Many Annoying Issues with Vista

[Guest]

Since upgrading to Vista in belief it would make my pc much, much better i
have had nothing but problems and issues - i have had to reinstall THREE
times since the upgrade!!!

Firstly what's up with the thumbnail cache? In some folders where i store my
pictures the thumbnails are terribly distorted and condensed into stick like
images. Cleaning the thumbnail cache is a waste of time because they load in
original form but within seconds they are back to 'stick like' images. I have
only seen one other post with someone else experiencing this problem on the
Xbox 360 Forum.
It is really annoying as the images will not open on any MS application but
are fine on others like Painter and PSP. This issue makes my photo
applications (gallery etc) completely worthless.

Networks keep disappearing. My connection to both the Xbox 360 and Media
Center has to be created or reset EVERYTIME i start them. Recently the
complete network changed itself and deleted my bridge. It took a clean
install and many hours of work to finally realise what was wrong.

Why does Media Center have to reset every other week? Is it really necessary
to provide the pin this often???

Why doesn't Parental controls provide access to Messenger live or emails
from hotmail/live or Office - Is this because there will be an alternative
program that is being released which we will have to pay for? It makes the
features quite useless so why are they there?

Why does Explorer crash everyday - for no reason at all?

Why does IE7 crash many times a day? Why does my browser not go to the page
i ask it to without having to refresh? Why when i type directly into the
search bar (since installing windows messenger and windows live toolbar i
think (???))does it not go straight to the page but advises me the page
cannot be opened?

Why did the Vista ready advisor tell me my pc would work fine only to find
out half wouldn't work, including my sound card?

UAC drives me mad! Disabling this only gives the other annoying message sat
in the toolbar saying that it's disabled. Also confirming everything you do
takes five times as long as it normally would - not very productive!

Windows Sidebar stalls the start up considerably.

The playback of my media is at best appalling! Videos are shaky and the
sound is distorted. I never had these problems in XP. I also have a windows
file (mfpmp.exe) that takes up my CPU and RAM when i play music. Why is that?

What is the point of all these 'new' features when you can't use them
properly - or at all.

I feel very misled (robbed) by Microsoft and extremely disappointed at their
lack of customer support which btw is non existent!!! Vista has ruined my pc
and the enjoyment i used to get out of it.

Clare

 

[Neil Harley]

Since upgrading to Vista in belief it would make my pc much, much
better i have had nothing but problems and issues - i have had to
reinstall THREE times since the upgrade!!!

Firstly what's up with the thumbnail cache? In some folders where i
store my pictures the thumbnails are terribly distorted and condensed
into stick like images. Cleaning the thumbnail cache is a waste of
time because they load in original form but within seconds they are
back to 'stick like' images. I have only seen one other post with
someone else experiencing this problem on the Xbox 360 Forum.
It is really annoying as the images will not open on any MS
application but are fine on others like Painter and PSP. This issue
makes my photo applications (gallery etc) completely worthless.

No problems here with thumbnails and the cache. Do your pictures show the
same if you change the folder view? Are your pictures photos or made in
something like Photoshop or Paint? I don't really understand what you mean
about 'stick like' images. Sorry

Networks keep disappearing. My connection to both the Xbox 360 and
Media Center has to be created or reset EVERYTIME i start them.
Recently the complete network changed itself and deleted my bridge.
It took a clean install and many hours of work to finally realise
what was wrong.

No problems with the network here apart from the 'Calculating Time....'
which I don't like. I'm connecting to my 360 with no problems using a
wireless link. Streaming the Media Centre is no problem too.

Why does Media Center have to reset every other week? Is it really
necessary to provide the pin this often???

Media Centre - Xbox PIN has not 'reset' itself here since installing Vista.
I've entered the PIN once and since then it just connects.

Why doesn't Parental controls provide access to Messenger live or
emails from hotmail/live or Office - Is this because there will be an
alternative program that is being released which we will have to pay
for? It makes the features quite useless so why are they there?

I can't comment as I don't use the Parental Controls.

Why does Explorer crash everyday - for no reason at all?

Explorer hasn't crashed at all here. What are you doing when it does crash?
Are there any error messages in Event Viewer?

Why does IE7 crash many times a day? Why does my browser not go to
the page i ask it to without having to refresh? Why when i type
directly into the search bar (since installing windows messenger and
windows live toolbar i think (???))does it not go straight to the
page but advises me the page cannot be opened?

