Bit rot finally hits my Vista install
Despite what people say about Vista, I have had nothing but good experiences with it, until relatively recently. The first sign of trouble I had, was when I upgraded the Live Meeting client, and it treated every launch as if it had just been installed, and it wouldn’t associate itself to the Live Meeting links right. More upsetting, Windows Media Player will no longer start unless I do “Run as Administrator”, and it won’t minimize itself to be the mini player in my taskbar. Good timing, since W7 is right around the corner. Since I’ve had this Vista install since the week it RTM’ed, I can’t complain. Well over 2 years before bit rot sets in is a great run for an OS.
J.Ja
Categories: Microsoft, Windows Vista
Vista is however, drastically different. Six years without a new OS and people lose sense of what an upgrade is. Windows 7 however, gives you the appearance of a new and snappy OS. More systems are out that can handle the specifications of Windows 7. That and the advent of Netbooks has driven Microsoft to recognize that computer specifications won’t always advance forward.
I will still be sure to include my Vista jokes where I can.
A few months ago, I was researching something, and I found a lot of posts from people around 2002, 2003 bashing XP. Basically, the same laundry list of things that people knock Vista for (resource hog, looks dumb, too much security, breaks applications, no drivers, blah blah blah). They all swore that they’d stick with W2K forever and ever. Change is not always good, but just as some people change for the sake of change, some people resist change for the sake of resisting it.
J.Ja
Justin, you left out DRM. I distinctly recall people worried that MS would do something to monitor and possibly prevent playback of unauthorized MP3s (which could mean stolen or just ripped from your personal CD collection).
I think he best thing for vista, xp or linux is to just have a few images of your boot drive (and put all your documents on a separate drive or partition).
If something goes wrong, you’re less than an hour away from getting back to where you were
The only vista problem I’ve had (and it may be a H/W issue) is when I add a drive…..that regularly seems to screw up my vista partition…..to be clear, I’m adding a drive that may have been in another PC to grab data off of (or in the case of a 7 install, I pulled my vista drive, I installed 7 on a new drive, then added vista back). the last time it screwed up vista and in all cases it wiped out my system restore save points.
Acronis saved me each time
The funny thing is, my desktop PC is actually architected well for that… two separate RAID 1′s, one for the system, one for the documents. The problem is, I never go around do doing system images (although I do backup nightly).
J.Ja