Internet / Vista Question

[UNCLEagent]

I used to have Win XP on my system and got very comfortable using it. It never crashed on me, the system ran fast and browsing was a cinch.

Then my PC blew up.

I bought a new one. It has a thing called Vista. I tried - but none of the systems out there come with XP. Every sales person told me that Vista was vastly superior to clunky old XP. My experiences prove otherwise.

Booting up, and switching between user accounts takes minutes. Whereas 1GIG of RAM allowed XP to hum - 1 GIG with Vista is barely adequate. My 60 GIG hardrive is already at 50% capacity before I loaded my first piece of software or file.

Already - I hate Vista.

But now this - and my question:

Nearly every piece of writing or narrative online is marked up with excessive green links. Rolling over will lead you to an advertisement. Banners are one thing. Pop ups are another. This new matter of random linking is friggin annoying as hell. Is this a result of Vista? Is there a setting to turn it off? Or is this on the part of the website scripting and programming?

[Jakester]

Try switching ti Firefox for internet browsing. You still get the green links (Livetext) as in "programming" in your post, which shows an ad for ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" of all things.

Vista is prettier than XP, for sure, and I find myself using it more than XP now, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's "vastly superior." It took me some time to get used to it, too.

Yes, 1gig of RAM is about the minimum you should run with Vista. 2 is much better, and it is large, yes. If you still have the XP CD from your old computer, you can reformat your drive and install XP instead of Vista.

[UNCLEagent]

Thanks Jake - I'm hesitant to mess with drivers and what not by over-writing Vista with XP.... I may just go for the 2gig upgrade and see.

[Bark]

Well, I'm on Windows 2000 and XP. I get the green ad links on both.

[Mouse]

Well, I'm on Windows 2000 and XP. I get the green ad links on both.

I've used Safari and Firefox on Mac OS X and I get the green words on both. But only on this website and joblo.com. I think...they might get paid to have them! :eek:

[UNCLEagent]

Then maybe it's a timing thing, because I never used to have them appear until after I got Vista.

Annoying as hell...

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