Re: Im Back

Ian wrote:
For those who remember me, hello, im back. For those who dont/are new - hello Im Ian.

First, I would like to say Thanks to my mate Bill and his operating system. Thanks to him I have been off air for the last few months. Dont trust Bill or his Vista system. Potted history - If you buy the Vista upgrade (cheaper than the full license version) you must already have an old windows operating system installed to upgrade from. I did have, so that was cool. I regsisterd Vista and everything was great. Me and Bill were best pals. Then i got sent some software that was not Vista compatible. WOW. It killed me. A driver install that kept crashing me pc. Went to DOS and deleted every trace of the software and associated drivers. Kept crashing. Once Vista tries to install a driver, it dont give up in a hurry. The driver was not there, but it still kept crashing.

I made the difficult and painful decision to rebuild the pc. Clean install. Great! im up and running. Love it. Lost loads of stuff, had to reinstall everything. But perfect.

50 Vista starts later, my now unregistered vista went into 'you are not going to use this PC until you register' mode. OK, ill register again. No. AGHHHHHH. As I had re-installed everything, from scratch, not from an "old" version of OS, i could not register my upgrade version of Vista. I should have re-installed the old OS first. Bill would not beleive that this was the case, and the only choice I had was to lose everything again and install the old OS then upgrade.

Problem. I dont have the Old OS as I had upgraded to Vista. The old OS was pre-installed on the PC when it was bought years ago. And the backup disc (if i ever had one) was lost/eaten by the dog. Well, youll have to buy a new operating system full version then. Thanks Bill.

Fuming. really really fallen out with Bill and his company.

Found a site that tells you how to install vista from an upgrade version without a OS already installed. Nice.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/1/31/6828

I now hate Bill.

Vista is now running, registered, stable. The OS itself is nice, I like it. Its Bill's policies.Grrrr.

Ian



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