Glad I installed XP!
By diamania
@diamania (7011)
Netherlands
December 12, 2010 9:28am CST
I am glad I installed XP. Someone installed VISTA for me months ago on my old computer and it was terrible from the first moment on. It was slow, my hard drive was partitioned and I didn't know it so it was kind of weird to find out my drive was out of space, when I finally found out it was partitioned it was too late already. So yesterday evening I burned XP on a CD and fixed the partitions and installed it.
What a relief! Sometimes old stuff is better 
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15 responses
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
12 Dec 10
Windows 7 wasn't horrible on my laptop but on my old but beloved clunker vista and windows are just so terrible. You need at least 1 gb ram, my old computer only has 700-something, initially it had even only 200-something but I upgraded it, hehe.
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@Christoph56 (1504)
• Canada
13 Dec 10
I'm going to be getting a new desktop computer this Christmas season, since it's been about 7 years since I got the one I have now, and I'm really looking forward to having windows 7 on it. (Ha, 7 year old computer being switched for a computer with windows 7!). Windows 7 is a really great system for new computers, because it gets past all the horrible flaws that Vista had, has the same great pieces that XP had, and I've even heard that it puts together your whole system so well, that as long as you remove the extra visuals that it does, it works with your computer even better then XP! Only bad part about having it on an older computer, is hard drive space... but really, if you have an old computer, you should at least get a new external hard drive. The size of everything is going up and up and up, and nowadays you can get something like a 500gb external drive for about $50.
But yes, if you have to make the choice between Vista and XP, then go with XP. Vista was just terrible.
@youless (112103)
• Guangzhou, China
13 Dec 10
I am not interested in the latest version. As long as the current operating system works well, I won't consider to upgrade it. Right now I also use Windows XP and I am satisfactory to it.
I love China
@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
13 Dec 10
hi diamania,
i havent tried vista ever. 
but it really is a relief when you are using something that you already know of.
am glad your pc is doing well now.
have a very nice day.
ann
but it really is a relief when you are using something that you already know of.
am glad your pc is doing well now.
have a very nice day.
ann@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
14 Dec 10
You should be glad you have never used Vista. It's terrible, hence microsoft release windows 7 so quickly after Vista. Mind you xp was released in 2001, vista in 2007 and windows 7 in 2009. With a good reason, it was terrible. Microsoft has now also admitted Vista is crap and windows 7 is not a good option for slower PCs so they have extended the support period for XP to 2014, and I am sure they wanted to stop supporting it already. Still I don't think people will get full support, windows doesn't earn too much with XP anymore, but it's a nice gesture.
@aodoerfer (113)
• United States
13 Dec 10
The problem with Vista is that it was installed on a lot of systems it shouldn't be. It's a resource hog, and it doesn't run very well on computers with less than 2 gigs of ram, but it was put on lots of netbooks and things like that that didn't have enough ram to support it. My husband's computer, which has 4 gigs of ram, runs Vista beautifully.
I use Windows 7, which I am a huge fan of.
@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
12 Dec 10
It is really good that you can fix it yourself. I do not know what it means when the hard drive gets partitioned or how it happens, so I hope it never happens to me. My desktop has XP and my laptop came with Windows 7
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
12 Dec 10
Hey Gerty,
Good to see you again. Partitioning is basically splitting your hard drive memory in two or more pieces. It's not something that can happen to you, it's something you can choose for. It had devastating effect so I turned them back into one drive and now everything's working alright.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
12 Dec 10
I have XP onmy desktop and Windows 7 here on my netbook and thankfully I was saved from any experiences with Vista. Everything I heard about it was always negative.
Hey, old stuff is often better! 
@cableman67 (872)
• United States
6 Jan 11
I don't really have a problem with Vista but it does require a fairly new computer to run it smoothly. You need a dual core and a good bit of random memory. Visa has a lot of good qualities such as self maintaining to keep it running smooth although I always install "Tune Up Utilities" on all my computers for regular maintenance to keep them running smoothly.
I do a lot of work on computers and repair all my friend computers. I personally use windows xp and like it just fine. I don't see any reason to upgrade until I need to and when I do I will probably upgrade to windows 7.
I have to agree with you. I could run any version on my computer but I also choose xp.
@armanseikh88 (211)
• India
18 Dec 10
yes i agree with xp is much better than vista and windows 7. vista makes your computer slow and windows 7 is not much familiar with many software and as well as games are not supported with them. i am currently using the windows xp sp3 and i have not any problem with it.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
12 Dec 10
Two years ago I bought my boyfriend a PC with Vista it was a nightmare. Nothing worked properly and although we had Vista applications sometimes they did not recognize any of them.
It was so stressful that I too replaced it with XP.. YEAH!! He has been enjoying it since.
@damned_dle (3942)
• Philippines
13 Dec 10
I agree with you. Old computers can't handle Vista! So just stick with XP. =) You can also try Windows 7 because it is much faster than Vista but requirements are the same as vista.
@placeboplace (91)
• India
12 Dec 10
I always recommend to all my friend to use windows xp OS because its simple, easy to use, Requires lesser RAM can run almost all software other than Linux based. If you love to play games on computers then i think window xp is best os for you because of lot's of RAM is available to run your game but if you play same game in window vista or window 7 you will feel reduction in speed.
XP Rocks !
@RamRes (1723)
• Argentina
14 Dec 10
Congratulations! That's the best choice nowadays. Vista is really bad, incompatible with everything, slow and with an horrible UI. Much better stay away from it. XP on the other hand is relative fast and compatible with most soft and hard today, and is much easier to use.
Micro$oft will take ages in developing an OS better than XP.
