vista or xp?

not really.

Thing is, it’s quite likely your current programs aren’t "Vista-Compatible" hence the glitches…i’d go to the software developer websites and check if there are upgrade/maintenance versions available to make them more compatible with the new windows OS.

and then probably do some ‘googling’ as to whether there are other people who are in your situation but managed to find some handy work arounds whilst on Vista.

You’re doing what I’d recommend. I bought a new Dell desktop two months ago that came with Vista Ultimate and I ended up going back to XP ‘cuz of compatibility issues with Corel and ProTools … I can live without ProTools ‘cuz Magix Music Maker does everything I need to do but I can’t live without Corel.

Microsoft want to control all the protocols and eliminate asio and introduce there own version which has been frowned upon by manufacturers and the end users. One of the concerns is microsoft want to add greater copy protection (of audio and video files) and will result in a multitude of hoops the end user has to jump through to get to work. Vista is currently unproven within audio and video environments and stability is questionable. XP (when the crap is trimmed away) is proven and stable and many professionals use the platform and report equal or better reliability than their mac and that is my experience too. Currently Vista is in no way a consideration for audio and video production. Its only 50/50 for general usage as its disappointingly poor.

im running vista now n for a long time ive been thinking of going back to xp…. ive managed to get all my programs working but cubase is running at a snails pace and eventually i uninstalled it cause it was too frustrating to work with, other programs work but are unstable and often lock up or display error messages… i have to say i am totally unimpressed with vista, bring bk XP!

I remember Windows 3.1 being an amazing step up from DOS -whistful sigh-

aye… vista seems to suck for audio bizzniss… XP solid

anisina wrote:

I want to downgrade to an abacus. It’s far more effective, but rubbish with any DAW.

A tribute to M$ Abacus

Must say vista its alot mor sleek in safe only had sum problems with programs running but acid po 5 works fine with me with out any bother wouldnae go bk to xp

otg wrote:

I remember Windows 3.1 being an amazing step up from DOS -whistful sigh-

Man, that took me back … Win 3.11 for Workgroups was the last stable os I remember MS releasing, and even it needed some tweaks before audio was possible.

The lab I worked in whilst’ in college was one of the test sites when IBM and MS were working together on OS2 … it’s a crying shame that fell through ‘cuz even the test copies we were given were light years ahead of Windows.

With that said, yes I still prefer pc over mac so

i got vista on my pc and xp on my laptop and i much prefur xp it runs faster never any problems af think vista has the protensal to be realy good but still needs alot of work doing to it id stick with xp mate

XP is the shiZznit. period

A lot of people are hating on vista, but Ive been using it since it came out and no problems at all except with a few programs. I say its a great Operating System.

XP TILL THE END!

To be honest with you, vista and xp are almost the same except for the desktop in vista and registry. Other than that, it’s pretty much the same.