Well....I LOVE IT

There are so many "negative" posts here about Vista, and by the very nature
of the community I guess (we post BECAUSE we either have issues or questions)
that's somewhat understandable.

I approached the upgrade cautiously, took my time reading about it, and
maybe some of the pitfalls, and soaked up much of the excellent advice and
tips here as I could. My BIOS, network card, and, as it transpired, my
Logitech WebCam all had "No compatablity data". But, after buying a cheapo
$35 Netgear NIC card and ploughing ahead, and "ignoring" the BIOS
notification (not wise, but what the heck, that same BIOS had seen me go thru
Win3.1/Win98/98SE/2000/XP...so let's give it a go!)...

....bingo....I have a beautiful new OS that I simply love. XP looks/feels so
old fashioned now when I have to use it at work!

Vista fixed up my webcam issue on first reboot by downloading drivers, found
my new network card as soon as I plugged it in, and configured it properly
and seems to have ignored the very BIOS issue it thought might be a problem
via its own Upgrade Advisor.

To all here who helped me (knowingly or not!) and guided me...thank you.

To date, absolutley no issues. I have been able to install all the software
I used to use on XP (sans EasyCDCreator 5), I have had no crashes, no odd
behavior of any sort.

I even then took the plunge and bought a copy of Live OneCare - yeah...I
know...) and after having an initial Error ID Code 0017 (fix: UNBLOCK the
OneCare site in IE7), that too installed fine...as it really should.

Really, I have been both quietly astonished and really surprised at how well
this upgrade (actually a clean install in the end!) went. I had gone thru the
old Win3.1/98/98SE/2000/XP upgrades/installs....THIS was the simplest and
easiest.

I say, do your reading/research and...well, I went for it, and I am happy I
did!

Rgds n tks for all your help guys/gals.

"Rod" <> wrote in message
news:A88D6ED4-0004-4FCE-A6E7-...
> There are so many "negative" posts here about Vista, and by the very
> nature
> of the community I guess (we post BECAUSE we either have issues or
> questions)
> that's somewhat understandable.
>
> I approached the upgrade cautiously, took my time reading about it, and
> maybe some of the pitfalls, and soaked up much of the excellent advice and
> tips here as I could. My BIOS, network card, and, as it transpired, my
> Logitech WebCam all had "No compatablity data". But, after buying a cheapo
> $35 Netgear NIC card and ploughing ahead, and "ignoring" the BIOS
> notification (not wise, but what the heck, that same BIOS had seen me go
> thru
> Win3.1/Win98/98SE/2000/XP...so let's give it a go!)...
>
> ...bingo....I have a beautiful new OS that I simply love. XP looks/feels
> so
> old fashioned now when I have to use it at work!
>
> Vista fixed up my webcam issue on first reboot by downloading drivers,
> found
> my new network card as soon as I plugged it in, and configured it properly
> and seems to have ignored the very BIOS issue it thought might be a
> problem
> via its own Upgrade Advisor.
>
> To all here who helped me (knowingly or not!) and guided me...thank you.
>
> To date, absolutley no issues. I have been able to install all the
> software
> I used to use on XP (sans EasyCDCreator 5), I have had no crashes, no odd
> behavior of any sort.
>
> I even then took the plunge and bought a copy of Live OneCare - yeah...I
> know...) and after having an initial Error ID Code 0017 (fix: UNBLOCK the
> OneCare site in IE7), that too installed fine...as it really should.
>
> Really, I have been both quietly astonished and really surprised at how
> well
> this upgrade (actually a clean install in the end!) went. I had gone thru
> the
> old Win3.1/98/98SE/2000/XP upgrades/installs....THIS was the simplest and
> easiest.
>
> I say, do your reading/research and...well, I went for it, and I am happy
> I
> did!
>
> Rgds n tks for all your help guys/gals.


I just can't wait to read all the replies stating how "you don't actually
use your computer for anything but the screen savers" or that "you're on the
Microsoft payroll" or that "you just don't know where to look for all the
problems" . . . and the hundreds of other "explanations" as to why you're
wrong, and you actually do have problems and must be a "moron" if you
actually like Vista.

I'm with you though, I do have some minor issues that I won't bother going
into just because they are VERY minor, but over all I've enjoyed my Vista
experience since the first RC.

