Why do I waste my time with this junk
I struggled to find a mirror to down load Windows Vista (Microsoft's site wasn't accepting connections), and 3 hours later at 306KB/s over ATT dsl, I had a DVD image of Vista beta 2. Worthless piece of SH*T.
Setup (unlike XP) never offers you the option to enter a Workgroup or Domain name. So you start up in Domain "Workgroup". It never presented me the option to add a partition so I could dual boot with XP, but booted up as if it could dual boot, which it couldn't. Then it told me it boots up too slow cause it doesn't like its' Windows supplied Driver for my NVidia video card. It definitely shuts down way too slowly. It couldn't find any Drivers for a standard SoundBlaster Audigy card. Then it told me I had 3.25 Gig of Ram, when I have 4 Gig of Ram. The new Microsoft antivirus software (Live Onecare) of course doesn't work with Vista, but requires XP. Microsoft points you to other antivirus vendors. Go try to use Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006, and it will tell you it doesn't work, apparently it thinks you're running an old version of Windows 2000.
Luckily I had GHOSTed my XP before starting, so I restored it, undoing the Vista damage.
I haven't seen anything so poorly done since the OS2 2.0 Install.
I had less grief the first time I ever installed a Linux distribution.
Setup (unlike XP) never offers you the option to enter a Workgroup or Domain name. So you start up in Domain "Workgroup". It never presented me the option to add a partition so I could dual boot with XP, but booted up as if it could dual boot, which it couldn't. Then it told me it boots up too slow cause it doesn't like its' Windows supplied Driver for my NVidia video card. It definitely shuts down way too slowly. It couldn't find any Drivers for a standard SoundBlaster Audigy card. Then it told me I had 3.25 Gig of Ram, when I have 4 Gig of Ram. The new Microsoft antivirus software (Live Onecare) of course doesn't work with Vista, but requires XP. Microsoft points you to other antivirus vendors. Go try to use Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006, and it will tell you it doesn't work, apparently it thinks you're running an old version of Windows 2000.
Luckily I had GHOSTed my XP before starting, so I restored it, undoing the Vista damage.
I haven't seen anything so poorly done since the OS2 2.0 Install.
I had less grief the first time I ever installed a Linux distribution.
posted by Miss Allany at 2:22 PM
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