OMFG now I see why people hate vista so much

**wizardPC** · 03-29-2008, 11:52 PM

I had some hardware failure on my 5 year old server, so I decided that it was time to get a new machine. I found an Intel Core 2 Quad with 4GB of RAM and a 750gb hard drive, preinstalled with Vista Home Premium, for $750. So I bought it.

Anyway, omg what a pain. My antivirus software? Oh, that's not vista compatible.
Every USB 802.11 card I had in the house? Oh, that's not vista compatible.
You want remote desktop? Oh, that's not vista compatible. (well, it's in Business and Ultimate, which I can upgrade to for $150)

So I went and bought a vista compatible card, downloaded AVG vista compatible antivirus, and installed VMWare so that I could have a machine to remote desktop into. Guess what? VMWare on Vista breaks your optical drives. I had to reinstall after less than 24 hours from opening the box.

So I spent about 3 hours slipstreaming the correct SATA drivers into a WinXP Pro ISO and getting that burned, since my only working burner in the house is on the new Vista box. I'm currently in the process of throwing that on.

It's a shame, too, since Vista is so darn pretty. This box gets like a 5.8 on the "Windows Experience" thingamabob. Oooh maybe I'l put Vista on a VM....but I bet VMWare Tools aren't Vista compatible...

**2k1Toaster** · 03-30-2008, 12:52 AM

For antivirus, you can try to run it in XP mode with that stupid file manager off. It sometimes works.

I feel your pain. But if you have to get Vista you have to get Ultimate. It is such crap how they sectioned things off like they did.

**Jistari** · 03-30-2008, 05:16 AM

BTW OMG will suffice

**Sonicxtacy02** · 03-30-2008, 06:07 AM

just wait til u plug in a thumb drive and spend 10 mins looking for drivers for it lol (just search the system32 folder as vista wont do it for you)

**Sal R.** · 03-30-2008, 12:46 PM

I hate vista.

**Chris31** · 03-30-2008, 03:26 PM

No problem with Vista x64 since day one.

**WuNgUn** · 03-30-2008, 04:53 PM

Use Avast AV and UltraVNC for your remote desktop...

**kevinlekiller** · 03-30-2008, 05:27 PM

Lots of my hardware didn't work with vista x64 so I installed that microsoft virtual PC 2007 to use XP, but it doesn't support USB. So then I bought vmware to run xp to install drivers that don't work in vista. Then I ran into the trouble of latency problems ( audio ) clicking and popping in sound and stuff ( sound recording through USB ). Anyways I put in another hard drive and installed xp. No more troubles.

**Chris31** · 03-30-2008, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by kevinlekiller

Lots of my hardware didn't work with vista x64 so I installed that microsoft virtual PC 2007 to use XP, but it doesn't support USB. So then I bought vmware to run xp to install drivers that don't work in vista. Then I ran into the trouble of latency problems ( audio ) clicking and popping in sound and stuff ( sound recording through USB ). Anyways I put in another hard drive and installed xp. No more troubles.

Lots of HW? like what?

Vista got lots of drivers built in, much more than the XP.

You would certainly have problems if your HWs are outdated and unbranded.

**Chris31** · 03-30-2008, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by wizardPC

I had some hardware failure on my 5 year old server, so I decided that it was time to get a new machine. I found an Intel Core 2 Quad with 4GB of RAM and a 750gb hard drive, preinstalled with Vista Home Premium, for $750. So I bought it.

Anyway, omg what a pain. My antivirus software? Oh, that's not vista compatible.
Every USB 802.11 card I had in the house? Oh, that's not vista compatible.
You want remote desktop? Oh, that's not vista compatible. (well, it's in Business and Ultimate, which I can upgrade to for $150)

So I went and bought a vista compatible card, downloaded AVG vista compatible antivirus, and installed VMWare so that I could have a machine to remote desktop into. Guess what? VMWare on Vista breaks your optical drives. I had to reinstall after less than 24 hours from opening the box.

So I spent about 3 hours slipstreaming the correct SATA drivers into a WinXP Pro ISO and getting that burned, since my only working burner in the house is on the new Vista box. I'm currently in the process of throwing that on.

It's a shame, too, since Vista is so darn pretty. This box gets like a 5.8 on the "Windows Experience" thingamabob. Oooh maybe I'l put Vista on a VM....but I bet VMWare Tools aren't Vista compatible...

Your machine deserve a good OS, try and get the vista working. For the AV I use Symantec AV v10.2.

The only problem I have with vista was when installing it, it BSOD during install LOL

. I had to turn off the memory remap in the BIOS during the install, this is because of the 4GB I have in the machine or maybe the dual CPUs setup, dunno I never found out. Im sure the vista SP1 would work straight out of the box.