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Oct 12 2007, 08:02 AM
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New Member ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 12-October 07 Member No.: 162,461 |
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Oct 16 2007, 06:10 PM
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![]() Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 26-September 07 From: philly Member No.: 159,308 |
You should bite the bullet and do a clean install. If you still want XP around install in it Virtual PC which is free from Microsoft.
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Oct 16 2007, 08:22 PM
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A bit of advice to make Vista more stable is to ensure you have Vista compatible drivers installed right after you boot your desktop for the first time. After that, immediately go to Windows Update and get all critical updates and review the "Optional" updates as well to see if you need them.
Another thing a lot of people miss are the Vista Reliability updates. Microsoft releases these at any time of month, not necessarily on patch Tuesday. Also, many of these reliability updates are NOT available through Windows update (not yet anyway) so you would want to go and find these manually on the Vista section of M$, download them, and install one by one. You don't have to reboot after each one, just wait until all of them are installed. Go here http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index.php?act=calendar and look on each calendar page to find any updates from MS$ (look for red) and go back several months to make sure you don't miss any. Once I got all the updates I needed, I found Vista to be MUCH more stable. Good luck. |
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Oct 19 2007, 03:57 PM
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New Member ![]() Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 19-October 07 Member No.: 164,059 |
I THINK YOU DID WHAT IM THINKING ABOUT TO DO ? I HAVE A XP COMPUTER AND I WHAT TO BUY A NEW VISTA COMPUTER AND TIE THEM TOGETHER XP AS A SLAVE . DID YOU DO THAT IF SO HOW DID YOU DO IT . I SEE ALOT OF PEOPLE HAVING TROUBLE WITH VISTA NOW SURE IF I WANT IT
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Oct 21 2007, 10:11 PM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 354 Joined: 6-January 06 Member No.: 49,094 |
I wiped the hard drive, and started out with a clean install of Vista by booting from the CD and installing. I prefer clean installs.....I heard of horror stories when trying to dual-boot.
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