Anyone able to run Vista successfully?

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It is heartwarming to know Vista works for those who replied above.
In the real world I inhabit I do not know a single person who is able to run
Vista successfully and who does not rely on XP for actual work.
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Then either you don't know many people or the people you know must all
be dummies. Yes, Vista has problems. They show up for SOME users. What
else is new, it's Windows and from Microsoft. That's two stikes
against it right out of the box. But to make sweeping statements like
you did is the same as the dopes here that blindly praise Vista and
find no faults whatsoever. BTW, I use Vista for work, have from the
first day I installed it. Sure, I've pointed out things that are
wrong, but just maybe I'm smarter than the typical user and can easily
work around the normal problems that crop up.

<big wide grin>
 
Vista isn't any worse than any other version of Windows was on release (and
yes, XP was a nightmare at first, too, mostly because of drivers, which is
most of the problems with Vista, as well!). It's been that way with every
release of Windows, all the way back... anyone remember the original Windows
black and white disaster that ran just as a program under DOS? HAHAHAHA).
 
babaloo said:
It is heartwarming to know Vista works for those who replied above.
In the real world I inhabit I do not know a single person who is able to run
Vista successfully and who does not rely on XP for actual work.
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Well guess what! I use 3 installs of Vista Ultimate as the primary
computers in my small marketing/advertising business. I have just about
every known software loaded and working perfectly.
Vista is not 1.x of anything: Microsoft and established peripheral vendors
now have nearly twenty years of experience with Windows of all flavors nad
should be able to issue an OS that on Day 1 installs, configures network
settings and works at least as well as its predecessor in every phase of its
operation.
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Mine did.
I was very patient with Windows 3.x, 9.x and found that XP actually worked
quite well on Day One, apart from lack of drivers but the drivers actually
worked when they were issued. I do not have the time or patience anymore to
work through the garbage that Microsoft should have fixed, including
unstable system settings like networking/administrator configurations that
never work the same way twice whenever the computer is rebooted.
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The problem is, people like you think Vista should be just an upgrade of
XP and are thrown for a loop when they discover that it isn't.
Vista is a whole new ballgame.
By now most users realize that in a dual boot system your Vista System
Restore settings are wiped out if you boot to XP? XP never had this problem
with dual booting.
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Sorry, but I'm also dual-booting two of my primaries with Vista & XP Pro
SP2. One is x32 the other is x64 and my Vista restore points have not
been deleted.

Shipping a product in that condition is utter insanity
and demonstrates utter disregard for customers.
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Actually what it shows is some people don't like things to change. You
can see that in this very ng. Some have had nothing but problems and
mainly frustration with Vista while others like myself have had clean
sailing. Why do you suppose that it huh? Maybe I paid attention and
noted the difference between Vista and all previous Windows OS's?
And I've had to learn how to use Vista and so has everybody else who
intend to use it in a productive environment. It is a learning experience.

Since I dual boot, because I
cannot rely on Vista for real work, I suspect that may be one reason Vista
cannot hold on to properly configured settings.
And I should note: Vista is installed on its own hard drive that has never
had anything on it but Vista. It is not used as the swap drive for XP or as
a scratch drive for Photoshop.
Vista=beta crud.
Did I mention:
Vista=beta crud.
The Bush administration, and note the federal government will not allow
Vista to be installed on its computers, will not go after Microsoft over
Vista but it will be interesting to see what the Europeans do.
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Well I'm surprised the bush-wacko administration even uses computers.
Whereas the European commission has Mario the little Italian dictator to
run ruff shod over MS.

My experience and my 2¢
Frank
 
Frank said:
Well guess what! I use 3 installs of Vista Ultimate as the primary
computers in my small marketing/advertising business. I have just about
every known software loaded and working perfectly.


Mine did.


The problem is, people like you think Vista should be just an upgrade of
XP and are thrown for a loop when they discover that it isn't.
Vista is a whole new ballgame.


Sorry, but I'm also dual-booting two of my primaries with Vista & XP Pro
SP2. One is x32 the other is x64 and my Vista restore points have not been
deleted.

Shipping a product in that condition is utter insanity

Actually what it shows is some people don't like things to change. You can
see that in this very ng. Some have had nothing but problems and mainly
frustration with Vista while others like myself have had clean sailing.
Why do you suppose that it huh? Maybe I paid attention and noted the
difference between Vista and all previous Windows OS's?
And I've had to learn how to use Vista and so has everybody else who
intend to use it in a productive environment. It is a learning experience.

Since I dual boot, because I
Well I'm surprised the bush-wacko administration even uses computers.
Whereas the European commission has Mario the little Italian dictator to
run ruff shod over MS.

My experience and my 2¢
Frank
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Atta boy, Frank. My 2 cents too.
 
Well Hell !! Here's a quarter !! and once again I will state that I have no
problems with Vista....Very fast and Very stable....Maybe I am lucky or
maybe I did it right but Vista Rocks !!
 
As to the question in the subject of the post - Yes. Yours seems like a
combination driver/hardware/setup/user problem to me.
 
I agree. I don't know about you but I see this phenomenon most often with
folks who buy Vista and first thing apply all their urban legends from the
Win95 and Win98 days to reconfigure the system almost beyond recognition.
They never give the new OS a chance to sell itself to them.

Rock said:
As to the question in the subject of the post - Yes. Yours seems like a
combination driver/hardware/setup/user problem to me.
--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

nsag said:
I am trying but:
Drivers do not all work or only work partly.
Consistent networking with XP machines is impossible, particularly
sharing printers.
Internet media streaming hiccoughs while XP machines on the same network
with the same sources never lose the stream.
I am logged in as the administrator but am frequently told I do not have
administrator privileges for simple file maintenance chores.
Photoshop filters that work under XP do not always work under Vista.
I am truly astounded that Microsoft thought this dog was ready for the
show. Must be Balmer.
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Colin Barnhorst said:
I agree. I don't know about you but I see this phenomenon most often with
folks who buy Vista and first thing apply all their urban legends from the
Win95 and Win98 days to reconfigure the system almost beyond recognition.
They never give the new OS a chance to sell itself to them.
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Yep, use your experience from other OS's to assist but don't use it as an
anchor and expect things to be and act the same.

Good to see you back, Colin. :-)
 
Thanks!

Rock said:
Yep, use your experience from other OS's to assist but don't use it as an
anchor and expect things to be and act the same.

Good to see you back, Colin. :-)
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