Comments on: Still Waiting for the Release of Vista http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jerry Raiahttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2932 Jerry Raia Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:21:12 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2932 Judie managed to find the a driver for the pen eraser problem I mentioned earlier. This driver comes from the <a href="http://www.wacom-europe.com/int/downloads/driver/driver.asp?lang=en" rel="nofollow"> Wacom European site.</a> If you need it scroll down that page to "Driver 5.01-8a for Windows Vista". It installed with no problems but there is one small side effect. If you have your touchpad set to "disabled if external pointing device is attached", it will now think you have one attached. You will have to uncheck that option in the touchpad properties. Small price to pay until the real driver comes out. Judie managed to find the a driver for the pen eraser problem I mentioned earlier. This driver comes from the Wacom European site. If you need it scroll down that page to “Driver 5.01-8a for Windows Vista”. It installed with no problems but there is one small side effect. If you have your touchpad set to “disabled if external pointing device is attached”, it will now think you have one attached. You will have to uncheck that option in the touchpad properties. Small price to pay until the real driver comes out.

]]> By: Judie Hugheshttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2926 Judie Hughes Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:10:01 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2926 Okay...I don't know <strong>how</strong> I did it (maybe just futzed with it enough times), but I got the non-compatible Lexmark drivers to work with Vista. I have a couple of other issues to work with, but this was the worst so far... :-) Okay…I don’t know how I did it (maybe just futzed with it enough times), but I got the non-compatible Lexmark drivers to work with Vista.

I have a couple of other issues to work with, but this was the worst so far… :-)

]]> By: Jerry Raiahttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2894 Jerry Raia Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:00:37 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2894 I'm wondering if I should have bothered with this. Yeah it looks good but a lot of stuff is still sub standard. After upgrading my 4215 to Vista, the OmniPass fingerprint software is anemic. It fills out login names in duplicate (ie Jerry becomes JerryJerry) so most of the utility it had is gone. Inking on the tablet has gotten less functional as now my $50 Wacom pens no longer have the erase capability they used to have. These things will all be worked out I'm sure. What burns me up is this kind of mediocrity after 5 years! Not just MS, all the major players who came up with below par tools. Pathetic! I’m wondering if I should have bothered with this. Yeah it looks good but a lot of stuff is still sub standard. After upgrading my 4215 to Vista, the OmniPass fingerprint software is anemic. It fills out login names in duplicate (ie Jerry becomes JerryJerry) so most of the utility it had is gone. Inking on the tablet has gotten less functional as now my $50 Wacom pens no longer have the erase capability they used to have. These things will all be worked out I’m sure. What burns me up is this kind of mediocrity after 5 years! Not just MS, all the major players who came up with below par tools. Pathetic!

]]> By: Jerry’s Thoughts » My Current Take on Vistahttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2889 Jerry’s Thoughts » My Current Take on Vista Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:26:14 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2889 [...] Have a look at my post on Gear Diary. I have since installed it on my Fujitsu 4215 Tablet with a bit of trouble with some drivers but for the most part it is working, so far. [...] [...] Have a look at my post on Gear Diary. I have since installed it on my Fujitsu 4215 Tablet with a bit of trouble with some drivers but for the most part it is working, so far. [...]

]]> By: Judie Hugheshttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2880 Judie Hughes Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:13:07 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2880 Okay - so Vista is totally loaded on my T4215 now, AND...other than a missing Lexmark X7170 printer driver (and which waiting for may turn out to be a huge PITA), it appears that things went without a hitch. <em>Phew!</em> :-D Vista is gorgeous on my Fuji - all of the Aero features appear to be working and I am already enjoying the enhanced Tablet features. The bad news is I had a Tom Bihn review which I had <strong>meant</strong> to do yesterday, and it got put on the backburner. But it should be ready later today. ;-) Okay – so Vista is totally loaded on my T4215 now, AND…other than a missing Lexmark X7170 printer driver (and which waiting for may turn out to be a huge PITA), it appears that things went without a hitch. Phew! :-D

Vista is gorgeous on my Fuji – all of the Aero features appear to be working and I am already enjoying the enhanced Tablet features.

