Vista *aaarrrghhhh!!*

[killa]

This OS does my nut in!

Im not a techy so don't tell me it's obvious Vista is crap.

Ok, a few issues with it.
I downloaded Quicktime for viewing .3gp videos. I click a file, nothing happens, about a minute later the bloody thing will pop up, if you've clicked it again another will come up afterwards, and so on....
WTF is going on there, its such a small program, im viewing videos that are like 300K!

Next one, i use Windows media, now i know you all probably use something else for some reason but my Windows media player on my XP machine runs sweet as a nut.
When i select a track, it takes far too long to start playing, if i fast forward it the thing spits out horrible noises.
Also when looking around on the net, i could be playing a tune, open another window and hit a link and the tune cuts out for a split second! Arrrgh!!

So what is it with Vista, why does it have trouble doing what my old 666Mhz PC could do no sweat.
The machine is a like a 2 core pentium 4 thingy...3Gb CPU etc....shouldnt have such a problem really.

Thanks guys
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

My media player does something similar too.

If I'm listening to a CD then pause it and watch a youtube video or something, when I go back to unpause the CD it plays about 3 seconds, then cuts out and spins the CD back up then carries on again, weird.
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[Stevie GooGs]

Oh well i went back to XP after a few months of Vista.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

The best way I've heard of speeding up Vista is to turn off all the shading and cursor + window animations, apparently this greatly imporoves performance.
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[Jamie.]

For the pause in a song near the end:

Control panel
Sound
Speakers/Headphones
Enhancements
***** DISABLE all enhancements ******

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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Yeah, that's what I figured, doesn't make it any less annoying though.
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[california_rookie]

How much RAM've you got? This either sounds like a RAM issue, random hardware incompatibility, or data bottlenecking, also in your hardware. In that order of likelihood.

I'm also curious what audio format you're listening to/trying to listen to when you're experiencing these problems.
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[killa]

This is with any audio format i think.
I know about the CD spinning up issue, that doesn't bother me. Electronic files shouldnt be like this.
I have just over a Gb RAM i think.


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[GodzGift]

Disconnect your Ram and Reconnect it, and power up
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[Jamie.]

Killa, Do what I said below and it will fix the delay in the songs starting.

[killa]

No probs, cheers....
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[killa]

[Jamie.]

No idea, But it happens on most vista machines, Microsoft not testing things properly.

[h00dwink]

I have vista and it works sweet for me
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[california_rookie]

Same.
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