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Going Vista..
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Posted over 2 years ago ok.. so how do I Install Windows Vista in a dual-boot configuration along with Windows XP? |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Don't install Vista - you will be sorry.... |
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| Posted over 2 years ago I agree iwth cblaine. Vista makes things wacky because it isn't compatible with most people' older Windows editions. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago To do a dual boot you should have your hd partitioned one for each OS, then during the install you select windows to do a full install in a different location and select the other partition. The install will edit your boot.ini file to recognize both OS's. Remember doing a dual boot machine means you have two registries and you will have to install software on both OS instances which can kill your disk space fast. I do agree however with cblaine that Vista may cause you some hardships and a dual boot is not a good idea, if you want to play with vista, put it on a test machine or Virtual PC first. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago http://vmware.com/ VMware is a nice tool. I actually have vista, knoppix, WIN XP installed on my PC. Of course I don't run everything all at the same time, but I use it for testing and some tools I need with knoppix. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago vmware is a good choice. Wouldn't use it for gaming or video intensive apps though. The linux free version is solid enough for production use on servers as well. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago I bought Vista intending to upgrade from Windows XP Professional. I was extremely disappointed to discover that Vista Home Basic, the cheapest version, says you cant upgrade XP Pro to Home Basic, which sort of makes sense ..... sort of. Anyways, I got the upgrade to work anyways it wasnt easy but I managed it. It was giving me some problems though and I havent felt like messing with it lately. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Vista is a flop...loads slow...crashes all the time...spends too much time self analylizing...xp runs cirles around it...And " IT " hates it. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago No way would I recommend installing Vista. At least not any time soon. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Sorry but I am going to disagree with all of you.
Photoshop opens and all other apps open within 2 seconds literally.
Everything runs a lot faster and better for me in vista...and um ya <.< If something doesn't work in vista you can right click the exe goto properties and change it's run environment from Vista to XP SP2 or whichever you wish :P Anyways I haven't had any problems all apps I use work fine with it etc.. and about the upgrade.
Just Boot from CD Drive and you will be able to upgrade :) prob will make you format though.. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago I have a new laptop running Vista Home Premium, love the computer but I do not like Vista in its current state. I have found plenty of workarounds to some of the issues I have run up against but I have yet to get it to print to a shared printer attached to an XP Pro machine over my wifi network. I always get "cannot connect to attached printer" even though it shows up in my Printers folder on the laptop and I have installed the latest Vista drivers from the Lexmark website. I hear they are going to address this in the SP1 but who knows when that will be? Pretty crappy on the part of MS to do this to paying customers. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago rdburke... yours didn't come with that mcaffee network security thing did it? I have a few clients that have that with their new vista machines and run into issues like you are describing...they have to go into the mcaffee network paranoia center and reenable access to all their network printers and shares all the time. Not sure if that's your issue..but could be looked into maybe...since it is a network printer...possible vista is freaking out about security. I prolly should not be chiming in here... I mean...I seem to never have issues other people have. I have a computer with Vista Home Premium and have not had a problem at all...cept all the startup crap but after that....everything's fine for me. But I did have to double the RAM in order for it to be fast enough for what I like...though I pretty much knew that it was a hog when I got it. I think I get more aggravated with it because it wants extra clicks when you go into the program manager and they have changed the name of some things in places...like the control panel and etc. And I don't like what they did with office 2007 and the way it displays...but I got around that...that is mostly me and not wanting to change lol. Thing is... I still have no reason to recommend it or not recommend it. If I go by clients that have it, I would have to say wait to get it...if I go by my experience...to me it's nothing special...there are no huge glaring differences, to me...between it and XP. I have not seen it be especially superior or inferior really. Just another OS. TechMaven: http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Where I work we have a lot of customers that come into the network through the VPN. They'll use an application from Juniper Networks called Network Connect. Once in a while we'll get a user that is trying to connect using Network connect that has Vista. We have to tell these users that they are completely SOL. It will not and probably never will work with Vista. I go on the Keyboard Magazine forum all the time (platinum member) and there has been a huge discussion on Vista. The general consensus is stay away from it, because many of the music composition and soft-synthesizer programs will not work. The drivers are not there, and there's no word on when they will be available. Personally, I've never had my hands on a Vista Box, so I can't say one way or the other, but after the discussions I've read, I'll stick with XP. