Community Newsletter: Q&A: Is my current software compatible with Vista?
- 3/7/07 1:43 PM
Regular PCI card
by jrpgjr01 - 3/3/07 8:00 PM In reply to: Vista Graphics and the Importance of Motherboard Drivers by pmchefaloI have been looking for a PCI graphics card that is supposed to be Vista Ready. I found a NVidia 256 card with a sticker on it that stated it was Vista upgradable. Guess what, it was Vista ready, but only Vista Home Basic. Downloaded the Vista updgrade driver and it didn't make a difference. It told me I had to have Vista installed to get the update, and then it told me all features would not work under Vista. MS Advisor told only McAffee and my Scanner would not work. Guess what about 1/2 of my programs do not work. At least I did a dual boot test drive. To Bad I bought the new graphic card, did does not work and Windows Home Premium and can't use them.
Vista Home Basic Does Not Support Aero
by pmchefalo - 3/10/07 3:20 PM In reply to: Regular PCI card by jrpgjr01Yeah, sorry about the graphics card vendor misdirection. A PCI card won't be fast enough, so the Aero Glass interface won't work, which leaves you at Vista Home Basic, non-Aero graphics level. You must have AGP graphics, 4x minimum to get a high-enough Vista readiness score to run Aero.
Note that Vista is not all about Aero! But investing in a graphics non-AGP graphics card is not going to help.
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Problem
by lvsunz - 3/2/07 5:26 PM In reply to: Your software should work by T405I installed WVUA & it won't run. I click on Start Scan & nothing happens - no error messages, no nothing. I've been trying for about a week - many downloads & reinstalls with same results. I even tried running it in Safe Mode - same result. I'm running XP Pro, SP2; browsers are IE7 & Firefox 2.0. Called Microsoft - no help at all. Would sure appreciate feedback. Thank you.
Upgrade Advisor problem
by flnettles - 3/3/07 11:01 PM In reply to: Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Problem by lvsunzTry uninstalling it, see if you can get System Restore to work back to before installing Upgrade Advisor then reinstall Upgrade Advisor again and see if it will work then.
Exactly Right!
by mpmacal - 3/4/07 12:20 PM In reply to: Your software should work by T405and exactly the reason I decided off Vista...
Worse than that, I seriously question if this BLOATED piece of software will ever be worthy.
I was so excited when I first heard of Vista. WOW! WinFS promised to blow away file corruption problems and more....
What did we wind up with? Aero... If you were here to see my XP desktop... it is a 50% gray background. All shortcuts are limited to a toolbar on the edge of monitor #1. I have turned off every single bell and whistle I can find. Why? Because I use my PC. I use it for video editing, newsletter writing, programming and compiling, and yes... games. If my applications have to compete with the OS for resources, than I need to find a leaner, more robust OS.
I use Linux, UNIX and XP on a daily basis. Linux is starting to look like a better option moving forward. HTML, PERL, MySQL, Open Office, GAIM, and most serious CAD packages are all compatible with either OS. Linux uses far less resources than Vista. I might keep an XP partition around for when I get that wild hair and want to play a game not yet compiled for Linux.
I hope Microsoft cleans up this single greatest liability with their latest offering. It is not just that they left out true technological advances, it is all of the overhead they added simply to "improve the experience". If 2 GB of RAM helps Vista reach a baseline performance level, imagine what that 2 GB of RAM will do for your existing XP machine, or even a Linux based system.
Performance???
by waytron - 3/5/07 3:49 AM In reply to: Exactly Right! by mpmacalYou are right on here. The first thing I do with every XP Computer after uninstalling all the free trial crud that was preinstalled, is go to the performance settings and turn off most all visual effects to boost performance. It seems that regardless of new advances in hardware and software the net effect seems to be always negative as far as overall performance and efficiency. Everyone loves to blame Microsoft, as do I, but all vendors are at fault here. They all keep adding new features that we don't need to each revision just to keep selling new versions. Every new release seems to get slower. I would guess that they all could very easily provide us with free or low cost updates that would work with Vista, but merely don't want to. The whole industry is counting on Vista to boost sales of hardware and software. Sometimes I wish I could go back and take my dual processor computer with 4 gigs of ram and install DOS and some of my old programs like WordPerfect and WordStar just to see how fast things could really run. I remember how much fun it was to upgrade the memory from 16 meg to 32 meg and see a blazing improvement in performance. Each new version of software really introduced WOW! type improvements and vendors offered huge savings if you already owned the previous version. How many more features can you add to Microsoft Word? Most people use less than 5% of what it can do now. Once they gave me auto spell correct, I was happy.
