OTS and Vista... and VDJ..... do they play nicely?

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Papa Deuce

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I sort of fell into a sweet deal on a laptop today. I was not going to get a system with Vista but this deal was so good I had to say yes.

Anybody running either VDJ or OTS on a Vista based machine?
 
thatmusicguy said:
Try it...I've read that it will run by changing the compatibility to "XP"
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OK, but before I do ANYTHING, I am making sytem restore discs.... Nothing has been done to this laptop yet... Hell, it took 45 minutes just to get to the desktop the first time..... Between stuff it was doing, and stuff it wanted me to do, it really took 35 - 45 minutes before I saw the desktop.
 
Papa,

I think if you are only going to use the laptop for work, you should just disable all of Vista's security features. The less that's running, the more performance you'll get out of your machine.
 
Hell, it took 45 minutes just to get to the desktop the first time
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Vista does that. It has to do lots of housecleaning and driver configuration the first time you boot it up (mine took two long reboots to sort everything out).

After that, it should boot quicker than XP (at least mine does).

So far, all the apps I use or create work just fine with it, and it seems a bit faster than XP.
 
SoftJock Rick said:
Vista does that. It has to do lots of housecleaning and driver configuration the first time you boot it up (mine took two long reboots to sort everything out).

After that, it should boot quicker than XP (at least mine does).

So far, all the apps I use or create work just fine with it, and it seems a bit faster than XP.
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I wasn't as fortunate. To many background programs running. I found it extremely slow. And, I'm no pro when it comes to determing which background programs to turn off, so I'd turn something off only to find out I needed it for something. And, it's not easy to turn it back on without a reboot. Of course, you really need to explain what version of Vista you have...I only had Vista Home Basic. Talk about a stripped down OS. :sqerr:
 
I use the enterprise version, so yeah, it has everything.

Since I have to use this to test my software, I don't tweak the OS in any way, I let everything run, connected to the net, etc. Stock, right outta the box (I figure the majority of my customers would probably not tweak).

Vista comes up on my machines with about 42 processes running. My XP machine that I actually develop on, usually has about 60-65 going.

As I'm typing this, my latest software is running two videos on a second monitor on the same machine, over 1GB memory commit, and 60 processes going, including two compilers, email, editors, Paint Shop Pro, 6 tabs in FireFox, etc. This is not a fast machine either. That's my little "secret" to software development -- do it with all the junk running, and it will run better on everything else ;)

FYI:

The only software I won't run, is iTunes and MusicMatch, as they have a terrible habit of hooking the audio drivers, and not letting go, which screws up any other audio software on the machine. Also, Alienware ships some weird GI skins with their computers now too, that causes some problems with other software (that came from a couple customers using XP).
 
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