This really is 1 for all of you readers who;ve had trouble setting up Windows Vista. Don;t really feel poor. Even some Microsoft developers — who have the Vista team on premise — can;t manage to upgrade to Vista.Microsoft developer Andy Pennell wanted to install Vista at home. (Pennell is a developer on HDi, the interactivity layer for HD DVD.)He bought a copy of Vista Ultimate. And then all hell broke loose — as he blogged this week in a post entitled “Putting in Vista: My Personal Hell.” Trouble started for Pennell early,
Office Professional 2010 Activation Key, when he tried to get the media out of the new,
Office 2010 Home And Student 32 bits, curved Vista packaging:“I was seriously considering a trip to the garage and to smash the box open with a hammer,
Office 2010 Standard 32bit, when I discovered another transparent sticker that was holding two parts together. With that gone, the box moved a few more millimeters, until I realised the thing opens sideways,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, and boom: Vista was opened. I;ve installed entire operating systems more quickly and with less stress than opening this box…”From there, things only got worse:“Short story: setting up Vista for me was a catalog of problems, some mine and some not. … (Things) went downhill to include weekend-long unsuccessful installs,
Microsoft Office 2010 Standard clave, bricking my PC, and exercising my Dell warranty to get a replacement motherboard, hard-drive and secondary hard-drive. And after all that, guess what: I still haven;t installed it.”Pennell;s conclusions:* “Vista cannot install to Dynamic discs (which is the default when you add a new drive to XP): switch them to Basic before attempting a Vista install* “Only update your BIOS if you have good warranty cover on the motherboard, or are feeling lucky* “Unplug memory card visitors before installing* “Dell;s warranty and support organization rock* “My particular hardware cannot install Vista, and no-one knows why.”Bring on Windows Seven!