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Originally Posted by crockett
Hardly.. I built a new PC several months ago and I installed Vista on it from the start. I had nothing but problems with it and switched to XP which has been very stable.
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This means that some device that you put in that system was not on the Hardware Compatibility List for Vista.
Which brings us back to why Apple users always thumb their noses at PC users. Apple works, but you can't build your own Apple from scratch (
ahem...unless of course you use that special distro floating on the torrents).
Microsoft tightened down their compatible hardware vendor list by including those who wrote drivers specifically tested to give the best performance under Windows Vista. One device that doesn't have properly written drivers can muck up an entire system. If your hardware vendor codes crappy drivers or simply ported em over from the XP ones, crossed their fingers and hoped for the best, you can't blame that on Microsoft.