Vista - I wonder what some people are doing here

Sorry, I'm not a computer genius by far, but I really wonder why some people
who don't seem to know very much about computers in general are trying to
test a BETA version of an operating system.
Some of the questions on this newsgroup are frightening. If you don't know
enough about what you're doing, leave well alone! Good luck to the others.

LOL yeah, I got a kick out of the "How do I uninstall Vista?" posts. I mainly
blame businesses like microsoft. Everyone wants to make software so easy to
use.

If you want to install a disk drive, stick of RAM, take it to a tech. I
don't know if you ever installed hardware, but it is the most simpliest
thing. Read what the mobo supports and install. Mainstream people are not
asked to think/learn. Now the education is out there, but it's not 'Pop out
in front of your face' there. Which some people need, because some people
have 0% common sense.

"audiodragon" wrote:

> Sorry, I'm not a computer genius by far, but I really wonder why some people
> who don't seem to know very much about computers in general are trying to
> test a BETA version of an operating system.
> Some of the questions on this newsgroup are frightening. If you don't know
> enough about what you're doing, leave well alone! Good luck to the others.
>

"I like "I need to unformat my partition" and "I installed Vista on my
computer at my place of work, and now I'm having problems".
Personally I installed Vista on my work computer, but first I took out the
hard drive and rubbed the platters with a wire brush and then put it in a
microwave, to make sure the XP icons didn't jump from one partition to the
other. As they often do.
Sorry for my sarcasm.

"audiodragon" <audiodragon@msn.com> wrote in message
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>
> "I like "I need to unformat my partition" and "I installed Vista on my
> computer at my place of work, and now I'm having problems".
> Personally I installed Vista on my work computer, but first I took out the
> hard drive and rubbed the platters with a wire brush and then put it in a
> microwave, to make sure the XP icons didn't jump from one partition to the
> other. As they often do.
> Sorry for my sarcasm.
>

My personal favorite was the person who installed it at his small business
and then posted he couldn't print his invoices.

Oh SNAP! I missed that one. Perhaps I could have advised him.

"Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> My personal favorite was the person who installed it at his small business
> and then posted he couldn't print his invoices.
>

Hence the reason(s) most of us that Beta test do it on a separate box.
I have a computer that I generally only use for Beta testing so if things go
awry it is no big deal to format and start over.
Why anybody install a Beta on a system that they are using for their
everyday computing with files that are not backed up etc... is beyond me.
-Wojo


"Mark D. VandenBerg" <mvan103@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Oh SNAP! I missed that one. Perhaps I could have advised him.
>
> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eFmSRwGoGHA.816@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
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>>
>> My personal favorite was the person who installed it at his small
>> business and then posted he couldn't print his invoices.
>>
>

I imagine that for more than a few who "thought" they knew what they were
doing, this has been a humbling experience.

--
Mark

Keeping the fun in dysfunctional!

No doubt
Same happened with the SP2 Beta
-Wojo

"Mark D. VandenBerg" <mvan103@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I imagine that for more than a few who "thought" they knew what they were
>doing, this has been a humbling experience.
>
> --
> Mark
>
> Keeping the fun in dysfunctional!

M@dhat3rr wrote:

> LOL yeah, I got a kick out of the "How do I uninstall Vista?"
> posts. I mainly blame businesses like microsoft. Everyone wants
> to make software so easy to use.

And this is wrong because...?

--
Chris Game

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

audiodragon wrote:

> Some of the questions on this newsgroup are frightening. If you
> don't know enough about what you're doing, leave well alone!

On the contrary, MSFT could learn a lot from the queries Joe Public
come up with in their attempts to find a decent Operating System.

--
Chris Game

All generalizations are false, including this one.