Reply to: Windows Vista nightmare

[oracleslave]

......... You know it makes sense,.... Get a Mac

Change the record already!

[scooterscot]

'Windows Cobalt' is coming out next year.. 2009 release, special price for you sir £650

Comes in the following flavors:

Home, Famliy, pre-school, school, high-school, Ltd co's, business, Blue chip, Tescos......


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......... You know it makes sense,.... Get a Mac

[BrilloPad]

'Windows Cobalt' is coming out next year.. 2009 release, special price for you sir £650

Comes in the following flavors:

Home, Famliy, pre-school, school, high-school, Ltd co's, business, Blue chip, Tescos

[Cowboy Bob]

Was doing a web-app demo at client co using Programme Manager's personal Vista laptop. IE7 kept saying it had no Internet connection, yet when IE was restarted it could magically connect again - losing the session and having to re-login and start from scratch again every time. Took ages to demonstrate around half the customer journeys to upper management with that pile of tulipe, before giving up and going and borrowing an XP laptop.

It didn't go unnoticed that the problem was Vista amongst the upper management either. Can't see it making into my current client co anywhere in the near future.

[ferret]

I'd like windows xp back. Is this possible or will I just mess up my system? Vista is just awful I can't even use IE7 and Windows Media player.

Like one of the posts above suggests, hardware you have may be so new and shiny that the lazy creators have not made XP drivers so check that out before doing anything.

If you can get XP drivers then just pop the XP CD in, boot into it, format the Vista partition and then install XP over it. Had some ghey networking problems and generally slow Vista laptop, runs a treat with XP. Why anyone would want Vista is beyond me.

[contractor79]

I'd like windows xp back. Is this possible or will I just mess up my system? Vista is just awful I can't even use IE7 and Windows Media player.

[gadgetman]

I can't see ANY compelling reason to move to Vista and lots of reasons not to.

I plan to stick with XP until Windows 7 comes along.

[scooterscot]

'Windows Cobalt' is coming out next year.. 2009 release, special price for you sir £650

Comes in the following flavors:

Home, Famliy, pre-school, school, high-school, Ltd co's, business, Blue chip, Tescos

[Spacecadet]

Accumulates errors, none of which can be fixed using supposed solutions on net. So far, cannot get Canon devices to work, all office progs open slowly, mail attachments save slowly, cannot access Excel from VB. If there is a fault on a CD the whole machine locks up totally and the desktop disappears, it sometime goes into a freeze for minutes at a time and spends ages caning the disc for no obvious reason. It is utter tulipe. Avoid.

is this just the home edition?
I've got 2 dell laptops running vista business (or ultimate)
one of them has SQL Server 2005 installed, Visual studio 2005, Office, MS Visio and project.
Only problem so far was getting SS reporting services to run, was down to some ASP .NET permission settings which are different in Vista (I let my dev guy sort that out). Worked fine eventually though.

[Platypus]

Accumulates errors, none of which can be fixed using supposed solutions on net. So far, cannot get Canon devices to work, all office progs open slowly, mail attachments save slowly, cannot access Excel from VB. If there is a fault on a CD the whole machine locks up totally and the desktop disappears, it sometime goes into a freeze for minutes at a time and spends ages caning the disc for no obvious reason. It is utter tulipe. Avoid.

You don't recommend it then?

[xoggoth]

Accumulates errors, none of which can be fixed using supposed solutions on net. So far, cannot get Canon devices to work, all office progs open slowly, mail attachments save slowly, cannot access Excel from VB. If there is a fault on a CD the whole machine locks up totally and the desktop disappears, it sometime goes into a freeze for minutes at a time and spends ages caning the disc for no obvious reason. It is utter tulipe. Avoid.

[scooterscot]

Get a Mac...

[Shimano105]

Dual boot? I have Vista and XP and use XP most of the time, however the laptop doesn't seem to like the XP version of certain drivers (such as audio ) so I tend to do my worky stuff on XP and entertainment stuff on Vista, until I can the drivers sorted at least.

If you use nLite you can significantly cut out the useless crap form your XP install as well (such as the puppy dog search fearture for example) and replace it with free software that actually works.

Think you can get something called vLite as well for Vista

[Paddy]

Hi
I bought a nice new laptop a couple of months ago and they had Windows Vista Home on it.
Shortly after, internet explorer 7 just stopped working with any flash website or youtube. I had to download firefox which works ok for most things but not for the JSA net website where I do my accounts on, sadly. (I recommend JSA, by the way).

Then I started to have problems with Windows Media Player, it just doens't load up anymore. I kept on downloading the updates hoping that one of them would undo the problem but sadly not.

I've scanned various message boards and find many others are having similar problems with different solutions working for different people. Sadly none so far work for me.

I've ran all the virus scans, anti-sypware, registry cleaners and all seems fine.

Think it's because Vista is cr*p. Wish I had XP still.

There are loads of settings in Vista that seem to default back and block programmes. I am not a desktop guy but if you install “logmein” on your PC/laptop; I can take a look for you.

[BoredBloke]

Vista really doesn't give me anything that XP currently can't except perhaps a much slower PC. I have it on a number of computers but hardly ever touch it. It's not like I don't adopt new ideas though, but just like the Spinning Jenny or the Seed Drill, I'll wait to see how things go before I get shut of XP.