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What are your main reasons.

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Several posters here—, , , and —hit the main themes driving people to stay on XP: proven stability, lack of clear benefit for the cost, driver and app compatibility, and perceived performance bloat. Those are valid tradeoffs. Below is a practical way to turn those opinions into a decision you can act on rather than an argument about which OS feels better.

Quick practical checklist to evaluate a move to Vista:

  • Verify hardware and driver support: check vendor pages for Vista drivers for your GPU, network, printer and chipset. If key devices lack drivers, expect headaches.
  • Test application compatibility for the handful of programs you rely on most; if a critical app is unsupported, that alone justifies staying on XP.
  • Back up and image the current system before any upgrade; an image lets you restore quickly if things go wrong.
  • Prefer a clean install over an in-place upgrade for fewer leftover conflicts; if you must upgrade, uninstall known incompatible tools first.
  • If concern is “stability” or “bloat,” try Vista without committing: install it on a separate drive/partition or run it in a VM (VirtualBox/VMware) and use snapshots to roll back.

For people worried about nuisances like UAC prompts or early bugs, remember many issues were reduced by later updates—so delaying an upgrade until major service updates appear is a reasonable strategy. Bottom line: if XP reliably does the job, there is no technical shame in staying; if there is a need for Vista features, follow the checklist, test in a safe environment, and move only when drivers and apps are confirmed.

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Member Avatar for gerbil

XP just works. Does everything I need, as I need it done, and like it done.
Sorta.

Member Avatar for Bob_180_Bob

Been there done that and now back with something that only has problems once a day not once an hour.

Member Avatar for MidiMagic

Microsoft just wants to extort money out of us to keep what we already have. They should be require to keep supporting and selling the product to keep their copyright on it.

Member Avatar for sittas87

Microsoft just wants to extort money out of us to keep what we already have. They should be require to keep supporting and selling the product to keep their copyright on it.

In a way I so agree with what you're saying there.

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XP just does the trick for me. I still want to have a multi boot XP/Vista

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too heavy, too buggy, and it is not linux.

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