I grew up on windows xp, than in my early teen years i found my first pirate hat and boat, and than i had windows vista, than i had windows 7. i gamed on all three of those OS's and all those OSes lived on the same computer over time, it was a intel Celeron D processor and i had 4 gb of ram. i was even able to run The Sims 4 on it when that game originally came out, also played L4d2 and Gta SA and GtaSAMP on it. fun times. oh and the chat rooms. so much nostalgia. i subscribed, very enjoyable video.
It depends, I had Firefox-based browsers do better on slow hardware (Pentium M). It's worth looking into roytam1's browsers as well (New Moon, K-Meleon). I recommend using an alternate fronten d for RUclips too, it's much faster. One can also change the user-agent for RUclips, to get the more lightweight mobile layout.
I use both MyPal68 and Supermium on my Windows XP PC so I can compare those two. As a modern day browser Supermium definitely takes the cake over MyPal. All websites work as they should. Even stuff like Discord is fully working, including voicechat and screen sharing. Also it has support for languages other than English, while MyPal - at least as of now - does not. If you're used to Chrome, Supermium is 1:1 the same experience... and that includes RAM hogging. As I run on 32bit XP, my 3 gigs of RAM get eaten up by this browser rather quickly. MyPal is WAY lighter on your PC. It runs faster, doesn't use up all your RAM, RUclips videos play smoother and lose less frames - if not none. And as I mostly use YT smooth video playback is a must for me, therefore I prefer MyPal for watching videos. For a casual user, Supermium would probably do better for basic Internet browsing. My main issues with MyPal are it's stability, and that it's in English only. It often crashes for seemingly no reason at all. I get that it's still WIP, and Firefox 68 wasn't even supposed to run on XP, so I'm not even mad about this. But still - it is an existing issue, maybe even a dealbreaker for some. Specs for anyone curious: - C2D E8400 - 4gb of DDR2... I think 400mhz RAM? Not sure what sticks I've put there, and I haven't done anything with the timings or frequency. - 9600GT 512Mb - XP 32bit SP3 with all possible updates including those from POSready2009.
Try watching this on a Linux Mint VM. Mint at least, lets you turn the volume up to i think like, what 200%? 150%? Something like that. You can get the volume up past 100% either way.
In 2008 I bought a new laptop with 2 GB of memory; a 2 core Athlon 1.8 GHz and a 160 GB HDD. The system was very slow and I started dual booting with Ubuntu. The system was OK after 2 service packs and after I replaced the 160 GB HDD at 40 MB/s with a 320 GB HDD at 80 MB/s. When the OS got its 3rd service pack and changed its name to Windows 7, it became very popular, because the hardware had caught up in the meantime :)
Linux Users are so funny with their fake retrospective of Windows history. Windows Vista had 0 chances to be slow on 2 GB of memory; a 2 core Athlon 1.8 GHz and a 160 GB HDD. It wasn't changed drastically with SP2. There wes no "3rd service pack and changing name to Windows 7" cause Windows Vista SP2 came AFTER Windows 7. When Windows Vista was released Untuntu was 1 year old and no one knew about it. Your religion is a lie and everyone knows it, stop. 🤫
Linux Users are so funny with their fake retrospective of Windows history. Windows Vista had 0 chances to be slow on 2 GB of memory; a 2 core Athlon 1.8 GHz and a 160 GB HDD. It wasn't changed drastically with SP2. There wes no "3rd service pack and changing name to Windows 7" cause Windows Vista SP2 came AFTER Windows 7. When Windows Vista was released Untuntu was 1 year old and no one knew about it. Stop it.
@@dmwzr You can't read, I did not use Vista at the moment it was released. I bought the laptop in mid 2008 with Vista and no service packs were released yet. My HDD had a throughput of 40 MB/s. Vista became acceptable after the 2 service packs and after I changed the HDD. That 3rd service pack was a joke about the origin of Windows 7, but you missed it completely. I don't stop, because I proved myself. I tested the prototypes of computers and later I did run a Software development department of more than 100 people.
