New Vista user

Hi everyone, my new system rocks. My question is now that I am a new vista 64 user what suggestions for settings are must do and what programs and or freeware are must have? Just want to say DS I love the computer U built for me. Thanks, Guy Preston

How do I know which apps can run in 64 and which ones cant?

So it doesnt matter if i make a mistake? Do I have to have 2 program folders for all my drives now? 1 for 64 and one labled x86? Because I dont and I have been moving stuff in my big hard drive 

When i got vista i was doing  for a while.

Edited by Nomak - 13 Oct 2008 at 3:25pm

Fortunately I still have XP Pro with SP3 on my old, tired AMD64 FX @ 2.6 box but , sadly, it has a rough time with FSX. Sigh!

there is not a damn thing wrong with vista, thousands are using it just fine.

lets ask all the people on this board alone that have vista if they share your view

IF you couldn't figure it out, don't blame the app, its doing just fine for many others.

say I didn't like vista, dont' say vista is crap, cause there is nothing wrong with it.


Edited by DST4ME - 13 Oct 2008 at 8:38pm

I think we all know who the "jf" is

atleast I had enough curtasy to edit what I wrote one minute after I wrote it, you are directly attacking.

you said:

Originally posted by harlyman can handle it just fine...But its sucks sh*t out loud

All I said was don't' say vista is full of sh*t, cause its not. just say I didn't like vista, I like XP better. you are suggesting vista 64 is inferior, which its not, it can see more ram, which means it used all of system resources, thus making it the better OS.

also me and PG1 are discussing apps on vista, there is no need for people to come and spam offtopic stuff.

you didn't like it, thats fine,

this thread is about apps on vista, and now about who likes xp or who does not like vista.

as for following you, correct me if I'm wrong, but me and PG1 were having a conversation and you are the one that came to our topic and made offtopic remarks. So if anybody is following anybody, in this thread you would be following me.

Edited by DST4ME - 14 Oct 2008 at 12:00am

I'm keeping cool and not really responding David, do you agree, I mean if he called you jerk-off, would you agree my response is a calm one?

I mean I didn't respond the fist time he called me it, and here he is doing it now the second time in this thread.


@HM I edited my post caues I realized it came off wrong and thats not what I meant by it, you saw it was edited yet you said what you said.

what he is talking about is offtopic anyways, me and PG1 are discussing vista apps and all of a sudden he is talking about vista being sh*t out of the blue, its not even on topic.

Edited by DST4ME - 14 Oct 2008 at 12:45am

That is correct,

Vista 64 automatically determines if the program natively supports 64 bit or not and ferrets the program into the standard program files directory or the x86 directory for 32 bit programs. You do not need to know anything about that.

I will tell you when installing games, install them on a seperate drive or at least in a 'Games' folder on your drive if you have only 1 drive, Vista in order to protect the sanctity of programs restricts access to the 'Program Files' directories. This is in response to malicious programs that were modifiying program executables to infect them. It has the unintended side effect of making some older games that store user data in the program files directory tree fail. Newer games do not tend to have this issue, but I prefer to install on a seperate drive in a standard location anyway, makes it easy to keep all my games in one spot because I do notback up game executables, no need, they are on CD/DVD and easy to recover. Saves space on my backup media.

As far as the ever present Vista - XP debate. Vista is raftloads better. On my hardware I notice zero difference as will most everyone here running a modern system with vista certified hardware. It is a non-issue at this point, XP is inferior if only for 1 reason, it is entering sunset support, which means no updates soon for even critical security flaws that are discovered. In my book, that alone makes it a poor choice.

Enough Said,

Dave

I keep mine on the 500GB HDDs, notice the "s"

I'm still learning my way around Vista. Its not too bad, it looks better than XP imo. But XP was easier to navigate to me. 

Mmmm probably just my ignorance lol. After reading your post about the X86, that makes sense and I've had this computer for almost a month and never knew what the difference was until now 

you can't be ignorant about something you have not used before boss its called a learning process.

if after you learned everything and then you still can't use it, then you might be ignorant,but I know you are not.

its a new OS boss, takes a bit to get used to you are so tough on yourself boss, give a bit of time you will be cruising thru it faster then you do XP

don't ask me how long it took me to figure out the 2 folders

Edited by DST4ME - 16 Oct 2008 at 10:41pm

Awesome thanks for the link. Was able to disable two programs during startup. Ran CC cleaner and cleaned up some junk too. Hopefully it will boot faster like it did when I first got it lol.


How often do you recommend running CCleaner?


Edited by Sneakerz - 16 Oct 2008 at 10:55pm

Hey guys, I'm new so i guess i'm considered a noob on these...lol
just found out that the D.S. laptop that i ordered a bit ago is coming!!!! woooohooo!!!
I'm just wondering is there a bit change between XP and vista?? cause i'm currently using XP and i don't know how big of a difference it'll be for vista...may take me a while to figure everything out
ooo and just want to thanks D.S. again for the awesome service and can't wait to try out the new PC

I love vista 64bit, its great and can do things xp can't.

jtspectra2 have not used TweakUAC yet?

Oh sorry I thought you did not have it disabled nothing different about that app, it just makes it easier to do.

Edited by DST4ME - 14 Nov 2008 at 4:09pm

lol I hope that is not in windows 7