I use pc's daily so i know a lot..more than most home pc users and many It workers i know. ( in 2001 my first pc was windows me..bluscreened every day for years..shockingly bad os, went to xp around 2004..so much better, i need a stable pc top do many things..surf websites, instant message. skype, burn dvds,write letters..open office,blog, use email not outlook as you cant delete multiple messages at once..yahoo is better, watch camcorder footage etc etc and im not a gamer but decided i want to play games so read up on this and discover directx10 is latest standard for great graphics. i paid £1720 for a £3k dell xps710 machine via ebay. It has vista ultimate..if only id believed all the negative info on vista in the pc mags...pcpro, computerbuyer, pcadviser etc all say vista is a dog..and theyre correct. since i set up my new very high spec pc...600gb harddrive, quadcore procsesser, 4gb ram, i was so looking forward to using a really fast pc...but microsoft have given me a pile of unusable junk called vista with the pc. i tied to review vista on amazon.co.uk but it looks like amazon dont like bad reviews of products they sell so theyve not published my rant at how much hassle vista is to use.
So far vistas media center crashes if i try to play a dvd thats made using the divx codec... hardly a rare codec but vista decides to crash, they say its divx who need to fix something and that divx are aware of the problem. i have divx plyer 6.6 and codec 6.7 and divx webplayer 1.3.1 all the latest you can get free.
Then pg2 for vista from phoenixlabs.org can go wrong and is blocked by vista from starting..every damn time you switch your pc on you have to remember yourself to switch pg2 on..come on microsoft this is utterly stupid let us say we trust a programme once and once and always want it to start when vista starts up.
Next bitcomet 0.94 can crash on vista..this popular p2p app needs more work too but bitcomet releases new versions every few weeks so its likely their poor testing failed to iron out bugs in it..it locked up and i had to reinstall it, windows task manager couldnt end the task.
zonealarm firewall shows there to be far more processes needing net access than on windows xp so far ive allowed about 50 processes access as i load new software on the dell pc. il list them alphabetically on here soon.
avg free antivirus causes vista to bluescreen so you cant put avg free 7.5 on a vista pc even though its download.com review says it works on vista..well it doesnt as you install it vista bluescreen of death appears i retried installing avg numerous times but its definatly the cause so i use aviva antivirus now which is free. the stop error code said fwpkc1nt.sys is where the error occured. driver irql not less or equal ...thanks avg.
as for the dell xps710 how do we turn the 4 front lights off ???? dont see why i need them on if my pc is left on overnight and im asleep..dell contact me.
the dell xps is huge almost twice the size of a normal tower pc, its quiet..great, 30kg weight, looks good, 4gb ram but only 3gb is listed in system info..see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us which caused worry the ebayer had ripped me off !
http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/snatch-ach is who sold me the vista dell xps710 his add valued the machine at £3000 in september 2007 but i got it for £1719 ( £1419 plus vat of £257.69) plus £23.50 p&p the quadcore intel chip the 6600 is worth £600 roughly alone ( found price via a few price comparrison sites and pc parts sellers) ! 4x 2.66ghz =nice fast machine , 4gb ram ( worth maybe £200), 16x dvd writer,seperate dvdrom drive, vista operating system... ( costs £301 on amazon by october 2007 was £360) which has great graphics but many software apps your used to using go wrong on it in my first week of using it. 30day mcafee trial..i deleted it..utterly useless to waste your time setting up antivirus that youll have to buy in just 30days. roxio9 software to burn files. big subwoofer and speakers good. nice keyboard and mouse. media card readers fitted. geforce 8800 gtx 768mb graphics card tp play games with which custom pc value at about £360 so i can play direct x 10 games in brilliant graphics.microsoft flight simulator x game looks great so far ( this wasnt with the pc i bought). 4yr dell at home warranty , 128mb ageia physx card for games graphics, 640gb hard drives..plenty of space , so overall a very high spec machine.. ill use this blog to review the dell xps 710 as i use it more, ill also review microsoft windows vista to detail how to use it and what problems i have with it so bookmark this website and check back every month for the latest info on using a dell xps710 or vista. Anyone else that buys a dell xps 710 from snatch-ach let me know how you get on with your machine lets all help each other out and work together to solve our problems with the machine or vista use the comments button to leave me any comments.
