sorry but try harder

no no no....i will not "test" this buggy thing anymore. i am tired of non-stop-hdd-activity, unknown devices, slow performance. who needs a sidebar with a childish clock when your system hangs? and i am talking about an athlon 3000+ 64 cpu, asus board with dual channel support and 1024mb ddr ram 400mhz. i don´t want bluescreens any more just because of trying to install a "standart game controller"... i had my win95 times. as i said...try harder. this is really disappointing.

I'm sorry to hear that. You were doing great finding and reporting problems to MS. Please reconsider.
"olli" wrote in message

no no no....i will not "test" this buggy thing anymore. i am tired of non-stop-hdd-activity, unknown devices, slow performance. who needs a sidebar with a childish clock when your system hangs? and i am talking about an athlon 3000+ 64 cpu, asus board with dual channel support and 1024mb ddr ram 400mhz. i don´t want bluescreens any more just because of trying to install a "standart game controller"... i had my win95 times. as i said...try harder. this is really disappointing.

Your experience looks like my first try with vista. I threw it away and tried suse10.0 for a few days....nuff said! On the second reincarnation of vista I spent more time watching the various warnings about software incompatibilities and reading about other peoples ideas and suggestions in this news group. Vista is different to XP, do you remember the shock of using win95 after win 3.11? Well, we all have to start finding our way around this new operating system. I am beginning to do that , and yes, I like it very much indeed. "olli" wrote in message

no no no....i will not "test" this buggy thing anymore. i am tired of non-stop-hdd-activity, unknown devices, slow performance. who needs a sidebar with a childish clock when your system hangs? and i am talking about an athlon 3000+ 64 cpu, asus board with dual channel support and 1024mb ddr ram 400mhz. i don´t want bluescreens any more just because of trying to install a "standart game controller"... i had my win95 times. as i said...try harder. this is really disappointing.

That's too bad that you are having an unpleasant experience Olli. I am having just the opposite. Vista is quite stable and speedy here and I have an older machine. A few quirks here and there but I am pleasantly surprised! I did a clean install. dotcom
"olli" wrote in message

no no no....i will not "test" this buggy thing anymore. i am tired of non-stop-hdd-activity, unknown devices, slow performance. who needs a sidebar with a childish clock when your system hangs? and i am talking about an athlon 3000+ 64 cpu, asus board with dual channel support and 1024mb ddr ram 400mhz. i don´t want bluescreens any more just because of trying to install a "standart game controller"... i had my win95 times. as i said...try harder. this is really disappointing.

I overall think that Vista is on the right track, but I don't think it's quite as fast as XP yet, and WMP11 is extremely slow. (Although WMP11 on XP is fine.) To put it in comparison, when I'm using WMP11 on XP, it would take 4% to 7% of my CPU, but in Vista with WMP11, it takes over half of my CPU - WMP eats some, DWM eats some (DWM eats more when WMP11 is running) and mfpmp.exe is also eating some of my CPU. (DRM) The DRM thing is something that definitely is not headed in the right direction, especially if it's going to eat 15% of my CPU when running WMP11. "dotcom" wrote in message

That's too bad that you are having an unpleasant experience Olli. I am having just the opposite. Vista is quite stable and speedy here and I have an older machine. A few quirks here and there but I am pleasantly surprised! I did a clean install. dotcom
"olli" wrote in message no no no....i will not "test" this buggy thing anymore. i am tired of non-stop-hdd-activity, unknown devices, slow performance. who needs a sidebar with a childish clock when your system hangs? and i am talking about an athlon 3000+ 64 cpu, asus board with dual channel support and 1024mb ddr ram 400mhz. i don´t want bluescreens any more just because of trying to install a "standart game controller"... i had my win95 times. as i said...try harder. this is really disappointing.

The Vista Beta is not some "free-of-charge operating system for your pleasure" scheme you know. It exists SOLELY so you can find these bugs and report them to Microsoft. You did report them all, right? Also did you read and understand the "beta" word that is mentioned a couple of times around the download site?
"olli" wrote in message

no no no....i will not "test" this buggy thing anymore. i am tired of non-stop-hdd-activity, unknown devices, slow performance. who needs a sidebar with a childish clock when your system hangs? and i am talking about an athlon 3000+ 64 cpu, asus board with dual channel support and 1024mb ddr ram 400mhz. i don´t want bluescreens any more just because of trying to install a "standart game controller"... i had my win95 times. as i said...try harder. this is really disappointing.