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago MagiAwen said: No McAffee, it did come with the whole Norton bundle but I never activated it, I just uninstalled and installed my tried and true AVG. I have disabled the annoying UAC pop-ups so that much is better. I have tried every trick to get this printing issue resolved but have not had any luck. I even wasted money on the book "Windows Vista Secrets" by Brian Livingston and Paul Thurrott. Did not find much in the book that I did not already know or care to know. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Christophe said: Yes it supports all those. Not much has changed except it is just a little more secure and it is prettier. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago I am not using Vista yet, nor have I really seen it in depth. However, the comments I am hearing are pretty much all negative and also pretty much the same things I heard a few years ago when XP was first released. If there is a moral, it is "Follow, don't lead" in other words, don't be the first to by anything...wait until the early user feedback is in and the bugs worked out. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago I have been troubleshooting Vista since it came out and here is the skinny on it. 1.) If you are using the true 64 bit version it generally works fine. 2.) If you are using the 32 bit version it is a complete disaster. Vista was originally designed to be a true 64 bit operating system but when Microsoft tried to convert it to a 32 bit for use by the general public it crashed and burned. Do not install a 32 bit version. This version is at least a year or more away from being a usable O.S. 3.) FYI > 64 bit version is the business one. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I'm using 2 XP Home and 1 vista on my PC. The only thing I dislike about Vista is that it's a bit slow on my PC. Vista is great for computers with way faster processors than my 2.8 GHz 1.5GB RAM. Specially dual processor computers like my friend's laptop with Vista Business. I have the Home Premium version; the worst is that internet explorer takes a while to show up after clicking on it (about 2 seconds or more). In XP it's almost instantaneous! Both of these OS's are using IE7. On vista, even after it's open it still delays a bit between webpages. Because of this, I use Vista less often or only when I'm bored, miss it, or just should so it can get its updates. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I've been using Vista (Home Premium) since March on a brand new convertible (tablet/laptop) PC from Gateway. I have had a total of 2 crashes, one of which was clearly my fault. My experience has been that Vista has been as stable as any other operating system I've ever used. I think that there are three reasons why you hear more complaints than good comments whenever Microsoft releases a new version of Windows: (1) People who are perfectly happy with it don't feel the need to talk about it. Those who have a beef often want to let everyone else know how they feel. This is typical of just about anything in life; those who are most likely to respond to mentions of something are those who are unhappy with it. This is why self-selected surveys don't work. (There is a classic example involving Ann Landers asking readers to write in and answer the questions, "If you had it to do over again, would you have children?" From the response, she concluded that the vast majority of parents [84%, I think] would not have children again. A properly done survey around the same time found that the vast majority of parents would.) (2) It is "hip" to complain about anything Microsoft does, and operating systems are so hyped and intrinsic to how the computer runs that they are automatically good complaint-magnets. (3) People don't like change. They get used to the computer running a certain way and when things get changed, they complain because they have to relearn some things. Office 2007 has gotten a lot of complaints because they switched to the "ribbon" instead of the traditional toolbars and menus. I complained a bit about having to relearn where to find things with the total redesign, but now that I've gotten used to it, it's not a big deal. That said, I confess that I don't know a lot of the behind-the-scenes technical aspects about trying to get Vista to work with networks or anything like that. I also haven't tried installing Vista on a computer that I previously used XP on and comparing speeds, but as an everyday user on a new machine, I have had no trouble with and I actually kind of prefer it over XP (which I still use at work). |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Well anyway, the point of these forums is to inform others. Even if it's how you feel about a certain product. |
