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Why I upgraded from Vista to Server 2003


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#1 Linoman

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Posted 24 February 2008 - 05:52 PM

Hello everyone, well after I finally bought Vista Home Premium I have decided to upgrade back to Server 2003. Yes its sad but true, why some of you may ask. Lets see

1) Server 2003 does not have as much cr@p as Vista, does. Seriously do we need all of those hungary system resources?
2) Far more reliable and stable (does not randomly crash)
3) Has decent boot ups and shutdown times, unlike Vista where in the time its doing it; you could go to Mars and back
4) Software and games support is better, lets face it. How many apps lag or just run like sh@t on Vista?
5) My system feels faster (sure it has 4GB RAM); but does Vista really need to use over 2GB when I am doing NOTHING.

On this note I do not think I wasted my money, I am sure Vista will be decent after SP2, or if SP1 is fixed up

#2 Nvyseal

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Posted 24 February 2008 - 08:41 PM

you'll be crawling back. Probably to XP

#3 TheBearLT

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Posted 24 February 2008 - 09:09 PM

No Nv.. He will be crawling back to WinNT Server :)

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Posted 24 February 2008 - 11:57 PM

Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed with Vister...again.

With Aero off, DreamScenes off, a lot of other crap off, I still idle at a minimum 800mb RAM usage.

What

the

hell

is

going

on?!?!?!?

#5 Linoman

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Posted 25 February 2008 - 06:44 AM

Well I am sure its currently more stable than frikken Vista

#6 TheBearLT

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Posted 25 February 2008 - 08:39 AM

View Posteniparadoxgma, on Feb 25 2008, 01:57 AM, said:

Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed with Vister...again.

With Aero off, DreamScenes off, a lot of other crap off, I still idle at a minimum 800mb RAM usage.

What

the

hell

is

going

on?!?!?!?


Sky falling :)

#7 David_Heavey

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Posted 25 February 2008 - 02:15 PM

Vista is the worst most hungry OS I can remember. Even with all that fancy waste of space Aero off. I hate Vista so much.

XP x64. Kick a$$

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Posted 27 February 2008 - 05:56 AM

that high memory usage is all the m$ spyware working in the background reporting you to big brother bill

#9 m.oreilly

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Posted 27 February 2008 - 04:46 PM

View Postdonkballs, on Feb 26 2008, 09:56 PM, said:

that high memory usage is all the m$ spyware working in the background reporting you to big brother bill

be careful donk, steve ballmer might hear you... :)

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Posted 27 February 2008 - 04:57 PM

We all have Balmofobia here... ;)



Shhhhh.... He could be scanning our BRAIN right now :) :) !!!

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#11 Linoman

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Posted 04 March 2008 - 08:28 AM

Its been a couple of days since install and all I can say. I am so happy I did it, no regrets even with adding additional software the system feels very stable and responsive.. Well done MS for an excellent os MS SERVER 2003

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Posted 04 March 2008 - 09:03 AM

Yeah, server 2003 is quite good :rofl_mini:

#13 Vishal Gupta

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Posted 04 March 2008 - 09:06 AM

lol and I was also deciding to go back to good ol server 2003 today. Even after installing SP1 RTM my Vista is not running smoother. So I'll also downgrade to Server 2003 soon. :rofl_mini:

#14 Linoman

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Posted 04 March 2008 - 08:43 PM

Hey enjoy, listen I applied the theme and most of the stuff works except Vista Explorer: using styler.. Any ideas

#15 Vishal Gupta

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Posted 05 March 2008 - 04:33 AM

^^ Thanks. Are you having problems with Styler? I think it requires .NET Framework and VC++ library files. :rofl_mini:




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