Really Starting To Like Windows Vista Home Premium
Vista-TanI've had my new Toshiba Satellite laptop, running Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, for several months now. After uninstalling a ton of unwanted glut (most-importantly IE7), adding my personal favorite apps (particularly Avast 4.8 Pro & Firefox 2), and a whole slew of registry tweaks, I have to admit... I really like Vista!
Even after years of tweaks and 3 service packs, I never got XP to run the way I wanted it. I was always having to reconfigure or restore the OS, and many apps that wound up corrupted in some fashion. That's why I stuck with Windows 2000 Professional for so long, and skipped XP in all but two company laptops that had it pre-loaded. It still took 2 ~ 3 weeks of trimming and reshaping to get Vista running the way I liked it, but at present it has exceeded my expectations by leaps and bounds.
I was able to talk our CEO into letting me upgrade to Photoshop CS3 (I've had Illustrator CS3 for a while, but only PS7) and it sings on Vista, especially when multi-tasking. The only weak link in the system is that Firefox 2 is still a memory hog, but I hear good things about Firefox 3 plugging a lot of leaks. In the mean time, I have Opera, which works great.
Windows 2000 will still remain my primary OS for my existing home and office workstations, but I now have no reservations getting Windows Vista along with it - especially since I documented all the trims and tweaks I made.
2000-Tan