The bad news is I had a Tom Bihn review which I had meant to do yesterday, and it got put on the backburner. But it should be ready later today. ;-)

]]> By: JDTagishhttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2834 JDTagish Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:34:08 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2834 Yeah, I had to get Vista on launch day - bought a spiffy HP laptop with Vista already installed. (Although I got it as Costso, so I have some time to give it a real test drive before I decide if I want to keep this or trade it for something else.) It's an AMB Turion 64 x2 at 1.6mhz with 2G of RAM Loaded it up and was pretty amazed at how long it took to load - more than hour just to get through the initialization! Loading software has been an ongoing issue. Some things seem to install just fine, and will work for a time or 2, and then just throw everything out of whack and crash the system. SnagIt (by TechSmith) is always the first thing I load onto a new system, and my version worked just fine for the first few images, and then cause the system to freeze each time I tried to take a screenshot, and required a restart to get going again. I was able to upgrade the program, and since then, it seems to work fine. WinRAR had to be upgraded as well, but you don't have the right click, "extract here" option, because Vista wants me to give it permission to run each time. So, to use it, you have to navigate to the file through the program interface, and manually unpack the file - UGH! Pocket DVD Studio would seem to install, but would not open, and had to be upgraded as well, but seems to work fine after upgrade. Tried to play the preloaded version of BlasterBall by WildTangent, and damn if the thing didn't stutter so much the game was darn near unplayable. No fun there! The Windows Mobile Device Center - OK, I admit I didn't think that I had to actually download it - I thought it was a part of the OS, and went searching in the program menu and found the Sync Center, and thought that was it, because my device showed up there - but that apparently is designed for mp3 players or portable media centers, because it only wants to sync with Windows Media Player. Took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out! To rant just a bit more on the "shouldn't Microsoft make their stuff work together" riff - I've heard that the Zune is not currently compatible with Vista. I mean, seriously??? Let's spend gajillions of dollars developing and marketing these 2 things but not test them together? I'm sure they'll have that sorted out soon, but really - you'd think that would have made it to the top of the priority list, wouldn't ya? I'll be interested to hear how the upgrades go - and I wish you luck! I can only tell you that preloaded may not be much better off! Yeah, I had to get Vista on launch day – bought a spiffy HP laptop with Vista already installed. (Although I got it as Costso, so I have some time to give it a real test drive before I decide if I want to keep this or trade it for something else.) It’s an AMB Turion 64 x2 at 1.6mhz with 2G of RAM

Loaded it up and was pretty amazed at how long it took to load – more than hour just to get through the initialization!

Loading software has been an ongoing issue. Some things seem to install just fine, and will work for a time or 2, and then just throw everything out of whack and crash the system. SnagIt (by TechSmith) is always the first thing I load onto a new system, and my version worked just fine for the first few images, and then cause the system to freeze each time I tried to take a screenshot, and required a restart to get going again. I was able to upgrade the program, and since then, it seems to work fine.

WinRAR had to be upgraded as well, but you don’t have the right click, “extract here” option, because Vista wants me to give it permission to run each time. So, to use it, you have to navigate to the file through the program interface, and manually unpack the file – UGH!

Pocket DVD Studio would seem to install, but would not open, and had to be upgraded as well, but seems to work fine after upgrade.

Tried to play the preloaded version of BlasterBall by WildTangent, and damn if the thing didn’t stutter so much the game was darn near unplayable. No fun there!

The Windows Mobile Device Center – OK, I admit I didn’t think that I had to actually download it – I thought it was a part of the OS, and went searching in the program menu and found the Sync Center, and thought that was it, because my device showed up there – but that apparently is designed for mp3 players or portable media centers, because it only wants to sync with Windows Media Player. Took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out!

To rant just a bit more on the “shouldn’t Microsoft make their stuff work together” riff – I’ve heard that the Zune is not currently compatible with Vista. I mean, seriously??? Let’s spend gajillions of dollars developing and marketing these 2 things but not test them together? I’m sure they’ll have that sorted out soon, but really – you’d think that would have made it to the top of the priority list, wouldn’t ya?

I’ll be interested to hear how the upgrades go – and I wish you luck! I can only tell you that preloaded may not be much better off!

]]> By: Judie Hugheshttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2816 Judie Hughes Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:41:00 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2816 Thanks for the tips, Allen. :-) Thanks for the tips, Allen. :-)

]]> By: Allen Honghttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2810 Allen Hong Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:12:45 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2810 Also, disconnect your external hard drive after the backup to secure it! I don't know if Microsoft fixed the problem for Vista, but XP was notorious for formatting any external hard drives during a XP install. I have seen the results of those, don't ask me how or why. Also, disconnect your external hard drive after the backup to secure it! I don’t know if Microsoft fixed the problem for Vista, but XP was notorious for formatting any external hard drives during a XP install. I have seen the results of those, don’t ask me how or why.

]]> By: Allen Honghttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2808 Allen Hong Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:02:39 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2808 Make sure you do a full backup before you perform the upgrade. I mean it, every time there is a new version of Windows, I see several jobs come in at my day job because of a failed Windows upgrade install. Make sure you do a full backup before you perform the upgrade.

I mean it, every time there is a new version of Windows, I see several jobs come in at my day job because of a failed Windows upgrade install.

]]> By: Judie Hugheshttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2805 Judie Hughes Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:41:20 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/02/07/still-waiting-for-the-release-of-vista/#comment-2805 Nope! I'm ready when you're ready! ;-) Nope! I’m ready when you’re ready! ;-)

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