Since I ran the comparisons on the service pack updates for Windows Vista and Windows XP I thought it might be interesting to combine those results into one brief article comparing the two and see how they stand up against each other. I had a few comments and emails about comparing them so I thought why not, and besides I was curious myself...

I'm using Vista presently as my main OS because it just seems quicker and snappier than XP does, but there are a few things that I'm still not happy with about Vista.

However, there are two main things I hate about Vista, the first is the new picture viewer, gone is Windows Picture and Fax Viewer which I really liked. I've read that I can get it back if I install Office 2003, but I've got 2007 installed and really don't want to downgrade, honestly I don't even use it I use Open Office for everything office related but it's nice to have the functionality of Microsoft Office if I need it. The main problem I have with Windows Photo Gallery is the fact that each time I click on a picture it opens a new instance or window of it, doing reviews I take and look at hundreds of pictures and go through and delete those not needed or wanted. With Picture and Fax Viewer it opened in the same window for each picture I clicked and I truly liked that about it, but now I end up with numerous windows open and after a while the system actually slows down because of it. If anyone knows a fix for this please let me know it would be greatly appreciated.

The second complaint is renaming files, in XP I can sort through my pictures, re-arrange them in the order I want, select them all and hit rename, XP renames them sequentially for me the way I want them. When I do the same thing in Vista for whatever reason it decides to rearrange them as well, and it's in no logical order from what I can see, it will move the last picture to the number one space and move a few others around as well. I can't figure out what it's doing or why it's doing it, again here if anyone knows a fix for this please let me know...

Other than that I'm happy with Vista, so let's just continue on to the comparison of the two in terms of performance in benchmarks and tests...

Vista SP1 vs XP SP3 Comparison

Author: Kristofer Brozio