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| Wife's Gateway laptop - weird happenings..and a recap of numerousVista issues Last night my wife complained that a dialog box popped up 3 times while she was surfing the net, regarding the power settings. It seems that every day is a new adventure as a Vista user. I'm losing count of all the anomalies that have occurred with our 2 laptops the past few months. Windows notifications that won't go away in the 7 seconds they are supposed to (only my laptop had that issue at first--now hers has the same issue), indexing doesnt return all files it should, my laptop's keyboard repeat rate is very fast and won't adjust. sometimes resume from hibernation results in shutdown, sometimes it works ok. Her laptop won't work with a 2GB SD card (dunno if that's a gateway issue or software). No info screen when hibernating as in XP, and I could have sworn that the first time or two, when my laptop was brand new, that I did see the info screen a few times. Vista doesn't drop deleted virus programs from it's list of installed programs in the Security Center. Tomorrow is another day--wonder what it holds for our Vista experience? Wish I could say "never a dull moment" with Vista, but it's way more frustrating than exciting. dammit, Bill get those boys to fix some of this stuff, eh???? oh, almost forgot, adjusting the blinking cursor's width doesn't work in any program but Word, as far as I can tell. It's supposed to be a global setting in Vista. "Shared by Me" searches are useless, with or without the index enabled, on both laptops. and it's NOT a question of ownership. It seems that search feature just refuses to work on either machine despite trying a variety of suggestions. Please list your unsolved issues with Vista. Dave |
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| Re: Wife's Gateway laptop - weird happenings..and a recap of numerous Vista issues My issue is that a 9 year old laser printer will not work under Vista. That's it! -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) "David" <david@invalid.com> wrote in message news:yrydne7qAuhB733bnZ2dnUVZ_tSknZ2d@comcast.com...[color=blue] > Last night my wife complained that a dialog box popped up 3 times while > she was surfing the net, regarding the power settings. It seems that > every day is a new adventure as a Vista user. I'm losing count of all the > anomalies that have occurred with our 2 laptops the past few months. > Windows notifications that won't go away in the 7 seconds they are > supposed to (only my laptop had that issue at first--now hers has the same > issue), > > indexing doesnt return all files it should, > > my laptop's keyboard repeat rate is very fast and won't adjust. > sometimes resume from hibernation results in shutdown, sometimes it works > ok. > Her laptop won't work with a 2GB SD card (dunno if that's a gateway issue > or software). > No info screen when hibernating as in XP, and I could have sworn that the > first time or two, when my laptop was brand new, that I did see the info > screen a few times. > > Vista doesn't drop deleted virus programs from it's list of installed > programs in the Security Center. > > Tomorrow is another day--wonder what it holds for our Vista experience? > Wish I could say "never a dull moment" with Vista, but it's way more > frustrating than exciting. dammit, Bill get those boys to fix some of > this stuff, eh???? > > oh, almost forgot, adjusting the blinking cursor's width doesn't work in > any program but Word, as far as I can tell. It's supposed to be a global > setting in Vista. > > "Shared by Me" searches are useless, with or without the index enabled, on > both laptops. and it's NOT a question of ownership. It seems that search > feature just refuses to work on either machine despite trying a variety of > suggestions. > > Please list your unsolved issues with Vista. > > Dave[/color] |
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| Re: Wife's Gateway laptop - weird happenings..and a recap ofnumerous Vista issues On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:36:09 -0700, David wrote:[color=blue] > > Tomorrow is another day--wonder what it holds for our Vista experience? > Wish I could say "never a dull moment" with Vista, but it's way more > frustrating than exciting. dammit, Bill get those boys to fix some of > this stuff, eh????[/color] Bill's not there anymore. This guy is running the show: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4MzqBFxZE[/url] Can you imagine trying to tell him something he doesn't want to hear, like "Vista's got serious problems"? He throws office chairs when he gets mad... Charlie |
