I'm curious is anyone out there still using Vista? Let me know in the comments!

Going from XP to Vista was bit of a mess, but the OS looked and felt different. Going from win10 to Win11 feels like installing a skin

Honestly, i just CAN'T hate this OS. I remember when my parents bought me a vista laptop, it was a (dell Inspiron i think) and when i saw how Vista looked, i nearly went insane. It was very responsive, it felt futuristic, the widgets were cool and it was very rare to see a blue screen or an unresponsive program on it. I don't really get why ppl hated it so much, after all 7 came from Vista and it wouldn't be there without it. I still love it to this day, so many good memories

Vista was a beautiful OS. The interface design was great. XP was ugly, but very robust and dependable. 7 was the rock solid Vista, 8 was radical and a bit pointless.

Vista was great when on the correct hardware, and is still very much usable in 2023 with the extended kernel too, in some cases it can run even more software than Windows 7 can. Linus Tech Tips made a video back in 2010 I believe it was, showing how stable Vista actually was. You can also still find remnants of Vista even in Windows 10/11 if you search hard enough. One stares you right in the face, and that is Windows Fax and Scan, it still uses the old Vista design, and probably hasn't been updated since Vista. Really every version of Windows after Vista is just Vista with a new coat of paint.

Vista on release was AWFUL and bricked a lot of otherwise (then) great computers on release. But once they fixed most of the bugs and gave it the driver support it needed, it was an extremely useable and reliable OS. Computer hardware had to adapt to Vista, but is that a problem of the OS itself or just a consequence of software advancing and hardware needing to play catch-up? These days, hardware tends to be a step ahead of most software needs so new versions of MacOS and Windows, are unlikely to have a similar problem that Windows Vista encountered.

Most people wouldn’t say windows vista or 8 was the worst. Windows ME was actually the worst. Personally I never had issues with 8. Install classic shell and bam better version of 7.

i need to install a third party performance score test made to be as simalar to windows vista/7 as possible and see how high it scores

Vista was ahead of its time.

For Retro-Gaming is Vista a King! I Have a Vista Gaming-PC from 2008. For the Windows-Update u need 4-5 updates for Vista and the Updater and install it. After this 4-5 Updates works the Updater.

vista did NOTHING WRONG!!!

My first pc had windows vista back in 2008 the good old days😢

I think Windows Vista had and still have the most beautiful UI ever and it's a 3D interface, Windows 10 and 11 is ugly compared to Vista, Vista was just ahead of it's time thats the problem windows 10 and 11 were the ones who should have been released in Vista's time and Vista being released now with better performance, performance was the only issue with Vista, am nostalgic about Vista

"Those transparrency effects wouldn't run on your voodoo 3..." You know something, they would actually 100%. When the first betas of Win 8 came out I installed it on a test PC, something with a core 2 duo but I did not have a GPU so I popped Nvidia TNT2 PCI (not pcie) GPU and to my amazement Aero freaking worked. Turns out since Microsoft planned to use Win 8 on underpowered tablets they emulated the effects in software if hardware wasn't capable... They could have done it in Vista but we "had to upgrade". Later they removed aero effects so it wouldn't matter but Microsoft outright lied that the effect could not work on unsupported GPUs. If you need to verify this for yourself install one of the early Win 8 betas with Aero interface on "unsupported gpu"...

I have Windows Vista running on HP Z400 from 2009. I had trouble to get it installed on the computer, but eventually got everything working. It works so good on my HP Z400, that the Windows Experience Index (WEI) reaches 5,9 on average.

0:12 did he said Vindows Vista?

vista is what i grew up on first and i miss it so much! its so simple and easy, and it looks so nice. I would use it as my daily os but im not too sure how to do it safely or how to make sure i dont break anything....... but it was so beautiful :(

As somebody that used Windows Vista for its entire cycle it was fine even on par with Windows 7 but Windows 8 for me personally was the most irritating version. Windows 8.1 fixed that though.

