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XP or Vista user — take the poll!
Ralf Maximus:
Josh: Me, me, me.
I set up a test machine (Dell Dimension 3000, 512M RAM) with Vista so I could evaluate its wonderfulness.
The first thing I had trouble with was networking. After I got the durn thing to recognize my network (the ONLY machine so far to have this problem) it would stay connected for a few hours then drop off mysteriously. Never did resolve that issue.
Next, I set the machine to hibernate after six hours of inactivity. The next day, the machine would not restore from hibernation; I had to do a cold boot to get it back.
Then I tried installing a bunch of apps to get the machine ready for testing. The most notable crash came with VS6; it started to install and then *whiff*. Nothing.
I spoke with a friend who'd played with Vista and he suggested turning DRM off. I did this, and VS6 (SP5) installed. But compiling an app caused the same *whiff* then nothing effect; VS was gone from the task manager like it never existed.
The next thing I tried was FDISK. That seemed to erase Vista completely from the harddrive and my troubles were over.
Granted, I could probably have figured out all the secret magical incantations necessary to make it behave, but why on earth should that be necessary? If I wanted to relearn an operating system I'd be powering through Linux right now.
Josh:
Now, you say turn drm off. How exactly do you turn it off? I dont see a "DRM" service or anything similar. DRM is for MEDIA (Music, Video), not applications.
VS6 is also outdated, no longer supported, and this is probably a good reason that it doesnt work in Vista.
jgpaiva:
For a specific example of DRM problems, see this post on our forum, by a known user which couldn't get his genuine movie to play on WMP. (i think it was on XP, tough)
Carol Haynes:
VS6 is still used by many coders - can they not use Vista at all without spending a fortune?
I agree about some of the issues though - FDISK should not be used with XP or Vista - neither OS (and no OS based on NTFS) is designed to use FDISK. There are other tools that support large hard discs and are properly compatible with current filesystems.
mitzevo:
Carol i think the fdisk part was Ralf Maximus's solution to all the problems ;D
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