@@bertnijhof5413 >"That 3rd service pack was a joke about the origin of Windows 7, but you missed it completely." If you say you remember a SP2 release, there is 0 chance you didn't noticed a Windows 7 was released BEFORE. >"I bought the laptop in mid 2008 with Vista" With an Dual Core Athlon 1.8 GHz, which was released in 2009, cause yeah it was a prototype and you were a tester, sure 🤡
That was a nice varied selection of games I recognized them all, you have good taste!. Also eating cereal while watching SpongeBob was very nostalgic to me, that was literally one of my everyday rituals when I was a kid.
An Acer with a Pentium D running Vista? Thats a creative form of torture (Vista actually was an amazing operating system if you had the hardware to run it properly)
With a PC from 2007(mid-range) or 2009(low-range) windows vista works WONDERFULLY, I use it daily and yes I do have a PC from 2017 for newer games and school stuff but I still use the windows vista PC more
i will say this about windws vista, if you have hardware from around 2010-2011, and both service packs and all the updates. Vista can truly be a wonderful retro machine.
You needed at least 2 GB to be comfortable. 1 GB is the mininum and I'm guessing quite a lot of people cam from the world of Win XP with 256 MB and 512 MB. The other problem was that some software was not compatble. A certain app I had written for someone was crashing randomly. It was written in VB6. After a lot of debugging, there was no problem with my code. It would just crash randomly. It runs fine on Win 7 and Win XP. MS blames the ISVs, claming that they do things that are not up to spec.
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ueYeah you were correct about that but 7's biggest change is a change YOU CAN DO ON YOUR OWN IN VISTA WHY ARE PEOPLE CALLING VISTA SHlT
That would be a real pain in the neck using so low end configuration. Recently I've downgraded my dad's old (near mint though!) Lenovo Y550 from 7 to Vista. Strange enough, it had license key in BIOS already. Installed all the dedicated drivers, and well, p7550 core 2 duo with 4gb ddr3 and gt240 are running like a charm. I would definitely recommend trying Vista on former higher-end devices. One day i will post a video with Phenom X4 940 and R4870 from my collection. :)
I bought this exact destop new in the Summer of 2007. 512mb ram and Vista home edition preinstalled. It was slow back then even for dialup web browsing. Looking back I wish I had put XP or Linux on it on it. Vista really needed more ram than what it came with. It only got worse with the updates.
I remember as a kid buying this after saving money for years. Bought it with my uncle who wasn't as tech savvy and thought I made a huge mistake as my experience was terrible. Luckily my big bro came in a few weeks later and wiped Vista for XP and the experience improved at least 10x lol
I used vista back in the day, absolutely loved it! Begrudgingly upgraded to Win7. Windows 7 loved it slightly less but it did what I wanted and was updated. Windows 8 & 8.1 I refused to upgrade. Windows 10 I upgraded a few years after the updates stopped for 7, it was and is okay. I upgraded immediately to 11 though as in many ways it’s better but it’ll never be my Windows Vista. I know saying I liked or loved vista is controversial but it was the first OS on my very own laptop not shared with anyone, and I did a lot of gaming, programming, and chatting to friend on it. I wish I still had that laptop, in the end the hardware died before the OS 😢.
After WIndows XP that had dated interface, was unable to utilize 64 bit instructions, struggled to have >2 Gb user folder, autorun type viruses, Vista was a breath of fresh air.