I have a light version of windows 11 where they added all the old games

Vista may have been flawed at launch, and its SP2 was unfortunately unable to restore its reputation with 7 on the horizon. But it can’t be denied that it has probably the greatest user interface ever made after XP’s Luna and OS X’s Aqua. I love its use of teal in almost every place.

You should make surfshark for windows vista

People often have rose-colored glasses on when it comes to old Windows operating systems. But Vista was simply released way too early. In 2007, my father bought me a new PC, with Windows Vista, the very first release version. It ran catastrophically, you had to confirm everything twice through UAC. Even to change a measly setting. It was annoying. The Windows Explorer was buggy and showed that it would take 10,000 years to copy the file, and then it hung up. Old hardware didn't work because there were no drivers available. Hours-long updates that failed. Every game had less FPS than Windows XP, every program ran slower than Windows XP, if it ran at all. But yes, it looked awesome. It had a great design, it was miles ahead of its time. And it laid the foundation for Windows 7. Which in the end was just the finished Windows Vista. From Service Pack 1, the problems were fixed, and with the Core 2 Duo/AMD Phenom sufficiently fast platforms available, the reputation was already ruined.

Wonderful and beautiful software. Must have been fascinating back in 2007 Only time I ever saw it was on my dad's aunt's laptop.

So... I go clear back to Windows 3.0 which didn't even have Drag and Drop back then! I had a gamer class system so Vista worked wonderfully for me! Vista was an attempt to move Windows users off of legacy systems but people wanted to keep their old rigs yet wanted to use Vista on them. Vista was simply too modern at that time. Microsoft Rushed out Windows 7 which was backwards compatible to old ass computers. It was basically "Vista Lite." Vista was one hell of a cool Operating System for it's day!

my first windows as now a 13 year old was windows 7

Being the first computer I owned I loved every single part of it. (I think it runned good even with a lot of viruses I because I got one that was mean't to run vista.

I miss the old ui and controlpanel. Was easy to find the settings you were looking for. Such a hatelove for windows vista, remember how awfully slow it could run on laptops with bad specs 😅

Part of the problem was that XP had 5 years to show its age, and during that time, hardware manufacturers got complacent and users didn't buy new machines very often. Vista came out, and suddenly everyone had to scramble to update their graphics drivers because they had a more modern OS that they couldn't run. If "Longhorn" design was actually more centralized from the very beginning to the point of not needing the codebase reset that it ended up needing, then it's likely that both users and OEMs alike wouldn't have been as complacent as they were.

i agree on almost what you are saying Vista was the very first revolutionized version of windows in terms of windows looks and feel it's just good that back in the day's (we) modders of windows theme's in DeviantArt was trying hard to achieve that aero glass looks the blur effects, the start orb that overlaps the start menu its really hard just to make xp looks like vista, the side bar the gadgets and yet people saying all praise to win7 if you compare the two vista has more 3d looks the taskbar the orb etc, people back in the day hates it because of two factor 1. Because it's way ahead of it's time in terms of resources required and 2. It's not "Longhorn" if you ask what is longhorn? Well it's a long story and a mess Vista is not what ms promise to the ms users it's a rush windows.

Can't believe hp used to be good, how times have changed

Bro windows vista is so fresh and so clean and nostalgic for me

I wish vista could work on Haswell CPUs

I’ll say it, windows vista had a bigger impact on me than smart phones. I went from a windows 95 home pc with dialup to an Asus windows vista laptop in 2007, it came at the perfect time as wifi had just become popular, KZfaq was exploding, the internet was exploding, streaming my favourite shows became common from pirate sites, social media boomed, MMORPGs came into being like WOW and RuneScape. Honestly anyone who’s childhood/young teenage years experienced that transition windows vista was the first “modern” internet experience we ever got. The internet with vista in 2007 was completely revolutionary to the internet of the early 2000s and why people don’t bring this up more I don’t understand.

❤omg I need that laptop. I want to play with vista again

While Vista was a huge step forward in the development of Windows, aside from the driver support, stability issues, and endless UAC popups, it is very bloated, even on computers from 2009 or 2010 that were more powerful, Vista was still slow compared to Windows 7. Also, XP was extremely lightweight and outperforms both Vista and 7 on old machines, even on machines that meet the system requirements for Vista and 7, so no one had any reason to upgrade.

