I'm having my fun since last Tuesday (Vista Ultimate Giveaway at Heroes..).

Did an upgrade on my PC to Ultimate - seemed OK.

Silly me.....

I notice the Windows Update starting to act strangely. I was getting updates that WOULD NOT INSTALL! From MS themselves!! I believe they were 643 and another infamous one (don't remember off the top of my head). So, I tried every trick in the book on Google to fix it, and I got 1 of 3 to finally Install..... sigh... after a full day of it.

One of my main apps starting having problems too, so I wanted to go back and reinstall the software for it. When I popped the DVD in the drive, it did not setup. So, I went to Windows Explorer to run it. Could not find the DVD drive listed!!?????

Finally, I looked in Computer for my DVD drives... both were GONE!!! Kapoot!!! Totally Gone! Looked in Devices and they were still there, but the drivers were corrupted!! And I could not fix them! Everytime I uninstalled them, and then did a hardware search, it found the drivers, installed them, then told me they were corrupt....

I said, enough! I backed up the PC, then did a clean install of Vista and am installing the applications now. And the DVD drives are there now and working and updates work now.

Sigh....

What a nightmare, yes!

Moral... do a CLEAN INSTALL, NOT AN UPGRADE, or you will have many bad dreams!


>A nightmare.
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>I upgraded to SP1 practically as soon as SP1 has been available.
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>I saw somewhere that with it Vista should be 10% faster. Well to me with SP1 Vista has been 10% of the speed it was before. No kidding!
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>Just to be sure I wasn't imagining things I uninstalled it. Now it's back to what I've been used to with Vista. Meaning I can live with it.
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>There was definitely something very wrong with SP1. I just hope that MS realizes it and will act fast about that. The worst it that I keep reading that june is the official date where XP won't be
>available no more. To me that does'nt make sense. But then again logic tells me that if MS posponed the retirement of XP to june they can change their minds again.
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>The way I see things we're in big trouble. It tells me that we'll probably never have again a very trustable OS. Vista SP3 will be rock-solid but we probably won't be able to enjoy it for long because it's days will be counted because "OH-WOW! (Operating system Hey! - We Own the World" will have been on the market for six months.
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>Not sure if it's still the case but apparently MS makes its money with their OSs and Office.
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>If it's still true there will be new versions even if these products don't really need new things.
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>I know the UT is mainly a developer's place but who over here thinks that there's something missing in office 2007? What will they think of adding in it for the next release?
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>And to me there's too many things in their OSs. Here's my definition of an OS. "A piece of software that eases the interaction between human and computer". Nothing more nothing less.
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>Where does solitaire fit in that definition? From day one the games should have been a separate download. There are probably other things that should have been available as separate downloads.
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>By the way what is the release date of Vista SP2? <g>