Post your reliability index (Vista only)

Hey everyone,

I believe it will be interesting to know each other's reliability index. Of course, this rating does not always accurately reflect the overall well-being of the system. You can find the your reliability index in "Reliability and Performance Monitor".
Anyway, please share
1. your reliability rating
2. time elapsed since your last clean Windows install (or how long you've been using your system if never done a clean windows install).
3. 32 bit or 64 bit. Premium? Business? Ultimate? And so on.
4. whether you feel that it accurately reflects your system performance/reliability. Is system really as sluggish as the ratings indicate? Do you experience frequent system crashes? How would YOU rate your system? (out of 10)
5. Anything you would like to add.


I'll start
1. 9.17
2. 2 days
3. Vista Ultimate 64-bit
4. So far so good. Need more time to judge. I'll probably give my system a "9".
5. Before my recent clean install my system got ratings of 4. sigh... However, the low rating is mostly caused by incompatible 3rd party applications.

 

1. 7.84

2. 27 Days, hoping to do a vlite reinstall soon

3. 32 bit Home Premium

4. I think it is accurate. 9/10

5. Can't wait for Windows Seven! Vista taking up 15GB of hard drive space is too much.

 

8.65
Never
Vista home premium x86
I guess it's pretty good so ill give it an 8.

 

1. 9.31
2. Never. 10 months using Vista with no problems
3. Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit
4. Vista Is the best Windows to date. No system crashes (only a few ones with some old programs, but after switching to the Vista versions, everything is running very good and fast)
5. I love the Tablet PC features and the pen gestures. I bought a Wacom tablet and It activated the tablet PC options on Vista. I can write directly on screen and It recognizes my writing very well.

 

1. 3.27
2. A month or two ago
3. Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit
4. Vista is pretty good, but I think that the rating is highly unaccurate. But I really like my computer.
5. The main reason I have a horrible rating is because I did a lot of stuff with my computer today. Mainly overclocking and undervolting, which led to a lot of crashes. Also, I install and uninstall multiple software daily, which I think led to the rating as well. For example, I installed 4 software today and uninstalled 2.

 

1. 5-6 avg.
2.about 2months.
3, Vista Ultimate x64
4. I think it should be higher as the rating is low due to dodgy software and games installing wrong and uninstalling. i rate 8/10
5. Really good performance and vista running nicely.

 

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who has low ratings but good real-life performance.
Thanks all for sharing!

 

1. 4.6
2. 3 months
3. 32 bit premium
4. I switched back to XP recently just because Vista used too much memory (twice as much as XP). I think that the drivers i used were to blame for the lower score, I was using stock drivers and clocks at the time. No system crashes, but a couple of games didn't run well.
5. Vista is a lot more solid than it's described to be.

 

1. 7.25
2. 45 days
3. Vista Ultimate 32-bit

4. Overall I love my Vista laptop, though probably in large part thanks to the fact that it looks so damn snazzy compared to Windows 2000 . Performance has been very satisfying as well though, memory management and "responsiveness" in particular seems slightly better than on my old Win 2000 desktop (which was a bit more powerful than this laptop).
I've had a few problems landing like a major slap in the face though. I hadn't seen a blue screen of death on Win 2000 for the last five or six years on several computers, and stability was overall exceptional (aside from very rare hard lockups during gaming) - Vista on the other hand has given me six in the last month.
I just found the stop codes in the reliablity monitor logs (thanks a lot , always forgot to get them written down and didn't know where to find them):
(3x) 0x0000008E: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
0x0000009F: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
0x00000010: SPIN_LOCK_NOT_OWNED
0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Four of the six times it has happened during gaming (which is almost half the times I've loaded up a game on this laptop) - both with the official Asus Nvidia driver, 101.something, which I've reverted back to, and a more recent 168.xx.
I do most of my gaming on my XBox 360 these days, so it's not a disaster, but I would be lying if I didn't say that it detracts somewhat from my overall impression of Vista that I'm almost scared to load up a game, pretty much expecting a BSOD (though now that I've found and researched those stop codes it definately doesn't look like a single specific problem).
I've even had a non-game BSOD (well, two actually, but the first one happened just after rebooting from another game related one) - which happened in connection with a video overlay.

5. Overall satisfied as mentioned, at least using Vista for work (web design and light graphics work), web surfing (two Opera windows with a load of sites open for 10+ hours a day), video, music etc. But also rather pissed off about those BSODs.
In fact the last couple of days I've been contemplating trying out Linux (been years since my last time) on my newest desktop PC once I get around to having it repaired (a fried motherboard was what prompted me to try a Vista laptop) .

 

1. 9.82

2. 28 days since clean install.