I experienced the BSOD in this OS on My Laptop from 2008.

Literally the reason I got a laptop back in the day was because I wanted vista... All my friends were jealous and wanted it and I had no problems with it.

When I see first moment on laptop is windows vista on HP pavilion dv5 specs: CPU: Core 2 Duo T6400 RAM: 2GB DDR2 800MHz GPU Nvidia geforce 9200m gs 512MB HDD: 240GB The glossy effect of Windows vista + glossy design of HP dv5 + glowing entertainment touch capitative buttons on hp = Heaven for Vista Era

Meanwhile me getting 3.2 gaming graphics rating on 7

i think its revolutionary

I've been around computers most of my life. My middle school gave us Mac laptops back in 06. My Highschool gave us Lenovo Laptops that ran Vista in 09. Going from Mac to Vista was quite a seamless experience considering that when both companies were really competing with both OS and mimicking each other's features. The widgets from the MAC just became the gadgets. Windows tried copying leopards sleek design. Those were some good times.

My experience with this: my first Vista computer is an HP Pavilion dv9000 (still have it!) which I got in mid-2007. I loved the gorgeous UI! But I had Vista Ultimate 64-bit, and due to that last detail, compatibility was a massive jerk. The 160GB 5400RPM hard drive CHUGGED with the OS and made the computer quite slow, even if the Core 2 Duo and 2GB RAM otherwise handled the OS well. But I had a MUCH better experience with my Acer Aspire M5630 desktop PC, featuring a Core 2 Quad, 2GB RAM and a 500GB 7200 RPM drive, with Vista Home Premium 32-bit. I think it really comes down to the hardware like you said, and many people's computers were much slower than the ones I used!

Life’s been awful so I pulled out my laptop that’s like brand new and I haven’t used it since 2007!?! Found out I can’t get it upgraded . I didn’t even notice so many years have gone by as I was on my phone instead of my lap top

I had no issues when running Windows Vista Ultimate when it came out. I worked at Best Buy during that time and can tell you the new computers that came with Vista were severely underpowered. Many computers came with the minimum specs to run the OS, which turned out to be a disaster. Also, most people couldn't understand the issue, so they just blamed Vista. I built myself a custom desktop computer with a Quad-Core processor and 4GB RAM. I had absolutely NO issues with Vista. It was awesome.

In our home computer we went from xp to windows 10 directly by ypgrading the hdd to an ssd and more ram

2:20 I used ot have a old Comapq laptop ..(it was my father's )..it has a news headlines and Live TV channel gadgets!

Like most people who like vista, I grew up with it and never understood the hate. The gimmicks and features suited my use for a personal computer that could do work and play games on. It was way better than the horrible experience I had with 8.

I wish Microsoft would go back to giving us the bare minimum needed and allowing us to expand with external applications, cause now it's just bloatware and forcing the use of features that should just optional.

Everyone I knew who complained about Vista were the broke asses and their cheap computers. I had a decent pc and loved Vista to bits. I still think it looks great

It was good, but I remember having a lot of issues with games. so I wound up having to go back to XP. Also, there was a lot of issues with software not working properly with it when it originally launched, where, as window seven I don’t remember having that issue.

4:18 : Android even iOS has this to prevent users from accidentally click that can be risky

Can it run SurfShark?

I was buying a brand new PC when Vista launched so had no problems. Never had an issue with it and thought the problems were over-exaggerated.

Vista was the best os under the 7 skin.

For some reason I got vista business for free in 2010 while getting windows 7 home . You are not alone I just installed it today after 14 years out of curiosity , is taking for ever to install . I agree it’s a giant leap from XP . they put lot of these in windows 10 too I guess

For me, i don't have any issue with Vista back then. It runs smoothly in the Pentuim duo with 2 gb RAM.

XP - important, Vista - important, 7 - not so important (if you love 7 and hate Vista, you in fact love Vista), 8 (and 8.1) - reinventing the wheel (separate shell for tablets would be better), 10 - hot-stitched patch to 8, 11 - still too early to judge, future will show.

