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Re: My Vista Experience.
cozzmo1@xxxxxx wrote: Quote:
> Here is my Vista experience.
>
> As a Network Engineer I have worked with many hundreds of PC's with
> multiple OS's.
> Early May, I got a new Family PC.
> Being the cutting edge Guy I went with Vista all the way.
> I got a new custom PC, 500 Gig HD, 2-Gig RAM, The motherboard (ASRock
> 775Dual-Vista) even has Vista in its name.
> I just wanted to be sure everything was compatible.
>
> Vista (OEM 32-bit Home) installed nicely and after a little while I
> was able to navigate it pretty easily. I liked the aero thingy, but
> couldn't see much that XP didn't already provide.
>
> It wasn't until I started installing and using my programs that I
> realized what a draining process it would be. I simply had to learn
> first hand how ugly and really frustrating an OS could be.
>
> ---------
> Annoyance.
> Find: Not nearly as good as PCWorld makes it sound.
> I like google desktop search much better, but you can't turn off
> Vista's indexing fuction.
> This makes it a bad choice to use Googles search and have 2 such
> processes running.
> Googles sidebar is exactly the same as the one that comes with Vista.
>
> ---------
> Problem:
>
> AOL email crashes in mozilla and the client crashes, email only worked
> using IE.
> AOL Error Code: C0FE1702
> AOL 9.0VR (Vista Ready), (Worked for a while)
> Then my son put on i-tunes for his IPOD. (AOL started to crash
> progressivly over the next week),
> I tried these:
> uninstalled mcafee
> uninstalled aol,
> printer driver
> reload.
>
> FIX:
> I uninstalled itunes and that fixed the problem until he re-installed
> it, with a newer version that still didn't help, (AOL+VISTA+itunes=AOL
> Crashing).
>
> Note: AOL was not completly fixed as it would always disco
> occasionally after that.
>
> ---------
> Anoyance:
> The screen kept going momentarily black whenever I loaded a program
> with the annoying button asking if I was sure I wanted to run the
> program.
>
> FIX:
> I turned off UAC (user account control) to speed things up.
> Told that it could be a security hole though.
> ---------
> Problem
> Mcafee will not install on Vista.
>
> FIX.
> To install my retail mcafee on vista.
> http://us.mcafee.com/vista/
>
> run sticker_update_1_2.exe
> Be sure to keep your McAfee product CD that was included in the box.
> You will need this CD for authentication to add the Vista-compatible
> upgrade.
>
> Note: Mcafee seems to run faster in XP
>
> --------
> Problem:
>
> I could not access the C:/ drive on my new VISTA from my XP machine.
> (just other subfolders)
> Getting "not permitted" error.
> \\COMPUTER\c$ is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
> this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to
> find out if you have access permissions.
> Quote:
>>From other web site, but this is the overly complex workaround.
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and add
> a new DWORD labeled "LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy" and set it's value
> to 1.
>
> Reboot
>
> I also had to R-click C: do "advanced sharing" add "everyone and
> annonymous login" and give them full permissions. (even though I did
> it before I had tweaked the registry).
>
> ------------
> Problem:
> unidentified device. "Yellow "?" in the device manager.
> Still get error " Windows Vista does not support MPU-401 Compatible
> MIDI Device"
> When I remove the unidentified device.
>
> Never fixed until I installed XP, then it went away.
> -----
> Problem:
> Printer extremely slow.
> HP PSC 1310 All-in-One series printer,
>
> Trying to print from my Vista PC to the printer that is on my XP box.
> ?? tried updating the driver on xp and also installed driver on the
> remote vista pc.
> Nothing worked.
>
> Cause:
> HP will do nothing to fix the problem and I am not about to Buy a new
> Printer just because HP will not ever make an XP driver that is also
> Vista friendly.
>
> FIX:
> Ditched Vista (Works great on XP)
> ---------
>
> Problem:
> Second Copy won't take my registration code.
> Thus I was stuck with the one month trial.
> FIX:
> Ditched Vista
> --------
> Problem:
> Utorrent downloads don't work. (Yes there are legitimate uses)
>
> FIX:
> Vista has a greedy limit on TCP connections.
> There is a crack for the "TCP concurrent connection limit in Vista".
> but MS should have made it easier to adjust that.
>
> This seems to work ok using XP.
> --------
> Problem:
> Adobe premier 6.5 and MainConcept.
> Not sure which, but when I render a video to MPEG2 now the resulting
> video has a bad sound track that is out of sync with the video. this
> results in Jerky DVD's and is a major issue for me.
> The output MPEG 2 video (according to AVICodec) is intermittently
> flawed.
>
> -----
> Problem,
> Entrust encryption software (Client Software: Entrust Entelligence
> 6.1SP1)
> Not Vista capable.
> No workaround.
