I am glad that somebody else is having trouble printing from Vista to a
networked printer, my wife has laptop with Vista on, My own desktop is
connected to a HP printer via the Desktop uSB port but can I get the Laptop
to print correctly NO!!
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From: "denise orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts'"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 8:03 PM
Subject: RE: [Peterboro] Vista popularity
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
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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
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