MVPs,

Is there a more focused, more MVP laden group available
in MS 'public-type' (or any other MS forum) for posting a
few general Vista questions?

Thanks,

DM



I've downloaded 600 posts a day for the past three days
and tried to research specific issues of a personal interest.
Trying to read through the little letter, no punctuation, chat-
children's "help" around here (before asking questions that
may have been answered and archived already), is less than
fullfilling, time consuming, and quite un-microsoft like. Doing
an advanced group search turns up mountains completely
useless, argumentative, anti-MS trash to sift through. Help........

David,

Could try Technet, or other, non-MSFT groups,

Here's a general link,
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...a&mg_id=20017b

or here,
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...y/experts.mspx

But ya never know who may be in here to begin with, if ya don't ask a
question.

What are your "general' Vista questions?
If you asked them, then you might get an answer.

Jeff

"David Morgan (MAMS)" <(E-Mail Removed)/Odm> wrote in message
news:AetIh.1322$Tq5.706@trnddc02...
> MVPs,
>
> Is there a more focused, more MVP laden group available
> in MS 'public-type' (or any other MS forum) for posting a
> few general Vista questions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DM
>
>
>
> I've downloaded 600 posts a day for the past three days
> and tried to research specific issues of a personal interest.
> Trying to read through the little letter, no punctuation, chat-
> children's "help" around here (before asking questions that
> may have been answered and archived already), is less than
> fullfilling, time consuming, and quite un-microsoft like. Doing
> an advanced group search turns up mountains completely
> useless, argumentative, anti-MS trash to sift through. Help........
>
>
>

Ignore the trolls and post your questions here - this is as good as it's
gonna get. ;-)

--
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"David Morgan (MAMS)" <(E-Mail Removed)/Odm> wrote in message
news:AetIh.1322$Tq5.706@trnddc02...
> MVPs,
>
> Is there a more focused, more MVP laden group available
> in MS 'public-type' (or any other MS forum) for posting a
> few general Vista questions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DM
>
>
>
> I've downloaded 600 posts a day for the past three days
> and tried to research specific issues of a personal interest.
> Trying to read through the little letter, no punctuation, chat-
> children's "help" around here (before asking questions that
> may have been answered and archived already), is less than
> fullfilling, time consuming, and quite un-microsoft like. Doing
> an advanced group search turns up mountains completely
> useless, argumentative, anti-MS trash to sift through. Help........
>
>
>

Try searching Google groups.

http://groups.google.com/

Go into the advanced search and use a wild card like
microsoft.public.windows.vista.* if you want to narrow down the search. If
you don't find anything applicable post your question in one of the
Microsoft Vista groups and just ignore the trolls who will inevitably
respond if your question involves a topic like UAC or licensing.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"David Morgan (MAMS)" <(E-Mail Removed)/Odm> wrote in message
news:AetIh.1322$Tq5.706@trnddc02...
> MVPs,
>
> Is there a more focused, more MVP laden group available
> in MS 'public-type' (or any other MS forum) for posting a
> few general Vista questions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DM
>
>
>
> I've downloaded 600 posts a day for the past three days
> and tried to research specific issues of a personal interest.
> Trying to read through the little letter, no punctuation, chat-
> children's "help" around here (before asking questions that
> may have been answered and archived already), is less than
> fullfilling, time consuming, and quite un-microsoft like. Doing
> an advanced group search turns up mountains completely
> useless, argumentative, anti-MS trash to sift through. Help........
>
>
>

"Richard G. Harper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ignore the trolls and post your questions here - this is as good as it's
> gonna get. ;-)


I have an Intel D945Pvs, a couple of gig of ram, running only one peripheral...
an Nvidia G-Force 6500 video card. I installed XP Home before Christmas
and wish to save the tediously tweaked install behind a partition and add a
copy of VISTA to the C: drive. I want to be perfectly certain that my XP clone
is a completely reliable fallback should I decide VISTA comes out (I seriously
doubt that it will because I should have no conflicts). There are only two pieces
of software installed at this time... Acronis True Image ver 9, and Norton Partition
Magic 8.

Can you direct me to a simple set of instructions on installing VISTA Home Basic
and setting up the system for a dual boot with XP Home?

Thanks,

DM





> "David Morgan (MAMS)" <(E-Mail Removed)/Odm> wrote in message
> news:AetIh.1322$Tq5.706@trnddc02...
> > MVPs,
> >
> > Is there a more focused, more MVP laden group available
> > in MS 'public-type' (or any other MS forum) for posting a
> > few general Vista questions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > DM
> >
> >
> >
> > I've downloaded 600 posts a day for the past three days
> > and tried to research specific issues of a personal interest.
> > Trying to read through the little letter, no punctuation, chat-
> > children's "help" around here (before asking questions that
> > may have been answered and archived already), is less than
> > fullfilling, time consuming, and quite un-microsoft like. Doing
> > an advanced group search turns up mountains completely
> > useless, argumentative, anti-MS trash to sift through. Help........
> >
>

"Kerry Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)*a*m> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Try searching Google groups.
>
> http://groups.google.com/
>
> Go into the advanced search and use a wild card like
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.* if you want to narrow down the search. If
> you don't find anything applicable post your question in one of the
> Microsoft Vista groups and just ignore the trolls who will inevitably
> respond if your question involves a topic like UAC or licensing.
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca

Thanks Kerry,

Google advanced group search has been an ally for many years. It doesn't
seem to be helping me much in this case because of the high number of trolls
and huge amount of irrelevant bickering... that of which I've entered myself over
the past couple of days. Sorry.. but I've finally become tired of perusing as many
as 1000 posts per day in search of intelligent life.

