How Usable Is Windows Vista In 2024 

To me it's wild that even 7 and 8.1 are already out of support too. Feels like yesterday when i was still using 7 and then later upgraded to 8

@@laur6405 IKR! I feel it was even more impossible with 8.1, because of the Metro theme to it. It still looks modern that it baffles me it's out of support. And tbf, it was always low in support due to its unpopularity.. there were CPUs made just a couple of years after it that already supported only windows 10 and up. Windows 8.1 still had another half decade to go, and it was already considered being thrown in the bin And now windows 10 will face the same fate in 2025.

feels like yesterday windows 3.1 came out.

@@bananatoofat average Joe won't have access or will think of getting access to it, would require some trickery to which may as well go Linux

If you want to use older versions of Windows for retro gaming and casual computing it's safe to use just please have something like AVG and a back up of your older Windows.

Personally I prefer the look of vista over windows 7

I never had problems with vista either

You'd be less fond of it if you used it before SP1 and on a crap pentium with 1GB DDR2 like lots of people did back in 2007.Though tbh that's the most sovlful vista setup.

@@ENNEN420 yeah but I imagine that’s the equivalent of using 4gb of ram and a celeron on windows 11 today

I remember my family computer from when I was a kid back in 2007. I remember sneaking onto it to play Lego games on the Lego website.😂 Now I have the same computer in my closet in a shoe box. Might plug it in to see the photos and whatnot from yesterday stored on it if it's hard drive still works.

Same here, this is peak Windows GUI right there. It was all downhill from here, although 7 was still quite nice.

Windows 7 is better for this because gadgets don´t fade the edge of the screen etc and you can do custom mods to change everything in 7 using third party tools. I have the most unique and nice looking 7 in the world with specific mods. Today windows is just a flat monotone boring mess

@@Pulverrostmannen You can use third party tools to change any version of Windows to look and operate just about any way you want. But Vista was gorgeous without them.

@@UncleUncleRj I think Win7 is the best is so far in most ways it was made. Because the Gadgets were working better, you could adjust the messages shown to be less intrusive than Vista and things were just more polished. I miss the Aero theme and actual colors in 10 or later. Windows have just become a boring mess lately. It simply is not what I expected it to be when the future would bring us the hardware we have now. I modified EVERYTHING in win7, I made the computer my style, animated custom boot loaders, icons windows and everything with a custom appearance. But stuff in Vista annoyed me, mostly that you could not have gadgets without the edge fading like a bad backlight beneath the plugins you had and that system messages kept popping up all the time and you could not even disable them as you can in 7. You could make several themes and switch between them in one click to get everything you wanted in 7. And in win10/11, the theme you get for your flat stupid one color boring mess of a OS is a different accent color and maybe your wallpaper. Microsoft don’t want you to enjoy the visual appearance anymore. They only want to sell you their way of using a computer. It would have been the easiest thing for Microsoft to include user Skins you could switch between just like they did in XP where you could use either XP theme or classic win98/2000 appearance as a legit option to begin with. But now they remove Wordpad so you gonna have to pay for Office just because they can and hate those who want a personal experience with their computers and lock everything you want with everything they got. You should not need to use sketchy third party tools to customize your own computer today. Yet here we are sitting with the cutting edge OS of today that have less colors than W3.11 and we just have to love it

@@UncleUncleRj Aero glass is unfortunately broken on newer Windows 10 builds. Otherwise yes, you can even make the taskbar at least behave like pre-Windows 7 taskbar without 3rd party software.

XP before SP2 certainly felt like beta software to me. On the other hand the problem with vista was that it had the longest development time (including pre reset Longhorn) of any windows up to this point so many users didn’t feel the need to upgrade their systems for many years and when vista came along eventually with it’s upped system requirements many old pcs that were running the more than 5 year old XP at this point were just not up for the task

@@klausschmidt982 Not just XP but pretty much all of them except 7 and 11 for me. 8 was also pretty unstable and most older software including games would refuse to work on 8 and everything got fixed when they released 8.1 and i also used Windows 10 from day one and it wasn't so stable either until it reached at least 2 major updates. Then i used 11 since launch and it's almost flawless to me just like 7 was. Some of them were hit or miss at launch

Windows Vista non service pack is Windows Vista RTM, which acts like Windows Me it sucked bad

What about windows 8.1/8

@@treasurechestgaming8423 I skipped those personally, but now that you mention those, I'd say the bland boringness did start there.

@treasurechestgaming8423 it was for tablets and touch laptops they forget the desktop users 😢​

i just can't understand how they fucked up so bad vista and 7 looked gorgeous

Honwstly

I would prefer to run a Windows Vista skin over Windows 10 or 11 any time.

@@AranimdaWindows 11 looks way better.

@@riot9179Wrong

Cannot agree more! Me and my friends, all of us who have used Vista still think Vista is the most beautiful OS. There is a huge age difference between us too.

Make her install it on virtual box so she can still use it well except online stuff

me too

Not my proudest fap but it was 😮

Thanks MJD is one of my favorite channels so its defiantly an inspiration

came here. fromthe windows xp video

Thanks I'm glad your enjoying them I love making these videos.

Glad you liked it!

No you are sexy

No one cares but I do

If you're looking for a new OS with video wallpapers, MacOS Sonoma has those, you can run it as a Hackintosh or on an older Mac using Open Core.

@@michaelcallummayaka I'm over it now :) Vista was on to something, but, then ms dropped this feature, probably because of the negative performance feedback based on under-spec'd pc's pushing the latest Win OS back then. Hackintosh is way more hassle to get working.....something I can do without in my current phase of life. :D

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Haha right!! Windows 3.11 over here

@@asanaya94 Which DOS did you have alongside it?

Windows 98 with my 799Mhz Celeron, 128 MB RAM and Riva TNT 2 32MB GPU oh also MAXTOR 20GB HDD :) I were playing Half-Life, Serious Sam and SVEN XXL

Thanks

I will eventually but it will probably be on actual hardware

@@Nostalgic9080 thanks

Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been