On Sunday I was given a emachines laptop which has Windows Vista pre-installed. My first instinct was to remove Vista and replace it with Debian or Manjaro but then I thought, why not attempt to see if I can use this OS for a month to see how bad it is. I've never had Windows Vista before and have only read other peoples accounts on how bad it is.
This is day 3 of using Windows Vista and it is annoying the hell out of me, for one thing it is really slow. When I'm dragging the mouse pointer across the screen it feels like I'm dragging it through treacle. Then there's the constant reading of the hard disk - unsure if it us using swap because laptop only has 1GB of RAM.
I have set up two new accounts, one called Root which is the administrator account and the other is under my own name which is a normal user account which I log in most of the time.
I have a few videos in mp4 format on a USB stick but Windows does not have the codec installed so cannot play them through Windows Media Player I would need to download the codec or install VLC.
I haven't bothered to install a 3rd party virus scanner but I do have Windows Defender installed, I am hoping that this will keep most of the nasties at bay.
One thing that I was surprtised to see installed was Microsoft Works, I had not seen that since the 90's. I didn't think Microsoft were still developing it.
Anyway I am not too sure I will be keeping Windows Vista for a month, but as a word of warning, if I ever start using foul language on here it's because I've been using Vista so apologies in advance.
This is day 3 of using Windows Vista and it is annoying the hell out of me, for one thing it is really slow. When I'm dragging the mouse pointer across the screen it feels like I'm dragging it through treacle. Then there's the constant reading of the hard disk - unsure if it us using swap because laptop only has 1GB of RAM.
I have set up two new accounts, one called Root which is the administrator account and the other is under my own name which is a normal user account which I log in most of the time.
I have a few videos in mp4 format on a USB stick but Windows does not have the codec installed so cannot play them through Windows Media Player I would need to download the codec or install VLC.
I haven't bothered to install a 3rd party virus scanner but I do have Windows Defender installed, I am hoping that this will keep most of the nasties at bay.
One thing that I was surprtised to see installed was Microsoft Works, I had not seen that since the 90's. I didn't think Microsoft were still developing it.
Anyway I am not too sure I will be keeping Windows Vista for a month, but as a word of warning, if I ever start using foul language on here it's because I've been using Vista so apologies in advance.
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