Re: in Vista Hell

On Sun, 20 May 2007 10:46:49 -0600, DM wrote:

Friends,

My photography business began to pick up this year so I decided that I
wanted to take the plunge and get Photoshop CS3 (been using Paint Shop and
Nikon PictureProject and other cheaper programs). Since my PC was 6 years
old with USB 1.0 I figured I would upgrade to new technology with more RAM,
storage, and processing power. I ordered me a new Dell with all the bells
and whistles, and naturally 32 bit Windows Vista. After two days of dealing
with this I currently consider myself in Vista Hell!

The first program I tried to install was the latest update of Nikon
PictureProject which is supposed to be Vista compatible. It didn't install
smoothly and I get "missing file" error messages as well as other error
messages trying to run it. An uninstall and reinstall was to no avail.
Then the Netgear wireless USB adapter I BOUGHT FROM DELL will not work
properly either, even after getting the updated drivers off Netgear's
website. Not to mention that the Belkin Easy Transfer cable that Dell
charged me $30 for won't work either. After installing the drivers and
software for it on my XP machine the two still don't see each other and it
is anything but easy.

I would like to know if any of you folks have any solutions to the issues?
I would just pack it all up and send it back but I am afraid ole Betsey XP
is on borrowed time. I considered Apple/MAC but after talking to some of
the labs I deal with that may not be the best idea. I sure as heck don't
want to run into issue with CS3 as I really feel it will help my business.

Best regards,

DM

My best advice would be to send it back and wait for at least SP1 before
you try vista - there are quite simply too many issues now. If you'll
recall win98 was not really usable until SP2.

Dell is now selling computers with xp installed - they had to recant due
to popular demand. They are also due to start selling computers with Linux
to consumers 'real soon now'.

.

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