What softwares you have installed on your primary OS ? How many partitions ? Good question. huh ? I knew it I have many but i will say after 3 - 5 replys I will only that i have 8 partitions And that's not enough for me
i got 6 harddrives, and a total of 6 partitions(i really hate making more then one partition per drive) one of them is a 80GB S-ATAII harddrive for OS, average software: office, ccleaner, klite codecpack, magiciso,O7O defrag, Winrar, PSP Iso (De)Compressor, Wii Backupmanger, ps3 media center, photoshop CS5 my other 5 drives are for: Games Media and downloads Movies,series and music DATA Wii Backups PS3 and PSP Game Backups total drive space available 6.80 TB (one 2TB, four 1TB and one 80GB for boot)
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 x64 ---------------------------------- -- Applications -- 7-Zip Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended Camtasia Studio CCleaner ESET Smart Security Fraps HashCheck Shell Extension ImgBurn Java Runtime Environment K-Lite Mega CodecPack Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 Mozilla Firefox Notepad ++ Paint.NET Restorator 2007 TuneUp Utlities 2011 UltraISO Premium Windows Ultimater Windows AIK WinRAR -- Games -- Halo 1 Halo 2 Hitman 2 Silent Assassin Hitman 4 Blood Money Iron Man Splinter Cell Choas Theory Return To Mysterious Island Spider-Man - Web Of Shadow ========================= Partitions are totaly 8 1st for Vista x64, 2nd for my working but i labed that partition as documents, 3rd for programs, 4th for downloads, 5th for uploads, 6th for advance tools like vb.net etc, 7th for recovery and last but not the least 8th for testing os.
I was going to post a screenshot of add/remove but realized I have too many. I have 110 programs. Some are small things like office compatibility pack, divx codec etc... but yeah, 110 items in there. I unchecked so it does not show updates. I have lot of programs I don't use often, but I do use them. Whenever I do a clean install I usually just start installing on a as needed basis. I have one partition, but I have a bunch of network drives. I don't really keep much on my PC, everything is on the server.
I am a very big Vista fan! I think i was the 1st person in India to buy Vista at the time of release. And i am using vista since that day. I didn't format my system even once And is there SP3 ? If so i didn't find it till now may be you are on technet like site or something where you get things before they come to bet, isn't ?
OK. But I think its better for you to upgrade to Windows 7. There is no SP3 for Vista yet. I just checked on Technet.
Laptop: 1 HDD 160GB, 3 partitions. 15GB for Windows 7, 2GB for temp files and caches, the rest for games, audio/video, misc storage. Flash 11 plugin, BatteryBar, Foxit Reader, GIMP, ImgBurn, IsoBuster, Java, Malwarebytes (free), Macrium Reflect v4.2 (paid), Microsoft MSE, VC++2005/2008/2010 runtimes, Firefox 8.0, nVidia video and HDMI audio drivers, Synaptics touchpad driver, Total Uninstall, Unlocker, VSuite RamDisk (paid, uses my 1GB of invisible RAM for the pagefile.sys since I have 4GB but 32-bit Windows), WinAmp, WinRAR, CCleaner, Defraggler, Skype, TrueCrypt (my system is fully encrypted), VLC media player, uTorrent and winLAME (for encoding to MP3/FLAC/OGG). Desktop: 1 OCZ SSD 60GB, 2 partitions: 24GB Windows 7, 30GB cache/temp/misc storage - 1 Samsung 320GB HDD, 1 partition, misc. storage/audio/video/torrents/games/backups. Similar programs as above, plus/minus a few I can't think of atm
A survey? Whatever……I have 4 partitions as people usually do in desktop. One with Windows XP for some huge software,one with Windows 7 for usual life,one for personal files,one for backup.
I want to upgrade but my sytem is pretty old AMD Sempron 140 Processor @ 2.70 GHz Single Core (Errr its to old) NVIDIA Geforce 9400 GT [1GB] 250 + 360 SATA II Gigabyte M61PME-S2p Rev1.0 And all over my 1 of the best consern is old crappy 15-inch CRT Mointer. You want me to upgrade you donate me (Just kidding !)