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Step right up, come on in If you'd like to take the Grand Tour... I have nothing here to sell you, Just some things that I will tell you- Some things I know will chill you to the bone... [1] Last winter, just about the time ol' Punxsutawney Phil stuck his little groundhog head above the entrance to his little groundhog home to see if he could see his little groundhog shadow, I finally got completely disgusted with my computers. That's right... computers... plural. Here in the Dream House in the Woods, we have both a desktop and a laptop PC. I am the Lord and Master of the laptop and my wife is the Absolute Monarch of the desktop. We purchased the desktop computer in 2007 and the laptop one year later. Both are excellent machines, made by Acer, that are well equipped with a plethora of useful accessories. Both originally came with Windows Vista Home Premium Edition installed... ...And therein lies a technological horror story. I have to confess that, when I bought my computers, I had a lot of misgivings about Windows Vista. I had heard a lot of negative "buzz" about the successor program to the Windows XP operating system, and it certainly wasn't any secret that many, many Windows Vista users were, at the time... shall we say... a bit disgruntled with Microsoft's new-fangled operating system. I had heard many tales of Vista not loading properly; Vista refusing to activate; Vista presenting "nag" screens every time a user wanted to perform an action; and, most problematic of all, the fact that Vista wouldn't run a lot of older hardware and software. My initial experience with Windows Vista came when I first brought my shiny new desktop computer home. As soon as I got the hardware set up, I discovered that its hard drive was pre-loaded with the Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. All I had to do was fire up the computer, follow a few on-screen prompts to get the Windows Setup program going, and wait for the installation to finish. It took about 30 minutes for the operating system to install itself completely on my hard drive. It was a straightforward process, certainly the easiest of any version of Windows I've ever used. Once I got Vista running, I started poking around to see what was different, what was good, and what was not-so-good. My initial impressions were as follows: As was much ballyhooed, Vista's graphics were... simply stunning. Colors seemed richer and more vibrant; screen resolution appeared finer and sharper, and the layout of objects on screen was well organized, user-friendly, and intuitive. Audio was crisp, clean and sharp to my ears. Now I realize that hardware plays a big part in this, but I think there's no doubt that the Windows Vista operating system had made a quantum leap over all previous versions of Windows. Within Vista's Home Premium and Ultimate Editions (but not the Home Basic Edition) was a new feature called "Windows Aero." This was an innovative graphical user interface "shell" for the operating system. Aero added a plethora of features, such as thumbnails of documents and programs that could be rotated on-screen and selected when the user had more than one program running. There was (and still is) a lot more to Aero than that, but that alone pretty much blew my mind. It was a superb feature indeed, although later I came to view it as just so much "eye candy." One of Vista's most heavily hyped features was its "improved security..." meaning that Vista was supposed to be much more resistant to outside attacks by viruses, worms, and other malware. System security "out-of-the-box" certainly appeared much stronger than in all previous Windows versions. Vista Home Premium came with Windows Defender, a decent anti-malware program that's also a free download from the Microsoft web site. Vista's improved security features came at a heavy cost to the user, however. The program was set up with a feature called User Account Control (UAC). Every time a user performed an action that UAC deemed a potential threat to system security, the operating system asked for confirmation. A dialog box would pop up, and the user was forced to take positive action (in the form of a mouse click) in order to continue. That wasn't an insurmountable obstacle if the actions requiring confirmation were few and very far between. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. Every time I wanted to install a program; every time I wanted to uninstall a program; every time I wanted to download a file from the Internet; every time I wanted to check my e-mail; every time I wanted to run a utility; every time I ran the "autorun" program from a CD or DVD... UAC asked for confirmation. At first, this constant nagging didn't seem particularly annoying, but after a while it I felt like I was "dying from a thousand paper cuts..." At this juncture - about three weeks after buying my computer - my "Windows Vista Horror Story" kicked into warp speed. Until this point, I had some mixed feelings about Vista, but I was still willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. But all those "chicken tales" of Vista's inability to run certain hardware and software started coming home to roost. When I bought my computer, I also purchased a Maxtor 160GB external USB hard drive. Vista wouldn't recognize it. It wouldn't recognize my new Hewlett-Packard (HP) printer either, at least until I downloaded a whole new set of drivers from the HP web site (all the while enduring yet another flurry of UAC "nag" screens.) Most galling of all, however, was Vista's refusal to run much of my older "legacy" software. Now, I'm not talking about just a few solitaire or mahjong tile games here. Some of my most important - and expensive - software packages simply would not run from within Vista. (All ran flawlessly from within Windows XP.) In succession, I installed Microsoft Office Professional 97; OpenOffice.org 2.2; Chessmaster 9000; Melody Assistant 7.6.1; and OneTouch Diabetes Management software. All experienced significant failures from within Vista. Office 97 would run Word, PowerPoint and Excel, but not Access or Outlook. OpenOffice.org also could not initialize its database module. Melody Assistant (an excellent and very reliable music composition program I've used for about seven years) coughed and hiccupped and stuttered its way through a couple of music scores I had composed, and then spontaneously quit. I never got it to launch again. And, most disconcertingly, my OneTouch Diabetes Management application froze like an ice cube as soon as I launched it from within Vista. None of these programs had experienced any problems while running from within Windows XP. Okay, I figured, this should be easy to fix... I'll just run the recalcitrant programs in XP compatibility mode. No dice. They still wouldn't run. Period. In fact, things actually got worse for OpenOffice.org and Chessmaster. My next logical step: set up a small partition on my hard drive and install Windows XP for the "problem children" programs; run a Vista/XP multi-boot configuration. It's been done before with no problems, right? Wrong. I created a 40GB partition, installed my trusty Windows XP Home Edition, and re-booted. I expected to see a multi-boot menu. What I got instead was a screen telling me that a certain file was missing or corrupt and needed to be replaced. The system then proceeded to boot straight into XP. All attempts to get my system to boot into Vista met with the same fate. Okay, booting into XP was fine... except now I only had 40GB out of a 250GB hard drive fully accessible. (I could view the whole drive using XP's Windows Explorer, but I could take no actions except on files residing on the 40 GB XP partition... something to do with Vista's UAC.) At this point, I threw my hands up in the air and - {{{GASP}}} - called Microsoft's technical support. Making a very long and painful story (mercifully) short, six phone calls lasting an average of 3 hours each netted me the following pearl of wisdom for advice from Microsoft's techno-wizards: "Reformat your hard drive and start from scratch." Wonderful advice, guys... except for one minor, itty-bitty detail: I - don't - own - a - copy - of - the - Vista - Home - Premium - installation - disc. None of my friends do either. (When I explained this to the Microsoft techie, he came dangerously close to suggesting I find a pirated copy... a Microsoft heresy, if ever there was one.) Reluctantly, I went out and bought a copy of the Vista Home Premium Edition Upgrade... ...And found yet another of Microsoft's dirty little secrets: Microsoft had removed the ability to perform a "clean" installation of Windows Vista with an upgrade version. I could install over a previous version of Windows (XP, 98, etc.), but I couldn't perform a "clean" Vista installation on a separate partition in order to run in a "multi-boot" configuration. Unless, of course, I purchased the full-blown version, then selling for a whopping $240.00 (for the Home Premium Edition)... My eventual solution to this Windows Vista horror story: I ended up taking the advice originally given me by those nice young Microsoft techno-wizards. I reformatted my desktop's hard drive and re-installed my tried-and-true copy of Windows XP. I successfully ran it, and all of my applications until February 2010, when I upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium. And my laptop? Well, I kept Windows Vista on that machine, but aggressively updated the operating system with each of the three service packs issued by Microsoft. I upgraded to Windows 7 earlier this year at the same time I upgraded my desktop. Now, both of my computers run all of my programs quickly, smoothly, and without a hint of the horrors I experienced with Windows Vista. As for Windows 7? Well, that's another story with a happy ending... SOURCES [1] Lyrics are from the song The Grand Tour, first performed by George Jones. Copyright © 1974, Epic Records. Music and Lyrics by Norro Wilson, Carmol Taylor, and George Richey. Used under the "Fair Use" provisions of copyright law. |
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