Vista Sucks, But...

Keith Gable — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:12:00 -0600

…does Windows Server 2008? I’m currently trying it out, and after killing services that should not be on, I got to 900MB of RAM usage while idle. Noticing “TrustedInstaller.exe” was using ~200MB of RAM, I did some Googling and found out that it’s to do with UAC. So I turned that off - now I’m running at around 625MB of RAM, and at times it dips to 580MB. That’s better; my Windows XP x64 install ran at about 400MB, and those higher resolution images have to be loaded in memory somewhere…

So am I liking it so far? For the most part. Left 4 Dead seems to run a lot better, but this could be due to defragmenting my games partition. I’ll post updates as I use it more. And if you want to know what it looks like, it looks exactly like Windows 2000. I like it like that.

Oh, and two control panel items in Vista/2008 that should not be gone can be brought back to life - Display Settings and Network Connections. Here’s the .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\don't load]
"ncpa.cpl"=-
"desk.cpl"=-

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Vista Sucks, But...