IE hasn't crashed here and so far all pages open with no problems.

Why did the Vista ready advisor tell me my pc would work fine only to
find out half wouldn't work, including my sound card?

The advisor has always informed me correctly on boxes I knew to be good or
not-so-good for Vista. Try the latest drivers for you hardware.

UAC drives me mad! Disabling this only gives the other annoying
message sat in the toolbar saying that it's disabled. Also confirming
everything you do takes five times as long as it normally would - not
very productive!

You can hide the icons so they don't show. If you're still having to confirm
things then is UAC turned off? I have UAC turned off and don't get any
messages.

Windows Sidebar stalls the start up considerably.

Not here it doesn't but I have only 3 gadgets on it

The playback of my media is at best appalling! Videos are shaky and
the sound is distorted. I never had these problems in XP. I also have
a windows file (mfpmp.exe) that takes up my CPU and RAM when i play
music. Why is that?

No problems with recorded TV, AVI, MPEG and any other video I've played. I
record one channel while watching another or a video and nothing stutters.

What is the point of all these 'new' features when you can't use them
properly - or at all.

Which features do you mean? The only thing I've come across I cant use is
Bitlocker but I can't be bothered to setup the drives for it. Maybe another
time??

I feel very misled (robbed) by Microsoft and extremely disappointed
at their lack of customer support which btw is non existent!!! Vista
has ruined my pc and the enjoyment i used to get out of it.

I can't really answer why you're having a bad time with Vista but what is
the spec of your PC and how is it configured? I've had it running on fairly
old hardware and although it was slow I didn't have any real problems. Since
spending £370 on bits Ultimate is smooth and seems to be rock solid.

 

[Sharon]

Are your computer specs on par to run Vista? Check that out. Upgrade your
drivers and perhaps be willing to pay for newer hardware or more RAM. I am
running Vista Ultimate OEM on a custom built PC which was built in April
2007, no problems at all.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I am sure it is the thumbnail cache causing the problems. At first i thought
it could be the images themselves but like i say they are fine read elsewhere
or if uploaded online. Just really weird and most annoying. Even a clean
install did not help the issue. I thought it could have been the particular
camera or resolution but i have photo's from different camera & resolutions
so i have no idea. Dimensions and properties remain unscathed. Picture
here...http://www.skipjacktunafish.co.uk/ss.JPG

I am connected to the 360 using a wired connection ...perhaps that is the
problem?

The only error message i get is that it has stopped responding. Before the
last reinstall i had problems with moving avi's and videos taken from the
camera phone (touch wood seems okay now).

I don't know why ithe advisor told me my pc would be okay, it really isn't.
Even when i installed vista and ran the advisor afterwards knowuing that it
wasn't it still said it was okay despite there being no drivers? I have spent
more time on here repairing things than anything else. It has got to the
point where i am scared to use it incase it breaks down again - very
depressing when you don't really know what your doing (i found XP much easier
to control). How do i find the specs of the pc? My pc hasn't really been
upgraded for about 18months/2 years.

I forgot to mention also that my DVD-RW refuses to be seen unless i search
the device manager after boot. I have numerous unknown devices listed and PCI
error(from Creative i think?). I also had to jump through hoops to get
Outlook working on http accounts. DVD maker doesn't work at all, just get a
long hang before it 'stops responding'.

It is so annoying that at times i could just throw the thing the window! I
have upgraded all the drivers and had these problems from the very start of
using Vista. To be honest i am not sure i can justify spending out a lot of
money in purchasing new hardware when i could just go back to XP. Vista isn't
worth it.

Clare

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I am sure it is the thumbnail cache causing the problems. At first i thought
it could be the images themselves but like i say they are fine read elsewhere
or if uploaded online. Just really weird and most annoying. Even a clean
install did not help the issue. I thought it could have been the particular
camera or resolution but i have photo's from different camera & resolutions
so i have no idea. Dimensions and properties remain unscathed. Picture
here...http://www.skipjacktunafish.co.uk/ss.JPG

I am connected to the 360 using a wired connection ...perhaps that is the
problem?

The only error message i get is that it has stopped responding. Before the
last reinstall i had problems with moving avi's and videos taken from the
camera phone (touch wood seems okay now).