3. Vista Home premium 32bit

4. Overall rating : 9

5. Some games ran only after changing the compatibility to windows 98

 

7.0
2 months clean install.
Business.
Not really in perfect shape yet,Vista,hope it gets better .

 

wow cool feature didn't know it existed:

1. 9.4

2. 95 days

3. Vista Business 32bit

4. My system runs very well, I really like Vista, it not much of an improvement over XP for me personally, but I like the new media organization and other interface details, networking is easier, and it boots up a lot faster than my XP did, even thought I have more software running in the background, but I guess 2GB of ram helps, I wonder what XP would run like on 2GB

I rate it a 10

5. IMHO people who whine about Vista being crap got either computers that can't handle it (I remember I was whining about XP also when I tried running it on celeron 333 with 64 mb of ram and 1.7gb hard drive, 98 ran so much better on that computer), or they just don't know what the hell they are doing with their computer...

 

A couple days late for me (would've liked to look at this and laugh at how pitiful Vista's reliability was), but I'll post what I can from memory.

On the most recent install, probably about a 9. But I doubt it accounts for graphical artifacts. On the initial install, probably about a 2. Average probably about 5.5 on installs in between there. At least that's what I'd guess based on how often it crashed.

21 days since most recent total Vista reinstall. About 2.5 months since the time before that, 3.5 months since the time before that. Total time with Vista = 5 months.

Causes: 1st time = programs not working correctly. 2nd time = password error locked me out and programs had started not working correctly again anyways. 3rd time = trying to install Windows 98 for higher stability. Didn't quite work because of hardware incompatibilities. But it was bad enough that had it worked, Windows 98 would have been better.

32 bit Home Premium. I could see some problems with the 64-bit version, but this was 32-bit .

In terms of what I expect from Windows XP, I'd rate it a 1. In terms of what I'd expect from any OS (minding Mac OS Classic particularly), a 3. It didn't crash on the Internet, but it was pretty horrible after XP.

Most pressing problems caused by third-party applications from Firaxis (2001, wouldn't work hardly at all sometimes until a Vista reinstall) and Microsoft (2003, major graphic glitches solved by installing XP on the same machine). Both are 32-bit applications. Vista messing up with the password setup and locking me out was also a pretty major problem, though. Also had significant problems with almost every program crashing the first time I installed it on a given Vista install, and some occasionally crashing thereafter.

Overall simply horrible reliability after XP. Other features were a mixed bag - nice calendar from clicking on the time, but always displaying Date Taken and Rating on file details . Even had the other features been stellar, though, I would have scrapped it for the far better reliability and compatibility of XP.

I would "disapprove of this post" for alexkolb's post if that were still an option here - this computer should certainly handle Vista (and indeed the problems weren't with inadequate specs), and I tried far more than I should've to get it to work. A slew of graphics drivers, both all the Windows updates and none, antivirus and none, Service Pack 1 Beta installed before the official release to public, several reinstalls, rescuing my files via a DOS prompt after Vista locked me out, none of it made it work correctly. There are people who are far more knowledgeable about computers than I am, but an operating system is supposed to work for the average consumer without any problems, and the average consumer would not go that far to try to get it to work. And while a good portion of the problems were with third-party applications, they were 32-bit applications that came out after Vista's predecessor and still have good fanbases - certainly ones you'd expect would work, especially the Microsoft one. If Vista works for you, great, but realize that there are significant problems with it, and the people who can't get their applications to work with it at anywhere near an adequate level do have legitimate beef about the OS.

[/rant] Sorry, you phraseology just really rubbed me the wrong way.

 

1. LOL. It got worse.

2. No clean install. less than 30 days on this laptop.

3. 32-bit home premium

4. I haven't notice any difference. Dell does a good job of not installing any bloatware. 9/10.

 

Quite a bit of problems in the beginning due to driver and software experimentations. Better now.

 

1. Attached
2. Day after christmas
3. 32 bit ultimate
4. no

 

After 45 days my reliability monitor is a perfect 10.0 . As with the windows experience index (WEI) the reliability monitor can be controlled if you know how to. I have had several program crashes and 1 BSOD since I installed vista(32bit) but my reliability is still a perfect 10.

 

1. 8.92
2. 2 weeks
3. 32-bit Home Premium
4. Seems about right, although in the past day or two I had a few problems.
5. Was 10.0 up until yesterday, when it dropped because Windows crashed twice. I have yet to figure out what happened.

 

Lol I got to check that out. Thanks for sharing.

 

currently a 9.75, has been steadily going about from 7.64 about 3 weeks ago when updates werent installing and stuff. last clean install with a hdd upgrade and ram upgrade was about 3 months ago. no bsod's or errors since the last big update release. all is well in vistaland.

 

My score went up after i cleaned the registry and stuff. Nice.

 

9.08 here =|