Re: OT: Another Vista story regarding SP1

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:37:57 -0500, RnR <rnrtexas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have one PC running Vista Ultimate now. I am going to do the
upgrade to SP1 now and see how it goes ..... It's a non-critical
laptop and I'll probably put XP on it anyway so no harm if it doesn't
work.

Let us know how your experience with SP1 goes (both installation and
first impressions compared to pre SP1). thanks.

I think I am going to go back to XP on my D520 laptop. I had done an
in-place upgrade from Vista Business to Ultimate and there are a few
problems from that. My sound (Sigmatel) isn't working, and whenever I
do a restart my mouse settings revert back to defaults.

While I am sure that I can resolve those problems, I might as well put
my time and energy into installing XP on the laptop instead. I know
what works on XP, and I have a lot of utilities that I haven't used on
Vista that I know work on XP.

I consider going from Vista Ultimate to XP Pro an upgrade. Yes, I
have flip-flopped on Vista. For the most part my apps ran on it well
and it was stable, but it's the little nagging things that added up. I
am glad that I experienced it, so I know what it's all about, but it's
time to go back to the superior OS -- XP.

I do wonder what MS is going to do from this point on, and I would
hate to be a Vista product manager at a large corporation.
.

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