Vista was in many ways faster than Windows 7 eg. anything that does with GDI drawing routines and especially text drawing. You could benchmark it and Win7 was much slower and when used with something like GDI++ (tool to replace default ClearType font rendering to FreeType2 - think Linux) the difference was massive. Also in games Vista usually fared slightly better than Windows 7 (both RTM and SP1). The only thing Vista actually did slower was write operations on large number of small files due to server reliability options enabled by default which do with journaling being more reliable - which meant you were much less likely to break NTFS volume in case of eg. power failure. Vista also was way too agressive with auto-optimalization services which were caching frequently used programs. It could speed up loading programs a lot from slower HDDs but in practice more often caused I/O bottlenecks because system would do read/write operations while user used computer. Disabling these services until you could not hear disk when iddling made Vista very nice to use... on fast enough computer like Core 2 Duo ~3GHz 4GB memory. I used 32-bit version with swap on ~512MB ramdisk which used PAE to reclaim memory 32-bit OS could not give to applications. At that time there weren't really that many 64-bit applications and 32-bit applications worked slightly faster on 32-bit OS (mostly to do with Core2 missing some features in 64-bit mode than OS but it added some overhead also - especially in terms of memory usage) so it made sense at that time. I even used Vista with Core i3 which had HyperThreading and M$ didn't give Vista smarter scheduler Win7 got but this was hardly an issue games never scheduling on real cores - I did check this with games just to be sure while being prepared to change affinity - which was never needed... at least for games. Later I got AVX capable CPU and switched to Win7 - other than slower GDI drawing and different nicer taskbar (still "classic" though) not much difference. I could not find as nice themes for Win7 so used default and later one which removed this blueish hue from Aero. I managed to workaround GDI drawing performance by using second monitor on iGPU which forced WDDM 1.0 and "copy of video ram in system ram" which was literally the only thing M$ changed in Win7 to reduce its memory consumption - which saved ~100MB memory when there were lots of windows opened but made GUI performance worse and despite WDDM 1.1 causing issues in some applications in multi-monitor setups MS didn't give option to force WDDM1.0. The way I see it Windows 7 was just Vista but with upgrades regarding hardware support (AVX and TRIM) and scheduler made for Core i7 with HyperThreading and some GUI changes and WDDM1.1 driver support - all the things they could easily add to Vista with another Service Pack. For M$ Vista was sacrificial OS and they knew hardware is too weak for the OS and they made too many changes that required new drivers for hardware. By the time Win7 came out hardware was more ready and you could actually get eg. USB 3G modem or Wifi card, etc. and it just worked because by that time there were drivers for NT6.x systems. Otherwise technically Windows 11 is still NT6.x and so it is still the same OS as Vista. Just much uglier and with questionable GUI decisions. The only thing I really disliked in Vista but which didn't affect me was font rendering. It was horrible, ClearType was copied directly from XP where it was unusable. Win7 didn't improve it much but did a little and IMHO if it didn't people would like it less. Windows 10 and especially later revisions improved ClearType a lot. Still nothign like GDI++/ezGdi/MacType or just using Linux but I can eg. at work use Win10 and it doesn't make my eyes bleed. I absolutely hated default Vista font rendering and one of the first thing I tried to do was to disable ClearType wherever possible - which could be done for everything. So... tl;dr I cannot fully say Vista was great due to its terrible ClearType which was hard to disable but otherwise with GDI++/ezGdi and nicer theme which removed that blueish hue (that Win7 shared) it was the most beautiful OS I ever used. I didn't find anything even remotely nice even on Linux yet. BTW. Interresting tidbit: recently I made few retro computer for Win98 but good enough specs for even Vista (Athlon X2 running at ~3GHz, 4GB RAM) and I compared XP and Vista in games on various retro GPUs like FX5900, 6800GT, Radeon x800 and I found very interresting thing: all these cards run DX9c and earlier much faster when using NT5.x drivers (so XP drivers in short) and its really XP performance. It was WDDM drivers which made things slower. Same with GUI drawing - Vista actually supported all that good stuff which XP supported but simply WDDM drivers needed for Aero sucked balls. It is also possible to do that with Windows 7 and there is no difference other than Windows 7 supporting more modern software so in fact maybe better than Vista for this use case but still, it is somewhat Vista related because Win7 is Vista
When making large essays like this, it's best to add some gaps. Kind of like this, just with bigger sections of text. Makes it easier to read, and keep track of what word you're at. I'd recommend like 3 or 4 lines, then a gap.
Hey! I forgot to mention in the video that I actually tried using an extended kernel but my Internet stopped working and I couldn’t load certain stuff, so I ended up running without it which turned out better for me either way 😁
An old computer like this is very good for old games and software. I have an old laptop running Windows 7, in which I disconnected the keyboard, removed the battery and hooked it up to wall power. I occasionally browse old web forums for nostalgia, but I usually just keep it offline and play old games and use some old software from my childhood.
I remember saving years for a computer as a kid. Then unknowingly buying horror contained in a box named acer. Luckily my bro saved my experience and wiped vista for xp lol.
Have you ever thought about trying Linux Mint on that PC? See if you'd use it over Windows Vista? It's a pretty light OS and can support newer software, but still run on older hardware. I think it might be a fun thing to try and see what you can do with it!
