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There are so many "negative" posts here about Vista, and by the very nature
of the community I guess (we post BECAUSE we either have issues or questions)
that's somewhat understandable.
I approached the upgrade cautiously, took my time reading about it, and
maybe some of the pitfalls, and soaked up much of the excellent advice and
tips here as I could. My BIOS, network card, and, as it transpired, my
Logitech WebCam all had "No compatablity data". But, after buying a cheapo
$35 Netgear NIC card and ploughing ahead, and "ignoring" the BIOS
notification (not wise, but what the heck, that same BIOS had seen me go thru
Win3.1/Win98/98SE/2000/XP...so let's give it a go!)...
....bingo....I have a beautiful new OS that I simply love. XP looks/feels so
old fashioned now when I have to use it at work!
Vista fixed up my webcam issue on first reboot by downloading drivers, found
my new network card as soon as I plugged it in, and configured it properly
and seems to have ignored the very BIOS issue it thought might be a problem
via its own Upgrade Advisor.
To all here who helped me (knowingly or not!) and guided me...thank you.
To date, absolutley no issues. I have been able to install all the software
I used to use on XP (sans EasyCDCreator 5), I have had no crashes, no odd
behavior of any sort.
I even then took the plunge and bought a copy of Live OneCare - yeah...I
know...) and after having an initial Error ID Code 0017 (fix: UNBLOCK the
OneCare site in IE7), that too installed fine...as it really should.
Really, I have been both quietly astonished and really surprised at how well
this upgrade (actually a clean install in the end!) went. I had gone thru the
old Win3.1/98/98SE/2000/XP upgrades/installs....THIS was the simplest and
easiest.
I say, do your reading/research and...well, I went for it, and I am happy I
did!
Rgds n tks for all your help guys/gals.
of the community I guess (we post BECAUSE we either have issues or questions)
that's somewhat understandable.
I approached the upgrade cautiously, took my time reading about it, and
maybe some of the pitfalls, and soaked up much of the excellent advice and
tips here as I could. My BIOS, network card, and, as it transpired, my
Logitech WebCam all had "No compatablity data". But, after buying a cheapo
$35 Netgear NIC card and ploughing ahead, and "ignoring" the BIOS
notification (not wise, but what the heck, that same BIOS had seen me go thru
Win3.1/Win98/98SE/2000/XP...so let's give it a go!)...
....bingo....I have a beautiful new OS that I simply love. XP looks/feels so
old fashioned now when I have to use it at work!
Vista fixed up my webcam issue on first reboot by downloading drivers, found
my new network card as soon as I plugged it in, and configured it properly
and seems to have ignored the very BIOS issue it thought might be a problem
via its own Upgrade Advisor.
To all here who helped me (knowingly or not!) and guided me...thank you.
To date, absolutley no issues. I have been able to install all the software
I used to use on XP (sans EasyCDCreator 5), I have had no crashes, no odd
behavior of any sort.
I even then took the plunge and bought a copy of Live OneCare - yeah...I
know...) and after having an initial Error ID Code 0017 (fix: UNBLOCK the
OneCare site in IE7), that too installed fine...as it really should.
Really, I have been both quietly astonished and really surprised at how well
this upgrade (actually a clean install in the end!) went. I had gone thru the
old Win3.1/98/98SE/2000/XP upgrades/installs....THIS was the simplest and
easiest.
I say, do your reading/research and...well, I went for it, and I am happy I
did!
Rgds n tks for all your help guys/gals.