Most people who know me know I am pretty anti Microsoft Vista, it is a resource hog that is filled with DRM (Digital Rights Management) that gives very little to the home user and really nothing to the business user. Microsoft claims that Vista is more secure then Windows XP was; which is true. However, the main thing that makes it more secure is UAC (User Access Control) which annoys most users and they disable it. Actually it was the first thing I did when I installed Vista, UAC just annoys me to no end.
But now after getting back the RMA’d memory from Kingston I was running six gigabytes of memory in my main system. Which is a waste since Windows XP only seeing about 3.5 gigabytes of memory. So to use this memory I decided I would give Microsoft Vista Ultimate 64 bit a try. I was expecting a lot of problems with programs not being compatible with it, but I wanted to give it a try.
I must say I have been presently surprise Microsoft has made a lot of changes to Vista since the last time I got fed up with it and uninstalled it. They have resolved the file transfer bug that they denied existed for the longest time.
I must say I have been really impressed with Vista 64 bit, it is much faster then my XP install was. My computer now boots and shuts down faster and generally speaking it feels faster. I still had to disable all indexing to prevent Vista from trashing my hard drive; Microsoft still needs to improve their algorithms.
So far I really have not had any major problems running Vista 64 bit; I have been running it now for about three weeks. The only program that I have not been able to run is Quickbooks 97 or something like that, really can not blame Microsoft for that.
I am still having two issues but neither one are major. The first being every time I put DVD or CD into my optical drive “autorun” does not work and when I click to open it Vista wants to format the disk. I also at times have issues opening the disk, it is generally resolved by ejecting the disk and putting it back in. Autorun still does not work but I can open or explore the CD. Not a huge issue but it is annoying.
The other issue is not really a Microsoft issue directly but more an Adobe issue. Presently Adobe does not have a Flash player the works on 64 bit. This is a pain since you are forced to run the 32 bit version of Internet Explorer for most sites rather the 64 bit one. Vista has been out for a while and 64 bit XP has been out for what six years and there is still no Flash Player. Adobe really needs to get this resolved and Microsoft should be putting pressure on them to get this done.
So all in all I have been extremely impressed with Vista Ultimate 64 bit, I find it extremely fast and have no almost no problems. No where near the problems I had when I was running Vista before. I suspect one of the reasons I am having less problems now is that before I did an upgrade to Vista from my Windows XP install. This time I did fresh install, which is generally recommended. However, it is 2008 and I would hope Microsoft would have figure out how to upgrade their software…
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