Windows was annoying. MS kept changing the GUI and I had to turn on Win 95 style at each install. I'm sure that some grandparents love that but when I am used to something, I don't need change. With Win 8, I dumped it and when with Linux. It has too many visual problems, too many missing colors.
Even if he would put that key in, it would fail to activate, regardless if the key is valid or not. The Microsoft servers responsible for validating these keys have been down for a few years now. Source: I tried it a few days ago on an old Vista laptop with its original product key. Errored out.
@@huuishuu It's the installer he bypassed you don't require internet to input a valid code. Of course it will eventually show as non-activated but the dude googled how to bypass the code in the installer instead of looking at the case. You can also still call MS on the phone to activate these.
Steam is what i think i had to use to get all the games working. I did have allot of the drivers on disk also on back up drives. Mine plays pretty good up to far cry 3
Windows 8 was worse. Vista was panned because when it came out most of the hardware it was installed on couldn't cope. Windows XP, the minimum system requirements are: a 233 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, and 1.5 GB of available hard disk space Windows Vista, you need at least a 1 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, a DirectX 9-capable graphics card, and 40 GB of hard disk space with at least 15 GB free That is a huge jump in Ram and processor when most upgraded from XP.. I loved Wondows 7 Still the best.
Vista was bad because people wanted that all crappy pcs worked with it like it was xp, and vista was a big jump in hardware requirements. Once hardware was good enought vista was good
That 'shitty ass computer' sits somewhere within my nerdy heart.
I grew up on windows xp, than in my early teen years i found my first pirate hat and boat, and than i had windows vista, than i had windows 7. i gamed on all three of those OS's and all those OSes lived on the same computer over time, it was a intel Celeron D processor and i had 4 gb of ram. i was even able to run The Sims 4 on it when that game originally came out, also played L4d2 and Gta SA and GtaSAMP on it. fun times. oh and the chat rooms. so much nostalgia. i subscribed, very enjoyable video.
Web browser supermium is better than mypal
Maybe if he was using an actual Core 2 Duo
It depends, I had Firefox-based browsers do better on slow hardware (Pentium M). It's worth looking into roytam1's browsers as well (New Moon, K-Meleon). I recommend using an alternate fronten d for RUclips too, it's much faster. One can also change the user-agent for RUclips, to get the more lightweight mobile layout.
I use both MyPal68 and Supermium on my Windows XP PC so I can compare those two.
As a modern day browser Supermium definitely takes the cake over MyPal. All websites work as they should. Even stuff like Discord is fully working, including voicechat and screen sharing. Also it has support for languages other than English, while MyPal - at least as of now - does not.
If you're used to Chrome, Supermium is 1:1 the same experience... and that includes RAM hogging. As I run on 32bit XP, my 3 gigs of RAM get eaten up by this browser rather quickly.
MyPal is WAY lighter on your PC. It runs faster, doesn't use up all your RAM, RUclips videos play smoother and lose less frames - if not none. And as I mostly use YT smooth video playback is a must for me, therefore I prefer MyPal for watching videos.
For a casual user, Supermium would probably do better for basic Internet browsing.
My main issues with MyPal are it's stability, and that it's in English only. It often crashes for seemingly no reason at all. I get that it's still WIP, and Firefox 68 wasn't even supposed to run on XP, so I'm not even mad about this. But still - it is an existing issue, maybe even a dealbreaker for some.
Specs for anyone curious:
- C2D E8400
- 4gb of DDR2... I think 400mhz RAM? Not sure what sticks I've put there, and I haven't done anything with the timings or frequency.
- 9600GT 512Mb
- XP 32bit SP3 with all possible updates including those from POSready2009.
Exactly the comment which i searh
Yo DJ! Turn that volume up!
you gotta love those old pc's with there tricks to get into them💀💀
Try watching this on a Linux Mint VM. Mint at least, lets you turn the volume up to i think like, what 200%? 150%? Something like that. You can get the volume up past 100% either way.
Pump up the volume!
speakers are all the way up but vol to low still but looks like it works
In 2008 I bought a new laptop with 2 GB of memory; a 2 core Athlon 1.8 GHz and a 160 GB HDD. The system was very slow and I started dual booting with Ubuntu. The system was OK after 2 service packs and after I replaced the 160 GB HDD at 40 MB/s with a 320 GB HDD at 80 MB/s.
