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VISTA...works.
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. |
VISTA...works.
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
. .. 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. Harry - this probably leads indirectly to a pdf file. The source is safe. 10+ tweaks, tricks, and hacks to make Windows Vista fly Every operating system could stand some tweaking. No matter how many developers you throw at an OS as complicated as Windows Vista, power users will always find something they can modify or hack to make it run faster, or better, or just differently. Here are just a few of the Windows Vista tweaks, tricks, and hacks we have discovered so far. http://ct.techrepublic.com.com/click...e0-bf&s=5&fs=0 |
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Don't mean nothing.
JR 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. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth |
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. Harry - this probably leads indirectly to a pdf file. The source is safe. 10+ tweaks, tricks, and hacks to make Windows Vista fly Every operating system could stand some tweaking. No matter how many developers you throw at an OS as complicated as Windows Vista, power users will always find something they can modify or hack to make it run faster, or better, or just differently. Here are just a few of the Windows Vista tweaks, tricks, and hacks we have discovered so far. http://ct.techrepublic.com.com/click...e0-bf&s=5&fs=0 Yeah, thanks. I'm going to go slow with these sorts of mods. |
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JR North wrote:
Don't mean nothing. JR 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. What doesn't "mean nothin'." |
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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. Did you really wonder if it would not work? |
VISTA...works.
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
. .. JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. Harry - this probably leads indirectly to a pdf file. The source is safe. 10+ tweaks, tricks, and hacks to make Windows Vista fly Every operating system could stand some tweaking. No matter how many developers you throw at an OS as complicated as Windows Vista, power users will always find something they can modify or hack to make it run faster, or better, or just differently. Here are just a few of the Windows Vista tweaks, tricks, and hacks we have discovered so far. http://ct.techrepublic.com.com/click...e0-bf&s=5&fs=0 Yeah, thanks. I'm going to go slow with these sorts of mods. Document everything you change. On paper. Not on the same note pad the wife uses for shopping lists. |
VISTA...works.
"Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. A few questions if I may. Have you built a RAID array? Which configuration if you did. What version BIOS? Does your DVD burn? SATA or PATA interface? Jmicron or Intel controller? I have the non-wifi version of this board and it's driving me crazy. Doing research on the web several are having problems. Thanks. |
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D.Duck wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. A few questions if I may. Have you built a RAID array? Which configuration if you did. What version BIOS? Does your DVD burn? SATA or PATA interface? Jmicron or Intel controller? I have the non-wifi version of this board and it's driving me crazy. Doing research on the web several are having problems. Thanks. No, no raid array in this box. The damn startup screen goes by so fast I haven't seen which BIOS is on the boared. DVD works fine. Hard drives are SATA. So is internal DVD. |
VISTA...works.
"Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. A few questions if I may. Have you built a RAID array? Which configuration if you did. What version BIOS? Does your DVD burn? SATA or PATA interface? Jmicron or Intel controller? I have the non-wifi version of this board and it's driving me crazy. Doing research on the web several are having problems. Thanks. No, no raid array in this box. The damn startup screen goes by so fast I haven't seen which BIOS is on the boared. DVD works fine. Hard drives are SATA. So is internal DVD. Thanks. I just can't get the RAID option to work. I'm almost to the point that the P5B is defective. Good luck. |
VISTA...works.
"Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. Congratulations! Do you notice any significant speed on this machine vs the one you gave your Mom? |
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JimH wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. Congratulations! Do you notice any significant speed on this machine vs the one you gave your Mom? Well, the new box has a faster video card. The application hard drives are both WD Raptors, so that part should be the same. I would say the CPU is a bit faster opening up programs. Also, the new box has more memory. Yeah, the new machine is faster, despite VISTA. VISTA so far seems nice and smooth to me. Only one small software program so far bombed out on the install, a chess program. But I've just started to load up the C drive. My D drive hasn't yet arrived. |
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Harry Krause wrote:
JimH wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. Congratulations! Do you notice any significant speed on this machine vs the one you gave your Mom? Well, the new box has a faster video card. The application hard drives are both WD Raptors, so that part should be the same. I would say the CPU is a bit faster opening up programs. Also, the new box has more memory. Yeah, the new machine is faster, despite VISTA. VISTA so far seems nice and smooth to me. Only one small software program so far bombed out on the install, a chess program. But I've just started to load up the C drive. My D drive hasn't yet arrived. What video card did you get? |
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Harry Krause wrote: JimH wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. Congratulations! Do you notice any significant speed on this machine vs the one you gave your Mom? Well, the new box has a faster video card. The application hard drives are both WD Raptors, so that part should be the same. I would say the CPU is a bit faster opening up programs. Also, the new box has more memory. Yeah, the new machine is faster, despite VISTA. VISTA so far seems nice and smooth to me. Only one small software program so far bombed out on the install, a chess program. But I've just started to load up the C drive. My D drive hasn't yet arrived. What video card did you get? A new "mid-range" card from ATI...a XT 1950 pro existential or something like that. It came in a blank OEM box, so until I restore my email from my other computer, I can't be more specific. Wait...wait...don't tell me. Radeon XT 1950 Pro or something like that. Close enough. |
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That Vista initially 'works fine'
JR Harry Krause wrote: JR North wrote: Don't mean nothing. JR 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. What doesn't "mean nothin'." -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth hat.." |
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Harry Krause wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: Harry Krause wrote: JimH wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. Congratulations! Do you notice any significant speed on this machine vs the one you gave your Mom? Well, the new box has a faster video card. The application hard drives are both WD Raptors, so that part should be the same. I would say the CPU is a bit faster opening up programs. Also, the new box has more memory. Yeah, the new machine is faster, despite VISTA. VISTA so far seems nice and smooth to me. Only one small software program so far bombed out on the install, a chess program. But I've just started to load up the C drive. My D drive hasn't yet arrived. What video card did you get? A new "mid-range" card from ATI...a XT 1950 pro existential or something like that. It came in a blank OEM box, so until I restore my email from my other computer, I can't be more specific. Wait...wait...don't tell me. Radeon XT 1950 Pro or something like that. Close enough. How much on board memory? |
VISTA...works.
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Harry Krause wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: Harry Krause wrote: JimH wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. Congratulations! Do you notice any significant speed on this machine vs the one you gave your Mom? Well, the new box has a faster video card. The application hard drives are both WD Raptors, so that part should be the same. I would say the CPU is a bit faster opening up programs. Also, the new box has more memory. Yeah, the new machine is faster, despite VISTA. VISTA so far seems nice and smooth to me. Only one small software program so far bombed out on the install, a chess program. But I've just started to load up the C drive. My D drive hasn't yet arrived. What video card did you get? A new "mid-range" card from ATI...a XT 1950 pro existential or something like that. It came in a blank OEM box, so until I restore my email from my other computer, I can't be more specific. Wait...wait...don't tell me. Radeon XT 1950 Pro or something like that. Close enough. How much on board memory? 256. I'm not a "big time computer gamer." It's more than good enough for the photo and newsletter work I do. |
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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. The "first kid on the block" syndrome manifests itself again in a boating group. Maybe JLH is right...what a neat guy! |
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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. Ok...to make this the slightest bit relevant to boating: My grandfather taught me an adage: A fool and his money are soon departed. Asta la Vista. Hello Kubuntu. Hey honey...I can afford the VC17 after all! |
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How many drives do you have?
"D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. A few questions if I may. Have you built a RAID array? Which configuration if you did. What version BIOS? Does your DVD burn? SATA or PATA interface? Jmicron or Intel controller? I have the non-wifi version of this board and it's driving me crazy. Doing research on the web several are having problems. Thanks. No, no raid array in this box. The damn startup screen goes by so fast I haven't seen which BIOS is on the boared. DVD works fine. Hard drives are SATA. So is internal DVD. Thanks. I just can't get the RAID option to work. I'm almost to the point that the P5B is defective. Good luck. |
VISTA...works.
"James" wrote in message .net... How many drives do you have? "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. A few questions if I may. Have you built a RAID array? Which configuration if you did. What version BIOS? Does your DVD burn? SATA or PATA interface? Jmicron or Intel controller? I have the non-wifi version of this board and it's driving me crazy. Doing research on the web several are having problems. Thanks. No, no raid array in this box. The damn startup screen goes by so fast I haven't seen which BIOS is on the boared. DVD works fine. Hard drives are SATA. So is internal DVD. Thanks. I just can't get the RAID option to work. I'm almost to the point that the P5B is defective. Good luck. Total of three drives. One with the OS and two identical drives I want to use in RAID 1. |
VISTA...works.
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. |
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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. |
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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. It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using Windows XP. |
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"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. 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. It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using Windows XP. Clean install? |
VISTA...works.
"D.Duck" wrote in message ... "James" wrote in message .net... How many drives do you have? "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. A few questions if I may. Have you built a RAID array? Which configuration if you did. What version BIOS? Does your DVD burn? SATA or PATA interface? Jmicron or Intel controller? I have the non-wifi version of this board and it's driving me crazy. Doing research on the web several are having problems. Thanks. No, no raid array in this box. The damn startup screen goes by so fast I haven't seen which BIOS is on the boared. DVD works fine. Hard drives are SATA. So is internal DVD. Thanks. I just can't get the RAID option to work. I'm almost to the point that the P5B is defective. Good luck. Total of three drives. One with the OS and two identical drives I want to use in RAID 1. You may want to check out this forum and ask questions on the RAID setup the http://forums.pcpitstop.com/ |
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D.Duck wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. 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. It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using Windows XP. Clean install? I know next to nothing about Vista and the new computer has XP Pro installed, but with the upgrade deal thing - Vista Business for free, etc. I called my brother who does know a lot about it and he's been running Vista on a standalone computer at his IT shop - says at this point, MS is using the installed customer base as a test bed - Vista is no where near ready. Expect huge service packs in the near future. I think I'll wait for a while. |
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D.Duck wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using Windows XP. Clean install? No, I would not do a clean install Windows Vista over keeping Windows XP because it has very few advantages over Windows XP, and I am sure their will be many problems with Vista over the next year. If you think about it it took MS two years to debug the major problems and security issues from XP. I think it took 4 years to come out with SP2. Here are some reviews of Windows Vista: "Windows Vista: more than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: "The 'Wow' Starts Now," and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh. But as with every previous version, there's no wow here, not even in ironic quotes. Vista is at best mildly annoying and at worst makes you want to rush to Redmond, Wash. and rip somebody's liver out. Vista is a fading theme park with a few new rides, lots of patched-up old ones and bored kids in desperate need of adult supervision running things. If I can find plenty of problems in a matter of hours, why can't Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )? Most likely answer: It did--and it doesn't care." from Forbes -------- Windows Vista has been in consumers' hands for about a week now and, while there haven't been a flood of problems, there have been a few bumps along the way. Among the initial gripes are trouble installing or activating copies, as well as reports that the operating system isn't working quite as they expected. In addition to the sporadic reports of bugs and upgrade issues, other people are discovering that hardware and software incompatibilities are impeding their path to Vista. from CNET Experts: Don't upgrade to VIsta One thing I love about DEMO is that I get to rub elbows with some of the world's savviest tech press. All the product guys are here. Hanging out in the lobby with them yesterday, I asked the question that is on the mind of 90 percent of all computer users: "Should I upgrade my computer to VISTA?" I received a resounding "NO!" in three-part harmony. It seems that Vista is great if you are buying a new PC, but right now there are all sorts of incompatabilities with legacy software, the stuff that's already in your computer. This will get worked out, one app at a time, over the coming months, they speculate. But chances are you should just wait to have Vista in your next machine--and the one I have right now works just fine, thank you very much. |
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On Feb 10, 11:25 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
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. It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using Windows XP.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Didn't mean to give the impression that this was an upgrade. This was an out of the box, brand new HP with Vista pre-installed, at first start-up plus about 4 hours when my sister hit the wall with IE 7 and the Cannon driver. |
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... D.Duck wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. 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. It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using Windows XP. Clean install? I know next to nothing about Vista and the new computer has XP Pro installed, but with the upgrade deal thing - Vista Business for free, etc. I called my brother who does know a lot about it and he's been running Vista on a standalone computer at his IT shop - says at this point, MS is using the installed customer base as a test bed - Vista is no where near ready. Expect huge service packs in the near future. I think I'll wait for a while. I agree. From what I've read Vista seems allot about cutesy and "maybe" more secure. That remains to be seen. XP Pro does all I need. |
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"JimH" wrote in message ... "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "James" wrote in message .net... How many drives do you have? "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. 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. A few questions if I may. Have you built a RAID array? Which configuration if you did. What version BIOS? Does your DVD burn? SATA or PATA interface? Jmicron or Intel controller? I have the non-wifi version of this board and it's driving me crazy. Doing research on the web several are having problems. Thanks. No, no raid array in this box. The damn startup screen goes by so fast I haven't seen which BIOS is on the boared. DVD works fine. Hard drives are SATA. So is internal DVD. Thanks. I just can't get the RAID option to work. I'm almost to the point that the P5B is defective. Good luck. Total of three drives. One with the OS and two identical drives I want to use in RAID 1. You may want to check out this forum and ask questions on the RAID setup the http://forums.pcpitstop.com/ I've posted my problem to several forums, guess one more won't hurt. Thanks.... |
VISTA...works.
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
... D.Duck wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. 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. It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using Windows XP. Clean install? I know next to nothing about Vista and the new computer has XP Pro installed, but with the upgrade deal thing - Vista Business for free, etc. I called my brother who does know a lot about it and he's been running Vista on a standalone computer at his IT shop - says at this point, MS is using the installed customer base as a test bed - Vista is no where near ready. Expect huge service packs in the near future. I think I'll wait for a while. Big companies usually run new stuff like this on test machines that don't involve critical operations. The techs are some of the best contributors to various online forums. Most other information is pure myth, including mine, yours and Harry's. Not enough stats to say anything meaningful yet. |
VISTA...works.
