Dragon naturally speaking , version 7 and Vista

I have installed Dragon Naturally Speaking for professionals version 7 onto a new Dell laptop with Vista OS. The voice-recognition initially works well but then the program freezes. I cannot afford to purchase version 10 for approximately $800. The program works reasonably well with Microsoft XP.I called the manufacturer who stated that there was an incompatibility issue with Vista and they would not upgrade from version 7 to 10. They had no solutions.
Does anyone have any suggestions?


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The version you are using was released six years ago and that's pretty much
a lifetime in computer years. If the vendor won't fix or support it any
longer your choices would be to upgrade or to switch to a supported product.

"Edward Woloson" wrote in message
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> I have installed Dragon Naturally Speaking for professionals version 7
> onto a new Dell laptop with Vista OS. The voice-recognition initially
> works well but then the program freezes. I cannot afford to purchase
> version 10 for approximately $800. The program works reasonably well with
> Microsoft XP.I called the manufacturer who stated that there was an
> incompatibility issue with Vista and they would not upgrade from version 7
> to 10. They had no solutions.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>
> EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
> Resolving the ASP.NET Database Security Dilemma
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...spnet-dat.aspx