When the OS got its 3rd service pack and changed its name to Windows 7, it became very popular, because the hardware had caught up in the meantime :)
use ssd drives mine is upwards of 6gb per second there so much better mate
Linux Users are so funny with their fake retrospective of Windows history.
Windows Vista had 0 chances to be slow on 2 GB of memory; a 2 core Athlon 1.8 GHz and a 160 GB HDD.
It wasn't changed drastically with SP2.
There wes no "3rd service pack and changing name to Windows 7" cause Windows Vista SP2 came AFTER Windows 7.
When Windows Vista was released Untuntu was 1 year old and no one knew about it.
Your religion is a lie and everyone knows it, stop. 🤫
Linux Users are so funny with their fake retrospective of Windows history.
Windows Vista had 0 chances to be slow on 2 GB of memory; a 2 core Athlon 1.8 GHz and a 160 GB HDD.
It wasn't changed drastically with SP2.
There wes no "3rd service pack and changing name to Windows 7" cause Windows Vista SP2 came AFTER Windows 7.
When Windows Vista was released Untuntu was 1 year old and no one knew about it.
Stop it.
@@dmwzr You can't read, I did not use Vista at the moment it was released. I bought the laptop in mid 2008 with Vista and no service packs were released yet. My HDD had a throughput of 40 MB/s. Vista became acceptable after the 2 service packs and after I changed the HDD.
That 3rd service pack was a joke about the origin of Windows 7, but you missed it completely.
I don't stop, because I proved myself. I tested the prototypes of computers and later I did run a Software development department of more than 100 people.
@@bertnijhof5413 >"That 3rd service pack was a joke about the origin of Windows 7, but you missed it completely."
If you say you remember a SP2 release, there is 0 chance you didn't noticed a Windows 7 was released BEFORE.
>"I bought the laptop in mid 2008 with Vista"
With an Dual Core Athlon 1.8 GHz, which was released in 2009, cause yeah it was a prototype and you were a tester, sure 🤡
Within 30 seconds I instantly decided I love your personality and you gained a new subscriber
That was a nice varied selection of games I recognized them all, you have good taste!. Also eating cereal while watching SpongeBob was very nostalgic to me, that was literally one of my everyday rituals when I was a kid.
An Acer with a Pentium D running Vista? Thats a creative form of torture (Vista actually was an amazing operating system if you had the hardware to run it properly)
That tower is the EXACT computer i bought from best but, like 13, 14 years ago!
With a PC from 2007(mid-range) or 2009(low-range) windows vista works WONDERFULLY, I use it daily and yes I do have a PC from 2017 for newer games and school stuff but I still use the windows vista PC more
One of the maing things people hated about Vista was the new UAC control prompts. They made them less intrusive in Windows 7.
i will say this about windws vista, if you have hardware from around 2010-2011, and both service packs and all the updates. Vista can truly be a wonderful retro machine.
Completely off topic, but that wallpaper in the beginning... That's one clean Civic sedan. Very nice.
Vista needs more memory than the average XP PC had in 2007. A greater amount of ram and a fast processor will work wonders with it.
You needed at least 2 GB to be comfortable. 1 GB is the mininum and I'm guessing quite a lot of people cam from the world of Win XP with 256 MB and 512 MB.
The other problem was that some software was not compatble. A certain app I had written for someone was crashing randomly. It was written in VB6. After a lot of debugging, there was no problem with my code. It would just crash randomly. It runs fine on Win 7 and Win XP.
MS blames the ISVs, claming that they do things that are not up to spec.
I ran Vista for a long time but I fell in love with 7!
pssst they are the same os except 7 is vista with the pretty op features taken out for speed increase otherwise it's the same os
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue Cool! Never knew that.
