Well, non-techy hubby forced purchase of <hawk, spit> Vista on a new PC for our home network, and it's a pita as far as I'm concerned...among its known 'features' is a peculiar attitude to network printers - there's an article in a recent Windows Secrets newsletter about it. I tried the fix they gave, but that didn't work either (well, er, yes, it did, but at the expense of my own machine being unable to see the network printer from its WinXP partition - I had to manually assign a port to get it working again!), and I am getting really, really p***ed off with having to reinstall the network printer on the Vista machine every time it has been powered down and rebooted - in fact even if someone else in the family has logged on, changing the active profile.... If I did not have to run Windoze at home to keep the offspring and their dad happy, I'd have wiped it long ago....both flavours....
Regards :Denise PS - sorry I still haven't made it to a meeting, folks, but I have 2 exams coming up and no free time....I follow the postings though -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Hayes Sent: 27 September 2007 14:17 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: RE: [Peterboro] Vista popularity I wouldn't go that far Phil. The TCP/IP stack in Windows XP because it was using a tried and tested stack from Unix / Linux. One of the hold ups with Vista (and still an ongoing issue) is the TCP/IP. MS went back and rebuilt the stack on Vista. The stack quite often 'breaks' which you are forced to run the repair (I think that's what it is called). At times you can be working ok and then all of a sudden the link to the network may drop or the connection from the network to the Internet may drop or it all may drop all together. We've been testing this within the business and have been forced to finding either XP systems or downgradable systems. There are other issues for business users / networks that cannot be resolved at this point. SP1 is suppose to fix these problems as well as giving the OS a performance boost - which is what users have been complaining about for some time....... Ben -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Thompson Sent: 27 September 2007 12:14 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Vista popularity HP have £100 cashback on one laptop with Vista Business pre-installed but only £50 on the same model with XP. They won't sell me one with no MS OS installed. To be fair, Vista on a laptop seems fine to me. Issues about older peripherals etc can of course arise but I've set a couple up including with 3G data and they work fine. The Vista TCP/IP stack seems a lot better than the XP one, FWIW. Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterbor o _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterbor o _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