Another useful bit of software to use is noscript, i cant believe noscript.net doesnt make it obvious which os its designed to run on well..why??? ive run it on xp ok but now im on vista..you need to state which os's its for before we download it please..also you should list it on download.com. i find it useful but it would be so much better if you somehow tested javascripts and informed us if their safe to allow..otherwise all home users do is endlessly have to allow scripts on sites they use... mcafee siteadvisor firefox addon is only way ive any idea if a sites not trustable...noscript needs to be more powerful and inform normal home pc users if the scripts on a site can be allowed..at moment you dont do this so how can we know if a scripts safe????????
Just found that radio recording software called audio rcorder for free 8.8 goes wrong on vista though its download.com description says its for vista yet it runs ok on xp arggghhh more problems.
So far vistas media center crashes if i try to play a dvd thats made using the divx codec... hardly a rare codec but vista decides to crash, they say its divx who need to fix something and that divx are aware of the problem. i have divx plyer 6.6 and codec 6.7 and divx webplayer 1.3.1 all the latest you can get free.
Then pg2 for vista from phoenixlabs.org can go wrong and is blocked by vista from starting..every damn time you switch your pc on you have to remember yourself to switch pg2 on..come on microsoft this is utterly stupid let us say we trust a programme once and once and always want it to start when vista starts up.
Next bitcomet 0.94 can crash on vista..this popular p2p app needs more work too but bitcomet releases new versions every few weeks so its likely their poor testing failed to iron out bugs in it..it locked up and i had to reinstall it, windows task manager couldnt end the task.
zonealarm firewall shows there to be far more processes needing net access than on windows xp so far ive allowed about 50 processes access as i load new software on the dell pc. il list them alphabetically on here soon.
avg free antivirus causes vista to bluescreen so you cant put avg free 7.5 on a vista pc even though its download.com review says it works on vista..well it doesnt as you install it vista bluescreen of death appears i retried installing avg numerous times but its definatly the cause so i use aviva antivirus now which is free. the stop error code said fwpkc1nt.sys is where the error occured. driver irql not less or equal ...thanks avg.
as for the dell xps710 how do we turn the 4 front lights off ???? dont see why i need them on if my pc is left on overnight and im asleep..dell contact me.
the dell xps is huge almost twice the size of a normal tower pc, its quiet..great, 30kg weight, looks good, 4gb ram but only 3gb is listed in system info..see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us which caused worry the ebayer had ripped me off !
http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/snatch-ach is who sold me the vista dell xps710 his add valued the machine at £3000 in september 2007 but i got it for £1719 ( £1419 plus vat of £257.69) plus £23.50 p&p the quadcore intel chip the 6600 is worth £600 roughly alone ( found price via a few price comparrison sites and pc parts sellers) ! 4x 2.66ghz =nice fast machine , 4gb ram ( worth maybe £200), 16x dvd writer,seperate dvdrom drive, vista operating system... ( costs £301 on amazon by october 2007 was £360) which has great graphics but many software apps your used to using go wrong on it in my first week of using it. 30day mcafee trial..i deleted it..utterly useless to waste your time setting up antivirus that youll have to buy in just 30days. roxio9 software to burn files. big subwoofer and speakers good. nice keyboard and mouse. media card readers fitted. geforce 8800 gtx 768mb graphics card tp play games with which custom pc value at about £360 so i can play direct x 10 games in brilliant graphics.microsoft flight simulator x game looks great so far ( this wasnt with the pc i bought). 4yr dell at home warranty , 128mb ageia physx card for games graphics, 640gb hard drives..plenty of space , so overall a very high spec machine.. ill use this blog to review the dell xps 710 as i use it more, ill also review microsoft windows vista to detail how to use it and what problems i have with it so bookmark this website and check back every month for the latest info on using a dell xps710 or vista. Anyone else that buys a dell xps 710 from snatch-ach let me know how you get on with your machine lets all help each other out and work together to solve our problems with the machine or vista use the comments button to leave me any comments.
Another useful bit of software to use is noscript, i cant believe noscript.net doesnt make it obvious which os its designed to run on well..why??? ive run it on xp ok but now im on vista..you need to state which os's its for before we download it please..also you should list it on download.com. i find it useful but it would be so much better if you somehow tested javascripts and informed us if their safe to allow..otherwise all home users do is endlessly have to allow scripts on sites they use... mcafee siteadvisor firefox addon is only way ive any idea if a sites not trustable...noscript needs to be more powerful and inform normal home pc users if the scripts on a site can be allowed..at moment you dont do this so how can we know if a scripts safe????????
Just found that radio recording software called audio rcorder for free 8.8 goes wrong on vista though its download.com description says its for vista yet it runs ok on xp arggghhh more problems.
