I-use-windows-vista's avatar
Tell me more about that timer issue..
Remember that ancient latitude d610? It's still running the Vista installation made in early 2014, mo BSODs faced and no slowdowns, actually what happened through time is getting performance boost, I upgraded the memory to 2GB and the starter edition was able to address them all and use them all, only issue faced was with the windows updates service using so much CPU utilization, it doesn't do that now though., it will run it until somewhen next year, it maybe before the last day of support or on the day or after it, but idk what am I going to run next, I may try messing with Windows 10 or try ubuntu, I'd love to use the original Windows Vista as much as I want to use iOS 6.1.3 on my iPad2 but I believe that time is up for it, and fir sure I'm going to miss it, I'll just use it's modern counterpart (aka: 10) , it's Windows NT 6.3 (they renamed it 10 but it's actually 6.3, was messing with the registry once upon a time and found that), so 10 is actually Vista + a truckload of new features and under the hood improvements, interesting to see our Vista running on modern PCs (while most people don't know that it's actually Vista, afterall it's NT 6.x) runs on modern phones, and on a popular gaming console, the OS that the majority of people used to hate is actually everywhere and used by nearly everyone whether it was 7 or 8/8.1 or 10 (or the original Vista) isn't that ironic?
a11ryanc's avatar
Well. Often times rebooting will result in a, "Interactive Initiative" error. I forgot the error name exactly. When that happens, the OS will not work properly if you proceed to login. Only fix is to restart. At that point, I can usually get back in without a problem. But that timer still poses issues, like if you were to install an update and that timer error arises in the middle of it, it can corrupt the update and possibly the entire OS. 2008WV and myself have both thoroughly tested it. I myself am still on it though, still working on that RAM replacement.
I-use-windows-vista's avatar
Oh man this sucks
They should have released a fix for that earlier than 2012 (2012 was 4 years ago? I feel that old ) (maybe they released that later than April 2012 because they knew this sort of thing would happen and they would use it as a way to move users off their OS)
Well, goodluck