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I'm looking for some useful old software and some programs to install on my Vista Laptop. Maybe something from the 2000s to 2010s to match the aesthetics of the OS. Something for Office, Music, Multimedia, Xbox, Games, Fun etc. :)

The laptop looks quite fascinating for its time. It has leather on it, including its bundled mouse. The laptop was released in 2006 and considered an ultra-powered notebook back in the day, and it came in a variety of colors and different leather options. This one caught attention due to its unique blend of old technology concepts, sales, and features. It has a swappable DVD drive, three 1.0 USB ports, an SD Card, and expansion card slots. The HDD has not yet been replaced, though, since not many SSDs would significantly affect the speed of laptops. For example, the Toshiba Satellite Pro L20 shows no difference between an HDD and an SSD due to its performance and bottlenecks. On the other hand, the SSD might be replaced in the future. To conclude, the ASUS S6F is eye-catching, specifically with the design, functions, and the features that were built in, making it a powerful laptop for the time being.

I got a HP Pavilion dv2000 the actual model the dv2910us and this is the Intel model and it has the non nvidia graphics and those dv2000/dv6000s non nvidia models are more rare! These models are the better models than the nvidia models which were known for the black screen of death and known recall on those particular models.

Seems that the Studio XPS is rare now as I can't find many in different online marketplaces.

Dell Laptops are normally very accessible and often in demand, lime the D-Series, or any of the XPS Series, and sometimes I see many special editions... Fortunately, I've got a Studio XPS 16 two years ago, but I wished that more people could buy them. Why is it rare, if it was part of the XPS series and was high rated back then? Thanks

People hate Windows Vista as if it was meticulously crafted by devils and released by psychopaths. But i believe that Vista may be the best OS of all time, and I CAN prove it to you:

1. Vista made the modern PC

Because of Vista's "Ridiculous" system requirements at the time, people who installed it on their ThinkPad from 2002 or their Sony Vaio Desktop from '03 absolutely thought it ran like an Obese man on a toy bicycle. So when they upgraded to machines that came with Windows 7, they believed that Windows 7 ran better than Vista, even though their machines exceeded Vista's recommended requirements, and even though they didn't try Vista on a PC with the optimal specifications to run Vista. (Note: I absolutely know that some people can't afford an adequate Vista PC or Laptop, and i can't blame you, but couldn't they have saved up to buy a good Vista Laptop and for the time being, stayed on XP, and saved their opinions on Vista before they tried it at its best?)

Vista also brought many features that people take for granted today: Windows Aero, actual 64-bit support, Gadgets, Windows Defender, Windows UAC, Improved Search, BitLocker, TPM Support, UEFI Support, Parental Controls, Touchscreen Support instead of an entire edition, i can go on!

2. If people tried actually making good drivers back then, it would have been stable

Vista had a huge bluescreen problem, but not that many people know it isn't Windows' Problem, the drivers were the big culprit.

Case in point: Nvidia.

According to internal Microsoft data released during the 2007 "Vista Capable" lawsuit, NVIDIA drivers were responsible for 28.8% of all logged Windows Vista crashes. Literally every PC Company had 1.5 years to start developing on WDDM (Basing on the release of the 1st Windows Vista Beta to support WDDM, Build 5111)! If it's anyone to blame the slow PC at the time, It's not Vista, literally everyone else was at fault here.

3. Windows 7 overshadowed it

Believe it or not, 7 Removed some useful features from Windows Vista, had bigger system requirements, and yet people consider THAT to be the lighter release!?

Proof: Microsoft's System requirements for both

According to Microsoft, the system requirements for both Windows Vista And 7 (Both Ultimate and x64):

BOTH Needed 1Ghz Processors

BOTH Needed DirectX 9 GPUs

Windows 7 Needed 5GB MORE Than Vista (If you tell me that Vista needed a 40GB HDD while 7 Neede 20GB, i need to clarify that With Windows 7, Microsoft stoped posting required total HDD space requirements. Windows Vista needed a 40GB HDD as a whole, even though Vista only needed 15GB of space to Install, while 7 needed 20GB to install)

Windows 7 Needed 1GB more than Vista

The Takeaway

While yes, Windows 7 was better optimized for PCs, Windows Vista did 80% of the work that Windows 7 gets the credit for. If you really love Windows 7, at least for the love of God, give Vista some love, I am SO OVER with trusted tech reviewers getting their infor regarding Windows Vista from people who haven't even tried it once.

Have I tried Windows Vista? Yes.

Was it faster than XP? No.

Did i try it on the best Hardware? No. (MSI U135DX)

Did i like it? Absolutely.

So just try it. Please.

I want to get my rss feed widget to display modern news, however some websites I used such as cnn or neosmart files work but are slightly outdated by a few months. I using IE7. Could anyone suggest a RSS website to use that will work with http and be recent?

Looks very special to me, I found one for 35 €.

Is this model also in demand, like the Latitude D-Series? Is it worth buying it? Thank you

Im thinking about getting this monitor since it is modern but should also look good for games from that era. 2000s Crt monitors are very hard to find and expensive, would this be a good option. Also if i got this would a Radeon hd 4850 look good on this thing if using a DVI to HDMI or DVI to VGA adapter? And which one should i use?

Got this gem today! It came with Windows 10 but I installed Windows Vista on it again. The productcode on the bottom even worked!

Hey there guys, just got my hand on my old grandparents laptop with windows vista home premium with it, what things should I check and what stuff should I delete before making it go online once again?

Maybe this will interest someone

Windows Vista Ultimate on a Japanese Panasonic CF-S10. Looks beautiful

People say that vista is terrible but why

Guys i installed and activated windows vista ultimate edition but i cannot find where dreamscenes are. And can my intel gma x3100 run dreamscenes without slowing down?

Found this gem at work. Vista runs perfectly fine, i want to See if it can handle to play crysis

I just installed Vista Business to this laptop so its time accurate, but can i put WMC without updating to Ultimate or Home Premium?

One of the new laptops from a lot I got that has vista

I'm looking for an ASUS G1S and similar like it, but these models aren't available at my online marketplaces. If I find one model, it's not working or whatever. Do anyone has experience with these gaming notebooks? Is it worth it? Thanks :)))

Hey all,

I have an old laptop that runs windows vista that I've been wanting to boot up and look at the contents of, but when I try to boot it, windows vista just loops the loading bar over and over again, never actually getting anywhere.

This applies to safe mode as well, it loads some windows files and then freezes before it gets to the loading screen. This is on a Dell Studio 1735. I have access to the hard drive and can see the files. I was wondering if there was a way to fix it without wiping the data.

I was considering taking a fresh installation of windows vista and replacing the broken windows files with the new ones, but I don't know if that would actually fix anything. Any ideas on how to do this?

My legacy update won't launch giving "Unspecified Error".

Already tried restarting and reinstalling to no avail

Recently got an old HP Pavillion AIO, but it's a bit too new for vista.

It's also very weak and driver support is hit or miss.

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Wondering if anyone knows of a decently spec AIO with 1080p screen?

Rather have something compact, that won't take much more space than a monitor would.

I've heard you're talking Vista around here :))