99% of those problems with Vista are selfinflicted, Mike, if not all
of them.
During my five-week tenure with this system I have found it is
'self-healing'.
Should something go wrong, it can easily fix itself with a little
help from the user.
WinME was good for it's time period, but Vista is a 'ton' better.
H.

Wow! An expert already. g Having used Vista for rather more than five
weeks, more like five years through the protracted beta and then
production I can assure you that it does have problems with 99% of those I
have encountered being with the OS rather than the user. Nevertheless for
a user using a single PC and running main stream apps then yes, Vista is
OK just as are and were XP, Win Me, etc. etc.
--
Mike Maltby



webster72n wrote:

"Mike M" wrote in message
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Noel Paton wrote:

LOL!
we just about managed to make 3 inches yesterday.... and it all
melted today

Still lying pretty thickly (for London) here.

Thanks for thinking of Season 9 - I was wondering when it would
start.

9x01 aired 9 Oct and 9x12 (12 filling a disk) aired 29 Jan hence the
burn yesterday. g

I have a mate who downloads a fair amount... I'll have to access
his machines for the Windows 7 Beta downloads via FTM (have you
played with it yet?), I'm registered, but haven't downloaded
anyuthing yet apart from one of the 'client' builds, which I
haven't installed anywhere.
The deal with 3 is not too bad - £15 for 1 month/3GB or £25 for 7GB.
The dongle came preloaded with 12GB-worth of credit.

Seems expensive _until_ one remembers that you don't have to pay BT
monthly line rental that then makes the deal quite attractive
provided one keeps to reasonable limits.

I've been playing with w7 on and off and whilst I find it addresses
many of the problems that people find with Vista

99% of those problems with Vista are selfinflicted, Mike, if not all
of them.
During my five-week tenure with this system I have found it is
'self-healing'.
Should something go wrong, it can easily fix itself with a little
help from the user.
WinME was good for it's time period, but Vista is a 'ton' better.
H.


I haven't spent over much time with it. I had a bad initial
experience with beta 1 (I also had the earlier alpha M3) which took
9 hours or so to install on one box here. Long story and part of the
problem seems to have been due to the presence in the system of a
PlusCom sata caddy containing a drive although not being used as a
target for the install. After numerous abortive starts due to the
caddy, removing it solved that particular problem, I then found the
faffing around had initiated a bios controlled RAID verify (again
not the target of the install) which, since the raid is 2.1TB, took
a good few hours to complete. --
Mike