Windows Vista

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From: Chris <christopher.strevens@...>

I upgraded to windows vista yesterday after making a drive image. Once it was loaded and running the computer was sick. The garish colours of the huge icons stared at me and Outlook did not work, several other programs failed to load and told me about it. So I restored by backup. Now all is well and Vista is on the shelf.

Chris

 

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The operative word there being "Upgrade". If you'd done a clean install, you more than likely wouldn't have had the same quantity of issues. I did IT work for many years and never, ever had good luck with Windows upgrades from one OS to another. Running a clean install on a cleaned partition (i.e., FDISK and reformat) and then running the install seemed to work MUCH better.

 

Hope all are well today. Am in the lab, running clients through my study "The Influence of Photographic Exemplars on Perceptions of Issue Salience"... Yawn, yawn, right? :-)

 

Cordially,

 

Mark Lent

 

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From: Chris christopher.strevens@...

I upgraded to windows vista yesterday after making a drive image. Once it was loaded and running the computer was sick. The garish colours of the huge icons stared at me and Outlook did not work, several other programs failed to load and told me about it. So I restored by backup. Now all is well and Vista is on the shelf.

Chris

 

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Subject: Windows Vista

From: Chris christopher.strevens@...

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:47:49 +0000

To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students photoforum@...

To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students photoforum@...

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             I plan to live forever.  So far, so good......

I assure you, I am mortal, and foolish!  The machine has had several different motherboards and processors, and before each OS upgrade, I cloned (Norton Ghost) the hard drive over to one with higher capacity. I did it just to see if I could.

Bill

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From: mlent@...
Sent: Jul 10, 2008 3:33 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students photoforum@...
Subject: Re: Windows Vista

WOW... a machine that ran Win3.1 now runs XP??? You are not mortal, sir! :-) Bow, Bow, Bow...

Man, I remember those horrible days of Win3.11- Windows for Workgroups, Which is actually an old indian phrase that means "doesn't run worth a hoot". And don't even THINK about running Photoshop!!!

Who else here remembers Photoshop BEFORE it was an Adobe product? The first flatbed scanner I purchased came with "Thomas Knoll's Photoshop, v0.79", which was two floppy discs (And yes, I still have those disks). Primative by today's standards. Who remembers when you had to select with the marquee too to zoom-in, and then had to remember to zoom-out, otherwise your photo would have this Picasso look to it. :-). Ahhh... Thems' was th' days... hehehe.

Mark Lent
    

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Good point!  It's the utility of item.  But I think it's more like three different sport jackets and five pair of pants.

Bill
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From: MichaelHughes7A@...
Sent: Jul 10, 2008 5:56 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students photoforum@...
Subject: Re: Windows Vista


In a message dated 10/07/2008 21:54:10 GMT Daylight Time,  
wpettit@... writes:

The  machine has had several different motherboards and  processors,


Sound like the man who had the same suit for 20 years in which time he had  
only had three replacement jackets and five pairs of pants.  Michael



  
    

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From: karl shah-jenner <shahjen@...>

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Blackwell"
> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
>
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 10:46 AM
> Subject: Re: Windows Vista
>
>
> > Well I expect that Vista will rival the success of Windows ME. I know
> why the gave it the name Millennium. You would have to spend a 1000
> years to get it to work. They have had enough complaints over Vista
> that I suspect they are working on the next greatest thing already.
>
>
>
> apparenly they were underway before they'd even released the first
> service pack for vista
>
>

> ; what 's wrong with peoples old OS's?

>
> when a new OS doesn't support peripherals you have and software you've
> paid for.. when the OS prevents you from doing things *you* want to do,
> it really doesn't look like an upgrade at all.
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>
>
> to be honest it's not all MS's fault - they had the info on the OS out
> to all the vendors with plenty of time to spare, but I'm guessing the
> vendors are overwhelmed with the constant need to write drivers. when
> a driver written in '95 works all the way through to 2000 and beyond all
> is fine, but this constand demand to produce drivers every time a
> company (be it Apple of MS) decides to make a change - it's got to
> become annoying.
>
> k
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>