Vista, no problems
by Robert L Masters - 3/4/07 5:30 PM In reply to: Your software should work by T405hey T405, just a little problem with your post. My computer is "MORE" than ready for Vista, but that program from Microsoft that tells me if I am ready tells me what I already know, my computer is ready, my programs are not and I have to spend time and/or money to fix them. So, no there will be issues with Vista even though my computer will work fine. As I have been told by experts over the last 23 years, my computer will not work without programs and Microsoft says most of my programs will not work with Vista.
Robert
Is your PC ready for Vista?
by Nikolas Skalkotos - 2/23/07 5:07 PM In reply to: Is my current software compatible with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The way I have done it in the past and the way I am planning to do it again, is I decide to upgrade to Vista, is to wait for six months to a year to see, read, learn and get informed until most if not all bugs are corrected. Then, If news is positive and I still thing about upgrading, I will go ahead; and even then with caution.
Nick
Vista
by ludwig - 2/23/07 5:14 PM In reply to: Is my current software compatible with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
First of all I have heard of Vista---but that is just about it. Is this suppose to replace Windows??
Do not install this yourself unless you are a software engineer who really knows what they are doing. I do not Vista but have been through some of the same proceedures that are necessary to install it---which meas transfering all of your date to another hard disk or similar device before starting. If you are not careful you can loose data.
I will say that if Vista is anything like Internet Explorer 8 which can really mess up your computer with their so-called brilliant tabs.
then no thanks. When something works don't fix it.
bill
About Vista
by witdove - 2/23/07 5:19 PM In reply to: Is my current software compatible with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I dont know if I am up to anything-still at 98-but from what I hear its not woth it for the new Vista. I dont know myself-Im a newbe to this.
new vista
by debbiedianel - 2/23/07 5:24 PM In reply to: Is my current software compatible with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I had almost ordered it and reading further into how and who it would benefit I didn't because of reading about the combatability with what I have now and seemed aimed more for business then any thing. What do you think? Curiousdeb
Software compatability w/ Vista
by msarp1 - 2/23/07 5:25 PM In reply to: Is my current software compatible with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When you install Vista, it will tell you if there are any compatibility problems w/ your perennials and any software you had w/ XP. The hardware and software companies are constantly at work making there products Vista capable. In my mind, this OS is going to have more growing pains than previous OS`s. I am waiting to jump on the Vista bandwagon till things pan out.
not really...
by md_nadz - 2/23/07 5:27 PM In reply to: Is my current software compatible with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i dont think my computer can required windows vista system.... i need to upgrade it first so i can install the windows vista.... but it will need a such of cost....
no...
by yingyi_chew - 2/23/07 6:12 PM In reply to: Is my current software compatible with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
no..i didn't upgrade to vista..i don't think it is necessary to do so...maybe it is better,but mine still can used,why don't just use it until it expired~?
"Is your PC ready for Vista?"
by alioopoop1 - 2/23/07 6:27 PM In reply to: Is my current software compatible with Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
To answer this question I thought long and hard about how satisfied I was with what I already had, Windows XP sp2, and to be honest for quite some time now I have been pondering whether or not to revert back to Win98se. Why, because WinXP has far to many shortfalls, nay "PITFALLS, Mr. Gates you have yet to deliver on any of the promised wonderful operating systems and in my 12 years of Windows experience only 98SE has come close to an overall complete system. So to answer the question, I think it should be reasked,the real question should be "are YOU ready for Vista", and in a nutshell, NO!! I'm not, I don't have enough confidence in Mr. Gates. I am more likely to try Ubuntu 
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