Please be aware this is just a moan about Vista - asking nothing, achieving little (a little release for me).
I recently posted that vmware causes some network problems (particularly printing) with various of my Vista installations. The printing is particularly annoying - takes 5 minutes before the printer even receives the request. Had decided to set up a new installation of Vista, sans vmware. Now, I've suddenly found the printing problem has recurred, without vmware (but I've no real idea why). So after some attempted settings resetting, decided to run an upgrade (nearest thing to XP's repair reinstal). First small surprise - had to uninstall powershell (which of course means starting again). Then, after completion vaguely amazed to find graphics and network drivers had been blown out. Office doesn't work - but printing back to normal response - hoorah!!. If you do a repair reinstall with XP, everything's as was - what's with Vista (and you can't 'upgrade/repair' Vista unless you can already boot it, as no such option from the install disk. I've already had customers who've had to have a new clean install/recover to factory, because Vista's built in repair options were no good, and so you're stuffed).
I just hope windows 7 isn't more of the same (bad enough we're going to have yet another version of windows on the books so soon).
I would like to join those who say vista is great, but my experience continues to be anything but.
here endeth the moan.
I recently posted that vmware causes some network problems (particularly printing) with various of my Vista installations. The printing is particularly annoying - takes 5 minutes before the printer even receives the request. Had decided to set up a new installation of Vista, sans vmware. Now, I've suddenly found the printing problem has recurred, without vmware (but I've no real idea why). So after some attempted settings resetting, decided to run an upgrade (nearest thing to XP's repair reinstal). First small surprise - had to uninstall powershell (which of course means starting again). Then, after completion vaguely amazed to find graphics and network drivers had been blown out. Office doesn't work - but printing back to normal response - hoorah!!. If you do a repair reinstall with XP, everything's as was - what's with Vista (and you can't 'upgrade/repair' Vista unless you can already boot it, as no such option from the install disk. I've already had customers who've had to have a new clean install/recover to factory, because Vista's built in repair options were no good, and so you're stuffed).
I just hope windows 7 isn't more of the same (bad enough we're going to have yet another version of windows on the books so soon).
I would like to join those who say vista is great, but my experience continues to be anything but.
here endeth the moan.
