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Originally Posted by GeeForce
Pidgin's alright, but it does some wonky stuff with the font (it'll look really small on your computer, but huge on other people's). I use it and just ignore the small font.
Bit of a derailment, but how do you like Vista? My sister is probably getting a new laptop for her birthday; obviously online you hear about all the problems with Vista, is it really worth it?
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As said before, do not install it before the first service pack. I had it on my computer for about 7 months before I finally got fed up with it. It was a big reasource hog on my computer to an insane level. After start up on a fresh install when I got the computer, it showed that it filled the physical memory up to 50% on the nose. I figured this was because of the low level of memory, so I bought a 1gig card. When I started up again (still no programs) it still filled the memory up to 50% on the nose. This made me mad as it was filling up half of my 1.5 gigs of memory. So I bought another 1gig card and put it in with the other one totaling 2 gigs of memory. Again, when I started up (I only had Firefox and pidgin on the computer) it filled it up to about 50% (~47%). This is just crazy and this really made me mad. I had 2 gigs of memory, yet still it was half full. What could the OS be using to fill up 1 gig of ram? What finally set me off was vista freezing randomly. I installed XP on this computer and did the driver hunt, and now everything works great! I have no complaints about this computer except for the fact that it isn't a Mac.
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Originally Posted by EHaskins
Good to know, even though I don't use AIM.
Before you dump Vista shut off UAC, PM me if you don't know how. Once I shut that off Vista ran better on all my machines than XP did. Really! |
I did this on my vista when I had it, but the computer still ran slow. But all is good with XP now.
