Windows Vista: Get The F*@! Off My Machine And Don’t Come Back Until You’ve Grown Up

I am so disappointed in myself. Knowing very well I should have waited till Vista released a new service pack before upgrading to it from XP.

Quite frankly I was so psyched about my new heavy duty HP workstation I thought Vista would run smoothly on it.

At the beginning of this year I went out and purchased the beefiest HP workstation I could find on the market. For the amount of work I do on the Internet I was tired of waiting for applications to load. I was tired of slow processing and rebooting. So I figured the money spent on a fully loaded box will come back to me in more productivity.

The HP I purchased came with XP and I ran it in stock configuration for several months. When I received my Vista Upgrade disk I spent a week planning the upgrade. Doing the preplanning phase I made sure I upgraded every possible item I could to make sure all hardware and applications were compatible and I even spent two days doing a double backup incase of a an installation failure.

I was certain Vista would run smooth on my new workstation and for a few months it has been great. Then as time went on I started to see the tell-tail signs of problems. Booting up took a little longer every week, applications started to load a little slower and adding new fire-drives to the box paused the hour glass longer then normal.

Then this past week I got the dreaded BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.

After rooting my machine for the umpteenth time and doing a system restore to previous dates where I know it worked well, it appeared the workstation was heading for a massive crash.

I transferred close to 3GB of backup data to my Dell Laptop and then reinstalled Vista using the PC Recovery tools. I think that did more damage then good because my uptime was down to clicking on a few applications before I got that freaking BLUE SCREEN.

My HP comes with 1 click factory restore and I finally sucked it up and told it to FORMAT my hard drive and take me back to better place. I now plan stick with XP till Vista comes out with some new service packs and I hear from power users that they are working well with it.

Here are a few things about Vista that SUCK.

1. It is so god dam resource intensive. The graphics are awesome but I just felt my workstation was running slower then it did with XP.
2. Their friendly tool that pops up and offers assistance when an application fails is ridiculous. It asks us if we would like it if they found a solution on the web for why the application failed. I click yes every time and every time nothing happens. It’s like ordering food in a drive thru with no one taking the order.
3. Internet Explorer (which I try to never use) is dog ass slow on Vista. Go figure, considering the browser and Vista were created by the same company.

I am so pissed just thinking about the hours I’ve wasted this week. I am just thankful I had automated backups running every night and I own a kick ass laptop that held me over.

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