The Switch of Vista.
A couple of weeks ago I (stupidly) let one of my RL friends who recently busted his PC to go on my machine and check his facebook. The next thing I know, my pc is getting random popups and I’m like…oh boy.
So I hit up Safe Mode and transferred my files to a safe area and make sure it was all clean and ready for my next job. My next job being either a fresh Windows XP install or do what I was going to do in December anyway, and move up to Vista.
I decided to go up to Windows Vista and let me be quite frankly honest. It is fantastic. It runs brilliantly on my machine, does everything I need to do and actually does it better in some areas.
Second Life’s performance has not really been hampered and my tool for recording SL video (FRAPs) actually seems to configure the audio levels better when I record video. An example of this is that under XP i’d have to configure the audio levels about for a few minutes in order to get it sounding right, which usually would mean i’d have to make the system sounds about half and made it harder for me to hear sometimes. Under Vista, it just works straight away with the levels seemingly set right.
It’s actually made Machinima easier to make, therefore making my life easier when doing videos such as my new 5 Questions series.
I’m also digging that Windows Media Center is integrating my PC and Xbox 360 better than it used to.
Now I have ran into some bugs here and there but they are so minor that it doesn’t bother me because I actually like it. My only question is, why did I take so long to switch
