Another reason to hate Vista

[theoldwolf]

There are not sufficient obscenities in the English language (or French, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, Lingala or Catalan) to express my contempt for Windows Vista or the AMD Turion Chipset.

I just tried re-installing Alcohol 120% (which runs fine on my XP box, thank you) because I have an install file for another program stored as an .mdf image.

And I get a BSOD. Which won't go away. Until I run a system restore.

OK, so Alcohol is not compatible with Vista. Sheesh. I can't check the compatibility of every program I've ever used - worst case scenario, it should refuse to run, not go out into the weeds and clobber my system during the install process.

Hqiz Microsoft yarg snarl snap hqiz. Thank you.

Comments

[sleepyjohn00.livejournal.com]

My Windows counterpart at work is very happy with W7, says it's what Vista was supposed to have been. Yes, there are a few suckages, but there are with everything.

If you must have Windows and you can't have XP, skip Vista and go Seven.

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

If I had the quatloos at hand, I'd upgrade tomorrow. My biggest annoyance with this particular laptop is that HP caved to the music industry and agreed to cripple the "line in" function on the mixer, and I'm not sure W7 would fix that problem. Still, I'm tempted to make this laptop an Ubuntu box when I have the time and be done with Micro$hit altogether.