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Drivers
Friday 19th October, 2007 10:01 Comments: 2
I upgraded my graphics card drivers last night and was happy to see that Vista did a quick flicker on the screen and then everything came back up and running. With the exception of the video I had been watching at the time; but I opened the file again and everything was fine. Much better than the old way of doing things, like on Windows XP, where you had to restart the computer. This is the advantages of moving things from kernel mode to user mode, and one of the many good reasons why it's worth upgrading to Vista (if you've got the hardware to support it). I'm really looking forward to Server 2008, but I suspect the next version of Windows could be far more exciting! Although I wish they'd sort out the user's side of things instead of trying to improve an already pretty good kernel.
Avatar Fab - Friday 19th October, 2007 13:01
Vista has been ok for me, nothing spectacular but ok. The no need to reboot thing is quite nice. The only thing that is really tainting my Vista experience is still the ram problem. Chris still has not sent me a replacement 2gb twin stick and won't do until I get the chance to go to Northampton and beat him up!
Avatar Robert - Friday 19th October, 2007 15:50
I thought the issue was you bought a pair of sticks so he can only perform the RMA if you supply him with both sticks? I'm sure he could temporarily lend you a spare stick or something. If you've got a spare USB pen drive, you could always plug that in and configure Vista to use ReadyBoost - it's not as good as RAM, but every little helps.

Vista, to me, is a bit like using Windows XP compared to Windows 2000 - it's a lot more polished and user friendly, introduces new features, but it's not entirely perfect.
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