VISTA the aftershock

Discussion in 'Software' started by BILLMCC66, May 21, 2008.

  1. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    I am very new to Vista (i have had it 3 days) and like what i see at the moment although it's driving me crazy having to find new drivers for my peripherals, my printer disk was for XP and my scanner as well plus when i installed Office 2007 it just would not behave, Outlook kept on throwing up "some parts of this program are not compatible with your system" i was tearing my hair out until i downloaded and installed Vista service pack 1 and Office 2007 compatibility updates, now its behaving OK, i just need to see which of my programs ( ex XP sp2 ) will work with it.

    i am not going to give it bad comments just because i can not make it do what i want until i have learned a little more about it. (watch this space!)
    http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9476/isjp6cpchawe1sjedljcknkvm4.png
     
  2. Mada_Milty

    Mada_Milty MajorGeek

    Good luck Bill. Stick with it buddy, you'll have it figured out in no time! Let us know if we can help you at all!
     
  3. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    i will stick with it but i am slow to learn and with a new PC i have double work but i will not give up.
     
  4. thesmokingun

    thesmokingun MajorGeek

    There were similar problems when going from win 98/ME to xp as well. Problem is, lots of developers are very slow to get going on vista compatible software because xp is still so widely used (especially in the business sector, where all the $$ is)
     
  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    You'll get there Bill, as mentioned just stick at it and holler if you hit a snag as some of us a have been through the teething issues and have workarounds or new applications that work just as good as ones that dont.

    Hey just sign up for testing Windows 7 and you'll get a taster of how hair pulling it is working with new OS ;)
     

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