Downgrading vista to xp

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

I'm surprised that nobody's asked: what's the issue you're experiencing with Vista? Unsurprisingly, killing the OS and reinstalling is a pretty crude and wasteful way of keeping your computer happy, in a lot of cases.

What do you use Vista for? Word processing and checking your e-mail? Or do you have one of those 4.5GHz machines with 8GB of RAM?

For me, it is the fact that with every feature turned off it takes 1GB of 2GB RAM total...AT IDLE. What could it possibly be doing with all of that RAM? I can't even express how outrageous that is...

Vista keeps the cores on a dual-core 1.7GHz system around 20% load, as opposed to XP's occasional 1%. This makes power saving impossible--since the cores never idle, the battery is always being sucked down and the fan is always on. Even the simplest of games (Pocket Tanks, StepMania) running on top of Vista run at half their intended frame rate, even on a system with a specially purchased nVIDIA chip, instead of the crappy Intel Integrated stuff.

Not to mention everything has been moved. Something that was 3 clicks away in XP is now buried under new headings in the Control Panel.

Vista itself is more wasteful than the person buying an XP license to replace Vista.

When XP support is dropped, it is likely I will be switching to Ubuntu, or a Mac.

JBot