Don't upgrade to Vista
I haven't updated this stuff for a while.
I was in Denver for a week, picked up Overlord. At the time it wasn't available in Canada so I figured why not. I was going to buy The Darkness too but figured that would be a bit much. I do plan on picking up Darkness soon though. (along with C&C3, sheesh where am I gonna get all this dough).
I also 'upgraded' to Vista, which I wholeheartedly regret. I installed a demo of Vista on an empty drive. It went smoothly and I used it for about 3 days without issue. Back when XP came out I had a lot of problems with drivers, etc so I made sure that all the hardware I have worked fine on Vista which it did. I decided to upgrade from MCE2005 to Vista and that is where the problems started.
First attempt failed and took my data drive with the failure. Not sure why but my attached USB drive lost it's FAT table. I was pretty sure that I lost 200+ GB of photos, music home movies, some of it irreplacable. I'm pretty sure that the failure to install Vista caused the drive to lose it's table as I've been using the drive for nearly a year now. I managed to buy some drive recovery software that helped restore my critical files. Needless to say that failure cost me a weeks worth of time trying to recover my files.
Second attempt finally worked but I noticed some odd behavior. I have a NAS drive and for some reason with Vista the drive is constantly in use. I don't understand why but Vista seems to constantly poll the drive. In fact the machine in general seems a lot slower. The CPU usage is nearly always at 3-5% for no reason. Network access always seems to be happening and disk is nearly always working, even with 2gb of memory.
Here is the biggest problem. When I installed the 30 day demo I was so focused on the problems I had with XP (drivers) I failed to see if my key software was working. Sadly with Vista I cannot run some of my most important software. I can't run Nero, I can't run Pinnacle Studio. This means I'm sort of dead in the water.
I am really disappointed with Vista, I can't recommend it to anyone really, even as a new OS. In general it seems really unreliable (I occasionally get BSODs for no reason) it eats system resources so your PC will feel a LOT slower than with XP and the software support is non-existant.
I bought a refurbished PC for my wife with MCE2005 so I can install my mission critical software. Vista has been such a bad experience this is the first time in a long time that I've been really disappointed with Microsoft. They should not have released this software yet. It's just not ready. It has a lot of potential but to unleash this on the non-computer literate population is bad news in my book. I regret my choice to move from MCE2005 and now I dread even using my PC in fear that something will happen to cause me to lose my data.
I can't wait till the refurbished PC arrives so I can attach my mission critical drives and software so I'll feel a lot better about my data being safe.
I was in Denver for a week, picked up Overlord. At the time it wasn't available in Canada so I figured why not. I was going to buy The Darkness too but figured that would be a bit much. I do plan on picking up Darkness soon though. (along with C&C3, sheesh where am I gonna get all this dough).
I also 'upgraded' to Vista, which I wholeheartedly regret. I installed a demo of Vista on an empty drive. It went smoothly and I used it for about 3 days without issue. Back when XP came out I had a lot of problems with drivers, etc so I made sure that all the hardware I have worked fine on Vista which it did. I decided to upgrade from MCE2005 to Vista and that is where the problems started.
First attempt failed and took my data drive with the failure. Not sure why but my attached USB drive lost it's FAT table. I was pretty sure that I lost 200+ GB of photos, music home movies, some of it irreplacable. I'm pretty sure that the failure to install Vista caused the drive to lose it's table as I've been using the drive for nearly a year now. I managed to buy some drive recovery software that helped restore my critical files. Needless to say that failure cost me a weeks worth of time trying to recover my files.
Second attempt finally worked but I noticed some odd behavior. I have a NAS drive and for some reason with Vista the drive is constantly in use. I don't understand why but Vista seems to constantly poll the drive. In fact the machine in general seems a lot slower. The CPU usage is nearly always at 3-5% for no reason. Network access always seems to be happening and disk is nearly always working, even with 2gb of memory.
Here is the biggest problem. When I installed the 30 day demo I was so focused on the problems I had with XP (drivers) I failed to see if my key software was working. Sadly with Vista I cannot run some of my most important software. I can't run Nero, I can't run Pinnacle Studio. This means I'm sort of dead in the water.
I am really disappointed with Vista, I can't recommend it to anyone really, even as a new OS. In general it seems really unreliable (I occasionally get BSODs for no reason) it eats system resources so your PC will feel a LOT slower than with XP and the software support is non-existant.
I bought a refurbished PC for my wife with MCE2005 so I can install my mission critical software. Vista has been such a bad experience this is the first time in a long time that I've been really disappointed with Microsoft. They should not have released this software yet. It's just not ready. It has a lot of potential but to unleash this on the non-computer literate population is bad news in my book. I regret my choice to move from MCE2005 and now I dread even using my PC in fear that something will happen to cause me to lose my data.
I can't wait till the refurbished PC arrives so I can attach my mission critical drives and software so I'll feel a lot better about my data being safe.
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