> (this will at least keep my office from embracing Vista for a while)
> ------
> Problem,
>
> Nero 6.3, (this was on the MS site as a compatible product)
> When installing, there was a warning that this was Vista incompatible,
> and I chose to install anyway. Nero didn't work.
> but worse, the DVD Drive completly vanished from my explorer!!
>
> FIX: None,
> I had to do a rollback to a previous time.
> Uninstalled Nero. to this date, Nero of any flavor does not with
> Vista.
> --------
> Problem:
> Sonic My-DVD, simply does not work with Vista.
> Cannot install or run.
>
> Workaround: None, but...
> I bought Video Show Expressions. This worked, but was really not as
> good as Sonic and it doesn't take elementary streams for video input
> like Sonic does.
> So now I have sunk more money into the Vista incompatibility issue for
> lesser software.
> -----
> Problem
> Office XP, (office assistant)
> You only get the paper clip, none of the other helper buddies work. no
> dog/Cat/Wizard.
> I didn't try all the other features, but Word/Excel worked ok.
>
> I guess Microsoft wants me to buy the new office
> --------
> Problem:
> Age of Empires/Conquerors expansion.
> My favorite Game and it's by Microsoft, so it should work. (NOT)
> You can't see any of the help files to see what units cost of what you
> civilizations strengths/weakneses are.
> I Verifeid this also using another Vista PC also.
>
> ------
> Problem: (this time HW related)
> after a few months and countless hours dealing with the above Vista
> Annoyances.
> I had a real HW problem.
>
> Symptoms:
> 07/31
> Crashed BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), while surfing walmart.com
> Problem signature:
> Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
> OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
>
> I restored the PC back to the (07/23/07)
> Didn't work, still getting an inconsistent BSOD.
>
> I put in a new 300 gig HD thinking that that was the problem, I
> reinstalled Vista on that, but before ever connecting to the internet,
> I was getting the BSOD.
>
> To make a very long story short.
> 08/05/07 Problem solved, I found and removed a bad 1 GIG RAM chip.
> Now the PC was working with the original HD and everything looked the
> same but it wasnt'.
>
> -------
> Problem.
> Issue that arose probably as a result of the nasty crashed with the
> bad RAM chip.
> windows update is no longer working. (all the other stuff seems to
> work though)
> error,
> "Windows could not search for new update"
> WindowsUpdate_C0150004 WindowsUpdate_dt000
>
> Tried
> Rename the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder, but didn't work.
>
> I Called Microsoft support. @800-936-5700 and got a tech named S.
> Boopath, He was actually very dilligent and I don't hold him
> personally responsible.
> This is actually a call that lasted 5 hours the first day and then
> took place for a couple of hours the next day only to end with a
> completely innoperative PC.
>
> The tech sent me an automatic decoder tool.
> and I emailed him the output data so that he could go over that.
>
> He Called back several hours later, He then logged in via remote
> desktop.
> This allows him to take total control of my PC, move the mouse and
> type.
>
> He stopped a bunch of processes and renamed a bunch of files.
> such as windows/system32/catroot and windows/SoftwareDistribution
> then restarted.
> The PC now came up with a black screen.
> after many unsuccessful attempts to revert by using the Vista-DVD, and
> calling back the next day to see if we could fix this.
> He said we would need to reformat and reinstall Vista.
> I had to save my Data still and was able to get a DOS prompt using the
> "repair reinstall" option on the DVD.
> I put on that extra HD from earlier and made a careful batch file
> using "xcopy /S /H /E /Y"
>
> At this point I gave up.
>
> I told the MS Tech that if I was going to reformat my HD, there was no
> way Vista would ever go back on this machine.
>
> He appologized and basically admitted that "this is a problem that is
> Vista specific, meaning it wouldn't have happened on XP. and he said
> that a lot of the software/HW manufacturers just aren't on the
> bandwagon yet with Vista"
>
> I then threw in the towel and ordered a new copy of XP.
> There is no way I will put Vista back on.
>
> -------
> So here I am with an expensive OEM Vista that I don't use.
> I have bought several programs to replace Vista incompatible programs
> and I suspect that I put 60-80 hours into the learning and
> troubleshooting process.
>
> My XP works great on my "ASRock 775Dual-Vista" and even threads the
> dual processors really well.
> Not just some but all of the above issues where completely resolved
> once I put on XP.
>
> My question is... How is everyone so OK with this??
> Am I going mad, is it just me?
> Where is everyone with similar issues?
> Why does PCWorld and all the other publications keep gushing about how
> good this product is?
> What is the reason, Is there any compelling reason for anyone to get
> Vista in the first place?
>
> Thanks,
> Crzzy1
> (Just for the record, Vista Sucks)
> Let give you a clue.
Never, ever again admit in public that you are a Network Engineer, ok.
Cause based on the above post you have no idea what you're doing.
Just a piece of friendly advice.
Frank |