Vista - Survey - How stable is VISTA?

1. Which version of VISTA are you using?

2. How frequently do you encounter operating system anomalies such as
freezing, crashes, inoperable functionality requiring re-booting, etc.?

3. How frequently do you re-install VISTA?

"Grey" <johnqpublic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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1. Vista Home Premium
2.Never since Feb. '07
3.twice...once due to going from RAID0 to 2 drives...once due to udungtu.

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:12:54 -0600, "Grey" <johnqpublic@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Ultimate.




Never (and I've been running it here for two years, since RTM in
November 2006).



Never. I never reinstall any version of Windows. It's only necessary
if you badly screw up what you have.

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"Grey" <johnqpublic@xxxxxx> wrote in message newscnWk.1929$wt1.100@xxxxxx

1. Ultimate 64 Bit since November 2006
2. A few times but it was third party related
4. I have not reached that stage.
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"Grey" <johnqpublic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
newscnWk.1929$wt1.100@xxxxxxUltimate
Frequency = 0
Been running since Nov 2006. No re-installs necessary

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"Grey" <johnqpublic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
newscnWk.1929$wt1.100@xxxxxxVisit Home Premium since June 16, 2008
NeverNever

"Grey" <johnqpublic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
newscnWk.1929$wt1.100@xxxxxxUltimate 64 (desktop 1), Ultimate 32 (desktop 2), Home Premium 32 (laptop
1), Ultimate 64 (laptop 2), Business 32 (in VPC on desktop 1 for testing in
my development job).
I used to have weekly/random crashes on desktop 1 due to a flaky ATI video
driver. This is a well-known issue. Since updating the driver about 9
months ago (this machine is 1 year old, so it was a tough 3 months!),
desktop 1 is now rock solid. Desktop 2, laptop 1, laptop 2 and VPC have
always been solid.
Never. What is the point of that? The days of Windows 98 "Bit Rot" and
"DLL Hell" are long gone.

Well, I *did* do a re-install on desktop 1. It came with Home Premium 32
pre-installed, along with a bunch of typical useless crap. I immediately
wiped it, deleted the 10 GB "system restore" partition, and installed
Ultimate 64 because I needed 64 bits so I could use 8 GB of RAM. This
machine is my main machine here and runs 24/7. No problems at all.

"Grey" <johnqpublic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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1: Vista Ultimate 64 bit

2: Installed the end of February of this year, have yet to encounter a
freeze, crash, etc. No blue screens, no sudden reboots.

3: Have only installed the one time so far.



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"Grey" <johnqpublic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
newscnWk.1929$wt1.100@xxxxxxDesktop:

1. Home Premium 32 - "free" upgrade March 2007 from XP

2. Maybe 3 times in total.

3. Never.

Laptop

1. Home Premium 32 Pre installed 14 months ago.

2. Never

3. Never