"DaveB" <davebm4i@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:03D88C2A-2377-49B8-910B-E90A6F2AE83B@microsoft.com...
> Hello all Vista Guru's
>
> I now have 5 PC's running all versions of Windows Vista (Basic, Prem,
> Ultimate). They are all working and all updated with the latest upgrades.
> Now for the fun, I have roughly 24 hours of work and time spent
> installing these products on both clean installs and upgrading from
> Windows XP.
>
> My views are that Windows Vista is the most unstable system I have worked
> with and you can crash the OS with just adding drivers, changing drivers
> and or adding and removing software components. This is so wild that I
> have not seen such an unstable OS like this before. I suggest that you
> truly install with a clean install and no third party software involved.
> Be careful with Roxio, Security Software, Printer Drivers, Adobe, and
> others as they will bring down your system and blank out your screens.
> You will have a lot of fun trying to recover.
>
> Have fun as I now after so much work have my systems all running and up
> but I would be very careful adding third party software.
>
> Have fun and enjoy the installs.
>
> Dave
Wow...
I just installed Ultimate x32 (I opted to upgrade my XP
installation) and it took about 1 hour and I had to do nothing except watch
the status bars. I then turned around and did a clean install of Ultimate
64 to my secondary boot partition, and that took about 45 minutes and,
again, I had to do nothing more than watch it install.
I will say, though, that I had to spend an extra 15 minutes or so on the
XP-upgraded partition after install to remove four or five drivers that the
upgrade program *warned me about* prior to install but which warnings I
ignored and installed over anyway. That was my fault as had I heeded the
upgrade program's advice and uninstalled these drivers/programs prior to the
upgrade commencing I'd only have had to install the appropriate Vista
drivers for my devices--which I had already downloaded prior to moving over
to Vista.
Based on your account I can imagine that you got umpteen dozens of
program/driver warnings during your Vista installations which, like me, you
chose to ignore and therefore reaped the consequences. Yes, third-party
software/drivers not written to run under Vista might just give people some
problems under Vista--what a surprise...
The thing about Windows
generally that I've noticed for a long time is that often people expect that
an "intelligent" install program can overcome a thoughtless customer who has
decided in his infinite wisdom that the Vista install program is supposed to
do all of his thinking for him, and take all of the responsibility for
managing his system(s) away from him. Surprise! Windows often expects the
operator to be at least as intelligent as the Windows install program. I
realize that this is something that sticks in the craw of some people who
figure it is the business of Windows to be smart while they remain dumb, but
unfortunately that's not the way computers work. I don't mean to appear
uncharitable, but there it is. When in doubt, read and heed the
instructions, right?
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