Microsoft Vista: Piece of crap

I bought the same system you are talking about, Cav, and took it back 17 days later, because it crashed.

I spent 6 hours yesterday trying to load photoshop on a vista laptop for my assistant. What a flipping nightmare. Only after doing several hours worth of research did I find ONE site that actually shows you the right way to load old programs on Vista.

If your loading from a CD, do an explore on the CD drive, find the setup.exe file and then right click and go to properties. From there there is a tab that says Compatibility. From there, you can select to run the program from the older type systems compatibility. Then you can actually run and install programs that aren't Vista complaint.

What I don't get, is why in the heck are they keeping this feature a secret? I only found one reference to this feature on the internet.

I believe that this is the cause for slow downs, as well as slow loads. So if you find your regularly used program executables, you can change them directly on your system to run in a certain compatibility. It might speed up your computer considerably. Coupled with getting rid of the bloatware on the system, you might actually survive the switch.

Thank the circuit heads at Microsoft, for keeping that little feature a secret.

 

Somebody is getting rich off all these fix vista programs, and you should have to buy third party software to make your system perform up to your standards. Microsoft should be worried, because this Op system is going to be the death of them, if they don't start educating people on how to use it properly. Also, how many people want to run out and buy all new peripherals that will work on Vista. I did, because I HAD to, but I know people that are wiping the system and loading XP, because of the slow down and lock ups that Vista causes and incompatibility with cameras, printers, scanners and the like.

 

You know what? It doesn't matter what version of Photoshop it was. When you spend $600+ for a program and used it fine on XP, then you should be able to load it on Vista. Adobe only supports the most recent version of CS3 to run on vista. They are in bed with Microsoft on this one.

Microsoft released a low grade op system here with limited backwards compatibility. Thats not right.