For the past couple of months I have been running Windows Vista on a dual-boot setup. Recently, I have had much more Vista related work so I found myself booting into Vista more and more every day. I originally removed Vista from my main PC because the printer would not work, Photoshop just wouldn’t cooperate, and a few other problems that I just could not work with.

Now after a few months the problems I originally had are pretty much gone. Dell updated their printer drivers, so now I have a working printer. For whatever strange reason Photoshop CS2 is working fine, and all my other applications installed and worked without much trouble.

So now it’s been about two weeks running Vista full-time on my main PC. I still have another computer running XP on my desktop, and I use Multiplicity to control both PC’s with just one keyboard/mouse. I have completed all my projects with any issues, and the performance of my applications on Vista seem much better than on XP. I added another 1gb of RAM (bringing it up to 2gb), and that made a big difference in terms of performance.

So overall I am quite happy that I made the switch over to Vista full-time. The first two weeks have been productive and error-free, so let’s see what the rest of the month brings.

Tags: vista, xp, microsoft, stardock