Zune and Vista Incompatibility?

[Cyndi]

I need to get a new computer for my son and he informs me tonite that he found out that his Zune is incompatible with Vista. I did research and found that there is a fix for it, but the fix then causes problems for the DVD or CD players installed. i.e. fix one thing, cause more problems.

Any suggestions? I would let him keep my laptop with XP on it but I need it for work.

Is anyone happy with Vista? All I seem to read is that more people are unhappy with it, nothing works with it, it's slower than XP, etc.

 

[Mick Murphy]

I prefer XP, and Windows 7 is coming out in 2010!
So why buy Vista?
I only bought Vista for Business reasons(to solve customers problems)

Up until 30th June(end of this month) the OEM computer Manufacturers(Dell,
HP, etc) are still selling XP, IF you ask!

 

[UnknownTBeast]

I wouln't see why the Zune would be incompatible being that Microsoft makes
the Zune

 

[mae]

There is a board here to post - maybe someone can help:
top issues:
http://www.zune.net/en-us/support/topissues.htm

requirements:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928413?sd=zune

mae

I need to get a new computer for my son and he informs me tonite that he
found out that his Zune is incompatible with Vista. I did research and
found that there is a fix for it, but the fix then causes problems for the
DVD or CD players installed. i.e. fix one thing, cause more problems.

Any suggestions? I would let him keep my laptop with XP on it but I need
it for work.

Is anyone happy with Vista? All I seem to read is that more people are
unhappy with it, nothing works with it, it's slower than XP, etc.

 

[PTravel]

Zune is not incompatible with Vista.

However, to install Zune software, you must turn OFF your third-party
firewall and turn ON the built-in Windows firewall, or the installation will
fail. This is not well-documented and Microsoft pretends to be ignorant
about the problem, but a little Googling will find lots of information about
it. This is not a Vista bug, but a specific design flaw in the Zune
software (and some other Microsoft products as well) that requires hooks
into the Windows firewall. Once the software is installed, you can turn OFF
the Windows firewall and turn ON your third-party solution and everything
will work fine.

Zune is happily installed on my Vista Business machine and works fine.




I need to get a new computer for my son and he informs me tonite that he
found out that his Zune is incompatible with Vista. I did research and
found that there is a fix for it, but the fix then causes problems for the
DVD or CD players installed. i.e. fix one thing, cause more problems.

Any suggestions? I would let him keep my laptop with XP on it but I need
it for work.

Is anyone happy with Vista? All I seem to read is that more people are
unhappy with it, nothing works with it, it's slower than XP, etc.

 

[PTravel]

You only hear a minority having problems the majority don't post,
because they are quite happy with it.

Just make sure your hardware is fully capable of running it, and don't
try to use obsolete systems, and don't believe all the scare stories
about poor speed etc, it just the anti Vista crowd, lying and
exaggerating.

Exactly. I missed that question in the OP's post. I'm very happy with
Vista (at least since SP1). It runs flawlessly on my Vaio laptop. The
problem isn't Vista, but Microsoft's practice of obscuring specific
"features" of the OS, as with the Zune software installation issue, here.