Re: OK, I give up

Home users? Rarely. Business users who need to print architectural drawings,
make posters, etc. Yes, more frequent than you can imagine. WOW! ... Ben
Myers

On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:15:53 -0400, "Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



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Posted At: Monday, May 21, 2007 12:27 PM
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Conversation: OK, I give up
Subject: Re: OK, I give up

On Mon, 21 May 2007 06:48:27 -0400, "Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I spent part of yesterday putting XP back on my primary machine. I
actually liked Vista and it had some features that I liked, but I ran
into a device that I had to be able to use for which I could not get
Vista to work.

It's interesting, as it is an Epson 7600 printer and there are Vista
drivers for it. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to recognize
the printer. Since I had promised to print a poster sized print for
my
nephew and I'd wasted a week with Vista, I couldn't wait any longer.

I had one other, truly odd problem, that I also could not fix. I put
a
spare hard drive in the machine as a data drive. A box stock Western
Digital -- in fact the original drive that came with the machine.
Vista, every time I rebooted or re-logged on, asked for drivers.
Yes,
for a hard drive. It could not locate them. Drive still worked, but
I
got this annoying error all the time.

For a hard drive!

I think for the average user, Vista will likely work fine. I plan on
installing it in dual boot to continue to play with it, but I have
work
to get done, so XP it is.

As an ardent supporter of Vista, I admit to being frustrated.

Tom
The great exaggerator



Refresh my memory, what were you RAVING Vista about <g> ?
Don't say I didn't tell you so..... <g>.

I still like it. I just hit an insurmountable wall with a piece of
obscure equipment. Can't imagine many home users have a photo printer
that will do 24" x 100' (yes foot) prints.

.

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