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| Video editing software has issues with Vista Sony Vegas having problems running under Vista. Had to install it on an XP box. "David" <david@invalid.com> wrote in message news:yrydne7qAuhB733bnZ2dnUVZ_tSknZ2d@comcast.com...[color=blue] > Last night my wife complained that a dialog box popped up 3 times while > she was surfing the net, regarding the power settings. It seems that > every day is a new adventure as a Vista user. I'm losing count of all the > anomalies that have occurred with our 2 laptops the past few months. > Windows notifications that won't go away in the 7 seconds they are > supposed to (only my laptop had that issue at first--now hers has the same > issue), > > indexing doesnt return all files it should, > > my laptop's keyboard repeat rate is very fast and won't adjust. > sometimes resume from hibernation results in shutdown, sometimes it works > ok. > Her laptop won't work with a 2GB SD card (dunno if that's a gateway issue > or software). > No info screen when hibernating as in XP, and I could have sworn that the > first time or two, when my laptop was brand new, that I did see the info > screen a few times. > > Vista doesn't drop deleted virus programs from it's list of installed > programs in the Security Center. > > Tomorrow is another day--wonder what it holds for our Vista experience? > Wish I could say "never a dull moment" with Vista, but it's way more > frustrating than exciting. dammit, Bill get those boys to fix some of > this stuff, eh???? > > oh, almost forgot, adjusting the blinking cursor's width doesn't work in > any program but Word, as far as I can tell. It's supposed to be a global > setting in Vista. > > "Shared by Me" searches are useless, with or without the index enabled, on > both laptops. and it's NOT a question of ownership. It seems that search > feature just refuses to work on either machine despite trying a variety of > suggestions. > > Please list your unsolved issues with Vista. > > Dave[/color] |
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| Re: Video editing software has issues with Vista On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:01:29 -0700, "Bill Yanaire" <bill@yanaire.com> wrote: [color=blue] >Sony Vegas having problems running under Vista. Had to install it on an XP >box.[/color] What version of Vegas and what are you experiencing? The only odd thing I see once in awhile is just randomly it pops a warning about the help being inaccessible... even when I don't click on help. Doesn't hurt anything, just weird. I'm currently running version 5, the new Vegas 8 should be out later this month, hopefully some worthwhile new features, the last two editions, V6 and V7 haven't been any interest for me in what was added. |
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| Re: Video editing software has issues with Vista "Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message news:v921e3lmp5q64mosuhdm86maeoi0iqup8q@4ax.com...[color=blue] > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:01:29 -0700, "Bill Yanaire" <bill@yanaire.com> > wrote: >[color=green] >>Sony Vegas having problems running under Vista. Had to install it on an >>XP >>box.[/color] > > What version of Vegas and what are you experiencing? The only odd > thing I see once in awhile is just randomly it pops a warning about > the help being inaccessible... even when I don't click on help. > Doesn't hurt anything, just weird. > > I'm currently running version 5, the new Vegas 8 should be out later > this month, hopefully some worthwhile new features, the last two > editions, V6 and V7 haven't been any interest for me in what was > added. >[/color] I am running version 7.0e. Vegas kept crashing so I thought I'd remove it and put it on the XP box. I just read that Vegas 8 is coming out so depending on the price of the upgrade, I'll get it and install it on Vista. Hope it's not that expensive because I just purchase Vegas about a month ago. |
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| Re: Video editing software has issues with Vista On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:49:02 -0700, "Bill Yanaire" <bill@yanaire.com> wrote: [color=blue] > >"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message >news:v921e3lmp5q64mosuhdm86maeoi0iqup8q@4ax.com...[color=green] >> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:01:29 -0700, "Bill Yanaire" <bill@yanaire.com> >> wrote: >>[color=darkred] >>>Sony Vegas having problems running under Vista. Had to install it on an >>>XP >>>box.[/color] >> >> What version of Vegas and what are you experiencing? The only odd >> thing I see once in awhile is just randomly it pops a warning about >> the help being inaccessible... even when I don't click on help. >> Doesn't hurt anything, just weird. >> >> I'm currently running version 5, the new Vegas 8 should be out later >> this month, hopefully some worthwhile new features, the last two >> editions, V6 and V7 haven't been any interest for me in what was >> added. >>[/color] > >I am running version 7.0e. Vegas kept crashing so I thought I'd remove it >and put it on the XP box. I just read that Vegas 8 is coming out so >depending on the price of the upgrade, I'll get it and install it on Vista. >Hope it's not that expensive because I just purchase Vegas about a month >ago.[/color] Check on their site and see if there is some email notification you can subscribe to if you haven't already. Usually they will send you an email and tell you about some special promotion when new versions come out. The usual upgrade is around $200 but you're close to the 30 day period where you MAY get a free upgrade. Their practice lately seems to have been alternating improvements first one year most of the improvements are on the video side, then the next release seems to focus more on the audio side of things. |
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