Help with upgrading.

Question

Hey, I just got my Dell Vista Upgrade kit today, a day early, and my original plan was to set up a new partition for Vista so I can dual boot XP and Vista, but now it seems that every program I find either doesn't work, or costs money. Does anyone know of a good free partitioning program that isn't GParted? If not that, I might just upgrade to Vista completely, what does anyone think about that? I mean, I use things like Photoshop, Flash, WoW, Sims 2, Halo, AIM, I love watching movies (video files and DVDs), listening to music, and many other programs, will Vista be able to do these things as well as XP can right now? Thanks.

robertc123 · Answer

I see you have the same machine as me. People with E1505's seem to be having good luck with Vista. Being you like to listen to Music on yours I will share my experiences with you. If you use Musicmatch 10 it won't work with Vista. If you paid for musicmatch 10 e-mail them like I did and you can dowload Yahoo Jukebox. It is the same company after their merger with yahoo. They will credit you back the 19.95 that you already spent on music match. Sirius radio online works well also.   You may not be able to use the Sigmatel drivers. I had to uninstall them and let the Default Windows HD Audio take over. If you have previosly purchased Creative Audigy MD that won't work either. Uninstall that before you upgrade . I wasn't able to uninstall after the upgrade for some reason.   The good news is that Yahoo and Windows Media player already have sound enhancement controls without having to buy and install plugins like in the past.   Vista will also play movies in the past we had to install Power DVD to get the drivers to do so. What I need to locate now is software that will add sound enchancement for headphones.   Let me know if i can be of anymore assistance because music and movies are important to me also.

1Brian123 · Answer

I am having issues with Yahoo Music Jukebox 2.0 as well (I have version 2.0.2.049).  I just got a new E1505 with Vista Home Premium.  I have a subscription with Yahoo Music and when I install the Jukebox player and sign in, the music does not play.  I get a 'cannot connect to server due to network error' on Jukebox.  On my desktop computer, it connects fine so the server is operating.  I've read this problem is connected to the sigmaTel drivers, and I've tried uninstalling them (I do not delete the software though), but I still have the same problem.    Robertc123, how exactly did you uninstall the sigmaTel drivers and get the Windows HD Audio to take over? I also tried a workaround I read on the yahoo music forums, which involved disabling enhancements on the signmatel audio properties.  That didn't work for me either.  Any suggestions?   E1505 Vista Home Premium Intel Core Duo 1GB Memory Intel Media Acellerator 950 Graphics

robertc123 · Answer

Brian I sent you a private message .

TxJules · Answer

I'm having the same problem. I paid for my subscription 5 months ago and then transferred everything from my old dell to my new one. I just get a message when I try to play music that says 'Cannot connect to Server due to network error - please connect or change proxy settings.' I tried some things that they suggested at the yahoo support site as well, but nothing! So, when I try to play music from yahoo in media center I get another message saying that the music is copyrighted and I must acquire a license - even on songs I have purchased ~ I'm so frustrated! Help!

Qutsemnie · Answer

http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=vista&thread.id=50226   There is the fix to this problem that worked for me.

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