Vista_User wrote:
Harry Krause

More options Jan 3, 4:57 pm
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
From: Harry Krause
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:57:02 -0500
Local: Thurs, Jan 3 2008 4:57 pm
Subject: Any help for failed VISTA SP1 upgrades?
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Clean install on a new machine.

You know, I'm a windoze fan and have been since the very beginning, but
I am damned sick and tired of being told time and again, no matter the
version, "just do a clean install."

No offense to you. Really.

It takes days and days to do that sort of thing, and even after that
there is no guarantee whatever problem you had will be resolved, or that
you won't unleash some new dragon.

The answer to this sort of horror lies with Microsoft. It simply is not
doing the job it ought to be doing with these operating systems. They're
too vulnerable, they are too hard to diagnose, their tech support sucks
on these matters. It's not just with a beta like SP1 RC, it's generally.

I'm no linux fan, but at least with linux you don't get the support you
didn't pay for, as it were. :}

Harry,
I hate to tell you this, but I told you this months ago. I do agree
with you: Vista Sucks.

You really have summed up my feelings when you said:

It takes days and days to do that sort of thing, and even after that
there is no guarantee whatever problem you had will be resolved, or
that you won't unleash some new dragon.

The answer to this sort of horror lies with Microsoft. It simply is not
doing the job it ought to be doing with these operating systems. They're
too vulnerable, they are too hard to diagnose, their tech support sucks
on these matters. It's not just with a beta like SP1 RC, it's generally.