Google earth

[Guest]

Once I have installed Google Earth on Vista Home Premium, my screen is
remaining "black" after rebooting. I have then to restaure my laptop to a
previous configuration. Is anybody can explain me what it is going on ??
regards

 

[Joe Medford]

Google Earth is not compatible with Vista (Plus Google earth is Verrrry
memory hungry). Try Local.live.com, they also have a 3D View which is
compatible with Vista.

 

[Kue2]

I have Google earth running in Vista ultimate.It runs fine here no problems

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Works fine here with Ultimate.

I have Google earth running in Vista ultimate.It runs fine here no problems

 

[Dustin Harper]

Again, works fine here with Ultimate. It might be a driver issue with your
video card. You might try reinstalling Google Earth, maybe it was a bad
install. Make sure to download the newest version.

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Dustin Harper
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http://www.vistarip.com

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[\LG\]

Google Earth is not compatible with Vista (Plus Google earth is Verrrry
memory hungry). Try Local.live.com, they also have a 3D View which is
compatible with Vista.

Not true. It's runs fine in Ultimate.

 

[Bill Condie]

Vista

Wanna try installing it again?

Google Earth is not compatible with Vista (Plus Google earth is Verrrry
memory hungry). Try Local.live.com, they also have a 3D View which is
compatible with Vista.

 

[Joe Medford]

It is very memory hungry over 60MB on idle same on XP

 

[Joe Medford]

It is very memory hungry over 60MB on idle same on XP

I use local.live at least I don't have to have all the extra toolbar crap
google earth installs

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Runs fine here under VISTA Business ....

Are you running the latest version

Google Earth 4.0.2737
Build Date Jan 31 2007

 

[Scott]

It is very memory hungry over 60MB on idle same on XP

So?

 

[Scott]

It is very memory hungry over 60MB on idle same on XP

I use local.live at least I don't have to have all the extra toolbar crap
google earth installs.

1) Do you work for Microsoft?

2) Do you have any clue as to what you're talking about.

I just installed Google Earth. It did not install any toolbar outside
of it's own program.

It did ask me if I wanted Google as my default search engine. I
checked "no".

 

[Joe Medford]

So, it is slow and not always responsive, which is most likly the problem

 

[Joe Medford]

By default it installed Google toobar, Google Desktop Search, Adds itself as
it's default search engine, and changes my home page. These are all optout
not optin. I just installed it on 3 machines, 2 Vista and 1 XP. I don't
work for MSFT, I just look for software that is teh best for my customers.

 

[Scott]

By default it installed Google toobar, Google Desktop Search, Adds itself as
it's default search engine, and changes my home page. These are all optout
not optin. I just installed it on 3 machines, 2 Vista and 1 XP. I don't
work for MSFT, I just look for software that is teh best for my customers.

You made me realize that I'd not yet installed Google Earth since
doing a clean install of Vista, so I downloaded and installed it.

I'm not making this up, I was only asked if I wanted Google as my
default search engine.

I admit I selected "custom install" at the outset, but I do that for
every application I install, namely because I don't want 40 subfolders
under "Program Files".

I'd suggest you select "custom install" for any application you're
installing.

Even if you don't change the default location, you can opt out of all
the crap they want to add on. It seems every other app these days
(even boxed software) wants to add either Google or Yahoo! toolbar
along with it by default.

 

[Scott]

So, it is slow and not always responsive, which is most likly the problem

How much RAM do you have? How about your Video Card?

I honesty don't have this problem with Google Earth.

And considering what Google Earth does, 60MB of RAM is pretty minimal.

Actually right now it's consuming 204 MB of RAM on my computer and
it's quite responsive.

 

[Donald McDaniel]

You made me realize that I'd not yet installed Google Earth since
doing a clean install of Vista, so I downloaded and installed it.

I'm not making this up, I was only asked if I wanted Google as my
default search engine.

I admit I selected "custom install" at the outset, but I do that for
every application I install, namely because I don't want 40 subfolders
under "Program Files".

I'd suggest you select "custom install" for any application you're
installing.

Even if you don't change the default location, you can opt out of all
the crap they want to add on. It seems every other app these days
(even boxed software) wants to add either Google or Yahoo! toolbar
along with it by default.
--
Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

So far, I've been unsuccessful in getting GoogleEarth 4.x to work with Vista
Home Premium.

Anyone got any ideas?

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

By default it installed Google toobar, Google Desktop Search, Adds itself as 
it's default search engine, and changes my home page.  These are all optout 
not optin.

You get a screen asking if you want them -- mine came unchecked so it was opt
in. And I want Google as my default anyway.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

every other app these days
(even boxed software) wants to add either Google or Yahoo! toolbar
along with it by default.

Yeah -- like Adobe Reader even ....

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Well if you only have 512MB of RAM isntalled and it wants 600MB yes I
imagine it may be slower while it pages.

But if you have 1GB, which really is a reasonable minimum amount these
days, why should you want unused RAM?

For me it's like the complaints that my CPU is running at 100% -- I
should hope so I paid enough for it not to have it sit around idle
while I'm working <g>