for those who have vista upgrade 'coupons' and what not....

[fuzzybeaner]

my dad is having the same problem with vista....hes a computer technition/ internet technition... for an office of about 50 people, and then they also sell out there internet to about 18 homes(they plan on building a tower, to sell internet to the local town and what not)

but anyways... he ordered 3 computers 2 with vista... one vista computers went to the cop station(this is on a indian reservation, and they have their own police force) and they couldnt get the printers or scaners or digital cammeras or anything else to work on the new cmp.... because of the vista... cause it all worked just fine when they had it running on XP... but yea.. so far i will wait until all the bugs are worked out... and they have drivers for everything to be instaled on vista...

most of that could have been solved by simple updates from the manufacturer of ur periphreals website. but i do agree to a point, vista is kind of an uneeded hassle ATM.

[slipknotpsycho]

loook at billionfold's thread in the tech forum..

he had xp, and i'm guessing it came with one of those 'free limited time upgrade to vista' coupons... anyways, he had to reformat so decided to go ahead and give vista a shot... after realizing it sucked he learned he can't reinstall xp becuase his registration codes are no longer valid...

no it has nothing to do wtih dual booting

http://boards.cannabis.com/tech-rela...sta-rants.html

[birdgirl73]

Is it OK if I move this to Computers/Tech now, Slip? I think you might get more response there, but perhaps I'm wrong.

[Nightcrewman]

I've said it before and say it again
Vista is the pits best to be avoided see if you can trade your upgrade vouchers for something more useful like a colonic irrigation session.

NCM

[slipknotpsycho]

yeah i spose so wanted to make sure people had a chance to see it before it retires to the depths only the nerds venture to o.0

[birdgirl73]

OK, thanks. Will do. I got your email, by the way. Wasn't sure how to respond, so I'm still pondering it. If and when I ever decide what to say, I'll write back!

[the image reaper]

VISTA blows chunks (slowly) ... :wtf:

[fuzzybeaner]

loook at billionfold's thread in the tech forum..

he had xp, and i'm guessing it came with one of those 'free limited time upgrade to vista' coupons... anyways, he had to reformat so decided to go ahead and give vista a shot... after realizing it sucked he learned he can't reinstall xp becuase his registration codes are no longer valid...

no it has nothing to do wtih dual booting

http://boards.cannabis.com/tech-rela...sta-rants.html

when u say registration codes im guessing u product key? hmmm thats interesting, i wonder y it wouldnt be valid anymore because the windows product key shoudl still be valid. i do technical support for hp labtops and we are able to revert them back to xp after the free upgrade no problem, but maybe thats just hp? wat kind of computer are you doing this on?

[slipknotpsycho]

when u say registration codes im guessing u product key? hmmm thats interesting, i wonder y it wouldnt be valid anymore because the windows product key shoudl still be valid. i do technical support for hp labtops and we are able to revert them back to xp after the free upgrade no problem, but maybe thats just hp? wat kind of computer are you doing this on?

you'd have to ask billionfold i just made the thread to warn others...

i have an hp and vista came on it... but like i said, wasn't me having theproblems