Vista is driving me round the bend...

By Fuzzy Logic Posted October 26, 2009 15:58:05

Here's hoping my Windows 7 disc arrives soon, because I've had enough of Vista.

Explorer window: Suddenly, for no reason, this will forget what size it was. It will open up about 640x480 and I will have to resize it.

Start Menu: I've all sorts of problems with this, mainly due to permissions. It wouldn't allow programs to create shortcuts on installation, I couldn't move items to where I wanted etc.

Worst, a few moments ago, the Games folder vanished. Poof! Just gone. After half an hour searching for it, I had to restore from yesterday's backup to get it back...

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I'm so far around the bend I don't even remember the curve.

I'm so far around the bend that I can make out my own butt just a little way up ahead. [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

I'm so far around the bend that I can make out my own butt just a little way up ahead.

Good thing there's no 'with' between 'out' and 'my' ...

Apparently I'm a lucky one too. I've had my Vista for over four months now, and it's been great. The only problem I had was when an update didn't install properly and it kept crashing, but in less than an hour I was able to roll it back to the previous update status. But that was a one-in-a-million glitch. Other than that, I couldn't possibly be happier with it.

...Unless it came with free coffee or something.

Jafo

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I'm so far around the bend that I can make out my own butt just a little way up ahead.

Good thing there's no 'with' between 'out' and 'my' ...

I've heard of 'coming full circle', but that'd be taking it tooooooo far. [e digicons]:O[/e] [e digicons]:-"[/e]

OK, shall we bring an END to that discussion? [e digicons][/e]

i'm just here to read the meter.

OK, shall we bring an END to that discussion?

As you wish. [e digicons][/e]

Now the all important question: is the release of Win 7 signalling the death knell of Vista?

Has Vista's life expectancy been somewhat shortened by 7's arrival?

I hope not... support-wise, that is. Despite having Win 7 on mine and the missus' machines, I expect that we'll be keeping Vista on our spare machines into the foreseeable future and hope that MS will continue support for quite some time to come.

In any event, we should be grateful for Vista, and all its mistakes... though none greatly affected me. If it were not for the new ground that Vista broke, all the new coding and technoligical advances, including the glitches and mistakes, Win 7 would not be the great OS it is today.

Thank you Vista.... and hail Win 7.

i'm just here to read the meter.

Would that be the Peter Meter???? [e digicons]:-"[/e]

Windows 7 is built upon Vista. It is still Vista at it's heart. Just an upgrade is all.

Would that be the Peter Meter????

Talk about projection

I'd like to show you a series of pictures and find out what you see

So anyone got a Vista disk they are willing to part with?

You should ask tazgecko for his coffee coaster...

So anyone got a Vista disk they are willing to part with?

Sorry, kona.... XP is all I'm willing to part with. I've built us 2 spare rigs and Vista will go on those instead of XP, which prior to getting Win 7 for our primary machineswas my original plan.

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My disk arrived today but you can't have it.

I have Vista Ultimate here if anyone wants to buy it before it goes on ebay

Ok, here I am, in Windows 7. Vista, as usual, went down kicking and screaming. I couldn't do an upgrade, the damn thing blue screened numerous times. So clean install it was...

I've installed ATi drivers, amazingly it did my crossfire and resolution all by itself.

But I'm confused, what do I do next? Everything seems to be working - is it really that simple? [e digicons]o_O[/e]

Audiafox

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You should ask tazgecko for his coffee coaster...

and now decorated with a nice coffee ring.

I'm still waiting for something to go wrong. Strange days we now live in Fuzzy ... strange days

I was amazed at my Win7 install. It went really fast and after the first windows update and a reboot everything was working. I didn't need to manually install any drivers or anything it........just worked! [e digicons]\o/[/e]

2of3

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Yeah, it's a bit of a thumb twiddler, really. You bung in the disc, enter your keyboard and region details, and away it goes... leaving you to twiddle your thumbs for half an hour while it does the business. Apart from entering the product key and personal details a bit later, there's nothing else to do. I even noticed that all my proggies installed faster than in XP or Vista on the same machine... so hip-hip hooray for Win 7.

But I'm confused, what do I do next? Everything seems to be working - is it really that simple?

Yep...