Vista Ultimate Big Problems

I currently use Vista Business and had the opportunity to purchase Vista
Ultimate +Sp1

Backed everything up, went for a clean install (even formatted the disk)...
Ultimate however, right from the start was a disaster -
Loads of appcrash errors
Every time I closed internet explorer, it caused a fault and restarted
(explorer has stopped working)
Virus software couldn't update
Even a blue screen!
Every boot, I was getting a screen message telling me vista was checking the
disk and finding it 'clean'
Start menu was like in slow motion
and many more errors

Think to myself, hmmm, maybe a duff installation and driver issues.

So, wipes disk, does another brand new clean installation and this time
didnt even bother doing anything with drivers, virus software and anything
else... guess what
Same problems - Vista Ultimate just doesn't want to work on my machine.

I've since re-installed business and its flawless.

How/Why can this happen?

Is it a bad burn maybe (vista +SP1 downloaded from microsoft)??

Any other suggestions, or is ultimate so different from business that this
is not entirely unexpected?

cheers,
g.

Hi Gordon,

Was your Business version preinstalled? If so, it likely was modified to
contain drivers specific to your machinery that are not in the retail
version. A better path for you would be to reinstall it, then upgrade in
place to Ultimate so that they are carried over.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Gordon Martin" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I currently use Vista Business and had the opportunity to purchase Vista
>Ultimate +Sp1
>
> Backed everything up, went for a clean install (even formatted the
> disk)...
> Ultimate however, right from the start was a disaster -
> Loads of appcrash errors
> Every time I closed internet explorer, it caused a fault and restarted
> (explorer has stopped working)
> Virus software couldn't update
> Even a blue screen!
> Every boot, I was getting a screen message telling me vista was checking
> the disk and finding it 'clean'
> Start menu was like in slow motion
> and many more errors
>
> Think to myself, hmmm, maybe a duff installation and driver issues.
>
> So, wipes disk, does another brand new clean installation and this time
> didnt even bother doing anything with drivers, virus software and anything
> else... guess what
> Same problems - Vista Ultimate just doesn't want to work on my machine.
>
> I've since re-installed business and its flawless.
>
> How/Why can this happen?
>
> Is it a bad burn maybe (vista +SP1 downloaded from microsoft)??
>
> Any other suggestions, or is ultimate so different from business that this
> is not entirely unexpected?
>
> cheers,
> g.

Cheers Rick,

to answer,
no...
My machine was preinstalled with XP.

I did the vista business upgrade a while back. I might try an 'ultimate'
upgrade rather than clean install - but my nerves wont take it right now -
maybe give it a month or two.

g.


"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi Gordon,
>
> Was your Business version preinstalled? If so, it likely was modified to
> contain drivers specific to your machinery that are not in the retail
> version. A better path for you would be to reinstall it, then upgrade in
> place to Ultimate so that they are carried over.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Gordon Martin" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I currently use Vista Business and had the opportunity to purchase Vista
>>Ultimate +Sp1
>>
>> Backed everything up, went for a clean install (even formatted the
>> disk)...
>> Ultimate however, right from the start was a disaster -
>> Loads of appcrash errors
>> Every time I closed internet explorer, it caused a fault and restarted
>> (explorer has stopped working)
>> Virus software couldn't update
>> Even a blue screen!
>> Every boot, I was getting a screen message telling me vista was checking
>> the disk and finding it 'clean'
>> Start menu was like in slow motion
>> and many more errors
>>
>> Think to myself, hmmm, maybe a duff installation and driver issues.
>>
>> So, wipes disk, does another brand new clean installation and this time
>> didnt even bother doing anything with drivers, virus software and
>> anything else... guess what
>> Same problems - Vista Ultimate just doesn't want to work on my machine.
>>
>> I've since re-installed business and its flawless.
>>
>> How/Why can this happen?
>>
>> Is it a bad burn maybe (vista +SP1 downloaded from microsoft)??
>>
>> Any other suggestions, or is ultimate so different from business that
>> this is not entirely unexpected?
>>
>> cheers,
>> g.
>

"Gordon Martin" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I currently use Vista Business and had the opportunity to purchase Vista
>Ultimate +Sp1
>
> Backed everything up, went for a clean install (even formatted the
> disk)...
> Ultimate however, right from the start was a disaster -
> Loads of appcrash errors
> Every time I closed internet explorer, it caused a fault and restarted
> (explorer has stopped working)
> Virus software couldn't update
> Even a blue screen!
> Every boot, I was getting a screen message telling me vista was checking
> the disk and finding it 'clean'
> Start menu was like in slow motion
> and many more errors
>
> Think to myself, hmmm, maybe a duff installation and driver issues.
>
> So, wipes disk, does another brand new clean installation and this time
> didnt even bother doing anything with drivers, virus software and anything
> else... guess what
> Same problems - Vista Ultimate just doesn't want to work on my machine.
>
> I've since re-installed business and its flawless.
>
> How/Why can this happen?
>
> Is it a bad burn maybe (vista +SP1 downloaded from microsoft)??
>
> Any other suggestions, or is ultimate so different from business that this
> is not entirely unexpected?
>
> cheers,
> g.


Gordon,

When you reinstalled Business... did you do so as a clean install or did you
reinstall XP and upgrade again?

Lang

Gordon,
Always make a fresh installation of Windows Vista that is recommended.
Then install an updated antivirus to ensure you haven't viruses on your
PC.


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ahmad12