Vista - My experience! Kind-of like a blog!

Vista is very weird!!
I installed it and yes!!! Great, I have the latest M$ OS :thumb:

So I installed all of my drivers and even better, I have Vista and it fully works! Now I move onto programs, WinRAR, Fine, Firefox, Fine, MSN Messenger, No sound, but it gets annoying anyway so Fine!

So far so good :thumb: Vista's going great!! :)

Now comes the problems, I install Visual Studio 6.0, problem is, It shows up in the setup as NT 4.0 WITHOUT SP3, so what does the setup do but try to install SP3, of which wont because it knows that it's updated, anyway, I go along with it and of course it doesn't install because of the stated reason :mad: ! The setup restarts saying try again or it cannot be installed etc. etc. etc.!

:ehh:
I quit the setup and be sneaky, I go to the Setup properties and run it with Compatibility for XP, it works on that ;)
The setup process goes fine, all files copied, then, whilst updating the system, all of the DLLs cannot be placed in the registry :ehh:
Regardless, I thought nothing of it and went straight into VB 6.0 :D Hey, it loads fine.... WOOHOO!!! So i test all of the controls, yes, they all create perfectly! So I try to open my MAGEIM project then comes problems it says it can't find ieframe.dll in the System32 directory, I investigated and there it was, blatently lying there in front of me! I got confused at this time and went back into VB components! I found the Internet Controls and there it was, ieframe.dll, the path wasn't in the right case (Which shouldn't make a difference :ehh:), then I click browse and picked out the ieframe.dll myself! Select to include internet controls, click ok!

'Cannot find D:/WINDOWS/System32/ieframe.dll\1'' :mad:

What's with the \1' I think, yet again regardless, I try many more times to manually select the file! NOTHING :mad:!!

I tried to change the compatibilty settings back and still the same..... SP3!!
I have a trick up mysleeve ;)

I would go to the setup config. and alter the path to the SP, maybe create an error and fool the system ;)

But no, Setup cannot find file, bla bla bla, locate it yourself :mad:! I'm starting to get REALLY angry now!

STILL TO COME! THe after 7pm experience! None of this was made up and/or faked! This is my real experience!

I'm going to try compatilbility with NT4.0 (With SP6 installed)!
Wish me luck :ehh:

Rudi

How do you have a version of VS 6 that already has SP6 on it? Maybe you could choose not to install it when you are installing VS?

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Originally Posted by dglienna

How do you have a version of VS 6 that already has SP6 on it? Maybe you could choose not to install it when you are installing VS?

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hehehe not SP6, SP3!! And you cant :( goes straight onto it after you enter the Product ID, if you de-select to install it, it doesn't let you continue setup :cry:

ORIGINAL POST FIXED

The After 7PM experience!

Now Vista has really p*ssed me off :mad:
And it looks like I'll never be going back to it either, not of my choice :mad:!!!

Vista decided to randomly restart, by simply cutting the poser supply! Everything just died!!!

Surely this cannot be good :ehh:

Anyway, I let it boot again, got so far as connecting to the internet and guess what another cut!! :mad:

I know this wasn't a power cut as eveything else is working and was working!

I'll try again at some later point! :cry: Now i'm back to cr*ppy old XP :(

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Originally Posted by ..:Rudi:..

Vista decided to randomly restart by simply cutting the poser supply

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Thats another one for the Quote thread... :p

hehehehehe!!!!
Oh well :lol:

Are you running Vista as your main OS or under Virtual PC?

I'm running it on a dual OS, and have not seen the problems Rudi has experienced..

Left it on the internet for hours (searching for driver updates.. :( ), and it never rebooted once

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Originally Posted by plenderj

Are you running Vista as your main OS or under Virtual PC?

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I WAS using it as dual boot with Windows XP :)

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Originally Posted by ..:RUDI:..

I WAS using it as dual boot with Windows XP :)

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it's a beta, stop complaining :wave:

I have Vista too. Looks great, but has a lot of bugs...

it's beta, it better have bugs or else:D

Where you guys get you Beta vista beta.beta from.

I havent got a MSDN subscription, so have to download it from moc.ypstnerrot.www, torrent spy for those who cannot read backwards, and its gonna take about a week to download.

Like 6 seeders, and 600 downloaders :D

ILMV

Naughty ILMV!! You cannot just get it like that :o

and it's [URL=http://www.torrentspy.com]moc.ypstnerrot.www[/URL :D

Hey Rudi...
Does this new beta come under the name Windows Vista? or Is this beta called Longhorn?
I downloaded one from torrentspy..but It was Long Horn..I wonder if theres a new release of beta now

I believe it was released under Windows Vista.

And I wouldn't expect Visual Studio to run at all on Vista, so don't complain. Its not a super backwards compatible OS.

Atleast VS.net runs I guess,Im happy :D

It is Windows Vista. The codename is Longhorn. There is 1 year and 3 months before the official release of the new Windows... lots of things should be done ;)

If i am downloading mine from torrent spy, i know that makes it either illegal, but can i stilll use the internet, or does vist "Dial Home"?

Shabba

Last night this guy told me that VB6 appsa as well as DOS are going to be supported in Vista. I told him there is a slight chance of VB6, but little chance of DOS. Can one of you guys try running his DOS program to tell me if it works?

http://pages.prodigy.net/daleharris/pos3.htm

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by I_Love_My_Vans

If i am downloading mine from torrent spy, i know that makes it either illegal, but can i stilll use the internet, or does vist "Dial Home"?

Shabba

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I don't know, on my copy, all worked fine, like an errr.... XP :rolleyes:

Where u get ur copy from

Edit: Playing with smileys

Why do people even bother with VS6 anymore? it's old!

A lot of people are still using DOS. They are screaming, and M$ is including support for it in VISTA, apparently.

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Originally Posted by dglienna

A lot of people are still using DOS. They are screaming, and M$ is including support for it in VISTA, apparently.

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I highly doubt it, anyway!

Vista Build 5219 Ultimate Edition is being installed today ;)

I'll keep you lot posted :)
:wave: