Thinking of going back to XP!! Shock Horror!!! Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Thinking of going back to XP!! Shock Horror!!! in the Windows Vista forums; As the title says! I'm running Vista Business 32bit. Install went well, most devices detected. However, I do not like the fact that when I restart Vista, the sound ...

[iMatt]

As the title says! I'm running Vista Business 32bit. Install went well, most devices detected. However, I do not like the fact that when I restart Vista, the sound dies on start up. Plus random restarts every so often. I wonder if I should wait for SP1 or upgrade my hardware sooner than I'd planned!!!

That said, I do like some things about Vista. The driver support is much better than XP and installation in near flawless. Came so close to nuking Vista and moving back to XP!!!!

[Znod]

What are your machine's specs iMatt?

[iMatt]

Athlon 64 3700 San Diego
EQS A58K9MLF Motherboard with intergrated graphix
2GB 3700 RAM
1 x Maxtor 250Gb HDD
1 x Samsung 250Gb HDD
1 x Maxtor 80GB Ext
1 x ASUS / ATI 1600 256Mb graphix card
20" HP LP2065 LCD Monitor (1,600 x 1,200)
Windows XP Pro (now Vista Bisiness 32bit)

Actually Vista seems to be behaving itself.

One of the probs was an old USB Belkin memory card reader I had atttatched yesterday. It caused BSD's and reboots.

Once I unpluged it and did a system repair, things seem better. Just used Word and converted a Word doc to PDF using Acrobat 7 (which Adobe does not recommend in Vista by the way, but what the hell, it works). Been running solid for 4 hours nearly and no crashes or lock ups.

To be fair, XP had its quirks too and could also screw up on you.

Will cintinue for a couple more days before doing anything drastic. I like Vista despite these teething troubles.

Is it growing on me....????

[crabby]

You know there is an acrobat 8?

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

crabby

[iMatt]

Yeah I know. However, I got Acrobat 7 pro as part of Adobe Creative Suite 2. I will keep using Acrobat 7 til Adobe releases Creative Suite 3 which will contain Acrobat 8 as well as Dreamweaver!!!! Sould be due out in a couple of months!!!

[Znod]

Originally Posted by iMatt

Athlon 64 3700 San Diego
EQS A58K9MLF Motherboard with intergrated graphix
2GB 3700 RAM
1 x Maxtor 250Gb HDD
1 x Samsung 250Gb HDD
1 x Maxtor 80GB Ext
1 x ASUS / ATI 1600 256Mb graphix card
20" HP LP2065 LCD Monitor (1,600 x 1,200)
Windows XP Pro (now Vista Bisiness 32bit)

Actually Vista seems to be behaving itself.

One of the probs was an old USB Belkin memory card reader I had atttatched yesterday. It caused BSD's and reboots.

Once I unpluged it and did a system repair, things seem better. Just used Word and converted a Word doc to PDF using Acrobat 7 (which Adobe does not recommend in Vista by the way, but what the hell, it works). Been running solid for 4 hours nearly and no crashes or lock ups.

To be fair, XP had its quirks too and could also screw up on you.

Will cintinue for a couple more days before doing anything drastic. I like Vista despite these teething troubles.

Is it growing on me....????

You should be good to go. I use Acrobat 7 too. 8 can be a problem. You might consider doing a repair install to eliminate your niggling problems. At least that is what I would do. No guarantees though--except that the procedure is 99.99% safe.

[iMatt]

Disd a repair yesterday. Had Vista running for 12 hrs solid now. Only prob so far is Windows Explorer restarting once (by the way, a nice feature) without Windows itself having to restart. Seems solid enough now.

Another thumbs up for Vista so far is that the wireless connection I have, via a Lyksys wireless adapter and wireless router has not droped once. Under XP Pro, I could expect to have to repair the connection twice a day or so.

[crabby]

I run scared from all your problems! My uptime runs into the days with no issues what so ever

crabby

[iMatt]

Well just taking things one day at a time....

[Znod]

Originally Posted by iMatt

Disd a repair yesterday. Had Vista running for 12 hrs solid now. Only prob so far is Windows Explorer restarting once (by the way, a nice feature) without Windows itself having to restart. Seems solid enough now.

Another thumbs up for Vista so far is that the wireless connection I have, via a Lyksys wireless adapter and wireless router has not droped once. Under XP Pro, I could expect to have to repair the connection twice a day or so.

So far so good. I am glad that my suggestion appears to have helped. WExplorer has a way of crashing especially if you give it too many instructions at once.