Just in case anyone is thinking of upgrading their computer to Vista. http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1708238/page/1#Post1708238
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, avoid like the plague for at least 6 months, and even then you will probably have to throw all your old hardware and software out.
You Have Been Warned

Bill

Thanks for the warning, Bill.

I wait to upgrade my Abacus...

Best Regards.
Carlo

Thank you for the warning Bill. I still use some old software like xgworks, & an old xg softsynth. These programs have been discontinued, so I doubt there'll ever be a fix for them , if they don't happen to work with vista.
I'll be hanging onto xp for as long as possible.

best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by abacus:
[B]

I'm not a tech guy but I gave up trying to upgrade OS a few systems ago, now I only switch when I have to and when I do I buy a new machine that was built for and has the new OS installed. Not that that is trouble free either.
I remember reinstalling win 98 once a month or so, until I got a disk image program.
Now with xp I've had it for years and have never had to reinstall it.
I can't see any reason to switch to vista until they make me.
As a matter of fact the week Vista came out a tax preparer friend of mine had me searching all over trying to find new computers with xp installed and not vista.

The computer industry really has us by the short and curlies, don't they?

Unless you are editing video, doing full studio-scale productions at 192KHz or playing kid's shoot-em-up games, older machines are more than capable of doing what WE need them to.

Remember, a computer is just a tool.... No point buying every new design spade that comes out if the old spade still digs a perfectly good hole....

My main computer (this one!) still runs Windows2000 pro. Never had problem one with it, but I wish I could run Microsoft Defender with it. Microsoft stopped supporting it for versions before XP.....................

Not hard to do - check out Dell's Outlet website.

The thing is.... don't get a computer to run Vista, get a computer to run Vista after ALL the apps and drivers you use and need are Vista-ready (and bug-free). Otherwise, all you have is a conversation piece.....

Thanks for the tip! you're right