it's wild to me that Windows Vista has been long out of support.. it still feels like yesterday Vista came out and still look so much better than Windows 8 and later. Still feels so new and fresh
@@Mirra2003-f9s 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.
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.
Vista is the most beautiful Windows ever. You can't change my mind. It might had it's major flows, but I had an eyegasm every time I looked at my desktop.
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.
The biggest problem with Vista was the underpowered computers people tried to run it on at the time. All computers that couldn't run Vista are pretty much unusable today,but the ones that were actually Vista capable are still able to run Windows 10 and still be usefull today. Yeah,non service pack version was not that great but XP wasn't that good without a service pack either. They all needed a service pack or a major update to be in that good state that people remembered them to be
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
Out of many people that I knew I never had problems with Vista without even a service pack. Vista just worked great for me eventually with service packs it got even quicker. The problem was people and manufacturers were cheaping out on hardware and running it on bare minimal if you run software on bare minimal system requirements, you’re going to get abysmal performance if you run it on optimal hardware in this case, it will run a hell of a lot better
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.
Windows Vista was, still is my favourite Windows version. I never had many problems with it (less than with Windows 10) and it was beautiful, with Aero.
Windows Vista was the most visual appealing Windows ever imo. I remember it clearly. I remember the Longhorn builds that became Vista. It was never really complete. But some how I actually miss it, because the GUI looked so awesome. I wish that the GUI could be reinstated to W10 and W11.
I absolutely loved Vista, the GUI designers at MS really did their best, it's such an eyecandy! Although I only used it on my dorm roommate's computer, and it constantly crashed explorer.exe, but that was later patched, otherwise worked fine. My home computer didn't meet the minimal requirements, so there was the point when I got bored of XP, couldn't install Vista, so I've started to experiment with Linux, around 2008, which I became a fan of. So even though I loved Vista, it was the version that got me off of Windows as my main OS, quite ironic. I'd love to install it on an actual hardware and just have a nostalgy blast with it. My 10 year old Thinkpad might be good for this. If you install a secure browser with adblock and popup block, and some antivirus, and avoid risky websites, it shouldn't be that bad security-wise, as even hackers won't expect their victims to still use this antique version... it's probably too outdated even for modern exploits.
0:00 that sound still brings me instant peace. Back in 08: when my school hours were over, and I could finally get back online or enjoy the rest of the day playing video games. I switched on my PC, and that blissful sound would mark the actual beginning of my day. sigh. Take me back.
I still miss Vista i remember installing it on my old AMD Athlon 64 4800+ with 3GB of RAM and 80 GB HDD it brings so much nostalgia and memories for me it was a amazing OS for sure
Vista is still one of my most favourite versions of Windows. Had so much bad press and comments from people who probably never even used it, just wanted to get in on the hate and only listen to what the media told them. I had a fairly decent PC with 2GB RAM at the time of its release and I had zero issues with Vista from the off, it ran flawlessly and the visual elements of it were so smooth and fluid. SP2 made it even more rock solid.
im not sure many people know this but when fallout 4 and even skyrim se first came out they actually supported vista... it was only later patches that removed that compatibility
I reinstalled vista on an SSD a few months before MS ended support for their OS. Worked flawlessly and didn't feel slow at all. I think it was released a bit ahead of its time. Big difference in speed compared to the old spin disks.
How’d you get it to run on an SSD. I was under the assumption it was impossible after trying to install it on a modern laptop due to no drivers being made for it. Someone had done it but by editing the ISO with windows 7 drivers somehow.
Windows Vista was really amazing and great for its time. The problem was that users on earlier version of Windows like XP, their hardware were not really enough to handle it cause of the massive overhaul in visuals and graphics.
I grew up on windows vista on my home computer and it’s so nostalgic, I love the frutiger aero aesthetic so much, it’s so nostalgic to a recent past where we thought the future would be all bubbly colorful and watery lol
I was a broadband cable modem service tech when Vista came out. My services calls sky rocketed for connectivity issues. There were many that I could not resolve.
Vista was AWESOME! I grew up on XP, and I remember being a kid and seeing Vista. Then when windows 7 came out, that took over the world of PC's. Windows 7 is still to this day one of the best versions of windows ever.
Windows Vista was my teenage OS I used all the time. I use XP when I was a kid but Vista is where I experience so much of my life. Vista will always have a soft place in my heart ❤️
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Damn I was obsessed with Vistas UI and aero design back then and probably spent more than hundreds of hours downloading vista themes and aero designs to make my Windows XP look like Vista...
