Comments on: My First MS Vista Ultimate Experience http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Web Developer in the Metro Vancouver area. Technology, Web Development, Photography, Computers and Outdoor Activities Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:48:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eduard http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-2943 Eduard Sun, 11 May 2008 06:49:01 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-2943 Thanks for sharing your experience with Vista! Thanks for sharing your experience with Vista!

]]> By: Svetlanka http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-678 Svetlanka Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:56:53 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-678 It's really good written and I fully agree with You on main issue, btw. I must say that I really enjoyed reading all of Your posts It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… it makes you think more. So please try to keep up the great work all the time. It’s really good written and I fully agree with You on main issue, btw. I must say that I really enjoyed reading all of Your posts It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… it makes you think more. So please try to keep up the great work all the time.

]]> By: Tyler Ingram http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-677 Tyler Ingram Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:15:19 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-677 I still haven't loaded Vista. I've used it a few times over at my Dad's but I still see no need to upgrade. XP does everything I need and I wouldn't upgrade to Vista until they released the Service Pack for it and have MUCH better driver support. I still haven’t loaded Vista. I’ve used it a few times over at my Dad’s but I still see no need to upgrade. XP does everything I need and I wouldn’t upgrade to Vista until they released the Service Pack for it and have MUCH better driver support.

]]> By: Free Software Downloads http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-676 Free Software Downloads Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:04:48 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-676 My brother recently installed MS Vista on his laptop but even on Core2Duo, 1 GB it was f#$king slow with the Aero being on. Switching it off did some good but MS Vista without aero is plain Xp so why would anyone do that.. atleast for now when we don't have any probs with XP.. My brother recently installed MS Vista on his laptop but even on Core2Duo, 1 GB it was f#$king slow with the Aero being on. Switching it off did some good but MS Vista without aero is plain Xp so why would anyone do that.. atleast for now when we don’t have any probs with XP..

]]> By: Tyler Ingram http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-675 Tyler Ingram Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:59:34 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-675 Wow good reply! It is nice to see I am not the only one that had(has) issues with Vista. My buddy Rod decided to hop over to Ubuntu because he was tired of incompatibilities with Windows. I would like to see Vista working, and I haven't heard many people say good things about it. I'm waiting till at least the first Service Pack comes out before I try to run Vista again. Windows XP is working fine so I don't really need to upgrade, well I don't see enough benefits for the upgrade yet. Now if Linux handle playing PC games better I would make that switch. Though I hear it is getting better. Wow good reply! It is nice to see I am not the only one that had(has) issues with Vista. My buddy Rod decided to hop over to Ubuntu because he was tired of incompatibilities with Windows. I would like to see Vista working, and I haven’t heard many people say good things about it. I’m waiting till at least the first Service Pack comes out before I try to run Vista again.

Windows XP is working fine so I don’t really need to upgrade, well I don’t see enough benefits for the upgrade yet. Now if Linux handle playing PC games better I would make that switch. Though I hear it is getting better.

]]> By: David Zevtchin http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-674 David Zevtchin Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:02:47 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-674 Indeed I have had a horrific experience with the Vista ultimate upgrade-- from both a hardware and ongoing Op/Sys function perspective. I'm a 23 year veteran in PC mgmt/ops. PCs are all I've ever done since graduating college in'83. That's why I've decided to search Vista blogs, etc. for other user experiences. I'm faced with a 2nd reload of a system that failed completely. My hardware is more than adequate with a duo core Intel processor, 4 gigs/RAM, 320 Gig HD, 550 watt Power supply, Top of the line PCIe video with 640 MB on board, plus an excellent cooling config with the PC on a conditioned electrical line. There were numerous issues with the initial upgrade including no drivers for my HP 2410 printer, no drivers for the link-sys lan adapter and a nightmarish configuration ordeal to move from Active-Synch (Treo 700w) to Vista's Windows Mobile. There were a myriad other problems as well but many are too small to mention individually. Just days after I had gotten the new config where I needed it to be (i.e to be used as my primary system), Vista suddenly just failed to boot one day. There appeared to be HD corruption but when I removed the drive from system A and connected it to system B, the drive was operating just fine. Apparently only Vista was problematic. Still I decided not to take any chances so I purchased another HD (the first was a 250 gig SATA Western Digital). I acquired a Hitachi 320 to be used as primary and relegated the old unit as a removable backup. I had backups so I restored the most recent to the new drive and was back up with minimal data loss. Everything was fine for about a month but then Vista started acting strangely and suddenly failed. When I attempted to reboot, the system reported that the registry had become corrupted! This time when I attempted a restore the Vista config reported that the system failed to boot due to a configuration change and that I should insert the install disks. Unfortunately I purchased the upgrade from the MS Marketplace as a download. I didn't have a set of boot CDs or DVD. I'm screwed with this PC. Fortunately I had an XP box that could be migrated to primary with a few data moves (Outlook, bookmarks, personal info mgmt data, contacts, etc.) I'm sorry to be so long-winded but honestly the major failures have only been about 60% of the countless issues, anomalies and other strange behaviors. The Vista alpha and beta test programs were the longest I have ever seen and yet the product was released lacking device drivers from even leading vendors. It doesn't take a great leap of faith to wonder if MS wasn't fighting big problems very late in the game! In all truth and at the risk of appearing paranoid, I'm beginning to wonder whether Vista doesn't have fundamental problems. Indeed I have had a horrific experience with the Vista ultimate upgrade– from both a hardware and ongoing Op/Sys function perspective. I’m a 23 year veteran in PC mgmt/ops. PCs are all I’ve ever done since graduating college in’83. That’s why I’ve decided to search Vista blogs, etc. for other user experiences. I’m faced with a 2nd reload of a system that failed completely. My hardware is more than adequate with a duo core Intel processor, 4 gigs/RAM, 320 Gig HD, 550 watt Power supply, Top of the line PCIe video with 640 MB on board, plus an excellent cooling config with the PC on a conditioned electrical line.

