Lori,
Sounds like you all installed a Vista upgrade vs. a full installation on a new or sanitized hard drive. If so, I've heard many more stories of problems afterward, especially if the computer is several years old and/or uses older peripherals, some of which may not be Vista compatible or may need to Vista compatible drivers. This is why I generally advise holding off on getting Vista until you purchase a new computer or go "scorched earth" on your existing hard drive, and then install Vista and reinstall all of your other software. Short of starting from scratch, you may try reinstalling the two programs (and any others) you use regularly. Vista may run them more reliably afterward. Vista definitely has its learning curve and needs at least 1 MB of RAM, preferably 2 MB of RAM, to run smoothly and reliably, but it also has a number of good new features including a remarkably good free Speech Recognition application that rivals Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Hope you can resolve your Vista problems soon. Steve From: Lori Michaelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 8:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] VISTA After installing VISTA on the 23rd - -- nothing but problems. Thought they'd be workable but it's gotten worse. So my husband MAY overwrite it with XP (as MS has it so one CAN'T uninstall it!). Yesterday & today after trying to open 2 programs used regularly -- we get the message -- "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event LOG for more detail." Worked fine yesterday. Did nothing different since yesterday. Today we get that OBSURE message today twice (so far) without knowing the cause or how to fix it. But VISTA doesn't say how to find this "event log" or what it is. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Being a principal software engineer (my husband) and working with computers at work (engineering) and at home AND having worked with every operating system out there for 37 yrs (even Unix/Linux) he's beyond frustrated. Seems VISTA takes more managability over one's system away from you. Very UNCOOL! Anyone else having probs? Lori
