Thanks for that, Bill.

cheers

>I did an upgrade to my Dell 9400 laptop (2.16GHz Duo, 2Gig RAM) from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate 32-bit ('cause I'm too chicken to try 64-bit yet).
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>The upgrade took a little over an hour. Painless.
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>The only problem I ran into immediately was with AVG 7.5 (it was on my XP). As soon as Vista let me log in I received several msgs about my AVG license key not being found, but the control center would not let me enter it. I opened Outlook 2007 (installed in XP) got a string of AVG errors and promptly blue screened! After restarting I figured I'd just reinstall AVG but when I tried to uninstall the uninstaller acted like I was trying to install and insisted I needed to enter my license key into AVG control center (nice eh?). I finally disabled AVG, rebooted with it disabled, and could then uninstall. I D/L'd the most current version and installed and all was happy.
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>All of my hardware seems to be recognized and working fine (YAY!!).
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>Initially it appeared that Vista was notably slower than XP, but I've noticed a significant speedup over time. Now performance seems pretty close to what I had with XP.
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>I spent most of the weekend just getting used to the UI (and playing with aero - pretty cool). It's definitely different but I'm pretty comfortable with it now (still an adventure to find anything new).
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>Gadgets are cool to look at but I'm almost ready to turn off the sidebar - I'm not convinced they are cool enough to justify screen/memory/processor usage (which of course I watch with a performance monitor gadget (duh))..
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>Someone mentioned windows not being transparent - My title bar and frames are. Looks nice and I think that is almost useful.
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>Had to install SQL 2005 SP2 CTP for SQL to be happy.
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>Waiting to see what is needed to make VS2005 happy (that should have been fixed long ago considering it is a flagship MS technology).
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>VFP 9 works fine. Watch out for My Documents referencing since My documents is replaced by Users in Vista (someone at MS should be beaten for that BONEHEAD idea!!). Vista has a link that tries to redirect My Documents calls, but it doesn't seem to work in all cases (I haven't nailed down specifics yet).
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>I like the enhanced security, although it seems to make IE7 behave differently than in XP (requires different windows for different zones - manages to leave a lot of Blank Pages when it jumps to a new window).
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>The adventure continues..
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>Bill Kuhn - MCSE
>The Kuhn Group, Inc.
>A Microsoft Certified Partner