Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:21:40 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>| Overall Windows Vista is most definitely a strong effort by
>>| Microsoft to replace Windows XP. Unfortunately thanks to many of
>>| the problems I ran into over the last 10 days I can't recommend
>>| it for anyone but early adopters or those who don't mind finding
>>| work-arounds for these types of problems. Ultimately Windows
>>| Vista does remind me of the ill-fated Windows Millennium
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> Almost all of his problems can be attributed to hardware drivers. His
> mouse cursor problem, likely a video driver problem. His suspend problem,
> likely needs a bios update. The only (perhaps) legitimate gripe about the
> OS itself is his experience with force terminating Windows Explorer, but
> then i've not seen that problem. Sounds like it may have been related to
> some of the other driver related problems he was experiencing.
>
> After a few weeks from Vista retail launch, most of the hardware problems
> should be sorted out by vendors, either issuing updated drivers or bios
> updates. The same was true of when XP was released.
>
> I'm not sure why he's complaining that Documents and Settings folder is
> gone.. there is a compatability symlink in place for apps that try to use
> it directly.
>
"symlink"?
> As for his comments about running Vista in 512MB, he was doing so with
> Aero enabled... if you are going to use the minimum requirements, don't
> use
> Aero. It will be just as fast as using Vista with 1MB and Aero enabled.
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Jerry McBride
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