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... D.Duck wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. 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. It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using Windows XP. Clean install? I know next to nothing about Vista and the new computer has XP Pro installed, but with the upgrade deal thing - Vista Business for free, etc. I called my brother who does know a lot about it and he's been running Vista on a standalone computer at his IT shop - says at this point, MS is using the installed customer base as a test bed - Vista is no where near ready. Expect huge service packs in the near future. I think I'll wait for a while. Big companies usually run new stuff like this on test machines that don't involve critical operations. The techs are some of the best contributors to various online forums. Most other information is pure myth, including mine, yours and Harry's. Not enough stats to say anything meaningful yet. No offense Doug, but I'll take the word of a experienced, cross platform IT/IS manager who is responsible for keeping three major medical centers running for thirty years. If he says it's has backwards compatibility problems and serious device flaws - he's right. |
VISTA...works.
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
. .. JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... D.Duck wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. 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. It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using Windows XP. Clean install? I know next to nothing about Vista and the new computer has XP Pro installed, but with the upgrade deal thing - Vista Business for free, etc. I called my brother who does know a lot about it and he's been running Vista on a standalone computer at his IT shop - says at this point, MS is using the installed customer base as a test bed - Vista is no where near ready. Expect huge service packs in the near future. I think I'll wait for a while. Big companies usually run new stuff like this on test machines that don't involve critical operations. The techs are some of the best contributors to various online forums. Most other information is pure myth, including mine, yours and Harry's. Not enough stats to say anything meaningful yet. No offense Doug, but I'll take the word of a experienced, cross platform IT/IS manager who is responsible for keeping three major medical centers running for thirty years. If he says it's has backwards compatibility problems and serious device flaws - he's right. I guess he fits the category I was talking about. Admittedly, there are lots of people in smaller shops who do the same thing. |
VISTA...works.
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:28:23 -0500, D.Duck wrote:
Clean install? From what I'm reading, that may not be an option. The upgrade version of Vista requires XP to reside on the disk, although I believe there may be a work-around. Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade Vista, your XP license is toast. There's no going back. http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Upgrade...pict25144.html The work-around: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/c...de-discovered/ |
VISTA...works.
thunder wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:28:23 -0500, D.Duck wrote: Clean install? From what I'm reading, that may not be an option. The upgrade version of Vista requires XP to reside on the disk, although I believe there may be a work-around. Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade Vista, your XP license is toast. There's no going back. http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Upgrade...pict25144.html The work-around: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/c...de-discovered/ It should be much simpler - you know what I mean? Another reason never to buy anything from Apple. They started all this GUI crap. :) |
VISTA...works.
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
thunder wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:28:23 -0500, D.Duck wrote: Clean install? From what I'm reading, that may not be an option. The upgrade version of Vista requires XP to reside on the disk, although I believe there may be a work-around. Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade Vista, your XP license is toast. There's no going back. http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Upgrade...pict25144.html The work-around: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/c...de-discovered/ It should be much simpler - you know what I mean? Another reason never to buy anything from Apple. They started all this GUI crap. :) I believe it was Xerox, actually. I'm more a fan of apple than I used to be, what with the iPOD and the new $1000 laptops that are pretty damned nice and run both apple's OS and Windoze XP. |
VISTA...works.
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 -- ***** Have a super day! ***** John H |
VISTA...works.
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message m... thunder wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:28:23 -0500, D.Duck wrote: Clean install? From what I'm reading, that may not be an option. The upgrade version of Vista requires XP to reside on the disk, although I believe there may be a work-around. Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade Vista, your XP license is toast. There's no going back. http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Upgrade...pict25144.html The work-around: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/c...de-discovered/ It should be much simpler - you know what I mean? Another reason never to buy anything from Apple. They started all this GUI crap. :) Ripped off from Xerox PARC. |
VISTA...works.
Calif Bill wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message m... thunder wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:28:23 -0500, D.Duck wrote: Clean install? From what I'm reading, that may not be an option. The upgrade version of Vista requires XP to reside on the disk, although I believe there may be a work-around. Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade Vista, your XP license is toast. There's no going back. http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Upgrade...pict25144.html The work-around: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/c...de-discovered/ It should be much simpler - you know what I mean? Another reason never to buy anything from Apple. They started all this GUI crap. :) Ripped off from Xerox PARC. I think you mean given to Apple by short sighted Xerox. |
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