FU%$*#G VISTA. HELP I WANT XP

Take it back and buy a second hand computer with XP ? Simple solution...

 

YIKES! Never even heard of that up north.

 

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

BS on the restocking fee. If you are dissatisfied with any Best Buy product, you should get full reimbursement no questions asked.

 

I bought an XP laptop about two weeks ago. I'm not having problems with Firefox. I had a few quirks with it but got them sorted out quickly.

My complaint is that I can not get a bit torrent client to work on it.

I really wish I knew how to get rid of that pop up for permission. I have not even taken the time to see if it can be disabled.

I've been using my 10 year old laptop with XP just so I can use bittorrent.

Best Buy had XP laptops when I bought mine two weeks ago. If you want one you may be able to get one cheap if they have them left. I wanted vista, just didn't know what I was in for.

 

People were like this when XP replaced 98. And people were REALLY pissed when 98 replaced 95. But just for the record, the 3.1 users were the most distraught and heartbroken over 95 becoming big poppa.

Soory you're having such a rough time with it. I really like XP, and I'm sure it would take me a month or so to get used to Vista.

However, IE7 grew on me in about 5 hours, so dunno.

 

i just got vista today with a laptop it works great no problems

 

Sounds like another reason to wait for at least SP1 before an upgrade.

 

Vista sucks.

Return it, tell Best Buy it's defective. They'll return it 100%.

Take your money and either get a IBM T60p or a MacbookPro.

I got the MBP and haven't looked back since. I run WinXP under Parallels for when I really need to.

 

Thanks.

 

So you're going to disable the very things that are supposed to help you?

 

if you buy it form future shop it says something about that they will install it for you

 

mmm. macbook pro.

i want to get rid of mine [coreduo 15"]and get a new one with a core2 duo.

 

I'm not a huge fan of Vista but I haven't had any issues with Firefox 2.0 or Acrobat 7. It looks like ACT! 2007 works with Vista with some caveats...maybe it's time to upgrade? I did have an issue with my router (Linksys) where I had to disable SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) in order for Outlook or Firefox to actually download anything. Once I figured that out, it has worked as advertised.

 

Check your PMs yo!

 

I didn't know Vista is this bad. I think XP was like this when it first came out until Microsoft fixed those problems.

I'm gonna have to wait until they get it to work just fine.

 

Vista wireless networking works great with my BRAND NEW all in one Linksys router/modem at home. No security issues, fired right up.

not so good with my Wireless Access Point at work. took a major workaround (that I'm not happy with and won't discuss) to make the thing go there.

some issues with any software more than about 3 minutes old. and even some of the Vista patches from the software guys still produce incompatability warnings from VISTA.

And the thing is a MEMORY PIG.

And it tends to bitmap web graphics.

Other than that, I love it!!!!

DM

 

Damn straight.

If only I had boobs to fondle.

 

I just upgraded from Win 2kPro to XP Pro a month ago. I'll likely wait until the next big MS OS comes out to upgrade to Vista. One thing I learned the hard way with my computer experience over the last 15 years is not to upgrade unless you absolutely have to, especially the OS or drivers. But I guess you don't have a choice if you're buying new with pre-installed software.

 

I believe WinXP support ends in 2011. I'm using WinXP until than