VISTA..THE HONEYMOON IS OVER!

Hi guys,the euphoria has gone and most of us have the vista operating system on at least one p.c in our homes,and on the whole its not been too bad,my personal experience is using a acer t671 running vista premium with a pentium D (2.8ghz)and 1gb ddr2 ram,and as i used the beta for 6 motnhs before the final release i was a bit unsure in wether to buy a vista ready p.c but as i knew sooner or later i would have to upgrade to vista i thought vista premium would be the ideal version and acer p.c,s are pretty reliable !

on turning the acer p.c on i was quite suprised to see that acer had not finished loading the os,it took around 15 minutes to reach the main options screen(user name and password),this wasnt a problem for me as i knew the way vista loaded and recognized the stage of installtion,however inexperienced users may get stuck and start switching the p.c on and off fearing a fault or dodgy p.c

on vista loading i was greeted with the new vista start up sound and the new vista wallpapers(below)

 and straight away i started to try the 3d tilted windows and sidebar,and configuring everything to my own personal taste,then after i uninstalled the free 3 month norton anti-virus free trial and installed avast in its place i was ready to update everything and start using vista

well after six months i am quite happy overall,theres been very few problems and most software i have used has run fine,and even a old windows 98 audio application i have used on xp ran fine on vista (using the program compatibility utility)

one feature which has suprised me is the hardware and driver updating system in vista,unlike the xp version this actually works,i recently bought a usb tv stick from pinnacle and on plugging it into the u.s.b port it went straight on to the vista update and found the drivers,this is a great feature in vista and i must congratulate microsoft on this

on the whole i am very pleased with windows vista and so are most people i speak to,this is the way to go and with windows xp to be removed from the shelves in january 2008 its time we all made the upgrade

all the best guys !