On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:19:59 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

rbstern wrote:
On Feb 9, 10:39 am, Harry Krause wrote:
Got my new computer finished up this morning, though still waiting
delivery of storage drive. VISTA works fine. Initial first-time startup
takes a long time.

Got a "computer emergency" call from my sister last weekend. Brand
new HP something-or-other desktop with Vista. IE 7 quit working
altogether, with no meaningful error message, at some point during her
migration from the old PC. The HP support drones wanted her to start
from scratch with a reinstall of the factory CDs. She wouldn't have
any of that, since she had already invested many hours installing apps
and transferring files from the old PC.

Got her back on the 'net running Firefox. she did the research legwork
and discovered that a lot of others are having similar problems upon
installing their Canon printer driver.

If an operating system can't protect core applications from a poorly
behaved printer driver, it ain't much of an operating system.

Think I'll wait a service pack or two.

Interested to hear how Vista does for you over the coming weeks as you
do real work with it.



I've had some grief, minor and major, every time I moved up the Windows
ladder. I don't expect Vista to be uneventful. I haven't installed my
CANON photo printer yet, so thanks for the heads-up. I do like the
smoother interface on VISTA, though I have changed some settings so the
OS performs and looks as it did in XP.

Right now, I'm operating off one one drive, the C drive, which I usually
reserve for the OS and programs. My D drive, for all my data files,
won't be here until Tuesday.

Here's an interesting Vista story:

Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista


Both Live OneCare and McAfee's enterprise software fall short on virus
protection, according to tests

Microsoft's own antivirus software, Live OneCare, is unable to fully
protect Vista users against viruses; and one of McAfee's antivirus software
packages also fails to protect users, according to independent research
released on Friday.


Story URL: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9285807,00.htm
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