Originally Posted by rickworden
LOL - Enjoyed the comments! Seriously - I've used VISTA on my laptop for over a year and it's been a real disappointment. I have never been able to network to it over my LAN (just check Google - I'm not the only one!). My other 4 PC's all work flawlessly with XP. Also it's slower, has had more crashes and uses bags more HD space (just check your WINSXS folder! how big's yours?). Also YOU CANNOT CREATE YOUR OWN HARDWARE PROFILE IN VISTA - PERIOD!. I use hardware profiles to limit the services activated on boot upon depending what I am doing. (I must admit I'm not sure if it makes that much difference - especially if you have a stack of RAM). So for now I'm not converting - it offers absolutely no advantage that I can see! One day I'm sure that will change but for me VISTA looks like a quick attempt to keep the income rolling for MS. (The hat is still in the freezer!)
I also got Vista with my laptop, and I've been able to connect to it through ethernet and wireless, hosting a number of protocols to access it, including, but not limited to, http, ftp, sftp, as well as ordinary cifs. Software is not only more responsive, it also loads faster because it's binaries and supporting libraries are already cached in memory (hint, this is where your memory has 'vanished' (another hint, Vista releases pre-cached stuff if programs really need the memory)).
If you want to be taken seriously, try make arguments that are plausibly accurate. lolzn00bzvistasux!!1! type commentary will be promptly ridiculed and summarily ignored. And you need to start munching on your hat, because Dangel explained 'hardware profiles' in Vista, on the previous page.
I'm almost guessing you're one of those zomfgwtfisthat-types, when you first saw the UAC prompt and frantically googled for a way to disable it.
If you don't like Vista, *shrug* that's fine, stick with XP, whatever floats your boat. However, spouting phantom bugs and issues to make yourself appear 100% correct is wrong.
Actually, I'm tired of reexplaining these blatantly obvious things to people who are too lazy to go find out anything about their new operating systems. Go learn things for yourself, or forever be an ignorant puppet to propaganda.