Getting there

[Tekguru (Daron Brewood)]

Well I'm getting there

So far:

- Hard Disk repartitined
- Vista and MCE2005 installed as dual boot.
- The 3.2Ghz P4 machine built a year ago for MCE2004 gets a rating of 5
overall which seems pretty good!

But a LOT of missing devices / problems:

- HP Photosmart 8450 - driver will not install as the OS is too new for it.
- Anti Virus - AVG will not install - causes a BSOD - any recommendations
as to which trial to sign up for?
- Looks like I will have to load Office 2003 to access Exchange mail
- Anyone tried the sync capabilities to see if they work with WM5.0 PDA's?
- ATI Driver for the X800XT card - can I load the 5270 Vista driver, or
will it cause problems?
- 2 or 3 USB devices for which I'm trying to work out where / if I can get
viable drivers
- BT keyboard will not work with the bot manager, I have to plug in a wired
model to switch OS's (half expected).

General - Am I okay to start installing apps I used under MCE2005 and see
if they work? FTP apps, graphics, etc? Will Maxthon work I wonder?

Directory Opus is what I normally use but I have a horrible feeling it will
fall flat on it's face. So..... is there a list of apps anywhere which
folks have got working under Vista?

And lastly - any tips for fun things to try?


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[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

It's difficult to find the "absolute list" for apps working in Vista.
Generally simple applications written in Visual Studio will work because of
the .NET Framework, and a lot of applications work with compatibility mode
on and even without it - the apps will see a version of Windows, not
necessarily understand what version it is but realise it can be run, so who
knows.

However, sometimes it's just a case of try it and if it works, that's plain
good luck )

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Thats strange, I have 3.2Ghz P4 with 2.6GBs of RAM, 128MB Video card and I
got a 2. Is your P4 Dual Core Tekguru?
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[Daron Brewood \(MVP\)]

Now replying using Windows Mail

Gotcha, well so far I'm making slow progress Outlook in the mnain is being a
problem as it is refusing to link to my Exchange Server foe some reason, AVG
AV refuses to install, and thats all I've tried really. Decided to use
Windows mail for news instead of 40Dialogue as I have a feeling that will
fail.

Directory Opus will be the next one to try And I'll bet that fails!

Cheers!

 

[Daron Brewood \(MVP\)]

Hi Andre, well the rating has now dropped to 4 now that I've installed a few
apps. But it is a P4 3.2Ghz Prescott (HT) running on the ABit IC7-Max3 Mobo
with 2Gb Fast high speed RAM, ATI X800XT graphics car, and a fast SATA
drive.

The rating runs as:

P4 CPU 3.2Ghz - 4.1
2GB RAM - 5.4
Primary HD - 5.6
Graphics - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.6

Which gives me the 4 total. What do you have which builds the 2 figure?

Daron