Article - SP1 Fails To Spark Migration
Mar 29, 2008"Microsoft's latest efforts to persuade customers to upgrade to its much-maligned Vista operating system have met with a cool response from users."
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Article: 10 Things I Warned Microsoft About Windows
Mar 23, 2008"I worked as an analyst when Microsoft developed Windows Vista. Execs asked for my advice, and they got it. Did they listen?" But of course the vistaboys and frank king of the apes, will just discredit him too... it seems like they think that their own experience is better than US pros.. yes me included... with over 25 years of computer experience, I know when an OS is POS.
let the mud flow freely for vista! let the truth shine, and THEN lets decide if we should use it or not... not get it shoved down our throughts in the dark (not mine but the average user) here is the text of the article
The imminent real release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is reason enough to broach the question. SP1 is an important milestone for an operating system that bloggers and other critics consistently ridicule. Oh, yeah, the channel and enterprises aren't exactly loving Vista either. These 10 things are in no particular order of importance.
1. Windows Vista has to be a whole lot better than Windows XP. Microsoft had left XP in the market for a long time. That version of Windows had reached a..........
Dual Boot Migration
Mar 27, 2009I dual boot.
C: Xp Pro
D: Vista Ultimate 64
And I'm ready to make Vista my only OS. Is there a way to migrate, r copy, Vista 64 from my D artition to my C partition without re-installing? I have Norton Ghost 14. Which doesn't run in Vista 64, but it does run in DOS. And I suppose I can use the disk clone feature?
Migration Of Upgrade Installation To New Drive
Mar 26, 2008Following an unfixable error with the Vista Backup & Recovery program I've decided that my first Vista installation has reached the end of its natural life.It was an upgrade from XP Home Edition (which came with the PC) to Vista Home Premium on the original C partition. Not ideal, but now I would like to start afresh with a clean install.I have purchased a second faster SATA2 drive, which I have partitioned in two: G drive with 58.5GB (intended for the new Vista installation), and Z drive with 238GB to which I will copy all my data before the reinstall. The drive is formatted as a basic disk and both partitions are NTFS primary partitions (I found previously that Vista install doesn't accept dynamic disks for the OS partition).As my copy of Vista is an upgrade, the reinstall has to be initiated from within the existing Vista installation for the key to work.
My question - will Vista reinstall cleanly onto the G drive without problems? I have found that the install commences properly (I quickly
stopped it from proceeding as it was only a test). My concern is that the migration could fail half way through if the machine reboots and doesn't know which disk/installation to boot to!Anybody with experience of this scenario? Also, if it does install correctly onto the G drive, am I right to assume that the original C drive partition on the old drive then becomes inaccessible? (Hence the need to copy files across before the install attempt).
Hard Drive Migration Without Losing Data
Mar 27, 2008I have windows vista ultimate 64.... its on my Ide Maxtor 200GB... which is very noisy and seems to lock up.... So I went and got a Sata Seagate (my prefered brand)... and downloaded the Disk Wizard software from Seagate to migrate drives.... rather than having to lose all my data and operating system etc. In and Ide to Ide situation, this works fine... you simply swap drives over once Disk wizard finishes....
But, when it finished and advised me to swap drives over... disconnecting IDE drive meant when I powered up PC, it would not boot, and gave me error message... NO IDE HDD Found!!! Obviously the boot manager is still looking for IDE drive.... So I then proceeded to use Vista Boot Pro... but this doesnt seem to want to run on my machine?... it shows in Task Manager, but nothing on screen... Not one to give up, I thought I would simply use the Vista Disc to boot to Repair mode....
I diconnected Ide drive... left Sata connected... powered up, disc started, got to Repair window... and it showed a window for drives which was empty... but had two tabs... install drivers and cancel... I chose to install drivers... from my motherboard disc as this contains the Raid drivers.. I assume thats what I need to install.... Anyways... was a waste of time, error message stating they failed... Chose the right ones...Via x64 etc...
Data Migration Between Hard Drives On Single System?
Mar 23, 2008I would like to copy all the contents from my boot drive to a new hard drive recognized by the BIOS. Easy Transfer Wizard works between two systems not a single system... I want to copy all my data including the hidden and system files to the new drive and then reconfigure the boot sequence to boot from the new drive... Western Digital has a utility that works with XP but not with Vista... what is the best way to move this data... will drag and drop move everything?
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The problem is that randomly all usb-devices connected to it will fail and to get windows to recognize them again I need to unplug and reconnect the power and/or USB-cable to the hub. (It's quiet the anoyance to do this and watch while vista takes its time to find your newly connected devices as your party in the game is dying from lack of healing)...............
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test1970bar.txt
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64 Fails To Access Net Share In WXP Pro SP2
Nov 3, 2009I have a small network with 4 pcs. 1 is Vista 64, two XP Pro and 1 W2K. Peer
to Peer. All machines could see the other machines shares without problem.
The net browser is the W2K machine.
I had to change the chassis of 1 XP Pro box because of heating. everything
was phisically moved to another chassis, no OS change watsoever, nor
component changes. Now, both XPs and the W2K can see shares in each other
normally, as before, and they even can see shares on the Vista box.
But the Vista started behaving in a wierd manner:
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Vista to WXP Pro not modified Sees shares normally
Vista to WXP Pro with new chassis: The XP does not recognize the vista User
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Window Update Fails
May 1, 2008I am using Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit. I keep getting Error Code 8007000B downloading windows updates. I tried going to the command prompt, running as an admin and typing in "fsutil resource setautoreset true C:" and reboot but I still cannot download updates.
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Windows is a shell, a large one admittedly, but a shell into which third-party companies plug their code. I’d like to take each of these parties and reflect on what they did right and wrong.
Microsoft
Okay so clearly Microsoft had to shoulder a lot of the blame for Vista. They were simply too ambitious with it and when they had to, effectively, dump all the code and start again from scratch half way through the development process everyone knew there was trouble ahead.
Vista was late, nearly two years late and that equates to a big financial penalty. Companies and major corporations pay millions every year to Microsoft in volume licencing and subscription fees. For this they expect a regular development cycle, about every three years. Simply put they didn’t get it. Thus the pressure was on Microsoft to deliver and clearly they panicked and rushed Vista out the door without proper testing.
Hang on a minute! I hear you cry, the beta programme for Windows Vista lasted a year and a half and took in about half a million testers!! You compare that to the beta for Windows 7 that only took six months and had only 5,000 testers.
Windows Vista was an experiment, a version 1.0 product. It was essentially a brand new operating system as Microsoft were trying out new systems. But there was an awful lot of legacy code built into that and the resulting mish-mash made Vista the dog that it was. Source -
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Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Subject 'Re: A clip from our church service yesterday', Account: 'incoming.verizon.net', Server: 'outgoing.verizon.net',
Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F
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