I remember when I got a copy of Vista for my 14th birthday. It was pretty much the coolest thing I had ever seen at the time. I do remember it later bogging down my PC though lol. Still loved it.

my first impression upgrading from windows xp to vista in 2007 like damn it's future os 🤯

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ windows vista on compaq presario 5200 with max ram

Microsoft: “Hey Vista, get over here!” Vista: Yeah? Microsoft: “I’m gonna give you new clothes, and your name is Windows 7 now, you’ll get the love you deserve, I promise” Windows 7: Ok Release happens* Windows 7: Yay I’m finally loved by people! :D Microsoft: “Told you it would work!” That’s basically how the Windows Vista/7 story unfolded

Vista was amazing, I bought and used it day one. But unlike most people, I had a dual core processor and 4gb of ram. A huge issue was HP and Dell were putting Vista on computers with less then a gb of ram, and a cheap single core processor.

Still has the best looking UI and that's almost 20 years ago Man, while I feel old. I am so disappointed at we actually get stuck at ugly flat design for more than 10 years.

Honestly, I can't say anything bad about it. I had a Toshiba laptop with Windows Vista that my dad bought me and I used it mainly for school. I could surf the web, take notes, install games, do my homework (including programming in C, Java, Visual Studio), watch movies, install software, sync iTunes with an iPod Classic and iPod touch, rip CDs and even transfer songs into a Sony MiniDisc using SonicStage and didn't have a problem at all. I still have this laptop although I don't use it that much now

This OS just kinda like newer Android OS which customizable, I mean since 12 😅

Mine is from 2007 and i was stuck with windows vista for 7 years abd this video was nostalgic 😢

Honestly, Aero looks good to this day, if I could switch on Aero on Windows 10, I 100% would.

This was my first OS whom I could experiment a lot. It run on a Packard Bell with an approximately 500 MB graphics card. Of course, that meant I could only play games like Minesweeper and the cook game, or other ganes released before 2005 XD

Vista/7 updates are better than the latest ones. For example, Vista and 7 will give you some time to restart for update, no force restart. But in newer windows, no matter how important whatsoever you are doing, your os will be like "F##k your tasks, I'm updating whenever i want". Then it will restart without your permission

It's sad that they abandoned the control panel having it's own background after Windows Vista

I think windows vista look amazing. And it was waaay ahead of its time. Going from XP to Vista was a night and day difference. I could argue and say that Win Vista with its latest SP2 became more or less WIndows 7. I run Vista on my 2006-2007 high end retro gaming pc and i absolutely love it.

"2007" reminds me how old I am Microsoft, please invent the time machine

I was really lucky back in the day, getting a new machine when Vista just released which happened to be powerful enough to run Vista smoothly. That's why I didn't had much of a bad time with it past the annoying UAC checks. Being a young teen however who clicked on files online without any second guesses, I eventually made it suck up memory like crazy and all I wanted is to go back to XP. Something not supported by my OEM machine back then, even unlocking it to install Linux newcomer Ubuntu initially only worked through WUBI, which I thought was a cool function nonetheless. Windows 7 is basically Windows Vista SP4 with a sane UAC and uglier Aero design. Other than that, of course Vista is fine. Still, the part of many companies selling XP grade machines sold as Vista capable was one of the big reasons why people hated it at scale.

I remember when I went to my grandmother's house and turned on the TV and showed her how Windows Vista works, and I still do it but with Windows 10

Can anyone advise me on my Vista Business OS, I am a novice at computers? I can get Firefox but not IE9? I can only receive limited updates when I use the wsus system. I'm trying to get the original 180 or so updates without doing it manually. Without the wsus process engaged I get "windows update error 80072efd". Thanks in advance if anyone can help?

It was my favorite.. when everyone hated and used XP I still used vista.

