Vista - RE: Well....I LOVE IT

I gotta agree. After putting up with the Beta testing and all the bugs I was
pleasantly surprised at just how intuitive and polished the finished product
seems to be. When I first installed the Ultimate version into a newly built
Asus crosshair machine I had no sound and my printer didn't work. I could
live without sound but I had to get on the phone with Epson because there was
no driver for my best selling 3 in 1 printer. They came through in a few
days. Then about a week into using Vista both at home and in the store I
noticed sound coming from my front speakers. I didn't load any drivers or
anything and have the Asus Crosshair audio device installed. Two or three
bootups later I had surround from 5 of my 6 speakers plus the subwoffer. It
seems that Vista may have some self healing qualities. The way it keeps
flying off the shelves at the store tells me thet we're into something good.

"Benny" wrote:

> I would like to say thank you for this post. I did the exact same thing that
> you did. I did my research, weighed my options, decided which risks to take
> and which to avoid and I have had no issues with Vista. I did have to
> reinstall after using the upgrade path on the first attempt. As I said
> above, I chose which risks I was willing to take and that is what gave me
> problems with the upgrade path. Vista installed fine via the upgrade path,
> but I didn't follow the instructions on a couple of my component driver
> upgrades and had to reinstall via a clean install. Let me make sure you
> understand that this was my choice, not Vista's or the other driver
> developers'. I myself chose to take the risk and when I chose to regroup and
> do a clean install, it was simple and fairly quick.
>
> I have had no problems with Vista. I have been reading these discussion
> groups for about two months now and have noticed one outstanding quality of
> the posts. Most of them arise from operator error, not OS error. What I
> really love is, I am an engineer, I use computers to do my job. Most of the
> really negative posts that I have read here are posted by "self-claiming" IT
> professionals that are doing things that I perceive as "stupid" and I'm not
> an IT professional. There are oh-so-many problems listed here that are
> posted as Microsoft's Stupidity, that have absolutely nothing to do with MS
> being dumb, but rather operators doing something really stupid that they
> would have trashed any other user for doing.
>
> I read a post today that blamed MS because he (or she) had used an admin
> account to deny access to the boot drive to everyone. If that's not
> stupidity at its best, I don't know what is.
>
> Anyway, off my soapbox. I have had Vista installed at home for two months
> and the trash that my kids used to be able to dig up over the internet, i.e.,
> menu bars, pop-up's and the like, just simply don't happen anymore. When I
> hear, "Daddy it needs your password," I just say click on cancel, you don't
> need that. Guess what, after two months of internetting, they haven't needed
> not one of those pop-ups and I haven't had to uninstall anything that didn't
> want to be uninstalled. I say KUDOS to MS, UAC, MS Defender and Vista. Keep
> up the good work.
>
> Benny
>
> "Rod" wrote:
>
> > There are so many "negative" posts here about Vista, and by the very nature
> > of the community I guess (we post BECAUSE we either have issues or questions)
> > that's somewhat understandable.
> >
> > I approached the upgrade cautiously, took my time reading about it, and
> > maybe some of the pitfalls, and soaked up much of the excellent advice and
> > tips here as I could. My BIOS, network card, and, as it transpired, my
> > Logitech WebCam all had "No compatablity data". But, after buying a cheapo
> > $35 Netgear NIC card and ploughing ahead, and "ignoring" the BIOS
> > notification (not wise, but what the heck, that same BIOS had seen me go thru
> > Win3.1/Win98/98SE/2000/XP...so let's give it a go!)...
> >
> > ...bingo....I have a beautiful new OS that I simply love. XP looks/feels so
> > old fashioned now when I have to use it at work!
> >
> > Vista fixed up my webcam issue on first reboot by downloading drivers, found
> > my new network card as soon as I plugged it in, and configured it properly
> > and seems to have ignored the very BIOS issue it thought might be a problem
> > via its own Upgrade Advisor.
> >
> > To all here who helped me (knowingly or not!) and guided me...thank you.
> >
> > To date, absolutley no issues. I have been able to install all the software
> > I used to use on XP (sans EasyCDCreator 5), I have had no crashes, no odd
> > behavior of any sort.
> >
> > I even then took the plunge and bought a copy of Live OneCare - yeah...I
> > know...) and after having an initial Error ID Code 0017 (fix: UNBLOCK the
> > OneCare site in IE7), that too installed fine...as it really should.
> >
> > Really, I have been both quietly astonished and really surprised at how well
> > this upgrade (actually a clean install in the end!) went. I had gone thru the
> > old Win3.1/98/98SE/2000/XP upgrades/installs....THIS was the simplest and
> > easiest.
> >
> > I say, do your reading/research and...well, I went for it, and I am happy I
> > did!
> >
> > Rgds n tks for all your help guys/gals.