Reviews of Vistapack XP

1. 
   trynow

   Reviewing 2.3 Beta (Mar 24, 2008)

   XP has two version Home and Pro. One is for home usage the other for business.
   Vista has four. Home Basic premium business and ultimate.
   
   So i want to turn XP pro look like vista business. Do they have this choice. I think they dont have.
   
   Xp pro works nice its own phase.Saves ram hdd system files good. So Help vista users maybe they want to change their Vista look to Xp pro... Xppack for Vista users.
2. 
   bnews28341

   Reviewing 2.3 Beta (Mar 5, 2008)

   Good program.
   
   To counter the Vista trolls up here, there are many bad issues with Vista, so I will begin with just a few for starters:
   
   1) Activation: Treating honest customers like trash, forcing activation, reactivation, controlling what they do with what they buy. Ask yourself, if you would rather the car maker do the same, hey, we designed your car, own the patent, you just pay for the rights to use it so we tell you how far and where you will go?
   
   In addition, imagine if an emergency room used Vista, it decides to go into enhanced reduced functionality mode in the middle of a critical operation WAH!!!! Too bad, legit or not, we flagged you as a pirate!
   
   Don't forget, if their activation server(s) went down, or were inaccessible, hello, you would be stuck!
   
   In addition, some people do use camera phones to take a pic of the key code on new Vista releases, go home, install the new key, a legit customer buys it & the first thing he or she sees is YOU ARE A FILTHY PIRATE!!! 500,000 dollars, or 5 years in prison good buddy!
   
   2) The trusted computing platform Vista is built on. Reducing certain digital vids to analog to try to prevent "video" piracy. Since when does a dumb OS know more than you do about what is or isn't "pirated" films?
   
   I have a good might to make my own & dare Vista to call me a pirate so I can sue!!! I am serious!!!
   
   3) UAC controls in Vista. More secure? Ask user about every file they open?
   
   Sure, great way to waste time, & hello, that still does nothing to educate the uneducated about whether a file is safe to run or not!
   
   4) WGA + updates. Updates downloads a "critical" update called WGA. I would hardly call a program that spies on you critical.
   
   5) Vista introduces nightmarish system requirements, in addition to DX of all DX's version 10. Never mind having DX 9, whaaaaa...., they envision "forcing" customers to upgrade through new games and things that use DX 10 since the will not make DX 10 for XP
   
   6) Forget truly erasing tracks. Unlike running regular programs to securely wipe, Vista makes regular disk images in addition to System Restore, that has versions of what you worked on so that if you "removed" something, someone could call an old version back up, inadvertently "spying" on you & your private info unless you did a totally clean install & wiped the drive CLEAN.
   
   7) XP runs rings around Vista, even with the fancy aeroshell & adjust for best performance turned off.
   
   8) What were they thinking? The start menu sucks! XP Start menu is awesome. Vista, nah, trash! Even their old, well, I know you can set it to classic, but Vista classic goes to a 98ish menu instead of XP.
   
   9) File menu's & system exploring. You simply cannot get things done like you can in XP. There are a few general areas that Vista is stronger in, or looks better in doing, but many file/copy/paste/arrange options will not work in Vista no matter what you do to get it going!
   
   10) You can download a UXtheme patcher for XP, click patch, reboot, then download any Vista or XP visual styles you want & they will work in XP.
   
   Yes, for free, can make start menu look like XP, toolbar, the works, but with XP FUNCTIONALITY.
   
   This is only the beginning of problems in Vista & things that Vista cannot do.
   
   MS is trying to forcefeed Vista, but the digital lockdowns built in aren't worth hacking.
   
   They can be, but XP does everything I want, & stable as well.
   
   Anything Vista can do, XP can do better.
   
   MS is dying, so Vista is a last ditch effort to stay alive.
   
   Proof of it is the declining market shares to freeware such as Firefox replacing IE, Ubuntu replacing XP, it's coming, it's happening, & nothing will stop the truth!
3. 
   tp

   Reviewing 2.3 Beta (Feb 28, 2008)

   I am not one to usually bother with themes and such very much anymore, but I tried this on yesterday and while I gulped when I saw it start patching all the system files, I sighed in relief when I didnt have to run a system restore afterward... I haven't tried uninstalling it yet so the adventure continues. It would get a 5 from me if it were more customizable with the skin options.
4. 
   shodan816

   Reviewing 2.3 Beta (Feb 28, 2008)

   One more vote to offset the Linux troll. I worked for MS for some years and I know first hand how much time and effort go into new product development and testing before RTM. If they were not trying to please the masses, of course their OS's could be simpler and with little if any post release issues. Before I bought Vista, I asked a former colleague (still a Manager at MS) if I should stick with XP or go with Vista. He said 'Don't even think twice. Go with Vista.' I listened to him and I'm glad I did. That was over 6 months ago and the ONLY problems I have had with Vista have been caused by 3rd party software. Even then, recovery was an absolute breeze. Just as Vista networking and wireless is unbelievably smooth and simple now. You are welcome to your Linux. I won't be as tacky as you and knock it. Just as MS chooses not to knock Apple, following their tasteless TV ads...
5. 
   djurbino

   Reviewing 2.3 Beta (Feb 27, 2008)

   To offset the linux troll below.

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