I have heard a lot about vista and its bugs, but did want to try out the 64 bit version on my new computer. So I downloaded a torrent with a crack and an activator. Yes, those cracks worked perfectly well, and just like Microsoft is always, the activation area of their code had bugs too, and the hackers were able to crack it, and though I didn’t take any pleasure in installing a pirated version of Vista on my machine, as it erased all my previous installation of gOS on which I had stored all my passwords and stuff, I was still happy that I could install a cracked vista on my desktop.
Let me list out the bugs.
1. I downloaded the torrent and wrote it onto a dvd, and booted the computer with the dvd. The first bug said that the checksum didn’t match. Uh oh, did I waste a DVD then? I just hit the restart button and it booted again perfectly. The earlier message was a bug.
2. Before I booted vista, I had made an NTFS partition with gparted, a partition manager software for linux, and chose the options carefully that vista be installed on that specific partition containing about 40 GB of space. Vista erased the whole hard drive and erased everything on the other partition. I don’t know how it could do that.
3. Installation completed, and on the first boot came the blue screen of death. Rebooted, and the desktop didnt load properly. Installed the drivers, and midway it gave the blue screen of death again.
4. Somehow managed to set everyhting in order and installed the windows driver for reiserfs, the linux file system that I use for all my other drives. There is 1 small entry in the registry that you need to make which defines \\Devices\Hardisk1\Partition1 to x:. Fixed that and rebooted to find that the registry had completely failed.
5. Somehow fixed that and set up the drives on read only mode, and tried to install office 2007(pirated ofcourse), and the memory usage was about 3 GB. I do have around 16 GB in my drive, but still, 3 GH of memory taken by the base operating system is a bit too high.
6. Restarted, and found that the boot time was about 7 mins. Office is the only software that is installed. Installed firefox, and the browser crashed every 2 mins. Was there a virus? Installed norton immediately, the one that came free with the motherboard, Norton did something to the bootsector, and windows never booted again.
So I just installed ubuntu 64 bit and installed vista again on vmware, and in vmware too it seems to show the same sort of troubles.
Maybe thats why the 64 bit vista isn’t that popular. Why dont everyone just start using linux for a change? Everything is free you know. And you dont have to spend time looking for hacks and cracks everywhere, and you dont have to risk a virus atack either.