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Windows Vista introduces a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience.
The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently.
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Reviews of Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit)
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ZenWarriorReviewing Service Pack 2 (Jun 11, 2009)
I began using the alpha of this in December 2008 and thought I'd found heaven for Vista. The great experience continued thru the betas, but then I installed this "final release." And since then, I've seen more BSODs over the past couple of weeks than I saw across years of XP and even the crappy old Vista.
Another perfect example of Microsoft taking 2 steps forward and 3 steps backwards. Having before seen it so few times, I honestly had little idea what the BSOD was until installing this piece of crap. I now know it well. Oh, and there have also been 3 "hardware failure" shutdowns since installing this so-called final release. Bottom line: this release is infinitely less stable than the alphas & betas of it over the past several month.
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DatabaseBenReviewing Service Pack 2 (May 27, 2009)
anyone know how to remove the little message that appears on the bottom right hand corner of the desktop that still infers the "evulation copy of sp2"?
uninstalling the sp2 beta didn't remove it. -
skapig
Reviewing Service Pack 2 (May 26, 2009)
Pretty painless install, although it takes an awfully long time for it to "personalize" Windows Mail (which I have never used).
Once up and running after the install, I ran into a problem with Windows Update hanging on load. However, this went away after a reboot (although it did initally list SP2 as being ready to intall on opening which went away with a refresh). Other than that, no issues so far. -
Sir_timbitReviewing Service Pack 2 (May 26, 2009)
Is this the final version of Vista SP2? There are no references to a final Vista SP2 on Microsoft's site...
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mike.smith63
Reviewing Service Pack 2 (May 26, 2009)
Not quite this one as i installed the x64 version but it installed in 17 mins with one reboot. The whole systems feels a little more stable and responsive but thats just a feeling in my water rather than an analysed opinion.
Discuss Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit)
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Mar 5, 2009 - 1:09 PM
Cris3
I installed the Vista SP1 Beta late 2007 and when the official roll out came around, Windows update failed to recognize my copy of Vista and I ended up doing I full reinstall. It took me a month to get it back in order.
My Vista runs fine now, Photoshop is snappy and all my drivers work fine. It's just like Microsoft intended it to be.
It's not broke, so I'm not going to try to improve it with a service pack that may do more harm than good. I will take the update when it shows up as the final version.
Cris3
I installed the Vista SP1 Beta late 2007 and when the official roll out came around, Windows update failed to recognize my copy of Vista and I ended up doing I full reinstall. It took me a month to get it back in order.
My Vista runs fine now, Photoshop is snappy and all my drivers work fine. It's just like Microsoft intended it to be.
It's not broke, so I'm not going to try to improve it with a service pack that may do more harm than good. I will take the update when it shows up as the final version.