My experience

My step son went out without asking me and bought two computers with
Vista on them. He wanted me to network them together and sharea a
printer. In the XP world, this would take 5 minutes. In the Vista world,
I spent TWO HOURS to share a printer. Then I only got it to work by
disabeling the entire vista firewall. I must have answer the 'Microsoft
needs your permission' ****ing qustion a hundred times. Give me a break.
If I (as a human) Clicked on Settings, Control pannel, network etc...
How much more 'permission' do they need! Damn! I've told all my
customers I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SPEND, DO NOT BUY VISTA. It is
Not Ready Yet. Vista is to what's coming like ME was to XP. Someday it
will be wonderful, Just not now!

"Curt" <> wrote in message news:...
> My step son went out without asking me and bought two computers with
> Vista on them. He wanted me to network them together and sharea a
> printer. In the XP world, this would take 5 minutes. In the Vista world,
> I spent TWO HOURS to share a printer. Then I only got it to work by
> disabeling the entire vista firewall. I must have answer the 'Microsoft
> needs your permission' ****ing qustion a hundred times. Give me a break.
> If I (as a human) Clicked on Settings, Control pannel, network etc...
> How much more 'permission' do they need! Damn! I've told all my
> customers I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SPEND, DO NOT BUY VISTA. It is
> Not Ready Yet. Vista is to what's coming like ME was to XP. Someday it
> will be wonderful, Just not now!

You should have let your step son do the printer sharing.
Probably he could have done it right.
It doesn't take two hours, and you don't need to disable the firewall.

"John R. Copeland" <> wrote in message
news:46abcaca$0$8912$...
"Curt" <> wrote in message
news:...
> My step son went out without asking me and bought two computers with
> Vista on them. He wanted me to network them together and sharea a
> printer. In the XP world, this would take 5 minutes. In the Vista world,
> I spent TWO HOURS to share a printer. Then I only got it to work by
> disabeling the entire vista firewall. I must have answer the 'Microsoft
> needs your permission' ****ing qustion a hundred times. Give me a break.
> If I (as a human) Clicked on Settings, Control pannel, network etc...
> How much more 'permission' do they need! Damn! I've told all my
> customers I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SPEND, DO NOT BUY VISTA. It is
> Not Ready Yet. Vista is to what's coming like ME was to XP. Someday it
> will be wonderful, Just not now!

You should have let your step son do the printer sharing.
Probably he could have done it right.
It doesn't take two hours, and you don't need to disable the firewall.

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Correct, you shouldn't have to mess with the firewall. But two hours, yep,
that's what it took me as well. Vista and workgroup networking seems to
have taken a big step backwards. I'll wait for my ITS guys to figure out
how well it does or doesn't work on a domain environment.

Val

Hey iv just got a new laptop because my other 1 got nickd i was shockd that
i couldnt buy a new pc with out vista i have heard so much about how it
dosen't work that well with programs and hardware.
But now im happy with it aall my software works fine and the 1s that don't i
av to just get new 1s but im lovin vista u can do so much more with it and
if i had got a new pc with xp like i wonted i would had to update so much to
get it to where i am now.
I just wish my defrag workd because mine dosen't so i had to get 1 .....

Curt voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in microsoft.public.windows.vista
on Sat 28 Jul 2007 03:12:40p:

> My step son went out without asking me and bought two computers with
> Vista on them. He wanted me to network them together and sharea a
> printer. In the XP world, this would take 5 minutes. In the Vista world,
> I spent TWO HOURS to share a printer. Then I only got it to work by
> disabeling the entire vista firewall. I must have answer the 'Microsoft
> needs your permission' ****ing qustion a hundred times. Give me a break.
> If I (as a human) Clicked on Settings, Control pannel, network etc...
> How much more 'permission' do they need! Damn! I've told all my
> customers I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SPEND, DO NOT BUY VISTA. It is
> Not Ready Yet. Vista is to what's coming like ME was to XP. Someday it
> will be wonderful, Just not now!
>

Buy a Mac. Multi-boot Mac OSX/XPPro/Linux/BeOS/?

Better living through chemistry/compatibility/accessibility/honesty.


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)