will my software run on windows vista?

[pilot]

Hi Stuart,

SignLab 7.1 with the last build should be OK on Vista:
http://www.cadlink.com/support_train/te … hp?tn=2478

[David Rowland]

Corel X3 with Service Pack 2 will work under vista, but I have no idea to be honest.

Vista sadly is a bit of an animal.

[Robert Lambie]

from what i know Vista eats LOTS of memory on any PC, it is incompatible with lots of software on the go etc etc
Personally i would buy whatever you want, reformat it and load XP mate. 😀

[Chris Dowd]

quote Robert Lambie:

Personally i would buy whatever you want, reformat it and load XP mate. 😀

Had my IT guy in this morning setting up a new laptop on our network, and that’s the first thing he did – Vista went out the door!

[Steve Underhill]

This should be all the info you need.
Half of our business is a PC building & repair shop.
We will not supply any new PC with Vista, only XP
Lots of our jobs are from customers who want Vista wiped off and XP installed.
Think that’s all you need to know :lol1:

[David Rowland]

its too new you see… XP was really a polished windows 2000 as it works on the same framework, XP gave us what was missing and that was the simple usability… however I have yet to test Vista but for gamers it is actually slower then XP and XP does everything you need.

Problem with Microsoft they have taken control of every area of computing, they buy out companies and design software under their own badges, so why now should we move into a new tried and tested operating system. To be honest when I was contracted to a bank IT, they refused to go XP and wanted that to mature so they stayed with 2000 for about 2 years.

[Steve Underhill]

Im still using windows "82" on a ZX Spectrum

[Philip Hammerton]

I’ve recently bought a new laptop with Vista on – wish I hadn’t now – Its slow, has problems loading software on to it – gone back to my laptop with XP on where my sign software, CAD software etc. work great – given new laptop with Vista to missus for internet use – funnily enough the shop that sold me the computer push Vista backup warranty onto customer (£7.00 month) not computer warranty? – in case it causes computer problems

[Nicola McIntosh]

well ive just bought a new laptop with vista and i love it 😛

nik

[Martin Pearson]

Steve, I am thinking of upgrading my system at the moment and just wondered if your spectrum was able to cope OK with all the software that you use. I am quite happy with my current system but the beads are starting to show signs of wear.

Nicola give it a week and the novelty with all the toys will have worn off !!

I have had a few calls from people with problems and someone I know with a computer company is already fed up with the phone ringing.

If you really want the laptop with vista installed ask the shop if they can remove it and install XP as some of your software is not compatible with vista.

[George Kern]

Im sick of Vista and we only run it on one of our test computers we use to try out stuff before implementing it into the production computers…Great…it looks pretty…but eats up all your memory doing stupid things even in a selective startup where I disabled half of the garbage it tries to load.

[Andrew McCreadie]

Just to add my 2p worth..I bought a new Sony Viao just before Chritmas which qualified for the Vista upgrade which I received in March went through process of upgrading which took a couple of hours, to be fair got disc from sony with all the vista drivers on it for my laptop.
Lasted 1 week before I did format/re-install xp sp2, boy it was soooo slow took about 3 minutes just to start it up and that was with nothing on it yet.
Will give Vista another look … maybe this time next year.

Regards Andy

[David Rowland]

this is the thing… Microsoft and Intel need us to upgrade our computers, this is why every operating system that comes out requires another 30% horsepower… i am quite happy as I am at the moment, yes I will eventually have a go at Vista but there really is no need.

[Martin Pearson]

It’s a vicious circle Dave, you may be more than happy with your computer and it may do everything you want it to but there comes a point when you need to upgrade some of your software and all of a sudden you find the latest version won’t run with your operating system so you have to upgrade regardless!!
Your right in what you say though, there is no need to upgrade at the moment. Let them sort out most of the problems over the next year or so and then have a look again, prices will have come down a lot by then as well.

I run vista on one laptop and will continue to do so but I wouldn’t use it for anything important to me at the moment. The machine actually runs slower than a similar machine I have running XP. The one with vista installed has a faster processor and almost twice as much memory but runs slower because of all the gadgets that Microsoft have built into vista.

[George Kern]

quote martin:

It’s a vicious circle Dave, you may be more than happy with your computer and it may do everything you want it to but there comes a point when you need to upgrade some of your software and all of a sudden you find the latest version won’t run with your operating system so you have to upgrade regardless!!
Your right in what you say though, there is no need to upgrade at the moment. Let them sort out most of the problems over the next year or so and then have a look again, prices will have come down a lot by then as well.

I run vista on one laptop and will continue to do so but I wouldn’t use it for anything important to me at the moment. The machine actually runs slower than a similar machine I have running XP. The one with vista installed has a faster processor and almost twice as much memory but runs slower because of all the gadgets that Microsoft have built into vista.

exactly…if Microsoft could take its fancy looks with its added security features and not make it such a resource hog even when you have 2+ gigs of ram & and 3.0+ GHZ processor they would have somethin big goin on.

[Lorraine Clinch]

quote Nicola Rowlands:

well ive just bought a new laptop with vista and i love it 😛

nik

Me too, although I have only used it to watch DVD’s so far, but it looks pretty! 🙄 😳

[Richard Urquhart]

I have vista on my laptop and love it
I have put all the things i use daily on it and the laptop is very fast
even with loads of fonts loaded
centrino duo chip 1.8
running 2GB memory
and loads of hard drive space 160

vista at the moment love it (have i spoken to soon)

[Martin Pearson]

Only time will tell Rich :lol1: :lol1: But you are tempting fate a bit saying things like that !!!

[Nicola McIntosh]

have to agree with you rich…same spec of lappy….and it flies 😀

only today i got annoyed as i tried to open a microsoft word file from someone and it wouldnt open with microsoft word processor…. 👿 first bit of being annoyed i guess with vista….. 😮

nik

[Richard Urquhart]

I think time will tell and looking at how windows vista is scoring this lap top I have a good 4.8 in all the boxes but i would imagine from this and a comp which is a year or so old vista would struggle although after reading vista also works this out and changed setting to suit

its worth looking at the system score rating if you do install vista
I love all the little extras you get and how the display looks it makes my day better as things like photoshop and illustrator run much much faster when working on larger files

[Nicola McIntosh]

update on laptop with vista…. 😕

i plugged in my 300gb external hard drive….and laptop didnt respond to it, just wondered if anyone knows why? 😀

nik

[Steve Underhill]

quote :

plugged in my 300gb external hard drive….and laptop didnt respond to it, just wondered if anyone knows why?.

Because almost nothing works with Vista yet
Scanners, Cameras, Printers etc we have this nightmare every day in the shop where we sell stuff to people that wont work with vista that is perfectly ok on xp, thats why we dont sell vista.
Those of you saying you love it, try it on a cheap pc world laptop instead of a 2 gig of ram dual core cpu laptop, you will immediately cease to love it just like a lot of people who took this option
LOL 😛

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Steve Underhill:

Those of you saying you love it, try it on a cheap pc world laptop instead of a 2 gig of ram dual core cpu laptop, you will immediately cease to love it just like a lot of people who took this option
LOL 😛

luckily i never took that option…i just need to access my work files 😀

nik

[Steve Underhill]

I’m not sure why a hard drive wouldn’t work though, thats the one thing that should do if anything.
do you have any trouble with anything else USB?

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Steve Underhill:

I’m not sure why a hard drive wouldn’t work though, thats the one thing that should do if anything.
do you have any trouble with anything else USB?

nothing at all…. 😕

nik

[Nick Minall]

Have a look on the hard drive web site and see if it says anything?