I give up

[nsag]

I cannot get two "Vista certified" drivers to work with devices I need to
use.
I cannot get streaming media to play without hiccoughing or stopping
altogether.
I cannot get Vista and XP computers on the network to consistently
communicate.
I cannot get Vista and XP computers to share printers.
I cannot get Vista to retain settings for Administrator privileges.
And I love the way Vista wipes out System Restore settings when you dual
boot. This has to be one of Microsoft's crowning achievements in absolute
stupidity.
Vista is not all bad: the Hearts and Solitaire games are definitely superior
to their predecessors.
For the minority of users who are able to do real work in Vista, as opposed
to endless twiddling with the OS, I say congratulations.
But you are in the minority.
I will be watching for Service Pack 1.

 

[Paul Smith]

For the minority of users who are able to do real work in Vista, as
opposed to endless twiddling with the OS, I say congratulations.
But you are in the minority.

What do you base that on? All the people I know personally who have
installed Windows Vista have had no issues.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Dave Cox]

With as many copies of Vista that have been sold by now or new
systems with it installed are so bad people can't do work with them or
have major issues it would be such a major news issue every media
network around the globe would be bashing Microsoft.

So when you say people that are not having issues are a minority you
are sorely mistaken.

98% of the people who are having issues with Vista (especially in this
group) are having issues because of their own inability to do a little
research on their current system/software before upgrading.

The other 2% have vaild issues and I hope we can all help them.

 

[ray]

I cannot get two "Vista certified" drivers to work with devices I need to
use.
I cannot get streaming media to play without hiccoughing or stopping
altogether.
I cannot get Vista and XP computers on the network to consistently
communicate.
I cannot get Vista and XP computers to share printers.
I cannot get Vista to retain settings for Administrator privileges.
And I love the way Vista wipes out System Restore settings when you dual
boot. This has to be one of Microsoft's crowning achievements in absolute
stupidity.
Vista is not all bad: the Hearts and Solitaire games are definitely superior
to their predecessors.
For the minority of users who are able to do real work in Vista, as opposed
to endless twiddling with the OS, I say congratulations.
But you are in the minority.
I will be watching for Service Pack 1.

My father once gave me a very sage piece of advise: "if it ain't broke,
don't fix it".

 

[Neil Harley]

I cannot get two "Vista certified" drivers to work with devices I
need to use.
I cannot get streaming media to play without hiccoughing or stopping
altogether.
I cannot get Vista and XP computers on the network to consistently
communicate.

No problems here sharing between Vista, XP and 2003 Server

I cannot get Vista and XP computers to share printers.

My Epson R300 works just fine shared from Vista but I haven't shared it from
XP since installing Vista

I cannot get Vista to retain settings for Administrator privileges.

No problems here

And I love the way Vista wipes out System Restore settings when you
dual boot. This has to be one of Microsoft's crowning achievements in
absolute stupidity.

I can't comment

Vista is not all bad: the Hearts and Solitaire games are definitely
superior to their predecessors.

Purble Place for me all the way

For the minority of users who are able to do real work in Vista, as
opposed to endless twiddling with the OS, I say congratulations.
But you are in the minority.
I will be watching for Service Pack 1.

On a new box I'm having fewer problems than I expected. During the beta I
had lots of hardware related issues but that was down to running betas on a
machine which wasn't up to the job. Now it's just a case of a few annoyances
with Windows and 2 apps I run but apart from that I'm happy with it and I do
disagree with with me being in the minority. Bad luck on having a bad time.
Have you tried restoring from an image?

 

[Frank]

I cannot get two "Vista certified" drivers to work with devices I need
to use.
I cannot get streaming media to play without hiccoughing or stopping
altogether.
I cannot get Vista and XP computers on the network to consistently
communicate.
I cannot get Vista and XP computers to share printers.
I cannot get Vista to retain settings for Administrator privileges.
And I love the way Vista wipes out System Restore settings when you dual
boot. This has to be one of Microsoft's crowning achievements in
absolute stupidity.
Vista is not all bad: the Hearts and Solitaire games are definitely
superior to their predecessors.
For the minority of users who are able to do real work in Vista, as
opposed to endless twiddling with the OS, I say congratulations.
But you are in the minority.
I will be watching for Service Pack 1.

How many times are you going to post the same diatribe?
Obviously you either haven't figured out how to use the collective
knowledge of this ng or else you don't want to or else you're just
another linux loser troll.
Which is it?

Also you're only deceiving yourself (many are!) if you think Vista SP1
is going to make 3rd part drivers suddenly and magically work!
Ain't going to happen.
Wise up and either ask for real help one problem at a time or else stick
with XP.
Frank

 

[Mick]

I cannot get two "Vista certified" drivers to work with devices I
need to use. I cannot get streaming media to play without
hiccoughing or stopping altogether. I cannot get Vista and XP
computers on the network to consistently communicate. I cannot get
Vista and XP computers to share printers. I cannot get Vista to
retain settings for Administrator privileges. And I love the way
Vista wipes out System Restore settings when you dual boot. This has
to be one of Microsoft's crowning achievements in absolute stupidity.
Vista is not all bad: the Hearts and Solitaire games are definitely
superior to their predecessors. For the minority of users who are
able to do real work in Vista, as opposed to endless twiddling with
the OS, I say congratulations. But you are in the minority. I will
be watching for Service Pack 1.

I run a wired / wireless network around the house with one Vista
machine and a number of XP machines. They all behave perfectly -no
problems with any comms or file / printer sharing at all.

The only issue I have is that IE 7 stops working every so often which
can be annoying.

The Techies at work advise me that Vista SP1 is due for relaease in
August. I now no more.

