Okay... 3 weeks ago, I've bought a new super computer.

ACER M5100-5F7N AMD Phenom 9500 Quad,
8192 MB RAM,
500 GB hd, (+ 1TB extern)
DVD+-RW,
ATI X2600 PRO 512-1919 MB,
HDMI
USB 2.0
FireWire
Memory Card Reader 9-1
Windows Vista Home Premium


I have heard that Vista was cousing problems to people, but I thought that 8GB RAM would make it.

But now...I've had enough of these small bugs here and there.

Everything was so easy with XP. Why did they blurred things up so much??

Sure it has some nice features...but hey... There are many things from XP you miss.

So tell me, is it easy to uninstall Vista and install XP SP2....?

Do you have any other tips?

What are the exact problems you're having with Vista?? I'm pretty fine with it but it's all because I constantly makes sure that I have the latest drivers. Unlike XP and ME, Vista is incredibly sensitive on that matter, download all the latest drivers for your motherboard, graphic card, sound card and everything else. You can off course downgrade to XP if you want to but it will take some work. But my advice is to give Vista as chance, once you have everything up and running properly it's a good OS.

Download and install Service Pack 1. It has made a huge difference on my work laptop.

I'm in no way shape or form a big computer user is terms of what I can do and what I know, but Vista works perfectly for me. Do ditch Explorer for Mozilla.

Before you downgrade, do a little search and make sure you've got all the necessary drivers. I done it and I have no regrets.

Might I ask why you need 8GB of Ram?! Chances are the problems are caused by the fact that you have 8GB of Ram. There's a common misconception that more Ram means that the computer is obviously going to be far better, but truth is that the more ram, means theres more problems.

Its a well known fact that Vista (all editions) have a 2GB sweet spot. That is, Vista works best with 2GB Ram. In fact, in some circumstances more ram reduces the performance of vista in some applications.

May I also ask, do you have Vista Home Premium 64bit or 32bit? If you have 32bit, then that can only reference something like 4GB as this is the limitation of any 32bit operating system (including Linux, MacOS etc). Athough for all 32bit versions of Windows, of the 4GB, it'll only reference about 3.5GB since 0.5GB is allocated to hardware.

The only reason you'd need anymore than 2gb (let alone 8gb?!) is if you do extremely memory intensive things. e.g.:
- SQL Server/MySQL
- CAD
- Virtual Machines
etc.

Even if you play the most intensive computer games out at the moment on the highest settings, you probably only need maximum 3GB (you definitely don't need 4).

I would bet that if you took 6gb of Ram out of your machine and ran vista on 2gb, it would run fine.

I work round computers all day, so I've learned a thing or two.

I had enough of windows period and got a new iMac. It's amazing for my needs. Will never touch another windows machine again.

The thing I hate most about Vista is that a lot of computer games won't work on it. That just pisses the living hell out of me. My mother's new Dell has Vista and I thought that it being the newer and faster machine would easily handle some of the more newer demanding games.

Big mistake. I'm sticking with Windows XP until Bill finally releases a Vista that allows games to work!

I mean Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?

I second Gene's post.

A computer just can't handle 8GB Ram, especially if it's a 32bit, limited by conception to 3GB AFAIK. Try it with only 2 or 3 GB ram and IMO it'll work fine, and be noticeably faster.

Get the lastest driver (not from the site of the maker of the computer, but of the maker of the thing you want the driver for, usually more updated).

I run a Vista, but on a very cheap Toshiba, with only 1GB ram... it's quite slow, but not even one bug so far in more than 7 months. It's slow but very very reliable on my entry-level laptop.

Ditch IE, it's slow and bugs often, get Firefox, it's way better.

I wouldn't downgrade to XP. if you still want to, you'll have problems to find all the drivers, it'll be long... and imo it's not justified, XP is not a better system than Vista.

IMO Vista is one giant leap BACKWARDS for mankind! It really drives me through the wall, but proceed with extreme caution. My Bro bought an HP laptop recently as well. After getting frustrated with Vista he decided that enough is enough. He formatted the hard drive and installed XP. He then goes to the HP site do download drivers and What do ya know! Theres no XP drivers!!!

Make sure you FIRST check if they even have XP drivers for your laptop/hardware before you do decide to downgrade to XP.

I've had enough of Microsoft as well. My next computer will be a Mac.
Although I'm still getting a 360.