not impressed with vista!!

[Guest]

so far 90% of my programs won't work with vista!! what a waste of money!!
any fixes for this stuff coming???

 

[Byron Hinson]

What programs are they? So far haven't had a program that hasn't run since
November.

 

[Frankster]

You'll have to ask the vendors of the programs that comprise 90 percent of
your system.

-Frank

 

[Beck]

so far 90% of my programs won't work with vista!! what a waste of money!!
any fixes for this stuff coming???

Well if your programs do not work, that is not the fault of Vista but the
fault of the program developers.

What programs are you having problems with?

Have you checked the program manufacturers websites for any patches?

 

[John Waller]

so far 90% of my programs won't work with vista!!

Care to elaborate?

any fixes for this stuff coming???

Ask the software manufacturers, not Microsoft.

 

[Richard Urban]

For what stuff?

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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Oh, you must not have done your pre-Vista installation research, and now you
want to lay this on everyone else and Microsoft?

Did you even install Windows Upgrade Advisor and run it? If you did, and it
told that 90% (a big chunk by the way!) of your software would not work, you
decided to install anyway? Did you bother at all to check with your software
vendors to see if what software you have has a Vista version available?

Somehow I don't think so. I knew upfront I would have to upgrade my Adobe
Photoshop Elements 4.0 program to 5.0 if I wanted to run it on Vista. My
TuneUp Utilites 2007 will need a Vista capable version, which the company is
working on as I type (and it will be free!). Most all my other programs work
just. Even Registry Mechanic (v5.2) works!

So, hey, I can accurately say that 95% of all my software programs work!
And I use software like ChessBase 9 (a german made chess database program),
Chess Assistant 9 (a russian made chess database program), Network Magic,
Family Tree Maker 2006, Movie Collector, 1Click DVD Copy, CopyToDVD, AnyDVD,
ActionOutline 1.6, just to name a few not so common programs.

 

[Guest]

I can't get Photoshop elements 5.0 to work-I've downloaded the patch-still no
luck

 

[R. McCarty]

I've got Photoshop Elements 2.0 working on Vista. Had to do the
install from Safe Mode, but program does load/run. Haven't had a
chance to fully test it however.

 

[Frankster]

Hey, thank you guys for the heads up. I was not even aware of this issue
until I saw your posts. Sure enough my PE5 was squirrely too (left over
after an XP-Vista in-place upgrade). Maximize and Restore of pics opened
inside PE5 was very jittery and slow. Also, the Help/Update function
produced an error and wouldn't work. I downloaded the PE5.0.2 patch from the
Adobe site, applied it, and now all is well once again.

I noticed in the instructions for the patch, much was made out of not having
the default directory names in your previous installation. So... Probably if
you reinstall PE5, using all the default directory names, the patch will
work. I had used all the defaults and my patch applied normally.

-Frank

 

[Will]

I can't get Photoshop elements 5.0 to work-I've downloaded the patch-still
no
luck

Works perfectly for me

I did a custom (clean) install as I dont trust the upgrade from within XP
especially with the programs already in XP

 

[NoStop]

so far 90% of my programs won't work with vista!! what a waste of money!!
any fixes for this stuff coming???

Actually the fixes came a long time before Fista was even released. One
such "fix" is Ubuntu.

Cheers.

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security exist because of inherent weaknesses in the Microsoft operating
system." McAfee

"Vista is finally secure from hacking. No one is going to 'hack' the product
activation and try and steal the o/s. Anyone smart enough to do so ... is
also smart enough not to want to bother." philo