Vista was installed as a dual boot
> option
> on my system - and so far it has been rock solid stable. Not a hitch,
> glitch
> or bug to be found. In fact, it's been good enough that I am now thinking
> of
> reinstalling it on the drive that I have XP on.
>
> Which brings me to my question.
>
> Am I the only one with this experience thus far? Or am I just absurdley
> lucky with this install? I'd like to know what experiences others have had
> out there. Good, Bad or just plain UGLY.
>
> What I hear will determine if I go with as my primary OS.

> Athlon XP 2500
> ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250
> 512 mge DDR
>
> Well it's been almost a week since Vista was installed as a dual boot
> option
> on my system - and so far it has been rock solid stable. Not a hitch,
> glitch
> or bug to be found. In fact, it's been good enough that I am now thinking
> of
> reinstalling it on the drive that I have XP on.
>
> Which brings me to my question.
>
> Am I the only one with this experience thus far? Or am I just absurdley
> lucky with this install? I'd like to know what experiences others have had
> out there. Good, Bad or just plain UGLY.
>
> What I hear will determine if I go with as my primary OS.

> Athlon XP 2500
> ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250
> 512 mge DDR
>
> Well it's been almost a week since Vista was installed as a dual boot
> option
> on my system - and so far it has been rock solid stable. Not a hitch,
> glitch
> or bug to be found. In fact, it's been good enough that I am now thinking
> of
> reinstalling it on the drive that I have XP on.
>
> Which brings me to my question.
>
> Am I the only one with this experience thus far? Or am I just absurdley
> lucky with this install? I'd like to know what experiences others have had
> out there. Good, Bad or just plain UGLY.
>
> What I hear will determine if I go with as my primary OS.

> Vista 32 bit running quite well here, it seems stable enough. I've even
> been playing C&C Generals Zero Hour with no problems. No issues with cpu
> usage or memory either.
> The only odd thing that has happened is that my secondary display adapter
> has vanished (it only shows up if I select show hidden devices in Device
> Manager), and consequently Windows tries to attach both of my monitors to
> the primary adapter which of course is a no-go. I've had to disable my
> second monitor. This happened first with the Vista drivers, then with the
> ATI ones. Nothing that I've tried seems to be able to bring the secondary
> adapter back. Oh well, good thing I'm dual-booting.
>
> --
> Jane, not plain 64bit enabled
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation
> "HagarTheHorrible" <HagarTheHorrible@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:5F69768B-B124-4DD8-AE9D-4C385339228B@microsoft.com...

>> Athlon XP 2500
>> ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250
>> 512 mge DDR
>>
>> Well it's been almost a week since Vista was installed as a dual boot
>> option
>> on my system - and so far it has been rock solid stable. Not a hitch,
>> glitch
>> or bug to be found. In fact, it's been good enough that I am now thinking
>> of
>> reinstalling it on the drive that I have XP on.
>>
>> Which brings me to my question.
>>
>> Am I the only one with this experience thus far? Or am I just absurdley
>> lucky with this install? I'd like to know what experiences others have
>> had
>> out there. Good, Bad or just plain UGLY.
>>
>> What I hear will determine if I go with as my primary OS.

>

> Athlon XP 2500
> ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250
> 512 mge DDR
>
> Well it's been almost a week since Vista was installed as a dual boot option
> on my system - and so far it has been rock solid stable. Not a hitch, glitch
> or bug to be found. In fact, it's been good enough that I am now thinking of
> reinstalling it on the drive that I have XP on.
>
> Which brings me to my question.
>
> Am I the only one with this experience thus far? Or am I just absurdley
> lucky with this install? I'd like to know what experiences others have had
> out there. Good, Bad or just plain UGLY.
>
> What I hear will determine if I go with as my primary OS.

> Two days straight of uptime, no crashes, two or three hangs, but Vista
> handled them without me really doing anything. The only thing so far is
> lack
> of soundcard driver but I'm working on it. I have not installed much
> software, Avast, Office 2007, Google Earth, etc... everything so far is
> smooth as "Glass." Vista even has my old HP 1350v working, something even
> XP
> struggled with! Next I'll try Trillian, Opera beta 9 and a couple of
> games.
> And this is dual-boot on a laptop!
>
> Good luck to all!
>
>