Won't be upgrading

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There are too many incompatability problems with Vista to be worth upgrading.
After running the upgrade advisor, it was telling me that MSN Activesync,
MSN Explorer, Kaspersky Anti-virus. iRiver and my email prog. Incredimail
were all incompatable. Even my scanner won't work. So I think I will give it
a miss.
 
ib1-2 said:
There are too many incompatability problems with Vista to be worth
upgrading.
After running the upgrade advisor, it was telling me that MSN Activesync,
MSN Explorer, Kaspersky Anti-virus. iRiver and my email prog. Incredimail
were all incompatable. Even my scanner won't work. So I think I will give
it
a miss.
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Activesync has been replaced by Windows Mobile Device Center. AVG Free 7.5
works fine for anti-virus.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/
Get ready for Windows Vista: http://www.windowsvista.com/getready/

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Hi,

That's why upgrading is a choice. The MSN issues will likely be resolved
with the RTM release or shortly thereafter (hard for Microsoft to promote
use of their products if they don't work in their own operating system). For
the others, it's up to the vendors to make them compatible with the new
software specs in Vista. Many do not do this until the RTM release, and do
not support their products while an OS is in beta.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
It was almost a year after RTM of x64 before the Microsoft keyboards and
mice had the 64-bit drivers. Also Microsoft may make NEW compatible
versions but my favourite Encarta Reference Library 2006 threatens to break
my computer if I try to install it. They no longer offer the product.
 
Active Synch has an updated version for Vista. It's free.
No need to use MSN Explorer. It's built into Windows Vista and IE 7.
Kaspersky AV is being updated for Vista, and there are quite a few AV
products out there that are AV compatible.
Why doesn't your iRiver MP3 player work? Almost all of them have direct WMP
11 support. The ones that don't show up in Vista as a removable storage
device and drag and drop is fully supported.
Incredimail Build 2592 and up support Vista.
Can't comment on your scanner as you didn't tell us anything about it.

I see no reasons at all you can't upgrade, unless you just don't want to.

No one is forcing you to upgrade to Vista, but the issues you are talking
about are easily solvable

Bill F.
 
Hey Paul,

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but it sounds like you have AVG 7.5
running well on your end. Can you tell me how to get around the AVG startup
problem every time windows is rebooted? I think it's Defender-related but
even though AVG is permitted under startup in Defender I still get the,
"Could not initialize AVG Anti-Virus kernel interface. Application cannot
run." After 30 seconds or so after log in I can manually start AVG without
any problem.
 
Bill Frisbee said:
Active Synch has an updated version for Vista. It's free.
No need to use MSN Explorer. It's built into Windows Vista and IE 7.
Kaspersky AV is being updated for Vista, and there are quite a few AV
products out there that are AV compatible.
Why doesn't your iRiver MP3 player work? Almost all of them have direct WMP
11 support. The ones that don't show up in Vista as a removable storage
device and drag and drop is fully supported.
Incredimail Build 2592 and up support Vista.
Can't comment on your scanner as you didn't tell us anything about it.

I see no reasons at all you can't upgrade, unless you just don't want to.

No one is forcing you to upgrade to Vista, but the issues you are talking
about are easily solvable

Bill F.
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I'm wondering how you got Incredimail to run on Vista. Everytime I have
tried to install, I get "known compatibility problems". That is while
running the installation file in the built in administrator account and
running in XPsp2 compatibility mode. It installs and then hangs on the
"checking for solutions" box.
 
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