My first Windows as a kid. Windows Movie Maker is purely nostalgic to me.. I used to edit lots of stuff with it, so these stock images and transitions are marked in my memory.
Vista was a huge vibe. My friend from school had a crazy powerful laptop with vista on it back in the day, while i was on the barely functional family computer. So in my 13 year old head, Vista was basically top of the line software since I would always associate it with beautiful colors and the games we used to play together on his machine. Good times.
I absolutely love Vista. Yesterday on my i9-9900k system I spent 8 hours trying to get Vista to install (it didn’t), and I personally make way more Vista VMs than Windows 7 VMs. In this video
8.1 was fine, but RTM Win8 was meh even tho it had tons of improvements to vista/7 but they removed the start button man.. the start menu is fine for tablets but not for desktops.
I beta tested and later used Vista as my daily driver. Loved it. The majority of people who had issues, the root cause boiled down to either forcing XP drivers for devices or using a system that wasn't powerful enough to run it efficiently. Having a current machine with supported drivers on Vista was an absolutely great experience. Stable, fast and compatible with most applications. Same hoenstly goes for Millennium which I also beta-tested back in the day. Don't listen to the echo chamber of haters -- most of those people have never even used it haha
As someone sitting here using the i7-3770s, Sir, I have to commend you on keeping 3rd gen Intel CPUs alive! Warms my heart to see folks still getting great bang for their buck outta these aging systems. Again, kudos to you!
my dad had a PC at his house running Vista back in the day while our PC at home still ran XP for a while. as a kid it was always so weird using his PC at his house because like i could tell that it was different and much more modern looking than my XP one at home but i never really knew why until i was a bit older
What internet browser do you use? I'm plainning to reinstall vista on my old HP Pavillion DV5 that was designed to be used with windows media center (ir remote controle on the laptop). thx :)
I forgot how much I missed that startup sound, think I will change windows 11 to that sound ! Vista was so sleek looking, its crazy. It had some cool features like the widgets and the windows experience index performance test. Awesome video, need to go check your XP one.
When Vista first came out, it overheated my GPU so I had to go back to XP then upgraded to 7. Years later when it was near the end of support, I wanted to give it a go and it ran like a dream. One of the coolest looking OS mixing fanciness with a bit of retro to it. I regret not keeping up with the updates and being able to enjoy using it in it's time.
Vista Ultimate x64 was used for my first self build computer, having 8gb on a x64 OS was so good and Photoshop could finally access all the RAM instead of the 3.4gb limit on 32bit systems. It's unfortunate the MS marketing team and 3rd party computer companies messed up with under spec'ed systems as Vista was so cool. I remember having the video water drop desktop ....they don't do things like that anymore, which is a shame because most computers are over-powered and can more than handle those kind of things.
@@leylandlynxvlog 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
Windows Vista is so gorgeous!! I started with Windows 98 SE, and also used XP, but Vista/7 have my favorite aesthetic! Though I love the others too. Vista ran terrible on my HP Pavilion dv9000 back in the day, but Vista has long since gotten many improvement updates, not to mention the advent of affordable SSDs that breathe new life into computers regardless of age. I still have my dv9000, it runs Windows 10 LTSB. This makes me want to install Vista on it again with that kernel update! I wish Windows 10 was as pretty as Vista, I always loved so much the color customization and glassiness of Vista.
I remember booting up my aunts fresh new computer with Vista back when I still used XP. I very much liked the sleek design, new icons, very classy and inviting. Imo even Windows 7 which was better in every regard didnt match the quality look and feel of Vista, let alone later versions. They should take the Vista design approach, polish it up for 2024 and go for it.
I remember my college had windows xp computers and vista was so new that my college didn't get vista until 4 plus years later from the date it came out, When vista was released I bought a laptop which has vista home premium on it and I was the only one with vista in my college and the teachers/ students would all hang over around my laptop. Bare in mind it was a cheapo Acer laptop lol
The name of your channel says it all: nostalgic! Thank you for sharing this with us! We are a supremely sentimental family, and so videos like these really are a joy to see! Subscribed! P.S. we will be tuning into to your live streams!
I was honestly surprised at just how useable windows vista still is to this day. On my old Dell laptop (which I never updated the operating software on) I was able to still use Firefox and UA-cam, I was amazed as I was sure that support had dropped and Windows Vista would be too old for it, but it still worked, was slow but worked.