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ueYeah you were correct about that but 7's biggest change is a change YOU CAN DO ON YOUR OWN IN VISTA WHY ARE PEOPLE CALLING VISTA SHlT
My first vista box was a core2quad with 8gb of ram and a 1tb hdd. It ran pretty good there
Bros vista box was better than my cheap windows 10 laptop 😭 well ram wise as my old laptop only had 4 gigs of RAM
That would be a real pain in the neck using so low end configuration. Recently I've downgraded my dad's old (near mint though!) Lenovo Y550 from 7 to Vista. Strange enough, it had license key in BIOS already. Installed all the dedicated drivers, and well, p7550 core 2 duo with 4gb ddr3 and gt240 are running like a charm. I would definitely recommend trying Vista on former higher-end devices. One day i will post a video with Phenom X4 940 and R4870 from my collection. :)
at least use an ssd for the hard disk drive that will make it a little less painful to use then
I bought this exact destop new in the Summer of 2007. 512mb ram and Vista home edition preinstalled. It was slow back then even for dialup web browsing. Looking back I wish I had put XP or Linux on it on it. Vista really needed more ram than what it came with. It only got worse with the updates.
I remember as a kid buying this after saving money for years. Bought it with my uncle who wasn't as tech savvy and thought I made a huge mistake as my experience was terrible. Luckily my big bro came in a few weeks later and wiped Vista for XP and the experience improved at least 10x lol
I'm sure that a lot of people were using 256 MB and 512 MB while you needed 2 GB to be comfortable.
I see you sneaking in a little True Love at night. ;)
I used vista back in the day, absolutely loved it! Begrudgingly upgraded to Win7. Windows 7 loved it slightly less but it did what I wanted and was updated. Windows 8 & 8.1 I refused to upgrade. Windows 10 I upgraded a few years after the updates stopped for 7, it was and is okay. I upgraded immediately to 11 though as in many ways it’s better but it’ll never be my Windows Vista. I know saying I liked or loved vista is controversial but it was the first OS on my very own laptop not shared with anyone, and I did a lot of gaming, programming, and chatting to friend on it. I wish I still had that laptop, in the end the hardware died before the OS 😢.
After WIndows XP that had dated interface, was unable to utilize 64 bit instructions, struggled to have >2 Gb user folder, autorun type viruses, Vista was a breath of fresh air.
quick tip install legacy update. legacy update revives windows update and installs all the service packs you need for vista
Vista was in many ways faster than Windows 7 eg. anything that does with GDI drawing routines and especially text drawing. You could benchmark it and Win7 was much slower and when used with something like GDI++ (tool to replace default ClearType font rendering to FreeType2 - think Linux) the difference was massive. Also in games Vista usually fared slightly better than Windows 7 (both RTM and SP1). The only thing Vista actually did slower was write operations on large number of small files due to server reliability options enabled by default which do with journaling being more reliable - which meant you were much less likely to break NTFS volume in case of eg. power failure. Vista also was way too agressive with auto-optimalization services which were caching frequently used programs. It could speed up loading programs a lot from slower HDDs but in practice more often caused I/O bottlenecks because system would do read/write operations while user used computer. Disabling these services until you could not hear disk when iddling made Vista very nice to use... on fast enough computer like Core 2 Duo ~3GHz 4GB memory. I used 32-bit version with swap on ~512MB ramdisk which used PAE to reclaim memory 32-bit OS could not give to applications. At that time there weren't really that many 64-bit applications and 32-bit applications worked slightly faster on 32-bit OS (mostly to do with Core2 missing some features in 64-bit mode than OS but it added some overhead also - especially in terms of memory usage) so it made sense at that time. I even used Vista with Core i3 which had HyperThreading and M$ didn't give Vista smarter scheduler Win7 got but this was hardly an issue games never scheduling on real cores - I did check this with games just to be sure while being prepared to change affinity - which was never needed... at least for games. Later I got AVX capable CPU and switched to Win7 - other than slower GDI drawing and different nicer taskbar (still "classic" though) not much difference. I could not find as nice themes for Win7 so used default and later one which removed this blueish hue from Aero. I managed to workaround GDI drawing performance by using second monitor on iGPU which forced WDDM 1.0 and "copy of video ram in system ram" which was literally the only thing M$ changed in Win7 to reduce its memory consumption - which saved ~100MB memory when there were lots of windows opened but made GUI performance worse and despite WDDM 1.1 causing issues in some applications in multi-monitor setups MS didn't give option to force WDDM1.0. The way I see it Windows 7 was just Vista but with upgrades regarding hardware support (AVX and TRIM) and scheduler made for Core i7 with HyperThreading and some GUI changes and WDDM1.1 driver support - all the things they could easily add to Vista with another Service Pack. For M$ Vista was sacrificial OS and they knew hardware is too weak for the OS and they made too many changes that required new drivers for hardware. By the time Win7 came out hardware was more ready and you could actually get eg. USB 3G modem or Wifi card, etc. and it just worked because by that time there were drivers for NT6.x systems. Otherwise technically Windows 11 is still NT6.x and so it is still the same OS as Vista. Just much uglier and with questionable GUI decisions. The only thing I really disliked in Vista but which didn't affect me was font rendering. It was horrible, ClearType was copied directly from XP where it was unusable. Win7 didn't improve it much but did a little and IMHO if it didn't people would like it less. Windows 10 and especially later revisions improved ClearType a lot. Still nothign like GDI++/ezGdi/MacType or just using Linux but I can eg. at work use Win10 and it doesn't make my eyes bleed. I absolutely hated default Vista font rendering and one of the first thing I tried to do was to disable ClearType wherever possible - which could be done for everything. So... tl;dr I cannot fully say Vista was great due to its terrible ClearType which was hard to disable but otherwise with GDI++/ezGdi and nicer theme which removed that blueish hue (that Win7 shared) it was the most beautiful OS I ever used. I didn't find anything even remotely nice even on Linux yet. BTW. Interresting tidbit: recently I made few retro computer for Win98 but good enough specs for even Vista (Athlon X2 running at ~3GHz, 4GB RAM) and I compared XP and Vista in games on various retro GPUs like FX5900, 6800GT, Radeon x800 and I found very interresting thing: all these cards run DX9c and earlier much faster when using NT5.x drivers (so XP drivers in short) and its really XP performance. It was WDDM drivers which made things slower. Same with GUI drawing - Vista actually supported all that good stuff which XP supported but simply WDDM drivers needed for Aero sucked balls. It is also possible to do that with Windows 7 and there is no difference other than Windows 7 supporting more modern software so in fact maybe better than Vista for this use case but still, it is somewhat Vista related because Win7 is Vista
Words, wonderful. I wonder how many he thinks we’re going to read.
Vista SP2 was faster than 7 SP1.
When making large essays like this, it's best to add some gaps.
Kind of like this, just with bigger sections of text.
Makes it easier to read, and keep track of what word you're at.
I'd recommend like 3 or 4 lines, then a gap.
I'm not reading that.
funniest part was "this old shitty ass computer my grandma gave me"
Windows 7 was my fav! Vista was good too, just depends on your specs when running it
I’d just enjoy the start up noise
I use the noises on my Linux. I have a multimedia PC.
That was actually a pretty god video!
i used vista for a month actually thanks to supermium and extended kernel
I tried to install extended kernel for Vista and i failed miserably 😂. I didn't found a step by step tutorial.
@@Dragonfire511 win client 5270 has one
Hey! I forgot to mention in the video that I actually tried using an extended kernel but my Internet stopped working and I couldn’t load certain stuff, so I ended up running without it which turned out better for me either way 😁
yeah its a pain in the ass to setup but supermium actually helps a lot
I still have my vista .love it .
I have built a Windows Vista Retro computer back in July, and i really love it
Something about this is just so like satisfying
yo is that an Acer Aspire T180? I have that exact same one I ripped parts from and turned it into a retro gaming rig haha
4:20 That's the exact same laptop my mom used to use! I remember her using that in 2014.
RUclips still works even though its "not supported"?
SSD MORE RAM AND WINDOWS 10 AND IT magically BECOMES A TODAY COMPUTER...
An old computer like this is very good for old games and software. I have an old laptop running Windows 7, in which I disconnected the keyboard, removed the battery and hooked it up to wall power. I occasionally browse old web forums for nostalgia, but I usually just keep it offline and play old games and use some old software from my childhood.
I love how people are leaving windows 11 in droves for linux yet this moron is making a video on how to install it on a computer🤣🤣
I remember saving years for a computer as a kid. Then unknowingly buying horror contained in a box named acer. Luckily my bro saved my experience and wiped vista for xp lol.