Mic

"Rod" <> wrote in message
news:A88D6ED4-0004-4FCE-A6E7-...
> There are so many "negative" posts here about Vista, and by the very
> nature
> of the community I guess (we post BECAUSE we either have issues or
> questions)
> that's somewhat understandable.
>
> I approached the upgrade cautiously, took my time reading about it, and
> maybe some of the pitfalls, and soaked up much of the excellent advice and
> tips here as I could. My BIOS, network card, and, as it transpired, my
> Logitech WebCam all had "No compatablity data". But, after buying a cheapo
> $35 Netgear NIC card and ploughing ahead, and "ignoring" the BIOS
> notification (not wise, but what the heck, that same BIOS had seen me go
> thru
> Win3.1/Win98/98SE/2000/XP...so let's give it a go!)...
>
> ...bingo....I have a beautiful new OS that I simply love. XP looks/feels
> so
> old fashioned now when I have to use it at work!
>
> Vista fixed up my webcam issue on first reboot by downloading drivers,
> found
> my new network card as soon as I plugged it in, and configured it properly
> and seems to have ignored the very BIOS issue it thought might be a
> problem
> via its own Upgrade Advisor.
>
> To all here who helped me (knowingly or not!) and guided me...thank you.
>
> To date, absolutley no issues. I have been able to install all the
> software
> I used to use on XP (sans EasyCDCreator 5), I have had no crashes, no odd
> behavior of any sort.
>
> I even then took the plunge and bought a copy of Live OneCare - yeah...I
> know...) and after having an initial Error ID Code 0017 (fix: UNBLOCK the
> OneCare site in IE7), that too installed fine...as it really should.
>
> Really, I have been both quietly astonished and really surprised at how
> well
> this upgrade (actually a clean install in the end!) went. I had gone thru
> the
> old Win3.1/98/98SE/2000/XP upgrades/installs....THIS was the simplest and
> easiest.
>
> I say, do your reading/research and...well, I went for it, and I am happy
> I
> did!
>
Pretty well the same here. I heard so much whining I was reluctant to try.
I did have many problems with Creative Labs X-fi during the beta versions.

However I took the plunge and I wouldn't go back. Running Xp at work does
seem a bit primitive. My feelings are that the full power of vista won't be
seen until DX10 games hit the marketplace.

I would like to say thank you for this post. I did the exact same thing that
you did. I did my research, weighed my options, decided which risks to take
and which to avoid and I have had no issues with Vista. I did have to
reinstall after using the upgrade path on the first attempt. As I said
above, I chose which risks I was willing to take and that is what gave me
problems with the upgrade path. Vista installed fine via the upgrade path,
but I didn't follow the instructions on a couple of my component driver
upgrades and had to reinstall via a clean install. Let me make sure you
understand that this was my choice, not Vista's or the other driver
developers'. I myself chose to take the risk and when I chose to regroup and
do a clean install, it was simple and fairly quick.

I have had no problems with Vista. I have been reading these discussion
groups for about two months now and have noticed one outstanding quality of
the posts. Most of them arise from operator error, not OS error. What I
really love is, I am an engineer, I use computers to do my job. Most of the
really negative posts that I have read here are posted by "self-claiming" IT
professionals that are doing things that I perceive as "stupid" and I'm not
an IT professional. There are oh-so-many problems listed here that are
posted as Microsoft's Stupidity, that have absolutely nothing to do with MS
being dumb, but rather operators doing something really stupid that they
would have trashed any other user for doing.

I read a post today that blamed MS because he (or she) had used an admin
account to deny access to the boot drive to everyone. If that's not
stupidity at its best, I don't know what is.

Anyway, off my soapbox. I have had Vista installed at home for two months
and the trash that my kids used to be able to dig up over the internet, i.e.,
menu bars, pop-up's and the like, just simply don't happen anymore. When I
hear, "Daddy it needs your password," I just say click on cancel, you don't
need that. Guess what, after two months of internetting, they haven't needed
not one of those pop-ups and I haven't had to uninstall anything that didn't
want to be uninstalled. I say KUDOS to MS, UAC, MS Defender and Vista. Keep
up the good work.

Benny

"Rod" wrote:

> There are so many "negative" posts here about Vista, and by the very nature
> of the community I guess (we post BECAUSE we either have issues or questions)
> that's somewhat understandable.
>
> I approached the upgrade cautiously, took my time reading about it, and
> maybe some of the pitfalls, and soaked up much of the excellent advice and
> tips here as I could. My BIOS, network card, and, as it transpired, my
> Logitech WebCam all had "No compatablity data". But, after buying a cheapo
> $35 Netgear NIC card and ploughing ahead, and "ignoring" the BIOS
> notification (not wise, but what the heck, that same BIOS had seen me go thru
> Win3.1/Win98/98SE/2000/XP...so let's give it a go!)...
>
> ...bingo....I have a beautiful new OS that I simply love. XP looks/feels so
> old fashioned now when I have to use it at work!
>
> Vista fixed up my webcam issue on first reboot by downloading drivers, found
> my new network card as soon as I plugged it in, and configured it properly
> and seems to have ignored the very BIOS issue it thought might be a problem
> via its own Upgrade Advisor.
>
> To all here who helped me (knowingly or not!) and guided me...thank you.
>
> To date, absolutley no issues. I have been able to install all the software
> I used to use on XP (sans EasyCDCreator 5), I have had no crashes, no odd
> behavior of any sort.
>
> I even then took the plunge and bought a copy of Live OneCare - yeah...I
> know...) and after having an initial Error ID Code 0017 (fix: UNBLOCK the
> OneCare site in IE7), that too installed fine...as it really should.
>
> Really, I have been both quietly astonished and really surprised at how well
> this upgrade (actually a clean install in the end!) went. I had gone thru the
> old Win3.1/98/98SE/2000/XP upgrades/installs....THIS was the simplest and
> easiest.
>
> I say, do your reading/research and...well, I went for it, and I am happy I
> did!
>
> Rgds n tks for all your help guys/gals.