I'm thoroughly enjoying your recent Windows videos! They possess a distinct vintage quality, which I say as a compliment. Being a big fan of vintage computing and delving into old operating systems, I find these longer, leisurely videos to be exceptionally engaging and enjoyable.
Love your recent videos on Windows! Very MJD-esque but I don't mean that as criticism. I'm a huge fan of vintage computing and tinkering around with old operating systems so these longer, relaxed videos are great for watching before going to bed. Keep it up! You earned my sub!
Nostalgic9080- To answer the question you posed in the title of your video, here's my answer: "You'd think...". In fairness, I always loved Windows Vista & never had a problem with it.
Hahah those profile pictures bought back memories! Used to have an account on my nan's PC when I was a kid - of course, I installed a load of junk and spent most my time playing Bloons TD 3 - but they're happy memories.
Everything about this video is bringing back so many great memories, windows vista really was an amazing operating system, it was just never given a chance to improve, and when it did nobody bought it, seriously what is so special about an Imac or a mac book, even a Chromebook is better than that garbage. I really don't see the excitement about a mac, they can't handle something as simple as homework. Windows vista really was good, new tech is never gonna run smooth and perfect on its first few days of launch, take the Nintendo switch and PS4 for example, playing Zelda would cause the console to crash and the ps4 had overheating issues, windows vista was slow and buggy and sometimes blue screened. The only difference was that the Nintendo switch and PS4 were given a chance to improve. Im sure if windows vista was given a chance it would have lasted way longer, probably up to windows 7 end of support. You just to give new tech a chance, don't expect things launch very early and run a perfect as perfect can possibly be, brand new phones and laptops and operating system and consoles ate always going to malfunction on its first few days of launch, just a few minutes of updates and part replacements and its ready to go.
There is feature everyone don't talk about: when you maximize window, every transparent element(taskbar, sidebar, etc.) becomes non-transparent. Learned about that feautre on pdc 2003(where longhorn concept was shown, and fans made longhorn evolution remix theme on that), and it works ONLY on vista. I tried to find similar thing to 7, because there is custom made dreamscene for 7, but I failed(btw, default animated backround video was amazing). Also, because you have ultimate, if you update your update center, you can download features only for ultimate edition. Tinker game is one of them. And, you can launch games from media center, and it looks even cooler
Nese Vista is the same version for Windows Vista. But nowadays Nese Vista requires only 64-bit (similar Nese 7 is required only 64-bit when Nese 7 is based on Windows 7). Before Nese Vista 64-bit required, August 13, 2023, Nese Vista had the first 32-bit released
17:54 - The DWM crashes because it have a memory leak problem on VMware 16+. This problem can be solved by setting the VM hardware compatibility to 15.x.
7:27 You can still use gadgets in windows 10 and 11. I am actually running the windows gadgets on windows 10 that I pulled from a vista install. You first though have to install the 8gadgetpack which adds back all the functionality for gadgets that was removed. This also makes it possible to run the original gadgets application from vista or 7 whichever you prefer instead of the one 8gadgetpack includes. I personally prefer the Windows Vista one and have even modified some of the gadgets source code to make them better (Every single gadgets comes with their source code) If you are wondering whether safety is a concern, no not really. The only reason Microsoft removed them is because people kept ignoring the security message when installing which basically gives administrator access to it if you click install. So as long as you check the source code that comes with every gadget or you know where you are getting it from is a trusted source, you will have no issues whatsoever.
Windows Vista was my childhood operating system. I remember back in the day playing a bunch of games on an old HP laptop that had Vista :D Vista truly is beautiful and was a very good operating system back in the day.
I grew up with Windows Vista, even though my first OS ever used was Windows 7, when I got my first ever PC it had Windows Vista and only used that, one of my favourite Windows versions OAT
Awesome video you really brought back some great memories about Vista when i was kid until i was 16 years old, I had 3 computers with Vista on them one was an Core I7 Toshiba Laptop that originally had 7 Home Premium but the stock 320gb drive died so i put a 500gb WD in it with a fresh copy of Vista Ultimate SP-2 64-Bit and i had 2 Acer desktops with Vista Home Premium on them. I also used my mom's Acer and a Compaq laptop as well they both had Vista originally.
