One thing I noticed that's kind of odd ... all my serial and parallel port programmers and apps work in Vista without an extra driver, cripes I remember what a fight is was to get XP to work with my programmers, everyone had a different hack for the ports and they didn't play very well together, to get my parallel port PIC programmer to work I'd have to remove my parallel port O-scope/spectrum analyzer ... finally I ended up using my laptop for the O-scope and used my main box for programming PICs
Vista's biggest problem and I'd bet it's the reason many see a slow down is the User Account Control which I turned off less than 24 hours after the initial install ... Actually it was an upgrade from XP Media Edition and I planned on doing a clean install but frankly I haven't seen the need to, this has to be the first time I did an upgrade install that didn't have a bunch of problems with stability ... So far 6+ months and not a single crash except when Microsoft automatically upgraded my HDTV USB drivers so I had to roll back the driver and as usual turn off automatic updates, same thing happened to me twice on XP, once fatal and I lost stuff from as far back as 1995 ... NTFS is hard to recover unless you buy 3rd party software (And buy it before you crash) ... It looks like SATA drives under XP will be a real problem if they crash hard because there is no native support like in Vista, if you can't get the drivers to load on startup right after the BIOS then you won't be able to access your drives, on Vista you just pop in the install disc and the recovery program can read the SATA drives ... For XP I had to burn a bottable CD because I didn't get a floppy drive because they are going the way of the dinosaur as they should .... I bought an OEM version of XP Media Center for less than 80 bucks and got a free upgrade to Vista, but I wouldn't have upgraded if it weren't essentially free, But I really have no regrets other than slow upgrade drivers from Creative and M-audio JR --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1GB of RAM is no good for VISTA. VISTA Requires 2 GB. In fact, many PC dealers are now giving away the second 1 GB for free including DELL and HP. > > I can see it now. Buy windows vista and get a coupon for 2 GB of free memory Hi Hi. > > My Winradio 305E runs great under VISTA. In fact for some reason. I can Run WIN305E now while browsing the internet without it cutting out or getting an error using the OCTOBER 31 1.97 software. > > Same computer 2.2 GHZ but I added 3 GB of more memory for a total of 4GB and new sound card creative XFI. > > 73 > Ron > > > > > > > -------------- Original message from "i2phd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- > > I have been asked by many why I am not intending not even to test my > software under Vista, let alone porting it to the new opsys. > > Here is another reason, as if the previous were not enough : > > http://tinyurl.com/2bqkkm > > 73 Alberto I2PHD >
