Any Life out here?

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my install went absolutely perfect and all hardware and software works
perfectly. I have had no shut-downs or issues at all! Vista is faster and
all the toys work!
 
That Microsoft recalled Vista and the millions of copies out there are being
shreded as we speak. What they say is XP will be the last OS made on the
PC. Eventually it will be stable.

But to answer your question, you are right, NOBODY has upgraded to Vista.
Absolutly NOBODY.

Now back to the Twilight Zone on the TV Channel
 
Search this newsgroup on "upgrade." I have posted many results as well.
You can search on my handle to see these reports.
 
my install went absolutely perfect and all hardware and software works
perfectly. I have had no shut-downs or issues at all! Vista is faster and
all the toys work!
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As well as Vista I have installed Win 98, Win Me, Win XP (and Amiga)
several times in the past and Vista was by far the quickest and the
easiest (Apart from the Amiga of course). Install of Vista including
reformatting the hard drive took 30 minutes (I timed it). It installed
the correct graphics card drivers and set the correct screen
resolution and also all my motherboard drivers and LAN, saving me two
tasks that I had to do when installing XP. Even my Amiga emulator
works perfectly on Vista.

I did have a problem getting updates but I eventually tracked that
down to my router needing a reset.

Thus far my experience with Vista has been great apart from
the UAC learning curve. I think I am just about on top of the
hill with that one but I am still a little out-of-puff :-)

BTW: I also have found that the Windows media centre does
not recognise my tuner card but this is not a problem for me
as I have no use for the Media Centre anyway.
 
Les said:
As well as Vista I have installed Win 98, Win Me, Win XP (and Amiga)
several times in the past and Vista was by far the quickest and the
easiest (Apart from the Amiga of course). Install of Vista including
reformatting the hard drive took 30 minutes (I timed it). It installed
the correct graphics card drivers and set the correct screen
resolution and also all my motherboard drivers and LAN, saving me two
tasks that I had to do when installing XP. Even my Amiga emulator
works perfectly on Vista.

I did have a problem getting updates but I eventually tracked that
down to my router needing a reset.

Thus far my experience with Vista has been great apart from
the UAC learning curve. I think I am just about on top of the
hill with that one but I am still a little out-of-puff :-)

BTW: I also have found that the Windows media centre does
not recognise my tuner card but this is not a problem for me
as I have no use for the Media Centre anyway.
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Can you give us the specifications of your system? Your experience
differs greatly from mine:

AMD Athlon64 3500/3 x 250Gb HDD/3 x 1Gb DDR2/Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro
SLi/Radeon X550 256Mb

The complete install of Vista Business took just over an hour. The SATA
controller was not recognised (no problem as Vista prompted me for the
CD), NVidia network controller was not recognised, Safecom wireless nic
was not recognised. Some of the motherboard drivers were not recognised
(can't remember what as it was nearly 2 months ago). It picked uip and
installed drivers for my HP 5Si laser printer, but not my tcp/ip
networked Konica-Minolta colour laser printer.

Still not a problem, I can live with that. However (and this is not
going to be a Linux v Windows rant) I installed Ubuntu on the same PC.
It took 20 minutes to get completely installed, I didn't have to supply
a single driver. The two printers were not picked-up but installing
them both using cups took all of 5 minutes.

If Ubuntu can do it like that surely Vista should have been able to?
 
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