If you go to the display settings in the general vmware settings window, you can set it to fill the screen when the resolution is smaller than the host instead of scaling it like it is for you
I never used Vista, only XP from an old laptop and then win7, but WOW Vista looks really cool. If there were still updates, maybe then it would be my daily driver instead of win11 :D
I have vista on my sager m570tu from 2008, when I fire it up I am still amazed by its beauty, not to mention it’s really fast. Overclocked core 2 quad, overclocked 9800m gpu, 8gb ram. Yep it was perfect for its time
I remember that in 2010 I installed Windows Vista on my dualcore 2.0ghz laptop. It ran a little hard and I kept it for 1 week, after which I replaced it with Windows 7, which is doing a little better. I really liked the look of Windows Vista. I'll install today on an old i5-3470 desktop to see how it goes.
I'm more of a Vista Home Basic person because I spent most of my teenage years using it, and it just worked for me. But I respect your opinion on Windows Vista.
I never understood the hatred towards Vista. It is my favorite OS. I bought a computer that was designed for Vista and never had any crashing. It is the most beautiful OS made.
6:23 That's a place in Washington (PNW state, not the US capital). Microsoft made the right call to found their company up in Washington, they're blessed with some nice pieces of nature.
The first OS I ever used was Vista. Back then I was a 6 year old kid who only really liked to play pre-installed games and watch UA-cam, and it was pretty much ok for the most part, it was weird when years later I found out Vista was universally hated.
it's wild to me that Windows Vista has been long out of support.. it still feels like yesterday Vista came out and still look so much better than Windows 8 and later.
Still feels so new and fresh
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
@@Mirra2003-f9s 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.
Vista is the most beautiful Windows ever. You can't change my mind. It might had it's major flows, but I had an eyegasm every time I looked at my desktop.
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.
The biggest problem with Vista was the underpowered computers people tried to run it on at the time. All computers that couldn't run Vista are pretty much unusable today,but the ones that were actually Vista capable are still able to run Windows 10 and still be usefull today. Yeah,non service pack version was not that great but XP wasn't that good without a service pack either. They all needed a service pack or a major update to be in that good state that people remembered them to be
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
Out of many people that I knew I never had problems with Vista without even a service pack. Vista just worked great for me eventually with service packs it got even quicker. The problem was people and manufacturers were cheaping out on hardware and running it on bare minimal if you run software on bare minimal system requirements, you’re going to get abysmal performance if you run it on optimal hardware in this case, it will run a hell of a lot better
You can blame Microsoft for putting out the misleading "Windows Vista Capable" stickers
Vista really was the Pre-Windows 7 in a way, it has a very similar look to Windows 7 but with some of Xp's quirks.
This was the most aesthetically pleasing version of windows in my opinion to this day.
I would prefer to run a Windows Vista skin over Windows 10 or 11 any time.
@@AranimdaWindows 11 looks way better.
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.
Vista and 7 were so pleasing to look at. They were beautiful
Yes, Windows Vista SP1/SP2 is perfect. But it is just as good as Windows 7.
My favourite was Windows XP They should remaster it!
Windows Vista was, still is my favourite Windows version. I never had many problems with it (less than with Windows 10) and it was beautiful, with Aero.
I still miss these Aero/Glass theme set (icons, sound etc) for Windows.
The GUI was awesome. I want aero/glass back
The glossy glass UI on the title bars and windows is just so nostalgic. I really liked Vista tbh.
Windows Vista was the most visual appealing Windows ever imo.
I remember it clearly. I remember the Longhorn builds that became Vista.
It was never really complete. But some how I actually miss it, because the GUI looked so awesome.
I wish that the GUI could be reinstated to W10 and W11.
there is a extened kernel for windows vista. allows you to run windows 10 and 11 apps.
I absolutely loved Vista, the GUI designers at MS really did their best, it's such an eyecandy! Although I only used it on my dorm roommate's computer, and it constantly crashed explorer.exe, but that was later patched, otherwise worked fine.
My home computer didn't meet the minimal requirements, so there was the point when I got bored of XP, couldn't install Vista, so I've started to experiment with Linux, around 2008, which I became a fan of. So even though I loved Vista, it was the version that got me off of Windows as my main OS, quite ironic.
I'd love to install it on an actual hardware and just have a nostalgy blast with it. My 10 year old Thinkpad might be good for this. If you install a secure browser with adblock and popup block, and some antivirus, and avoid risky websites, it shouldn't be that bad security-wise, as even hackers won't expect their victims to still use this antique version... it's probably too outdated even for modern exploits.
