MS Vista

[balken]

After getting Vista with a new laptop this year, it is satisfactory, if underwhelming in its improvements. However, one ongoing issue is how it handles certain websites. When I pull up certain sites, usually ones that take a long time to load, it will lock up. I cannot put my finger on any particular commonality among the sites, like certain plug-ins. Anyone have any ideas?

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[CycloneErik]

After getting Vista with a new laptop this year, it is satisfactory, if underwhelming in its improvements. However, one ongoing issue is how it handles certain websites. When I pull up certain sites, usually ones that take a long time to load, it will lock up. I cannot put my finger on any particular commonality among the sites, like certain plug-ins. Anyone have any ideas?

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For mine, it's not necessarily ones that take a long time to load always. It just happens.

I find it OK, but underwhelming is a good term. Seems like XP wasn't broken enough for this fix.

 

[isucyfan]

I was a fairly early adopter of Vista, and have had no problems at all. I agree that it is underwhelming except for its look.

Are you using IE? If so, try a different browser like Firefox. That might be your problem, and FF is better anyway.

 

[balken]

I was a fairly early adopter of Vista, and have had no problems at all. I agree that it is underwhelming except for its look.

Are you using IE? If so, try a different browser like Firefox. That might be your problem, and FF is better anyway.

I am actually using FF. I only reason I am pointing the finger at Vista is because an older XP machine seems to have no trouble.

 

[DaddyMac]

I don't have problems with locking up - I'll just chime in that I'm underwhelmed with Vista as well.

My biggest issue is the worthlessness that is the Mobile Device Center. I hate that thing.

But sorry - no lockup issues here (Vista Home Premium/media edition).

 

[isucyfan]

Do you have enough memory? Vista needs a bunch...2 Gigs seem to work well enough for me.

 

[brianhos]

Had vista for about a month on my new vista only desktop. Hacked it up a bunch and reinstalled XP, now the world is good again. There is a push for Vista here at the office, but I am resisting big time, there is just no compelling reason to go to vista, M$ screwed up big time with this one.

 

[isucyfan]

there is just no compelling reason to go to vista, M$ screwed up big time with this one.

But it's pretty.:yes::wink:

 

[Phaedrus]

I have two problems with Vista. Both, I think relate to it's ability to "learn". First, I had a "dirty" download of a flight sim. And, there is no human way to completely get rid of the flight sim fault. Vista "remembers" the flaw every flippin' time, no matter what I do. It will just not allow me to fully uninstall the sim.

The second fault is that it refuses to go online. I have sat online with a tech for 2+ hours, twice, and they've both told me I was stuck.

So now I have a real high speed, graphically advanced word processor and Mahjong player.

 

[bos]

I dont enjoy any of its new security features out of box. Other than having to work a little harder to get things the way I want, its not a bad system.

 

[balken]

Do you have enough memory? Vista needs a bunch...2 Gigs seem to work well enough for me.

Right at 2G. Frustrating.

 

[jumbopackage]

No problems here either (at least vista related). There are some things I DO like about it, like the volume controls for individual applications and whatnot.

Sounds like it's likely either your disk is paging like crazy or some sort of bizarre network problem. I've seen both of those things dork with windows machines in the past

 

[dmclone]

Nearly a year, no issues.

 

[isucyfan]

Right at 2G. Frustrating.

The only thing I can think of to do is a complete checkup, i.e. virus scan, spyware scan, defrag, and disk check to see if anything improves. You never know what messing with your system.

 

[zumbro clones]

My company had so many problems with Vista we went back to XP.

 

[bos]

My company had so many problems with Vista we went back to XP.

What specifically. Application compatibility? Printer drivers?

 

[dmclone]

I am actually using FF. I only reason I am pointing the finger at Vista is because an older XP machine seems to have no trouble.

Can you recreate the problem? Can you list the sites? Maybe it's trying to Install the IE tab plug-in for Firefox and see if it works. Or just try IE itself and see if it happens. I've used 3 different versions of FF on Vista with no issues.

 

[CYdTracked]

We pretty much killed our pilot of Vista at work for now. I'd be really concerned rolling it out to an environment of around 20,000 clients without really "dummying up" the interface to be as close to XP as possible. XP has been pretty stable and pretty user friendly for those who are not the most technical people. We range from people that are just out of college to people that were probably around when PCs first came out and still have problems with basic functions of them. I've tinkered with Vista on other people's machines but have not installed it on any of my own and as an IT guy I'm not impressed with it and like brianhos said M$ really messed up on this one. There are even stories out there of how some companies have gone to Vista and rolled back to XP even.

 

[ce1]

After getting Vista with a new laptop this year, it is satisfactory, if underwhelming in its improvements. However, one ongoing issue is how it handles certain websites. When I pull up certain sites, usually ones that take a long time to load, it will lock up. I cannot put my finger on any particular commonality among the sites, like certain plug-ins. Anyone have any ideas?

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It's possible that it's actually IE7. There's an issue with the Phishing filter slowing down some sites. I'd look to see if you have this patch installed first:

Download details: Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB928089)

Whoops - my bad, this is the XP link. There's a corresponding Vista link somewhere, i'll see if i can track it down.

 

[ce1]

It's possible that it's actually IE7. There's an issue with the Phishing filter slowing down some sites. I'd look to see if you have this patch installed first:

Download details: Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB928089)

Whoops - my bad, this is the XP link. There's a corresponding Vista link somewhere, i'll see if i can track it down.

Try this instead:

The computer may respond very slowly as the Phishing Filter evaluates Web page contents in Internet Explorer 7