There were numerous issues with the initial upgrade including no drivers for my HP 2410 printer, no drivers for the link-sys lan adapter and a nightmarish configuration ordeal to move from Active-Synch (Treo 700w) to Vista’s Windows Mobile. There were a myriad other problems as well but many are too small to mention individually.

Just days after I had gotten the new config where I needed it to be (i.e to be used as my primary system), Vista suddenly just failed to boot one day. There appeared to be HD corruption but when I removed the drive from system A and connected it to system B, the drive was operating just fine. Apparently only Vista was problematic. Still I decided not to take any chances so I purchased another HD (the first was a 250 gig SATA Western Digital). I acquired a Hitachi 320 to be used as primary and relegated the old unit as a removable backup. I had backups so I restored the most recent to the new drive and was back up with minimal data loss. Everything was fine for about a month but then Vista started acting strangely and suddenly failed. When I attempted to reboot, the system reported that the registry had become corrupted! This time when I attempted a restore the Vista config reported that the system failed to boot due to a configuration change and that I should insert the install disks. Unfortunately I purchased the upgrade from the MS Marketplace as a download. I didn’t have a set of boot CDs or DVD. I’m screwed with this PC. Fortunately I had an XP box that could be migrated to primary with a few data moves (Outlook, bookmarks, personal info mgmt data, contacts, etc.)

I’m sorry to be so long-winded but honestly the major failures have only been about 60% of the countless issues, anomalies and other strange behaviors. The Vista alpha and beta test programs were the longest I have ever seen and yet the product was released lacking device drivers from even leading vendors. It doesn’t take a great leap of faith to wonder if MS wasn’t fighting big problems very late in the game!

In all truth and at the risk of appearing paranoid, I’m beginning to wonder whether Vista doesn’t have fundamental problems.

]]> By: @sympatico.ca http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-673 @sympatico.ca Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:11:07 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-673 I'm also having issues with Vista ultimate along with the DLnk DWL-G122 rev A2 fw 1.02. It does not recognize the device - I looked into it further and the darn INF does not list the device ID for it. I tried modifying the DLink INF, but it fails to START the USB network. I called DLINK's support but they were of no help either. My specs: Asus Xpress200 chipset Corsair Value 2 x 512 DDR Maxtor 7200 RPM IDE drive DLink DWL-G122 USB WLAN I’m also having issues with Vista ultimate along with the DLnk DWL-G122 rev A2 fw 1.02. It does not recognize the device – I looked into it further and the darn INF does not list the device ID for it.

I tried modifying the DLink INF, but it fails to START the USB network. I called DLINK’s support but they were of no help either.

My specs:
Asus Xpress200 chipset
Corsair Value 2 x 512 DDR
Maxtor 7200 RPM IDE drive
DLink DWL-G122 USB WLAN

]]> By: Tyler Ingram http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-672 Tyler Ingram Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:13:09 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-672 Oh that's cool that your comment spawned a blog post for you! Thanks for sharing your experience with Vista! Oh that’s cool that your comment spawned a blog post for you! Thanks for sharing your experience with Vista!

]]> By: Jono Cono http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-671 Jono Cono Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:26:10 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-671 I started a comment and it got really huge and is now a post on my blog, lol. It just didn't feel right leaving a comment that huge. Feel free to read the fullness of my experience with Windows Vista at: http://www.jonocono.ca/ramblings/2007/04/05/windows-vista-experience/ I started a comment and it got really huge and is now a post on my blog, lol. It just didn’t feel right leaving a comment that huge. Feel free to read the fullness of my experience with Windows Vista at: http://www.jonocono.ca/ramblings/2007/04/05/windows-vista-experience/

]]> By: Tyler Ingram http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/my-first-ms-vista-ultimate-experience/comment-page-1#comment-670 Tyler Ingram Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:33:25 +0000 http://www.tyleringram.com/?p=180#comment-670 I uninstalled vista and installed XP on the machine again. We have a machine here at work for playing around with that has vista on it but it has no problems. What type of laptop is it? I uninstalled vista and installed XP on the machine again. We have a machine here at work for playing around with that has vista on it but it has no problems.

What type of laptop is it?

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