My old Computer and my old television
Nice video.
Thanks!
Have you ever thought about trying Linux Mint on that PC? See if you'd use it over Windows Vista? It's a pretty light OS and can support newer software, but still run on older hardware. I think it might be a fun thing to try and see what you can do with it!
how to become insane part 1
UEFI you can get to work by booting into setup and turning on UEFI boot then just letting the PC start as long as ur USB boots before the HDD
You can take out the default hardware, put in gaming hardware and make a sleeper PC out of that Aspire case!
I can give you some old versions of Firefox. I often keep the installer.
Windows was annoying. MS kept changing the GUI and I had to turn on Win 95 style at each install.
I'm sure that some grandparents love that but when I am used to something, I don't need change.
With Win 8, I dumped it and when with Linux. It has too many visual problems, too many missing colors.
As a first time viewer, that accent caught me OFF GUARD. Not in a bad way, just in a "didn't expect this" way
Vista was amazing.
With an ssd, an extra gig of ram, and a cheap 1 gig gpu of sorts, I’d say that is all most will ever need and for only about $60
You could put Windows ten on Vista and I tried eleven it works but it's a little slow
I still use it and is my main system the secondary is the Windows 11
bro fr didint even blur the license key
Why would he bother? Its an unsupported OS.
the usb called FUCKME
My old computer. Keep the case and upgrade inside
My dude you bypassed a product key you had on the side of the case…
don't think a vista product key would do much nowadays; even windows 7 and 8 keys can't be used anymore on windows 10 and 11 i believe
@@real151kmh the installer would have accepted it.
Even if he would put that key in, it would fail to activate, regardless if the key is valid or not. The Microsoft servers responsible for validating these keys have been down for a few years now.
Source: I tried it a few days ago on an old Vista laptop with its original product key. Errored out.
@@huuishuu It's the installer he bypassed you don't require internet to input a valid code. Of course it will eventually show as non-activated but the dude googled how to bypass the code in the installer instead of looking at the case.
You can also still call MS on the phone to activate these.
@@real151kmh @endermanch activated windows 11 with an xp product key
Everything at 100% and you're still so quiet, wow.
Steam is what i think i had to use to get all the games working. I did have allot of the drivers on disk also on back up drives. Mine plays pretty good up to far cry 3
U should of used a OEMact ISO you shouldn't need a key for that because my Dell didn't when I used one
that resolution does not look set right xD... u didnt set it all the way up
400'th like, nice video!
Try supremium a modern chromium browser that works on Windows xp and Vista
I run 2 4850s in my xps 630i
If bro opens discord on that shit this would blow up
not really lol
Good retro games Halo 2 for Windows Vista
Windows 8 was worse. Vista was panned because when it came out most of the hardware it was installed on couldn't cope.
Windows XP, the minimum system requirements are: a 233 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, and 1.5 GB of available hard disk space
Windows Vista, you need at least a 1 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, a DirectX 9-capable graphics card, and 40 GB of hard disk space with at least 15 GB free
That is a huge jump in Ram and processor when most upgraded from XP.. I loved Wondows 7 Still the best.
Still got a XP/ Linux mint 19.3 Laptop, all good so far. ( If I don' t use XP)😂
Still usable PC
Good video but seems lower than the others
Vista was bad because people wanted that all crappy pcs worked with it like it was xp, and vista was a big jump in hardware requirements. Once hardware was good enought vista was good
Yea it’s good I’m just now on vista it’s works fine
What is 9:00 game's name?
you should upgrade the ram(If you want)
Dude, cool video, but the audio volume is very low 😅😅
Why is your desktop black
3:38 "FUCKME"😂
Where did you download Drag Racer from?
Me a person that's all i got. I love vista
I see a sleeper there mini itx ir matx board
w video
whats the model of that monitor
@nascaraliens Which one? 🤔
mypal browser works on xp allows to use web and is uptodate
mypal isn't up to date, supermium is
Do you want to sell that piece or shit and what type of plug are you using us or er UK
Goofy ahh cpu cooler 😂
Vista, a good operating system. 😂😂😂 Vista. 😂😂😂
9:33
Windows 8 is the worst Windows!
''what is uefi?'' -Smoothie's Lounge