My mom’s computer runs Vista. Just keeps chugging along since 2007-2008!
0:00 that sound still brings me instant peace. Back in 08: when my school hours were over, and I could finally get back online or enjoy the rest of the day playing video games. I switched on my PC, and that blissful sound would mark the actual beginning of my day. sigh. Take me back.
Windows Vista and the Aero theme was peak windows. I really miss the 00's Windows
SP1 and SP2 fixed most RTM problems
Windows Vista is a mixture of XP and 7 both of them mixed and combined together.
I still miss Vista i remember installing it on my old AMD Athlon 64 4800+ with 3GB of RAM and 80 GB HDD it brings so much nostalgia and memories for me it was a amazing OS for sure
Vista is still one of my most favourite versions of Windows. Had so much bad press and comments from people who probably never even used it, just wanted to get in on the hate and only listen to what the media told them. I had a fairly decent PC with 2GB RAM at the time of its release and I had zero issues with Vista from the off, it ran flawlessly and the visual elements of it were so smooth and fluid. SP2 made it even more rock solid.
Yes, Windows Vista SP1/SP2 is perfect. But it is just as good as Windows 7
that task bar is so sexy
No you are sexy
im not sure many people know this but when fallout 4 and even skyrim se first came out they actually supported vista... it was only later patches that removed that compatibility
I reinstalled vista on an SSD a few months before MS ended support for their OS. Worked flawlessly and didn't feel slow at all. I think it was released a bit ahead of its time.
Big difference in speed compared to the old spin disks.
How’d you get it to run on an SSD. I was under the assumption it was impossible after trying to install it on a modern laptop due to no drivers being made for it. Someone had done it but by editing the ISO with windows 7 drivers somehow.
@@drmy7963 Maybe because it was an internal 2.5 in regular SATA SSD. No drivers required other than standard SATA controller.
Windows Vista was really amazing and great for its time. The problem was that users on earlier version of Windows like XP, their hardware were not really enough to handle it cause of the massive overhaul in visuals and graphics.
I grew up on windows vista on my home computer and it’s so nostalgic, I love the frutiger aero aesthetic so much, it’s so nostalgic to a recent past where we thought the future would be all bubbly colorful and watery lol
I was a broadband cable modem service tech when Vista came out. My services calls sky rocketed for connectivity issues. There were many that I could not resolve.
Vista was AWESOME! I grew up on XP, and I remember being a kid and seeing Vista. Then when windows 7 came out, that took over the world of PC's. Windows 7 is still to this day one of the best versions of windows ever.
Windows Vista was my teenage OS I used all the time. I use XP when I was a kid but Vista is where I experience so much of my life. Vista will always have a soft place in my heart ❤️
Mister Nostalgic, this is Doctor Marino, a relatively new subscriber to your channel (I subscribed ten days ago, on 18 January), commenting today on your latest project: the Windows Vista video. I am chuffed to see that you got the Windows Vista video out (finally!), and with bloody smashing flying colours. Top lad! Jolly good!
Having been watching your Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga (and Lego Batman) live streams daily during this past week, which for me has been a source of great nostalgic satisfaction, I recognise hard work when I see it; you have been working hard to get this video out, and here it is-lovely!
Your channel has quickly become one of my favourites! I am enjoying it immensely! Good stuff indeed! Looking forward to many more live streams and future content!
Grazie, 👍
Giovanni Marino, M.D.🇬🇧🇮🇹
Damn I was obsessed with Vistas UI and aero design back then and probably spent more than hundreds of hours downloading vista themes and aero designs to make my Windows XP look like Vista...
Same!
My first Windows as a kid. Windows Movie Maker is purely nostalgic to me.. I used to edit lots of stuff with it, so these stock images and transitions are marked in my memory.
Vista was a huge vibe. My friend from school had a crazy powerful laptop with vista on it back in the day, while i was on the barely functional family computer.
So in my 13 year old head, Vista was basically top of the line software since I would always associate it with beautiful colors and the games we used to play together on his machine. Good times.
I absolutely love Vista. Yesterday on my i9-9900k system I spent 8 hours trying to get Vista to install (it didn’t), and I personally make way more Vista VMs than Windows 7 VMs. In this video
Great video, I miss Vista and those days. Everything was so much simpler and better back then.
