We just rolled out an update to our software package, and a couple of Vista users are having problems. The software package essentially updates a database everytime it connects to the internet. The problem is, in Vista, this apparently ONLY works if you were the original account/profile that installed it. It fails for everyone else on the machine. I've checked the permissions and actually added one of the users I was testing with Full control explicitly for the file that needs to be updated, but it refuses to do so. Log back into the main account and it works beautifully.

To go a step farther - if you uninstall the software package completely, then REINSTALL it as the secondary user, it STILL won't work for you, but will STILL work for the primary user. Even if you delete directories and remove all the registry keys. Both users have administrative rights, but only the first user to activate the COMPUTER can apparently access that file. :P

As the sole sysadmin for a company of over 140 employees, I absolutely hate vista. There are so many stupid issues with Vista it is just not even worth bothering with that OS. All new machines I have been getting from Dell I have been getting with XP Pro. Unfortunately that will only be available for the next 5 months, then I'm screwed with Vista. :(

One of my favorites was that our two software packages were made in Visual Basic which apparently Vista has some unique issues with. Apparently, with advanced themes turned on (which is one of the biggest draws to Vista apparently) random fields will be dark instead of light, so that you can't read them or type in them. :D Good times!

Oh, the biggest knock against it is the processing overhead though. We just brought in a new laptop for one of the managers, it's a dual core Pentium with 1 gig of RAM. I just got 40 new boxes ready to go out to the field with XP Pro on them (thank God!) Dell Vostro 200's, with 1 gig of RAM and a Celeron 1.4 (I believe) and these things FLY. It takes me 10 minutes to do the initial power up, registration, active Office, install antivirus, add an extra user, and configure 2 programs for use by each of the two users. These things are HUMMING with less than half the horsepower the laptop has, and the only difference is Vista. :P Like I said in my training video, "Vista raised the RAM ceiling from 4 gigabytes to 16 exbibytes, which sounds like a lot, but it's only a matter of time before Microsoft makes a version of Windows that requires more than that to run well"

Microsoft is going to hell, Mac will soon be the new business computer (obviously gamers won't switch).

I switched over to macbook a year ago and have never regretted it. My g/f, brother and mom all run windows vista. They all have 2gigs ram + at least a 1.8ghz processor and they don't even come close to the speed of my macbook (512mb ram)

I get so frustrated when working on them. Brand new laptops and there already slow. Upsetting at the least. WAY TO GO BILL!

I've stuck with XP and been quite happy.

I really dislike Vista and see no reason to upgrade.

None at all.

I'm hoping Vista goes the way of Windows ME, and Microsoft Bob

jenksalsgheo_2270_whateverthefuck: Upgrade that RAM. My MB was shit slow with 512, bumped up to 2GB and it runs fast as fuck. win2k runs in Parallels just as fast as it would on a desktop PC, while still having a web browser, IRC, email, and Preview up nad running in OS X.

whooo.... that was weird. I'm in the bathroom right now and a wet nugget just slid down my left cheek and dropped off at the bottom.

I believe we have a 2 year time frame as to when we will start the move to Vista, but I think they will hold off longer if possible. Too many problems to even begin to think about it. All of new PCs come with a Vista license but we are sticking with xp pro

I got a cheap PC with Vista on it. I'm okay with it. The permissions get old, but it's alright.

I haven't had any problem yet.

if you install trendmicro you dont have to do that shit,, it makes a little more bearable

something in my OS took a crap and now I can't play BF2 :(

...fortunately a restore fixed it. BTW, CoD4 (at least in demo) kicks BF2's face's ass.

CoD4 is awesome.

But short.

In multiplayer mode, is it similar to BF2? Each side kicking the other side off flags?

I bought a new laptop and converted it back to XP. About 5x faster than with Vista garbage.