Like most people who like vista, I grew up with it and never understood the hate. It was way better than the horrible experience I had with 8

I just installed Vista on my computer the other day because it had been bought by a stranger and they had pirated the OS and I didn’t wanna mess with the programs they had running in the background to block anti piracy. It was built for XP and Vista and I had no issues finding drivers for anything except my own monitor. (It is modern and I cannot get it to run, but it still displays everything fine) it runs very well except for a memory leak I need to fix. Modern programs will be your biggest enemy. They’re sluggish for obvious reasons.

My first memories of Vista... I remember being annoyed that Microsoft had scrapped the menu slide animation (this later returned in Win 10/11). I didn't like the File, Edit, View options being moved under the command options / address bar with no option to change it back to how it's always been. I was also annoyed that keyboard select (the little dots that appear over selected buttons) was turned off by default and was a pain to switch back on. A dialogue box appeared after everything I tried to do on Vista asking my permission, which was massively annoying. I hated Vista Paint and first thing I did was download the XP version again. It was also extremely slow. Then there was the so-called legendary aero theme everyone was talking about, that would NOT work on my PC no matter what I did. It was beyond frustrating at the time. The OS was absolutely beautiful though, like a work of art and I desperately wanted to like it. Even now, I think it's the most attractive OS ever released. Windows 7 arrived with an improved taskbar, improved gadgets, aero worked, it was fast and those annoying dialogue boxes were gone. I was annoyed that the classic start menu was scrapped, but the new one seemed ok. Windows 7 felt comfortable very quickly. The beauty of Vista was scaled down a bit, but it was still stunning. I used Windows Vista again recently (SP2 though). It was fast, there were no annoying dialogue boxes and aero worked perfectly. It also had the classic start menu. Looking back, I think I prefer Vista SP2 to Windows 7. It's a shame the brand was ruined by SP1.

I have to be honest windows vista is basically windows 7 main reason they say it sucked they used a computer with the minimum requirements of windows vista if you do that it will run very slow because 512 megabytes of ram and 1 gigabytes of ram will make it feel very slow and also depending how old the computer is you won’t find any drivers so it’ll be worser but using this on a 2009 pc i7 860 windows vista runs great on here

The main thing about vista was that it was made for alot newer computers at the time

I have this same laptop shipped with xp, but had vista on it. It was amazing, ran so well but unfortunately the speakers are not working even with drivers so i use headphones. I like vista! 👍

It was not bad like windows 8 or 8.1

My thoughts about vista is that its good but windows 7 was just better it was just a direct upgrade

Great video. Vista stung Microsoft so much they released Windows 7 as a refined and updated Vista experience. Windows 7 was and remains my favourite OS over Vista. But Windows 10 is a close second.

It was a sad day for me that my fave app in the sidebar run by silverlight stopped working. Would anything get it going again? I like the game on this "Saints and sinners bowling:

Windows 7 was one of the best. I still main a windows XP system with XP and Vista partitions in case I need an older program etc. Windows 7 was what vista could’ve been!!

windows XP service pack was so good. no one wanted to use Vista

I remember vista as the OS that allowed me to make it into an anime girl OS

Widgets= Gadgets, it's just for fun, I prefer a clean desk.

my parents were gonna throw out a hp pavilion i used as a kid, i didn’t want them to throw it away. It was on windows vista it said 2.6 on the experience index. after doing some upgrades and reinstalled windows vistaI saw it turn into a 7.2 and i was like god damn!

Windows Vista was better with a clean install versus an upgrade.

windows update goes back to windows 98 if you want to know what its like to use windows without search, use windows 3.1x

Best looking windows version of all time

I am pretty sure XP had Windows Update as well.

Vista is my favourite, i wish i could install it to my computer now, but its not as safe and functional anymore so i would have to avoid it sadly😢

this is so nostalgic to me

The creator of Minecraft built it with Vista💪🏻

I remember installing Vista on my 1GHZ Celeron with 1GB RAM… so slow. I think I reformatted and put XP back in about 3 hours later.

Shame Windows 7 gets all the credit for what it has when most things in Windows 7 are from Windows Vista. I love both Vista and 7 but I think Vista was hated on too much. Some people hated it cause their PC wasn’t powerful enough, other people such as the ones that say XP and 7 are the best and that Vista sucks are the ones that never used Vista ever.