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Post by eJm on Oct 26, 2007 19:30:50 GMT -5
This Thursday, I'm getting my new laptop delivered. Since I'm a Journalism Student, I didn't need anything fancy (and we have loads of Macs in our classroom anyway), so I'm getting a Toshiba with Vista Business Edition. Now, I have no idea why I'm getting Business Edition, but hey, I'm not paying for it so who cares? ;D
So basically, this is the thread for Vista users or people who tried out any Betas of Vista to give me advice and opinions on it. Anything I should know or any software I should get, this is basically where you tell me all about it.
I'm getting Anti Virus Software installed on it so I (hopefully) don't need to worry about that. Anything else is appreciated, though.
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Oct 26, 2007 19:44:39 GMT -5
PATIENCE!!!! Vista is a heck of a lot different than XP, so patience on its slowness. And saving things got harder (you have to enlarge the saving window by browsing). And my Toshiba's internet gets screwy.
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Post by eJm on Oct 26, 2007 19:46:52 GMT -5
Don't get me started on the internet provider here.
Just don't.
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Post by Timmy8271 on Oct 26, 2007 19:55:12 GMT -5
When you first get it, You will hate the Permissions thing. Just go to Control Panel and get rid of the MAC. Once you do that, you should be fine. And like the other person said, Have Patience.
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Oct 26, 2007 19:57:50 GMT -5
Don't get me started on the internet provider here. Just don't. That's not what I'm talking about. Here is the thing: if you put the laptop to sleep after locking it, the wireless card will fail to find the internet, and then you would have to restart it. HUUGE pain in the ass. |
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Oct 26, 2007 20:01:19 GMT -5
Vista has given me too problems.
1. It's a pain in the ass to network with a computer that has XP on it.
2. Voice chat is doesn't work with Yahoo! messenger.
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Post by lildude8218 on Oct 26, 2007 20:03:56 GMT -5
When you first get it, You will hate the Permissions thing. Just go to Control Panel and get rid of the MAC. Once you do that, you should be fine. And like the other person said, Have Patience. That's what I was gonna say. Also watch out for something screwy that just happened to me a few days ago but apparently has been happening to people since February. I installed the newest AIM, version 6.5, and the next morning I couldn't play any kind of audio or video file in any program. I restarted thinking it would work itself out and then I couldn't connect to the internet either. My friend came over to look at it, he did something and somehow I had an internet connection even though my computer said there was none. He searched the error it was giving and found a thread on some forum of people having a similar problem with February. It seems that certain Instant Messengers on occassion have been causing Vista to do this. But one simple line of code entered in the command prompt fixed it right away. |
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Post by eJm on Oct 26, 2007 20:04:36 GMT -5
Don't get me started on the internet provider here. Just don't. That's not what I'm talking about. Here is the thing: if you put the laptop to sleep after locking it, the wireless card will fail to find the internet, and then you would have to restart it. HUUGE pain in the ass. Ahh, fair enough. Hopefully my laptop has that intergrated. And Mamacita, I'll have someone come to set it up for me (along with my printer and scanner...Equipment Grant FTW! ;D) so hopefully I get all that sorted out. |
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Post by Timmy8271 on Oct 27, 2007 0:04:52 GMT -5
When you first get it, You will hate the Permissions thing. Just go to Control Panel and get rid of the MAC. Once you do that, you should be fine. And like the other person said, Have Patience. That's what I was gonna say. Also watch out for something screwy that just happened to me a few days ago but apparently has been happening to people since February. I installed the newest AIM, version 6.5, and the next morning I couldn't play any kind of audio or video file in any program. I restarted thinking it would work itself out and then I couldn't connect to the internet either. My friend came over to look at it, he did something and somehow I had an internet connection even though my computer said there was none. He searched the error it was giving and found a thread on some forum of people having a similar problem with February. It seems that certain Instant Messengers on occassion have been causing Vista to do this. But one simple line of code entered in the command prompt fixed it right away. I have GAIM which is Yahoo/AIM/MSN all in one thing. I'm pretty sure it's a linux IM Service or something like that. I hope I don't have that problem. |
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