Thoughts 31 Mar 2008 03:37 pm
Vista
Knowing nothing about Windows Vista Home Premium, I went out an bought a Linksys wireless card with the “certified to run Vista” label.
The card is your basic wmp54g.
The label on the cd says to run it first. —–Do Not run the cd.
The included paperwork said not to run the cd, but to go to Linksys and download the drivers.
Hmmmmm. You’re installing a network adapter that needs drivers to work, and all you have to do is download the drivers from the internet, but the card won’t connect to the internet without the drivers, that you need to download from the internet……..
It may not be physically impossible for most people, but it seems to me to be just plain wrong.
In my case I installed the card and then used a long cat5 cable between the new machine and my router.
Windows not only discovered the new hardware, it downloaded the drivers from the Windows update site and installed them automatically.
I also installed Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 without a hitch.
I highly recommend this program. It’s only $99 and does most of what I need from Photoshop, which was priced at $649 over at Office Depot.
I installed Photoshop CS2 with a minor amount of stress.
It turns out that in order to enter the authorization code, I needed to right click on the executable and select run as administrator.
Lightroom 1.31 was also easy to install but it has a directory in a place I don’t want it. Someday I’ll find out how to fix it.
Version 1.4 was released and immediately pulled. Their blog says they are probably going back to Beta releases so other people can test and suggest.
Explorer is working and so is Firefox.
Well I’ve just had confirmation the M$ is as brilliant as ever. My new machine informed me that there was a problem. It generated one of those click here balloons.
It seems that it needs to download drivers for my Netgear 311 wireless card. That’s nice… I put the card in a couple of days ago and Winblows said it couldn’t find any drivers. Now that I’ve removed it from the system and replaced it with a card that does have drivers, Vista wants to download and install the drivers. Confirming what I already knew. Vista saves every piece of data. Probably so it can fink to M$.