Yep, I tell my customers to pay the extra 100 bucks to have Dell "downgrade" to XP
--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Kevin Cully <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kevin Cully <[email protected]> > Subject: When is an administrator not an administrator? > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:08 PM > Answer: Vista > > I've got this new "hot" laptop, fully decked > out. Vista Home Premium. > Okay, I don't have to attach it to a domain so I > don't need Ultimate or > anything. > > I'm trying to get up and running with my development > environment. Vista > says that I'm the Administrator on the box, and there > aren't any other > users configured {Opps! WTF?!? I wouldn't have set > myself up as an > Administrator if I had known.} But wait! I'm trying > to configure a > West-Wind application and it's having trouble running > the Console.exe > magic which registers it. It's saying that I'm NOT > an administrator. > > I'm about to poke my eyes out after a day of > frustration when I decide > to Google instead: "How do I know if I'm an > administrator on Vista?" > > I found this tip to make the Administrator magically appear > from > nowhere:http://tinyurl.com/2q56p3 > > Notice that when you "Run as administrator" > there's no password > required. Insanity. > > VFP definitely runs slower on my new laptop than on my old > XP Pro desktop. > > I'm feeling dirty after running Vista, but I need it > for day in and day > out VFP development. Oh well. Thought I'd share. > > -Kevin > CULLY Technologies, LLC > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
