What A Refreshing Difference!!!

[Modern Day Myth Prod. LLC]

I had to fill a book order for Barnes & Noble this week. And, it was my first order from them in three years. So, checking my desktop computer, I discovered I didn't transfer their customer information and packing slip template from an older desktop computer. The older desktop computer has not been used in month and setup to be Internet free, running Windows 95 and 98 with System Commander and it is a Pentium III with an Intel 450MHz processor.

That darn computer fired up fast and launches programs faster than my bloody Dual Core computer running Windows Vista and on the Internet.

The Pentium III only has maybe 20 processes running and no background programs running. It doesn't look for updatte and is ready to work. It even played my latest DVD of IC2 RC without pauses on its 17" NEC CRT monitor and 5 speaker sound system.

The Dual Core is bogged down with updates and several background programs running at the same time such as Registry Mechanic, Spy Hunter, MacFee, Spybot Search & Destroy, and Adobe Flash. So, program launching takes more time before it starts up and videos can occassionally stick with too much stuff running at the same time.

I turn on a computer to run an application program, such as Sony Vegas Pro. I do not turn on a computer to dowmload 48 updates and to ask me to restart the computer in the middle of something important, such as putting together a new scene in a production.

Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, McFee, Norton, and others need to make software that requires WAY less updates.

 

[JoshL]

Autoupdates are great for people who don't pay attention to their computer. Ditto always running resident programs (anti-virus, spyware protection, etc). That said, if you take care of things yourself (do a monthly update on everything, use a runtime virus/malware sweep, don't run software you aren't sure of, etc) all that crap, like you say, just eats up resources.

Hell, windows itself is a notorious resource hog. All those fancy animations and hi-res icons all over the place...why do we need them? My Win7 box probably looks pretty similar to your 98 machine, other than a few programs pinned to the taskbar (which I'm still not sure if I like that or not). That said, there are a lot of tweaks and optimizations you can do...there might even be some Vegas-specific tweaks. I'd check their forums, if you have time. At the very least, it can't hurt!

Again, I do see the point of most of that stuff. It's for 90% of users...the content consumers, not the creators. We need every bit of muscle we can get!

 

[Modern Day Myth Prod. LLC]

All of the software just devoted to have a computer on the Internet gets worse as a resource hog with every new version.

My computer does weekly virus, adware, and memory registory scans. I recently turned off the Windows auto updates. Adobe, Oracle, McFee, and other vendors software are just as relentless with their constant daily updates.