Had a DELL drive..etc crash awhile back and the replacement was loaded with Vista Home Premium. Have dealt with it, somehow, and will continue to wallow in my lack of initiative in "demanding" it be replaced with XP. Satisfies my need for something to use as a basis for feeling sorry for myself. ;-(
Jack --- On Sun, 12/21/08, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ken Waller <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: ICC Paper Profiles > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 1:14 PM > I had a pro photog friend on mine give up on Vista in his > new Dell, demanded & finally got them to install Xp > (this was a little after Vista came out). > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: ICC Paper Profiles > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luiz > Felipe" > > Subject: Re: ICC Paper Profiles > > > > > >> ... really, really, hoping this thread remains > unknown where I work... > >> > >> Vista is not that bad - was released way before > time, so it's just now coming to where it was aimed. > Problem is, by now it's widely tagged as unreliable > (wrong hardware+ early release) and slow (again, wrong > hardware). > > > > We bought a Vista machine late last summer to replace > my XP machine for image editing at the studio. > > It should be designed for Vista, as it is a high end > OTS box. > > It has an AMD quad core processor and 3 gb of RAM, two > hard drives and runs about half as fast as my two year old > (also OTS) XP box with one HD when running actions on bulk > files. > > > > I've turned off pretty much everything I can turn > off, including the horrid graphics package that is Aero to > no avail. > > What is really irksome is that I cannot (nor can our > hired gun technician) get the damned thing to allow full two > way networking. I can pull files off of it, and I can import > files to it if I am sitting in front of it, but I can't > put files onto it from any other computer on the network. > > two Thousand and bloody eight, and we are having to > run files back and forth on memory cards because the > computers aboslutely refuse to let us dump files from one > machine to another because the OS seems to think it's > hard drives are sacramental. > > I am pretty underwhelmed by my Vista experience so > far. > > > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
