VISTA - problems

According to Click ( BBC ) - those geniouses at Microsoft has disabled all the old drivers for your hardware and maybe software too, so until they decide to write new ones your printer etc. won't work.
Its like selling a new car without wheels.

Pat494 said:

According to Click ( BBC ) - those geniouses at Microsoft has disabled all the old drivers for your hardware and maybe software too, so until they decide to write new ones your printer etc. won't work.
Its like selling a new car without wheels.

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I went to buy a laptop from PC world yesterday with Vista installed.I found out most of my applications would not work on it , even Microsoft works if its not up to the right level. and I got to wonder if prorams like Sharescope, the one I use, would work. ( I await a reply from S/S).
I did not buy the laptop ,so now I search for a laptop to my specifications with XP installed.
Why should I bother, XP has suited me fine . There will be support for it for another 5 years.

Why should I bother, XP has suited me fine . There will be support for it for another 5 years.

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Personally I won't even be looking at Vista probably until SP2 is released. SP3 for XP is now slated for some time in 2008 so there is plenty of life left in that imho. I have just updated my laptop which was a Win 2k model, and my desktop which is XP is not due for 2 more years so I'm in no rush. By the time I look at Vista most of the probs should be resolved.

If you will use Microsoft products you are in the hands of Mr Gates.

It is your choice to buy his crap. I just wish I was him!

NQR

Well, as a professional repairer of PC's I am kind of forced to use Vista. People are gonna use it (they'll be forced to if they're buying new kit) so I've gotta know it .

I've had the RC1 on my main PC since around October and it's been fairly good. I've just gone last week to Vista Home Premium, but I've kept the PC dual-boot: XP is the default OS and sits in one partition, Vista sits in the other.

Most programs I use do work, I have to say. This includes the usual M$ products, the Adobe Suite (photoshop, indesign, dreamweaver etc). The only thing I have a problem with is NetDrive and my HP Printer Software which won't work. It also won't work on XP now since I installed IE7 which botched all the scanner software - and there's no fix for it at present from HP or M$.

However, I would recommend anyone using trading software to stick with XP for the time being. M$ have promised support for XP until at least 2011, and it is one of the most stable M$ operating systems to date in SP2 guise. Nothing like as stable as Linux or Mac OSX, but I'd wager that not many of you have had huge problems with XP for some time; most of the stuff I repair are due to user errors, rather than OS errors.

I don't get caught up in the anti msft crusades, or the MAC or Linux fan clubs, I'm not a techie, a computer is simply a tool to me, and as long as it does what I want it to do I couldn't care less who makes it, Win2k and now XP do the jobs I want them to do so that's all I ask of them.

my HP Printer Software which won't work. It also won't work on XP now since I installed IE7 which botched all the scanner software

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Hi Rossored, how has this manifest itself, I have had some printing probs lately with an HP printer, though I don't print much, it has been since installing IE7. Prob seems mostly related to multiple page docs.

Not entirely sure myself RT. Here's HP's take on the situation, although the fix talked about here didn't work for me. As I don't actually use it that much myself and only need basic printing ability, I haven't bothered looking further into it.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00802504

rossored said:

Not entirely sure myself RT. Here's HP's take on the situation, although the fix talked about here didn't work for me. As I don't actually use it that much myself and only need basic printing ability, I haven't bothered looking further into it.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00802504

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Thnx Matt