PurblePlace is pure nostalgia for me as is the chess and the entire Aero theme, it's beautiful
Vista genuinely never bothered me. I never had same hatred for it as for Windows 8 for example.
8.1 was fine, but RTM Win8 was meh even tho it had tons of improvements to vista/7 but they removed the start button man.. the start menu is fine for tablets but not for desktops.
I beta tested and later used Vista as my daily driver. Loved it. The majority of people who had issues, the root cause boiled down to either forcing XP drivers for devices or using a system that wasn't powerful enough to run it efficiently. Having a current machine with supported drivers on Vista was an absolutely great experience. Stable, fast and compatible with most applications. Same hoenstly goes for Millennium which I also beta-tested back in the day. Don't listen to the echo chamber of haters -- most of those people have never even used it haha
As someone sitting here using the i7-3770s, Sir, I have to commend you on keeping 3rd gen Intel CPUs alive! Warms my heart to see folks still getting great bang for their buck outta these aging systems. Again, kudos to you!
my dad had a PC at his house running Vista back in the day while our PC at home still ran XP for a while. as a kid it was always so weird using his PC at his house because like i could tell that it was different and much more modern looking than my XP one at home but i never really knew why until i was a bit older
currently watching your video on my quad core 2.4ghz 4gb windows vista 32bit machine (dell XPS 420) from 2009
What internet browser do you use? I'm plainning to reinstall vista on my old HP Pavillion DV5 that was designed to be used with windows media center (ir remote controle on the laptop). thx :)
I forgot how much I missed that startup sound, think I will change windows 11 to that sound ! Vista was so sleek looking, its crazy. It had some cool features like the widgets and the windows experience index performance test. Awesome video, need to go check your XP one.
Glad you liked it!
When Vista first came out, it overheated my GPU so I had to go back to XP then upgraded to 7.
Years later when it was near the end of support, I wanted to give it a go and it ran like a dream. One of the coolest looking OS mixing fanciness with a bit of retro to it.
I regret not keeping up with the updates and being able to enjoy using it in it's time.
That means you triggered vista
Vista Ultimate x64 was used for my first self build computer, having 8gb on a x64 OS was so good and Photoshop could finally access all the RAM instead of the 3.4gb limit on 32bit systems. It's unfortunate the MS marketing team and 3rd party computer companies messed up with under spec'ed systems as Vista was so cool. I remember having the video water drop desktop ....they don't do things like that anymore, which is a shame because most computers are over-powered and can more than handle those kind of things.
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.
@@leylandlynxvlog 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
Windows Vista is so gorgeous!! I started with Windows 98 SE, and also used XP, but Vista/7 have my favorite aesthetic! Though I love the others too. Vista ran terrible on my HP Pavilion dv9000 back in the day, but Vista has long since gotten many improvement updates, not to mention the advent of affordable SSDs that breathe new life into computers regardless of age. I still have my dv9000, it runs Windows 10 LTSB. This makes me want to install Vista on it again with that kernel update! I wish Windows 10 was as pretty as Vista, I always loved so much the color customization and glassiness of Vista.
I remember booting up my aunts fresh new computer with Vista back when I still used XP.
I very much liked the sleek design, new icons, very classy and inviting.
Imo even Windows 7 which was better in every regard didnt match the quality look and feel of Vista, let alone later versions.
They should take the Vista design approach, polish it up for 2024 and go for it.
Windows Vista was the best looking OS and still is to this day
I feel so old, I remember when Vista was new, it only feels like a few years ago.
I remember my college had windows xp computers and vista was so new that my college didn't get vista until 4 plus years later from the date it came out, When vista was released I bought a laptop which has vista home premium on it and I was the only one with vista in my college and the teachers/ students would all hang over around my laptop. Bare in mind it was a cheapo Acer laptop lol
Windows Vista was the very first OS I’ve used when I was a boy. It was also the first one I’ve seen with User Account Control.
The name of your channel says it all: nostalgic! Thank you for sharing this with us! We are a supremely sentimental family, and so videos like these really are a joy to see! Subscribed!
P.S. we will be tuning into to your live streams!
Windows Vista is absolutely Awesome never have any problem with this system today almost 2025
R to 7 on the buyer if the RAM is 2 GB effective it will be good
I was honestly surprised at just how useable windows vista still is to this day. On my old Dell laptop (which I never updated the operating software on) I was able to still use Firefox and UA-cam, I was amazed as I was sure that support had dropped and Windows Vista would be too old for it, but it still worked, was slow but worked.
