Honest opinions on Vista
Moderator: Thanas
Oh they will be allowed to run - its just that they will be impotent in doing any of the stuff that spyware likes to do (they will fail silently, as in output redirected to /dev/null or not so silently if they are UAC aware) - its still a bad idea to go running stuff you don't know where it came from willy nilly - they can still wipe out your data in most cases, UAC is mainly a system protection.
People are hyperbolizing system resource usage in Vista. My Athlon 64 Venice @ 2 GHz with a gig of budget Corsair RAM plus a 7600GT runs the thing just fine. I can buy a much better computer for less than what this setup cost me last year. Like I said in an earlier thread, the expense for running Vista at its max isn't bad at all.
I would not be surprised if people are getting crappy performance from certain power schemes which downclock your processor by 50 percent or more.
I would not be surprised if people are getting crappy performance from certain power schemes which downclock your processor by 50 percent or more.
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
Vista rating from my PC:
Specs are:
E6400 Core2Duo
2 Gigs RAM
Seagate SATA hard drive
MSI Radeon X1300 Pro video card.
As you can tell from the score, the real weak point of my setup is the video card.
However, I bought it with later upgrading to a DX 10 card in mind, so I didn't want to spend more than $80.
While it's not a power card by any means, at least it has 256 megs of honest to God RAM instead of leeching system memory.
Specs are:
E6400 Core2Duo
2 Gigs RAM
Seagate SATA hard drive
MSI Radeon X1300 Pro video card.
As you can tell from the score, the real weak point of my setup is the video card.
However, I bought it with later upgrading to a DX 10 card in mind, so I didn't want to spend more than $80.
While it's not a power card by any means, at least it has 256 megs of honest to God RAM instead of leeching system memory.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
Oderint dum metuant
Oderint dum metuant
I think rather, that the article is deliberately misleading. Multiple things can cause UAC to trigger, one of which is being named setup or install (or having those in the file name). Those aren't the only things that trigger it. Vista can still determine some programs might access system directories without it being named such.
There's a special icon overlay for programs that will trigger a UAC prompt. It looks like a little quartered shield in the windows colors. It can be seen nearly anywhere a UAC prompt is likely to be triggered.
There's a special icon overlay for programs that will trigger a UAC prompt. It looks like a little quartered shield in the windows colors. It can be seen nearly anywhere a UAC prompt is likely to be triggered.
"preemptive killing of cops might not be such a bad idea from a personal saftey[sic] standpoint..." --Keevan Colton
"There's a word for bias you can't see: Yours." -- William Saletan
"There's a word for bias you can't see: Yours." -- William Saletan