OT Windows Vista Rant n Rave

I bought one new puter with Vista already on and liked it buttttt ttt I had to run the upgrade from XP to Vista on this one and that was a 3 day nightmare marathon grrrrr rrrrr

MY ADVICE fron anyone upgrading an old XP to Vista is TAKE IT TO THE GEEK SQUAD AND PAY THEM ANYTHING THEY ASK AND SMILEEEEE EE cuz I wouldnt do it for a thousdand bucks.

Despite being pretty good on puters and having ran alllll lllll the preparations n windows upgrade advisors and uninstalling a bunch of incompatible software and hardware n doin like alllll ll that Microsoft suggested she still refused to install Vista grrrrr rrrrr and each time it spit out u had to wait 45 mins to get back agaIn cuz it saves NOTHING

AFTER a day on the phone with 4 different Hewlett Packard Tech Support dudes named Haahbib from Pakistan, none of whom spoke understandable English mind you, I finally got this Geek who spoke English who in a minute knew the exact problem n hot to fix it (I had told alllll lll the previous dudes there has to be a Windows Knowledge Base article on the problem but nooooo ooooo they took remote control of my puter or hung up or sinmply couldnt fix the problem) The Error message was " cant reconfigure computers boot configuration" althOUGH I had ran every BIOS update n had my boot n all like PERFECT as HP n Microsoft suggested. It took a RUN regedit n change one line of data to fix it.

Sooooo ooooo ooo I finally get Vista instaleld but thennnnn nnn Windows Mail which replaced my Outlook Express POP3 REFUSED TO RECEIVE E MAILS GRRRRR RR Again, had to be on phome or hold like 5 hoursssss sssss n ranted n raved 3 different dudes till finallyyyyy yyy they semt me to the Windows Mail section of Vista n this dude fixed it in one minute after HP simply gave up and at first Windows refused to help cuz it was HP licendes upgrade untilllll l I cursed n demanded to talk with a supervisor

Vista has improved features I like buttttt ttt its a memory hog, I had 2 GB of RAM and added a third GB and now its decent but still a tad slow even on a dual core 64 x 2 3800 chip. The other puter only has 1 GB of RAM but its a factory original Vista installation n its still much better.

I was so frustrated the other day when working on it a neighbor called n said a cow of mine was out but I didnt even go out n look, let her get run over or leave I really didnt give a darn at that point lol I never realy liked cows anyway

Thank yall I feel better now

MORAL OF STORY either buy a new puter with factory Vista or hire a geek at any price to upgrade from XP DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME LOL

God Bless n Happy Easter "He Has Risen"

John T (Conservative Fuddy Duddy)

Microsoft had the same pattern with DOS, every other one was a keeper.

If you still run MS 98, and I do on a couple of older machines, be vigilant, MS does not publish hotfixes or updates against security vulnerabilities.

oh and yes have a blessed easter holiday, he has risen.

Next time I'm going to check out Apple. My nephew has one and my Dad really likes it too.

I had the same problem with vista, so I finally called a friend of mine, and he told me how to reset my computer to operate like it was programed in the past. That fixed all of my problems, but I am still operating with XP, and I want to keep it that way. When ever that computer update appears on the bottom of the screen, I ignore it and it will go away.

Just a note that that "windows update" you mentioned is for patching holes in your Windows XP - not for upgrading to Vista.

You really need to keep pretty current on Windows patches since they fix security vulnerabilities (among other things). I've had two servers hacked in the last two weeks at the university and I HAVE kept them current on updates. It's even worse if you are unpatched.

I second most everyone's gripes about Vista in that it's a memory hog, slow, terrible ordeal to upgrade to, etc...

Howard