Ugh - Vista

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Well, I've had enough of this! Service Pack 2 toasted my computer so I'm going to reburn the dang thing back down to 32bit.

To forstall all you computer geeks... it's a HP TouchSmart that came with 32 bit OS, upgraded to Vista Premium 64 bit with much hassle and lost all the fun stuff of having a touchscreen. I've been using the 64 OS for a year, still hate it and am going to reburn to the 32 bit Vista Premium. I was thinking I'd wait until "7" came out and just upgrade to that, but the final straw was the system crash with SP2 and issues with my internet connection - just tired of it.

So, in the process of backing up everything... making sure I have copies off all my programs, the keys, cookies, passwords, favorites - including all the trusted zones I have saved. I know I'm going to lose something... I really hate that.
 
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Don't you just hate that! I'm sticking with XP Pro as long as I can!

If your machine is a 64 bit it would run 32 bit OS software much better.
 
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I seriously considered "downgrading" the computer when I got it to XP - but would have lost functionality - sorta like upgrading to 64bit! lol

The machine is 64 capable - but you know what they say, "Just 'cause you can, doesn't mean you should!" When I spoke to HP about upgrading to 64 they told me the reason it wasn't built with 64 was because all the drivers were't available at the time. I can't find my disks to upgrade to Vista "Ultimate" can you say, oxymoron? lol Maybe, Ultimate Pain in the Tushie would be more accurate...

I'm procrastinating... I hate the fact I'll be offline for several hours because of this. I have to reburn to factory settings and then upgrade to Ultimate. I figure I'll get started on the reburn sometime after lunch.
 
maddog10

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Just run it at 32. There are a lot of issues with 64, it does not play well with all the programs and accessories out there.
 
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mscichlid said:
I'm supposed to get a new computer and I afraid that it will come loaded with Pissta.
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I'm sorry... really sucks to hear you're probably getting Vista... it's like a disease. It really takes the fun out of a new system.

I didn't do it, I can't find my stupid upgrade. Okay, I didn't look that hard for it... lol
 
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