I don't know why ithe advisor told me my pc would be okay, it really isn't.
Even when i installed vista and ran the advisor afterwards knowuing that it
wasn't it still said it was okay despite there being no drivers? I have spent
more time on here repairing things than anything else. It has got to the
point where i am scared to use it incase it breaks down again - very
depressing when you don't really know what your doing (i found XP much easier
to control). How do i find the specs of the pc? My pc hasn't really been
upgraded for about 18months/2 years.

I forgot to mention also that my DVD-RW refuses to be seen unless i search
the device manager after boot. I have numerous unknown devices listed and PCI
error(from Creative i think?). I also had to jump through hoops to get
Outlook working on http accounts. DVD maker doesn't work at all, just get a
long hang before it 'stops responding'.

It is so annoying that at times i could just throw the thing the window! I
have upgraded all the drivers and had these problems from the very start of
using Vista. To be honest i am not sure i can justify spending out a lot of
money in purchasing new hardware when i could just go back to XP. Vista isn't
worth it.

Well you should take the time to update drivers and Bios, would save you
many hours of frustration.
Blame yourself as well, How can you expect your system to run smooth and do
the things you want, If your not wiling to take the time to set it up.

 

[arthurbk]

Well you should take the time to update drivers and Bios, would save you
many hours of frustration.
Blame yourself as well, How can you expect your system to run smooth and do
the things you want, If your not wiling to take the time to set it up.

Thats bull, I ran the same install of XP for 3 years on a PC without a
single BSOD. Then I bought vista, did a clean install and made sure to
upgrade all of the drivers,have the latest BIOS and it crashes at
least once every few hours. I let it sit doing nothing it will crash,
I paste something into notepad it will crash and dont even think about
playing video games. The PC basically became useless after the vista
install. I am not sure what else you can do to "set it up properly"
as you say hehe.

 

[Frank]

(e-mail address removed) wrote:

 

[keepout]

next time you lose the DVD drive, install the drivers directly from the folder
the drivers are located in on your machine. Probably windows/system32/drivers.
I had to do the same thing with another piece of hardware/software.
Most people don't have either the systems, or tech support that M$ has tosetup
a running system.
I know I couldn't get ie7 to work when it came out. It was advertised as an
upgrade to ie6. Which was crap. it was a REPLACEMENT browser for the Vista OS.
It had so many bugs that screwed up browsing on sites I'd previously browsed.
I tried the rollback. Didn't help a bit. Just made things worse.

Which might explain why after 2 weeks, they closed down the bug reportingon
IE7. It had more than 50 pages of 20 per page bug reports when the bug report
site disappeared.
Never a word that I heard from M$ to NOT install IE7 on an IE6 machine. Which
they should have announced when they shut down the bug site.

Thats bull, I ran the same install of XP for 3 years on a PC without a
single BSOD. Then I bought vista, did a clean install and made sure to
upgrade all of the drivers,have the latest BIOS and it crashes at
least once every few hours. I let it sit doing nothing it will crash,
I paste something into notepad it will crash and dont even think about
playing video games. The PC basically became useless after the vista
install. I am not sure what else you can do to "set it up properly"
as you say hehe.

Probably cause you're running bits and pieces of 2 OS'. Same with IE. IE7will
NOT install correctly with IE6 installed.

 

[Former captain of the Enterprise]

If only you were here before you got vista,
you would see that I have been crying out about all these problems with
vista...

people call me a troll because Im showing the truth about vista,
they dont want the truth, and they want people to fall into the same trap as
they did.

 

[Frank]

If only you were here before you got vista,
you would see that I have been crying out about all these problems with
vista...

Stop lying to people who are looking for genuine answers and opinions.
You don't have Vista.
You're a Linux troll.
You live in your mom’s basement.
You have a delusional mental condition brought about by visions of grandeur.
You need help.
Go get it.
Frank

 

[Former captain of the Enterprise]

Stop lying to people who are looking for genuine answers and opinions.
I never lie.. I may conceal the total truth or stretch the facts a bit.. but
never ever lie
I have vista, but it stinks so much I dont use it for doing anything

Nah.. linux stinks even worse than vista for the desktop
there are no basementsnwere I am from
Or I am an genius that no one in here understands
I give help and need help.. that is the nature of life.

Thank you for your kind concern

 

[Guest]

Thats bull, I ran the same install of XP for 3 years on a PC without a
single BSOD. Then I bought vista, did a clean install and made sure to
upgrade all of the drivers,have the latest BIOS and it crashes at
least once every few hours. I let it sit doing nothing it will crash,
I paste something into notepad it will crash and dont even think about
playing video games. The PC basically became useless after the vista
install. I am not sure what else you can do to "set it up properly"
as you say hehe.