I loved Vista when i was younger, so many memories
amazing work as always. i have earned my living on vmware workstation for decades love seeing you push it to the limits.
I’m using it as of now on my old macbook pro 2008, quite solid i’d say, CAD, office etc still running great
I'm thoroughly enjoying your recent Windows videos! They possess a distinct vintage quality, which I say as a compliment. Being a big fan of vintage computing and delving into old operating systems, I find these longer, leisurely videos to be exceptionally engaging and enjoyable.
Thanks I'm glad your enjoying them I love making these videos.
Love your recent videos on Windows! Very MJD-esque but I don't mean that as criticism. I'm a huge fan of vintage computing and tinkering around with old operating systems so these longer, relaxed videos are great for watching before going to bed. Keep it up! You earned my sub!
Thanks MJD is one of my favorite channels so its defiantly an inspiration
Vista was your first OS? Wow, way to make me feel old. MS-DOS 5.0 over here.
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
Nostalgic9080- To answer the question you posed in the title of your video, here's my answer:
"You'd think...".
In fairness, I always loved Windows Vista & never had a problem with it.
Hahah those profile pictures bought back memories! Used to have an account on my nan's PC when I was a kid - of course, I installed a load of junk and spent most my time playing Bloons TD 3 - but they're happy memories.
My first ever OS was Windows 95. Soooo yeah. Windows XP for me was the "Golden Age" of computing. And I'm on a computer now that has Windows 11.
Vista is by far my favorite version of Windows
Everything about this video is bringing back so many great memories, windows vista really was an amazing operating system, it was just never given a chance to improve, and when it did nobody bought it, seriously what is so special about an Imac or a mac book, even a Chromebook is better than that garbage. I really don't see the excitement about a mac, they can't handle something as simple as homework. Windows vista really was good, new tech is never gonna run smooth and perfect on its first few days of launch, take the Nintendo switch and PS4 for example, playing Zelda would cause the console to crash and the ps4 had overheating issues, windows vista was slow and buggy and sometimes blue screened. The only difference was that the Nintendo switch and PS4 were given a chance to improve. Im sure if windows vista was given a chance it would have lasted way longer, probably up to windows 7 end of support. You just to give new tech a chance, don't expect things launch very early and run a perfect as perfect can possibly be, brand new phones and laptops and operating system and consoles ate always going to malfunction on its first few days of launch, just a few minutes of updates and part replacements and its ready to go.
i loved vista back in the days.. performance and networking is WAY better than in win XP and its very beautiful
Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been
Can't believe windows 7 is going to be vintage
I'm not particularly nostalgic for Vista and 7, but the look of their desktops are **chef's kiss**
One thing that Microsoft nailed with Vista was the design, love Aero, wish they went back to that design
My personal favorite OS, its truly the best looking OS ever.
I ran Vista all this past weekend on a Core 2 Extreme QX6850 and 2x 8800GTX in SLI for some old games. I keep it around for nostalgia purposes lol
Most beautiful of all versions. I had sufficient pc power to make it work right when released. Loved the Dreamscenes.
I loved windows vista, I’d still use it today if it was still supported
There is feature everyone don't talk about: when you maximize window, every transparent element(taskbar, sidebar, etc.) becomes non-transparent. Learned about that feautre on pdc 2003(where longhorn concept was shown, and fans made longhorn evolution remix theme on that), and it works ONLY on vista. I tried to find similar thing to 7, because there is custom made dreamscene for 7, but I failed(btw, default animated backround video was amazing). Also, because you have ultimate, if you update your update center, you can download features only for ultimate edition. Tinker game is one of them. And, you can launch games from media center, and it looks even cooler
Nese Vista is the same version for Windows Vista. But nowadays Nese Vista requires only 64-bit (similar Nese 7 is required only 64-bit when Nese 7 is based on Windows 7). Before Nese Vista 64-bit required, August 13, 2023, Nese Vista had the first 32-bit released
Yet another example of how the mid 2000s was the peak of design. Cars, houses, software etc all looked great back in this era.
17:54 - The DWM crashes because it have a memory leak problem on VMware 16+. This problem can be solved by setting the VM hardware compatibility to 15.x.
