Windows Vista
Well for various reasons I now have Windows Vista. I installed it myself and to be honest everything went smoothly. That’s not to say everything went perfectly, but nothing unsurmountable happened.
The first problem was the fact that I bought the upgrade version. I’d previously bought Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 but I was doing a clean install. Previous version of Windows just asked for you to pop the disk of the previous version in this situation – Vista didn’t. It would only let me install from Windows. So I had to install Media Centre first.
Then once I had installed Vista it didn’t have drivers for my network card or my sound card (and no network card meant no internet and therefore no video drivers and therefore horrible resolution (at the wrong aspect ratio no less). Well luckily I have another computer with internect access so I got the network drivers (and then the video and sound drivers).
Beyond that, I haven’t done much with it yet. The Aero glass lucks cool and stuff and the new games it comes with are at least as entertaining as the old ones were when I first saw them.
PS. User Account Control really is as annoying as they say it is for at least two reasons: Firstly it seems to ask you everything twice. Second since I have administrator access anyway it doesn’t really provide any security (it happens so often that you just click accept straight away without reading it).
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3 Comments on Windows Vista
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George on
Sun, 8th Jul 2007 10:19 pm
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RyanC on
Mon, 9th Jul 2007 9:12 am
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Oliver on
Wed, 11th Jul 2007 2:17 pm
I’m the same – just upraded, can’t explain why! But of the many features you check out, get the Dreamscene application. It’s only eye-candy, but impressive!
Well done to you, what do you make to the new Media Center part of Vista?
I haven’t looked at it…