Vista troubles continue
Posted by posted by Francis @ 4/17/2007 04:08:00 PM
3 weeks ago, my wife bought a new computer. Of course it came with Vista preinstalled.This seemingly innocuous event triggered 3 weeks of pain and costly upgrades.
First, many of the software packages that she uses just wouldn't work properly in Vista unless the latest version was purchased.
Second, her PDA (a Compaq Ipaq) was "too old" to work with the Windows Mobile Device Center. So she had to upgrade to one of the smartphone gizmos.
And yesterday, it was the last straw, after spending all the time to move the stuff from her old computer to her new, cleaning up the old computer and setting it up at her mother's place, she decided to buy her mother and herself a webcam to be able to video conference. The Vista driver from Logitech has a problem that disables the computer's audio after installation. So now, she has a working webcam but no more audio. Uninstalling the driver doesn't fix that. The current fix to get the audio back is to do a factory reset of the PC. (link)
Makes me wish I could put all that stuff back in the box and get the same HP computer with Windows XP from the store. But it's a little too late for that now. And they won't sell me a computer with XP installed anymore.
