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My old XP PC died and I bought a new HP with Vista Premimum and ran across
the following problems.
1) Found out it had no faxing capability like XP unless you got Ulitimate
bad mistake on Microsoft part - web searches recommended snappy fax or fax
talk but again at additional cost but cheeaper that the fulll blown Vista
Packages. - wish they would include it as a Vista SP1 addition
2) My Hotmail no longer has the drop down box under attachments for
pictures. The blogs say start with windows photo gallery, select what I want
to attach, then click e-mail. How ever I dont every work backward with mail I
usually write my letter then attach my pictures and use the MSN Photo Upload
Tool to assist. Does anyone else have this problem of not having the picure
option in the drop down in the attachment of hotmail?
3) My Yahoo links are no longer clickable (sending email to Yahoo support
has been a waste of time) - Clicking on an link from within Yahoo IM whether
it is to check mail or on any link on yahoo messenger insider does not lauch
the application. Again any clues?
4) If I step away from my PC for say 20 minuntes and return it appreas to go
into a sleep mode knocking of my network connections. About 80% of the time I
can wake it but the out times requires a power reset. This also happens when
the screen goes dark before asking you to confirm you want a program run or
not. The screen goes dark then returns with the question again in about 10%
of the case it stays dark . I applied every upadte that Microsoft has issued.
But again in reading internet blogs there is a patch that Microsoft is
issuing on a case by case basis. Why do that if there seems to be widespread
problems.
5) My Pinncale Movie maker does not work any longer under Vista I read
where it requires Ver 11. I have already upgraded twice - orignally bought
ver 7 which kept freezing, then ver 8, folowed by ver 9. In each case it cost
me money. Now Pinnacle wants another $99 for an upgrade. In addition their
USB Movie Box does not seem to play well with Vista. As a test I downloaded
their newest USB patch and Vista inttermittently kept complaining about
errors coming from it. Do you think I want to spend another sum of money for
something buggy?
As time goes on I will see how much of my software that ran on XP just fine
will no longer work on Vista. I am now beginning to think it was a mistake
buying another microsoft based PC. Apple is looking better all the time .
Stable O/S, compatabillity, use of parallels or VM Ware to run Microsoft O/S
and the advantage of speed and graphics manipulation.
the following problems.
1) Found out it had no faxing capability like XP unless you got Ulitimate
bad mistake on Microsoft part - web searches recommended snappy fax or fax
talk but again at additional cost but cheeaper that the fulll blown Vista
Packages. - wish they would include it as a Vista SP1 addition
2) My Hotmail no longer has the drop down box under attachments for
pictures. The blogs say start with windows photo gallery, select what I want
to attach, then click e-mail. How ever I dont every work backward with mail I
usually write my letter then attach my pictures and use the MSN Photo Upload
Tool to assist. Does anyone else have this problem of not having the picure
option in the drop down in the attachment of hotmail?
3) My Yahoo links are no longer clickable (sending email to Yahoo support
has been a waste of time) - Clicking on an link from within Yahoo IM whether
it is to check mail or on any link on yahoo messenger insider does not lauch
the application. Again any clues?
4) If I step away from my PC for say 20 minuntes and return it appreas to go
into a sleep mode knocking of my network connections. About 80% of the time I
can wake it but the out times requires a power reset. This also happens when
the screen goes dark before asking you to confirm you want a program run or
not. The screen goes dark then returns with the question again in about 10%
of the case it stays dark . I applied every upadte that Microsoft has issued.
But again in reading internet blogs there is a patch that Microsoft is
issuing on a case by case basis. Why do that if there seems to be widespread
problems.
5) My Pinncale Movie maker does not work any longer under Vista I read
where it requires Ver 11. I have already upgraded twice - orignally bought
ver 7 which kept freezing, then ver 8, folowed by ver 9. In each case it cost
me money. Now Pinnacle wants another $99 for an upgrade. In addition their
USB Movie Box does not seem to play well with Vista. As a test I downloaded
their newest USB patch and Vista inttermittently kept complaining about
errors coming from it. Do you think I want to spend another sum of money for
something buggy?
As time goes on I will see how much of my software that ran on XP just fine
will no longer work on Vista. I am now beginning to think it was a mistake
buying another microsoft based PC. Apple is looking better all the time .
Stable O/S, compatabillity, use of parallels or VM Ware to run Microsoft O/S
and the advantage of speed and graphics manipulation.