Poop
7:27 You can still use gadgets in windows 10 and 11. I am actually running the windows gadgets on windows 10 that I pulled from a vista install. You first though have to install the 8gadgetpack which adds back all the functionality for gadgets that was removed. This also makes it possible to run the original gadgets application from vista or 7 whichever you prefer instead of the one 8gadgetpack includes. I personally prefer the Windows Vista one and have even modified some of the gadgets source code to make them better (Every single gadgets comes with their source code)
If you are wondering whether safety is a concern, no not really. The only reason Microsoft removed them is because people kept ignoring the security message when installing which basically gives administrator access to it if you click install. So as long as you check the source code that comes with every gadget or you know where you are getting it from is a trusted source, you will have no issues whatsoever.
I loved it right away due to its capability of installing basic drivers like video card driver, audio driver and sometimes wifi and network.
Windows Vista was my childhood operating system. I remember back in the day playing a bunch of games on an old HP laptop that had Vista :D Vista truly is beautiful and was a very good operating system back in the day.
I grew up with Windows Vista, even though my first OS ever used was Windows 7, when I got my first ever PC it had Windows Vista and only used that, one of my favourite Windows versions OAT
I was always so jealous about my cousin PC having Vista, so much so i visited them often just to play game on it.
Purble Place was my favourite Windows game as a kid and I'm surprised a lot of people don't remember or know about it.
Vista was peak design. I love it so much
This is so old school brings back so many memories
Windows 10 and 11 look so bland and boring when compared to XP, Vista and 7.
What about windows 8.1/8
@@treasurechestgame 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
hubby is still rockin his 3570k! it still holds up! My xeon e5 2690 holds up very well too and they both from that era!
Awesome video you really brought back some great memories about Vista when i was kid until i was 16 years old, I had 3 computers with Vista on them one was an Core I7 Toshiba Laptop that originally had 7 Home Premium but the stock 320gb drive died so i put a 500gb WD in it with a fresh copy of Vista Ultimate SP-2 64-Bit and i had 2 Acer desktops with Vista Home Premium on them. I also used my mom's Acer and a Compaq laptop as well they both had Vista originally.
No one cares but I do
The vista design is just eye candy
If you go to the display settings in the general vmware settings window, you can set it to fill the screen when the resolution is smaller than the host instead of scaling it like it is for you
I never used Vista, only XP from an old laptop and then win7, but WOW Vista looks really cool. If there were still updates, maybe then it would be my daily driver instead of win11 :D
I have vista on my sager m570tu from 2008, when I fire it up I am still amazed by its beauty, not to mention it’s really fast. Overclocked core 2 quad, overclocked 9800m gpu, 8gb ram. Yep it was perfect for its time
i use windows 7 for compatibility reasons, but vista is still my favorite OS, it's just so pretty and clean. i love it.
Loved Vista till this day. Love this OS.
My first gaming PC had Vista on it. For that time period it felt so advanced.
I remember that in 2010 I installed Windows Vista on my dualcore 2.0ghz laptop. It ran a little hard and I kept it for 1 week, after which I replaced it with Windows 7, which is doing a little better.
I really liked the look of Windows Vista.
I'll install today on an old i5-3470 desktop to see how it goes.
7 is better than it in everything, even the design is beautiful
I'm more of a Vista Home Basic person because I spent most of my teenage years using it, and it just worked for me. But I respect your opinion on Windows Vista.
vista was my favourite os ever, never had any problems with it, I enjoyed my time with it very much
Man, hearing you say Vista is 17 years old hit me hard. This was the OS on my first laptop I ever owned.
How old are you? I'm 31 and my first OS was Windows 98
@@sali-ali 28. My first OS was windows 95 on the family computer, vista was the first on my personal computer
Vista is as usable as 11 due to the Supermium Web browser ( latest version of chrome for XP and Vista )
I never understood the hatred towards Vista. It is my favorite OS. I bought a computer that was designed for Vista and never had any crashing. It is the most beautiful OS made.
6:23 That's a place in Washington (PNW state, not the US capital). Microsoft made the right call to found their company up in Washington, they're blessed with some nice pieces of nature.
I had Vista Business (as a home user)… I appreciated being asked for permission for every single thing
The first OS I ever used was Vista. Back then I was a 6 year old kid who only really liked to play pre-installed games and watch UA-cam, and it was pretty much ok for the most part, it was weird when years later I found out Vista was universally hated.
i remember i upgraded to vista. on my desktop. I uninstalled vista after 1 day