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vista woe's and older programs - 3/6/2007 12:34:50 PM

ANZAC_Tack

Posts: 392
Joined: 7/9/2001
From: Australia
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this tale is true is not based on fictional character/s.

last week, i made the the purchase of windows Vista home premium, a OEM version with some computer parts, its the genuine DVD/boxed set from a reputable seller. cost some $189 AUD,just a bit over 120usd/euro.

I have a AMD3500+,2 gig of 400hzt Ram(4 512) a sata 160gig HDD,winTV pci,250meg raidon 550 graphics driver pci,dvd rom Liteon166s,dvd pioneer AO110D,8 usb ports,battery free wireless mouse. basically really good for mid last year.

i had a good set up with winXPsp2.

my first mistake was maybe in not formatting the drive i had,i did this on attempt 3!
first install, wow it was quick and easy! 15/20mins to install all of vista,basically tap in some codes/info and walk away!
it looked awsome, the gidgets(small picture viewer/clock/news/pc speed konfadulator stuff) amazing hi res screen's,kool new look,all opaque similar to macx10 stylishness. nice new menu styinig, took some getting used to, but then came the driver errors...
...bloody white screen every 10 seconds warning i had drivers it could not load, 'search for solutions?'....'cant find solutions'
THEN after a hour of updating from windows site, getting new drivers...
i had sound, good large screen resolution,and could see my dvd drives...then the bad part...
i tried to load my programs!
winTV>failed,vista cancelled,tried compatibility, nada!
ATI drivers > failed.
Nvideo>failed.
then my cd/dvd drives dissapeared! later on on after second install and i loaded XP again, the XP upgrade said the drives had 'lost high and low resolution(similar word)'
so i deleted first install, back to XP.
i tried again, ANOTHER FULL INSTALL OF VISTA, same problems.

then i put in my old IDE 80 gig HDD,cleaned it(format) and loaded vista, seemed better, but still wont load same programs.

i noticed my backup cd, with programs like winrar/shrink/dvd decrypter had little windows security shields, this means there vista compatable, it was around 50%!
even Nero6 failed, but i still loaded, always warnings of 'do u want to run this program that has known issues'
i got sick of this message!

so after 3 hours of updating,setting up emails,ie7 etc..i took out the drive and put back my sata 160 gig with XP.

vista is on the backburner. untill i get a NEW PC,its looking to be a celeron duel core,and ill check ALL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IS VISTA COMPATABLE!

my advice is:
1 under no circumstance get the vista upgrade.
2 do not load vista on your current PC, wait!
3 only load vista on NEW systems designed for vista.

JUST DONT DO IT...YET!

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RE: vista woe's and older programs - 3/6/2007 11:31:36 PM

oi_you_nutter

Posts: 418
Joined: 10/28/2004
From: from Bristle now living in Kalifornia
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i have had Vista on two PCs since it came out on MSDN late last year.

its a slug and needs good hardware, but its very pretty, just like when XP came out i am trying to find reasons to like i over the previous operating system, and just like XP i am not yet convinced its an improvement.

TAOW3 installed ok after nagging about the operating system version being no supported, and seems to run ok.

i still prefer Windows 2000