I just responded to Richard H. with a request for bual boot instructions, as I'm of a
mind that despite the apparent idiot factor, that I can probably have success with
VISTA in a brand new box... I'm anxious to see it and have a pretty good idea of
things to watch out for. If Richard doesn't get back to the thread, please feel free
to offer up a response.

Thanks,

DM




> "David Morgan (MAMS)" <(E-Mail Removed)/Odm> wrote in message
> news:AetIh.1322$Tq5.706@trnddc02...
> > MVPs,
> >
> > Is there a more focused, more MVP laden group available
> > in MS 'public-type' (or any other MS forum) for posting a
> > few general Vista questions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > DM
> >
> >
> >
> > I've downloaded 600 posts a day for the past three days
> > and tried to research specific issues of a personal interest.
> > Trying to read through the little letter, no punctuation, chat-
> > children's "help" around here (before asking questions that
> > may have been answered and archived already), is less than
> > fullfilling, time consuming, and quite un-microsoft like. Doing
> > an advanced group search turns up mountains completely
> > useless, argumentative, anti-MS trash to sift through. Help........
> >
> >
> >
>

"Richard G. Harper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ignore the trolls and post your questions here - this is as good as it's
> gonna get. ;-)

By the way... I've read this page...

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...749fe1033.mspx

And I get the impression that I would have to install XP all over again behind
another partition and lose my tweaking. Yet I see a number of complicated
references to simply cloning the current C: to another partition and then
doing a clean install of the upgrade to VISTA.

Leave your XP as it is and install Vista (a full version) to another
partition and all should be well.

--
Leo

For every difficult and complicated question there is an answer
that is simple, easily understood, and wrong.
H.L. Mencken








"David Morgan (MAMS)" <(E-Mail Removed)/Odm> wrote in message
news:I5hKh.13948$rp4.150@trnddc02...
>
> "Richard G. Harper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Ignore the trolls and post your questions here - this is as good as it's
>> gonna get. ;-)
>
> By the way... I've read this page...
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...749fe1033.mspx
>
> And I get the impression that I would have to install XP all over again
> behind
> another partition and lose my tweaking. Yet I see a number of complicated
> references to simply cloning the current C: to another partition and then
> doing a clean install of the upgrade to VISTA.
>
>

Sorry, I don't dual-boot and don't recommend it with XP and Vista due to the
problems inherent in the process. I'd image the XP box and save that image
in a safe place (external hard drive) then go for the Vista install. If it
fails, don't activate Vista and put the XP image back while sorting out the
errors, finding drivers, and/or deciding how to address the problems.

"David Morgan (MAMS)" <(E-Mail Removed)/Odm> wrote in message
news:hOgKh.13943$rp4.7715@trnddc02...
>
> "Richard G. Harper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Ignore the trolls and post your questions here - this is as good as it's
>> gonna get. ;-)
>
>
> I have an Intel D945Pvs, a couple of gig of ram, running only one
> peripheral...
> an Nvidia G-Force 6500 video card. I installed XP Home before Christmas
> and wish to save the tediously tweaked install behind a partition and add
> a
> copy of VISTA to the C: drive. I want to be perfectly certain that my XP
> clone
> is a completely reliable fallback should I decide VISTA comes out (I
> seriously
> doubt that it will because I should have no conflicts). There are only two
> pieces
> of software installed at this time... Acronis True Image ver 9, and Norton
> Partition
> Magic 8.
>
> Can you direct me to a simple set of instructions on installing VISTA Home
> Basic
> and setting up the system for a dual boot with XP Home?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DM
>
>
>
>
>
>> "David Morgan (MAMS)" <(E-Mail Removed)/Odm> wrote in message
>> news:AetIh.1322$Tq5.706@trnddc02...
>> > MVPs,
>> >
>> > Is there a more focused, more MVP laden group available
>> > in MS 'public-type' (or any other MS forum) for posting a
>> > few general Vista questions?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > DM
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I've downloaded 600 posts a day for the past three days
>> > and tried to research specific issues of a personal interest.
>> > Trying to read through the little letter, no punctuation, chat-
>> > children's "help" around here (before asking questions that
>> > may have been answered and archived already), is less than
>> > fullfilling, time consuming, and quite un-microsoft like. Doing
>> > an advanced group search turns up mountains completely
>> > useless, argumentative, anti-MS trash to sift through. Help........
>> >
>>
>
>

"David Morgan (MAMS)" <(E-Mail Removed)/Odm> wrote in message
news:CUgKh.13944$rp4.8837@trnddc02...

>
> I just responded to Richard H. with a request for bual boot instructions,
> as I'm of a
> mind that despite the apparent idiot factor, that I can probably have
> success with
> VISTA in a brand new box... I'm anxious to see it and have a pretty good
> idea of
> things to watch out for. If Richard doesn't get back to the thread,
> please feel free
> to offer up a response.
>

I agree with Richard. I don't like dual boot setups if they can be avoided.
I prefer to install one OS and one others in virtual machines if needed.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca