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 :)
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 😢.
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.
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.
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. :)
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 😁
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
i remember using windows 7 during second and third grade (2017-2018) and I think I used it during fourth grade (late 2019) but in early 2020 they finally upgraded it to windows 10
