Adam Maas wrote: > HP's image is hideous, and their additional software is not 100% > Vista compatible, no matter what they say. I didn't install anything > but the drivers when I got my free upgrade for my HP laptop, and even > those caused me trouble. > > I'm one of the few having little in the way of trouble with Vista now > (less than I had with XP). But that's because I went in and seriously > stripped down what was running, MS's default install has all sorts of > crap running that shouldn't be (Why the hell does a home > machine-oriented install have the iSCSI SAN service running? Among > other crap) and UAC is a travesty in UI design (first thing I turned > off). The only real issue I have is that Vista won't let me uninstall > the broken HP graphics drivers so I can install updated ATI-sourced > drivers. But I suspect that's HP's fault, not MS's. > > -Adam > > Yup. There were a couple of HP applications (mostly crap that wanted to keep my peecee "up to date") that just wouldn't go away. Uninstalled. Removed them from the start up and services lists. They'd still pop up at the most convenient times.
Typically, with any pre-installed OS, I gut as much of it as possible. UAC being the first thing to go, then all the other cruft. I was finally able to boot Vista yesterday after running the start up recovery tool (had to drop the battery and unplug it to get to that point). Turns out remote access manager was corrupt. No networking. At all. And not worth fixing. Since installing XP, I finally have a responsive machine, and I can run my games at full resolution. Vista forced me to dumb down the graphics. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
