550 SLUT
BORN TO FISH NOT CATCH
- Location
- PETALUMA, CALI
first service pack due in dec!
windows vista
- Thread starter kingnothing3
- Start date
- Location
- Cleveland Ohio
It came on my parents new computer and all it does is crash.
Won't play videos without crashing.
Won't work with their printer/scanner.
Won't work with their digital Camera.
Freezes up all the time.
....and this is a brand new computer.
Won't play videos without crashing.
Won't work with their printer/scanner.
Won't work with their digital Camera.
Freezes up all the time.
....and this is a brand new computer.
kingnothing3
give me fuel give me fire
- Location
- Petersburg,Michigan
It came on my parents new computer and all it does is crash.
Won't play videos without crashing.
Won't work with their printer/scanner.
Won't work with their digital Camera.
Freezes up all the time.
....and this is a brand new computer.
wow thats terrible. I know it wont be compatable with anything I have so im not installing it. thought it would work better factory intalled in a new computer!:bigeyes:
douglee25
m3booooy
- Location
- South Jersey
It came on my parents new computer and all it does is crash.
Won't play videos without crashing.
Won't work with their printer/scanner.
Won't work with their digital Camera.
Freezes up all the time.
....and this is a brand new computer.
Def. not the norm for vista installations.
Doug
chadc
X-
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
I think it is the norm with Vista. I have been running RC1 for several months, and recently installed the retail release so we could get our applications running with Vista. This is the worst OS i have ever used. So far I have turned off Windows Defender (what a joke, I can see having it on a home version so people that are clueless do not mess up the computer, but leave it off of the enterprise version, it is annoying to "give permission" to do anything). In order for all internet traffic to get through I had to turn off the AutoTuning feature (evidently this new "feature" does not work well with Cisco, so Cisco rejects the packets), and I also turned off UAC (user account control, again another dummy feature built into this piece of crap). Again, if this were a home version I could see doing that, but expecting us to turn all this off for it to be an effective OS for business is a joke. We control things like this on a policy level, don't install it by default.
I have a dual Xeon processor machine, that is 4 months old, and the display driver is quirky causes lock ups, the audio driver won't work at all, and it will not recognize an external drive I have attached. I am telling you, avoid this POS at all costs, hopefully by SP1 they will have some of this figured out. They rushed it out and it shows.
I have a dual Xeon processor machine, that is 4 months old, and the display driver is quirky causes lock ups, the audio driver won't work at all, and it will not recognize an external drive I have attached. I am telling you, avoid this POS at all costs, hopefully by SP1 they will have some of this figured out. They rushed it out and it shows.
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douglee25
m3booooy
- Location
- South Jersey
Permissive items are one thing, but vista crashing while trying to play videos all the time are not.
Doug
Doug
chadc
X-
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Its not Vista causing the lockups, it is the lack of drivers. I don't doubt that his PC is locking up playing videos, the drivers that were released with Vista are god awful, that is well documented across the net. I can't lay all the blame for that on MS (although in the past they were better at it), but the hardware developers have not been able to get a good driver (bug free) released for most hardware. MOST of the issues lie with the BS security that Vista has built in. It is giving software and hardware developers fits.
chadc
X-
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Don't disable UAC Vista will then block writing to the root drive and to temp folders, meaning you can't install most applications (again what a freaking crock), anyway, the best way to get around this is to change the Local Security Policy, instructions are here.
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/20/windows-vista-secret-4-disabling-uac.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/20/windows-vista-secret-4-disabling-uac.aspx
Ok, so I installed Vista on a workstation with a good video card, 4Gb ram, Core 2 Duo processor, and got a whopping 3.0 on the experience index.
It ran the Aero interface just fine, but let's just say I'm a little, or a lot underwhelmed by the Aero interface they keep showing off. For the hardware required to run that part, you should get something more. Lame.
Oh well, more reason to switch people over to Ubuntu, of which I did 2 people this week and am currently switching our desktop downstairs over to also.
It ran the Aero interface just fine, but let's just say I'm a little, or a lot underwhelmed by the Aero interface they keep showing off. For the hardware required to run that part, you should get something more. Lame.
Oh well, more reason to switch people over to Ubuntu, of which I did 2 people this week and am currently switching our desktop downstairs over to also.
kingnothing3
give me fuel give me fire
- Location
- Petersburg,Michigan
what is Ubuntu?
Windows, Mac, Linux - Ubuntu is a flavor of Linux kind of like XP is a flavor of Windows.
- Location
- Cleveland Ohio
Yeah... lets tweak it!!! :smokin: I'm in like Flynn... plus, I wanna see that new hood!
Well, it has been a couple of weeks since I got this laptop and no problems yet.
The only thing that bothers me is some programs that would be nice to have, (but not needed), won't run.
I bought a program yesterday to make my own ring tones for my work phone and it will install but won't run.
It really isn't a BIG problem, I can just run it on the XP machine then transfer them to the phone.
The only thing that bothers me is some programs that would be nice to have, (but not needed), won't run.
I bought a program yesterday to make my own ring tones for my work phone and it will install but won't run.
It really isn't a BIG problem, I can just run it on the XP machine then transfer them to the phone.
kingnothing3
give me fuel give me fire
- Location
- Petersburg,Michigan
sure its not a BIG problem but isnt that annoying? I think a computer should let you do whatever you want. thats what you buy the damn things for isnt it?
CuzzinOlaf
Hero of the Stupid
- Location
- IL
No Vista for me!
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1641/135/
I'll probably start to master Linux now.
Now to figure out which version of Linux to set up?
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1641/135/
I'll probably start to master Linux now.
Now to figure out which version of Linux to set up?
- Location
- New Baltimore, MI
...been using Vista for about two weeks. No problems whatsoever.