From skipjacks own fingers


I have numerous unknown devices listed and PCI
error(from Creative i think?). I also had to jump through hoops to get

UNKNOWN DEVICES (system not set up) And OS is just supposed to WORK, What a
rose colored world you live in

 

[john]

<snip stupidity>

You have a delusional mental condition brought about by visions of
grandeur.

<snip more stupidity>
Frank

sorta like this eh Frank?:
==========================
from: Re: Anyone able to run Vista successfully?

Not the last time I was there he wasn't.
Frank

==========================
or this:
==========================
from: Re: Anyone able to run Vista successfully?
"I have just about every known software loaded and working perfectly."
- Frank
==========================

when Frank saw the "NC-17 (Under 17 Not Admitted)" sign at the theater, he
went home and got 16 friends.
(just kiddin, Frank doesn't have ay friends.)

 

[Guest]

Could someone please tell me how to find out my system spec's?


Loaderopp.

Thought i made clear that PCI errors were from Creative, it's an issue with
THEIR drivers being compaable with Vista. I am not totally sure what the
Unknown device's actually are as they have been listed only since i installed
Vista!

I thought i also made clear that i had installed all the drivers and updates
so i am not sure why i should be blaming myself?

And blame myself for what - installing an unreliable OS in belief it would
be fine on my PC? I don't think so.

As for taking the time to set the PC up, you have absolutely no idea how
many hours i have spent on this PC setting it up, uninstalling/reinstalling,
updating, trying to fix networks etc.

Finally, i don't think you need to be quite so rude in your direct
responses. I came on here in frustration because of the amount of time i have
spent on here and basically there is nothing i can do to 'fix' the issues. Is
it necessary to be a computer genius to install an OS? I have had no problem
in the past few years installing and working with XP, so why should Vista be
different?

 

[Julian]

Could someone please tell me how to find out my system spec's?

Control Panel / System
is a good place to start.

 

[Adam Albright]

Could someone please tell me how to find out my system spec's?

Click on the start button, in the little box that appears type in
system, click on categorires in left window pane to get a wealth of
detail about your system.

As for taking the time to set the PC up, you have absolutely no idea how
many hours i have spent on this PC setting it up, uninstalling/reinstalling,
updating, trying to fix networks etc.

Finally, i don't think you need to be quite so rude in your direct
responses. I came on here in frustration because of the amount of time i have
spent on here and basically there is nothing i can do to 'fix' the issues. Is
it necessary to be a computer genius to install an OS? I have had no problem
in the past few years installing and working with XP, so why should Vista be
different?

The reality is Vista isn't that different from past versions of
Windows however is can be more fussy. Sometimes WAY MORE fussy. That
it why it is almost CRITICAL to first run the Vista Update Advisor and
suspect ANYTHING it nags about and either disable or remove all the
stuff it nags about BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TO INSTALL or UPFRADE TO Vista.
Failure to do this simple step can open Pandor's box of all kinds of
weird issues and all bets off as to your success in getting Vista up
and running successfully.

Vista DRIVERS are the biggest issue, followed by memory problems.
Since Vista addresses memory differently, memory that had performed
well for XP may not perform for well enough for Vista. SATA drives can
be a pain unless you have the latest chipset updates, latest drivers
and latest BIOS update. Ditto for some other hardware. Most noteable
are network, USB, IDE and SATA controllers. Lessor issues can be
caused by audio cards and some video cards.

Note that this is THREE (3) seperate issues. Fixing only one or two
may still result in failures. For many people unless you're getting a
NEW computer with Vista ALREADY installed you'll need to update all
three categories, starting with Vista drivers, perhaps followed by
updates in the motherboard's chipset and lastly if you still have
problems updating the BIOS by flasing it with a newer version. The
issue here is not all vendors are up to speed yet for everything. So
the best advice is do NOT upgrade to Vista unless and untill there are
updates for all your hardware as explained above OR you take steps to
remove problem hardware/software BEFORE you try to install Vista.

The irony is many things that cause problems DURING the install
process upgrading to Vista will work fine ONCE VISTA IS UP AND
RUNNING. One reason is Vista comes with many defacto Microsoft
drivers. However they can't be accessed unless and until Vista is
installed FIRST.