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April 27th, 2007 00:00

Better wait before installing Vista

Every day I put off installing the full version of Vista Home Premium because I read so many horror stories in Forum.  I have the partitioning software (Acronis Disk Director 10), but I am hesitating because I don't want to spent the whole day ripping my hair out from problems with Vista.  How much longer do people have to wait-this OS was released Feb. 1!!!
  • msgale

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    Posted April 27th, 2007 00:00

    People tend not to post non-events i.e. Vista is working fine.  Therefore the number of problem postings are meaningless.  There seem to be a known problem with iTunes and iPods and Vista, you need to check with Apple about it.  If history is indicitive of the future Vista SP1 is a 1/2 to 2 years away.  PS I run Vista on my notebook.
  • msgale

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    Posted April 27th, 2007 00:00

    There is no answer, because you did not include a reason for waiting.  Because others are having problems is not a reason, since it is unclear why they are having problems and do you fit the problem profile.  Example:  a user with a real problem which is caused by an incompatiable program, unless you need to run the same program, the users problem is not yours.
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    Posted April 27th, 2007 00:00

    thanks for your reply and positive encouragement.  I think it was just what I needed to go ahead and see what happens in my own scenario-will definitely respond in the Forum with whatever the results!  Thanks again!
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    Posted April 27th, 2007 00:00

    I suppose it's just the sheer number of problems I read day after day about Vista-most of my techie friends say just to wait until the first service pack is released.  I have an XPS 710, 500GB hdd, 2x memory, dual x1950x ATI Radeon graphics cards, know my computer is equipped for Vista, but you'd think by now all the drivers would be released.  Plus I have an Ipod and have heard you can ruin it using itunes in Vista
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    Posted April 27th, 2007 01:00

    Mine are all working great with Vista. All 7 of them
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    Posted April 27th, 2007 05:00

    I haven't had any problems with Vista on my E1505. Had to up the ram to 2 gigs, to get the performance in Vista, that I had with XP. I run 3-4 proprietary apps, no problem there either. If you can image your drive, give it a try. You can always go back to XP.
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    Posted April 27th, 2007 10:00

    I too would like to say that I have had no problems in upgrading my Inspiron 9400 and Dell Dimension to Vista Ultimate. I just time enough time to download all the key drivers to get it up and running and then used Vista itslef to get the remaining ones. Did not face any show stoppers.
     
    And I am getting used to and appreciating many of the small changes in Vista that are all adding up to quite a nice experience. It may seem that there are no major changes expect for Aero but thats not true and one realises that only after using Vista for long enough. Hard to go back to XP now. And yes - I am a gamer - and I am able to play most of them.
     
    If Dell would enhance driver support for Go7800 it would be great. Unfortunatley they dont. SO over to laptopVideo2go to get modified inf files so that the latest nVidia drivers can be installed. I must say nVidia's Vista support is really pathetic!
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    Posted April 27th, 2007 12:00

    Yeah I have not had problems with Vista at all. I had upgraded from XP to vista on a Toshiba laptop I owned, only problems I had were programs running, and this was remedied by making it run in XP SP2 compatibility mode. I just bought a Dimension E521 (the sale they just had bought it last Saturday came yesterday hehe!) and it has vista pre-loaded. I love it and it runs nice and fast.
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    Posted April 27th, 2007 12:00

    My Dimension 9200 works flawless with Vista. Never would go back to XP
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    Posted April 27th, 2007 15:00

    My Dimension 4550 works great with Vista.