most asked questions about vista!!!

[forty-nine]

I am a 60 year old Computer user who has had all of Microsoft Products and
I
am a stockholder. We cannot use Vista at work and I listen to advanced
users
who are scared to death the next update will kill their computer. Recently
several Dell machines factory installed with Vista stopped booting.
Returned
for XP computers. My most recent home build triple boots into Vista 64, XP
Home and Ubuntu 64. All devices work at rapid rates under Ubuntu and XP.
XP
64 just killed my DVD Drives and several 'Open Source" applications with
the
last update. I wonder why all of these device independent applications
worked
fine but now crash under Vista. I am going to work to vote out the
current
leadership and hope Microsoft can be more nimble. an old cardog still
trying
to learn.

Wow...several Dell PC's all stopped booting at the same time ?
What are the odds ?
Sounds like a tall tale.

Advanced users are NEVER scared of updates.
Sounds like a fib.

 

[raylopez99]

Here's another question for your list: How is it possible that they
allow nutters such as yourself to use a computer is beyond any
reasonable sense of understanding.

Go back to your horse and cart.

Or have you forgotten we experienced the same compatibility issues in
the early days of XP?

dzomlija makes a good point: Vista is like early XP. I myself am
doing a clean install on new hardware (a Core 2 duo, top of the line)
and using new programs. So far, so good. Aero is nice. Who cares if
it's a resource hog? I have more memory and a faster processor (3x
faster than before) which more than makes up for any resource issues.

Power on.

RL

 

[raylopez99]

I am a 60 year old Computer user who has had all of Microsoft Products and I
am a stockholder. We cannot use Vista at work and I listen to advanced users
who are scared to death the next update will kill their computer. Recently
several Dell machines factory installed with Vista stopped booting. Returned
for XP computers. My most recent home build triple boots into Vista 64, XP
Home and Ubuntu 64. All devices work at rapid rates under Ubuntu and XP. XP
64 just killed my DVD Drives and several 'Open Source" applications with the
last update. I wonder why all of these device independent applications worked
fine but now crash under Vista. I am going to work to vote out the current
leadership and hope Microsoft can be more nimble. an old cardog still trying
to learn.

Well said dog. As a fellow MSFT shareholder, I took the easy way out
to learn Vista: I bought a pirate copy of Ultimate 32bit while in Asia
for $3, installed it on a spare system (brand new HW, core 2 duo) and
it works fine! Once more applications come out and Vista becomes
stable, I'll migrate my real work stuff to it, from XP.

RL

 

[the wharf rat]

Advanced users are NEVER scared of updates.

Lol. Anyone who knows anything is scared of ANY update.
I don't let anyone update so much as a patch cable without change
control review. If I'm scared of that imagine how I feel about Vista...

 

[Tim Slattery]

I am a 60 year old Computer user who has had all of Microsoft Products and I
am a stockholder. We cannot use Vista at work and I listen to advanced users
who are scared to death the next update will kill their computer. Recently
several Dell machines factory installed with Vista stopped booting.

Not necessarily Vista's fault. My Dell desktop came with XP, and after
about a month it refused to boot. The problem looked like bad RAM at
first, but new RAM didn't help it. The problem turned out to be the
motherboard. They sent a tech out to replace the mobo, then it worked.
(He plugged the DVD drive into the wrong SATA connector, and I had to
figure out why the OS counldn't see the DVD drive, but that's another
story...). But it was a hardware problem, nothing to do with XP. I'd
suspect a hardware problem in your case, too.