I’ve decided to go back to Windows XP, I’ll probably be spending part of my weekend re-installing my company laptop. Windows Vista is nice and I will miss certain features, but XP was just better for me. I’m sick of UAC bugging me. I’m sick of Vista forgetting whether my Wi-Fi network is public or private. I’m sick of compatibility issues. Most of all I’m sick of the BSOD, yes that’s right the BSOD! It’s back . . .
Vista installed and detected all of my hardware. It has the latest patches and updated drivers from Windows Update. The BSOD’s (that’s right plural) were probably an issue with some third party software, which will eventually be upgraded. However I will note that all of the software I am currently running is the “Windows Vista”-compatible version. I even had to dump PDFCreator in favor of CutePDF, and other such trade-ups in the hopes that Vista would just be stable, but no such luck.
Aside from that my laptop is running noticeably warmer and slower since I upgraded. Now this machine isn’t the latest and greatest, it’s a Pentium M 2.13 GHz w/ 1 GB of ram and plenty of disk space yet Vista feels like a slug. I’m going back to XP for the time being.