Mick

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[Andy]

My new Dell Inspiron works great with Vista.

I just have 1 driver that keeps being locked out at startup for
incompatibility reasons, not sure why as it worked fine on the 1st few
boots. However, i say cancel and it dosn't seem to give me any problems so
ignoring it now until an updated one is available.

My 3D software works fine (Vue 6 Infinite and Lughtwave 9.2 3D) and even the
games i have installed (guildwars nightfall)

So far so good ;-)

Andy

 

[Chad Harris]

Hi nsag--

I'm willing to bet two things:

1) Whatever is in SP1 won't change anything as to these problems. 2) If you
can be specific with each one I think we can help you because for most
people all of the things you mentioned work.


As to the device drivers unless you're specific, we can't look for them.

CH

 

[john]

What do you base that on? All the people I know personally who have
installed Windows Vista have had no issues.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

Thar she blows - the "it works on my machine so you must be stupid"
reasoning.

 

[Frank]

Thar she blows - the "it works on my machine so you must be stupid"
reasoning.

John, you're really into making up and attributing quotes to others that
they didn't make aren't you?
Seems you're living in some kind of a delusional world.
Have you sought or thought about seeking mental help recently?
It could be beneficial you know.
(belch, smirk)
Frank

 

[Jer]

Yep, works just fine on mine also...So, you must just be stupid..

K

 

[Frank]

Yep, works just fine on mine also...So, you must just be stupid..

K

Shit...you like the "direct' approach huh?

Frank

 

[Kevin]

My 2 new PC's are running just fine and everyone I personally know has no
problems with Vista....we all love it, that includes the most illiterate of
PC Users. It's my work machine, and I am WORKING on it every day doing
database analysis and conversions. I am running Vista Ultimate 64Bit, there
is only one thing that doesn't work and it's due to 64Bit not Vista. I've
installed all of my old Software with no problems.

With 20 Million + copies in circulation and only a handful of people
bitching on this Newsgroup.......I'd say the O/S is doing just fine.

 

[Lang Murphy]

I cannot get two "Vista certified" drivers to work with devices I need to
use.

Might help if you disclosed the devices.

I cannot get streaming media to play without hiccoughing or stopping
altogether.

Might help if you posted the specs of the machine you are using... hw, OS,
sw...

I cannot get Vista and XP computers on the network to consistently
communicate.

Nothing worse than intermittant problems. And you know Vista is the problem
because... ?

I cannot get Vista and XP computers to share printers.

Flavors of Vista and XP please... might help to disclose printers also...

I cannot get Vista to retain settings for Administrator privileges.

What exactly to you mean?

And I love the way Vista wipes out System Restore settings when you dual
boot. This has to be one of Microsoft's crowning achievements in absolute
stupidity.

Known issue for months and months... there are ways to get around this if
one must dual boot.

Vista is not all bad: the Hearts and Solitaire games are definitely
superior to their predecessors.

Wouldn't know about Vista's games... I think I played Majong once...

For the minority of users who are able to do real work in Vista, as
opposed to endless twiddling with the OS, I say congratulations.
But you are in the minority.

Doubt that very much. Got any published metrics to back that up?

 

[john]

John, you're really into making up and attributing quotes to others that
they didn't make aren't you?
Seems you're living in some kind of a delusional world.
Have you sought or thought about seeking mental help recently?
It could be beneficial you know.
(belch, smirk)
Frank

ROFL
being told to seek help from some dweeb who feels compelled to make virtual
sounds of bodily functions.
too funny - you just can't make this stuff up...

here's a tip for you. never go near a hand gun.

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calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to
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[Matt]

I can sympathise with what you are saying to a degree (though I also
have had no problems with XP and Vista networking together). Most of my
Vista frustrations come from driver issues, where the finger of blame
can be pointed squarely at Nvidia, who have been taking more than a
little flack for their poor Vista graphics drivers. It's also
disappointing that Microsoft appear to have no intention of fixing the
deleted restore points issue. All I can say is if XP works better for
you then go on using it.

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[Frank]

ROFL
being told to seek help from some dweeb who feels compelled to make virtual
sounds of bodily functions.
too funny - you just can't make this stuff up...

here's a tip for you. never go near a hand gun.

Excuse me while I go to the "john'...oh...I feel much better now!
Question, does your mum know you're still living the basement?
(smirt, snort)
Frank

 

[Nina DiBoy]

Hi nsag.

This is most likely due to the problems with the Vista Logo program.
Microsoft obviously did a much worse job with Vista logo program than
they did with XP.

There are a number of things that make it difficult for XP and Vista to
talk over the network out of the box for Vista. You might try turning
off IPv6 in Vista and try again (this worked for me).

Probably due (at least in part) to their inability to talk properly over
the network.

Lots of complaints about this on the newsgroup.

Agreed. I have the same problem here. I'm wondering if moving Vista to
a virtual machine will fix the problem for me. For those that prefer
to dual boot, you have to completely hide the Vista partition from the
XP partition via 3rd party partitioning software.

I hope you are able to fix all of your difficulties with Vista. Good luck.

How many times are you going to post the same diatribe?
Obviously you either haven't figured out how to use the collective
knowledge of this ng or else you don't want to or else you're just
another linux loser troll.
Which is it?

Hi Cranky Frank.

I see you are up to your typical behaviour of attacking posters instead
of trying to help them with their frusterating Vista problems. I'm
often considered a lintroll here, and I still made an attempt to provide
some help for the OP's Vista problems.

 

[Frank]

Nina DiBoy wrote:

I'm often considered a lintroll here, and I still made an attempt to
provide some help for the OP's Vista problems.

Wonderful! You did a great job and I'm sure the op is very appreciative.
Keep up the good work!
THX
Frank