Vista

by **savantcreative** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:01 pm

Is there any reasom why I would want to take a nice 5 year old machine that is humming right along on XP Pro and upgrade to Vista or am I just rocking the boat?
Thanks

by **SGgomez81** on Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:06 am

before you do that, their is a little software to see if your machine will be able to run it smoothly. i forgot what the name was but it somewhere in MS site. lol.

Okay, i found it:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... visor.mspx

P.S.

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by **Dana Thornton** on Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:01 pm

I'm wondering if version 8 of Photoshop will run on Vista.

by **Johnathan** on Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:08 pm

If your going to blow the money on Vista you might as well blow another couple of hundred from CS3. But I think it would run on Vista ok.

by **Etheryte** on Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:38 pm

I personally see no reason to upgrade to Vista. It's costy and also alot of programs won't work well with it. It looks a bit better than an un-moded XP (but a moded, but a moded XP looks better and runs better), but it's just not worth the hassle.

by **Johnathan** on Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:45 pm

Well I haven't had any major problems with Vista, any I have had were me being stupid and required a really easy fix, plus most software now that didn't function well on Vista have been upgraded and work perfect, well for me anyway.

by **flabbyrabbit** on Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:27 pm

I also haven't experienced any problems with it and the extra features make it a lot easier to do cool stuff. If your computer is good enough to run the full specs of vista I personally would suggest it, other wise stick to XP.

Flabby Rabbit

by **nighthawk** on Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:16 pm

There is one good reason to migrate to vista - security. XP is still updated, and it can still be used safely, but as soon as it stops being updated it becomes unsafe. If hackers find a security hole in it there would be no (easy) way to fix it. So if it's important to you to have secure system you should invest in vista (and probably new hardware). If you want to use vista, but you still need to run some old software and you can't find a way to run it on vista, you could install Microsoft Virtual PC and install xp or any older MS system (or even some other) as virtual machine. It's free - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

by **Tomi** on Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:47 pm

My Vista experience in a sentence:

If for any reason I had to go back to XP, I would be so depressed I would jump of a bridge

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