[FARC] Vista's Other Shoe

[Bob Moroney]

Shoe?  Sounds more like a boot.  A cold boot, at that.   ;-)

Perhaps getting that copy of XP Home SP3 to install over Vista isn't 
such a bad idea after all.

73, Bob K9CMR
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K3SKE Dan Szymanski wrote:
> It will be a lot more than just the other shoe dropping.
>  
> For those of you that may not follow the what Microsoft announces, XP 
> will be supported for at least six more months (do to large corporate 
> and Federal Government users demands). Vista as you now know it will 
> quietly die and be replaced with Windows 7!
> Have any of you had a mouse die under the kitchen sink in the area 
> between the sub flooring and the lowest shelf where you store your 
> kitchen cleaning gear? Well assume the mouse is Vista dying quietly 
> and the rest is reality...
>  
> And here all the time you thought that it could not possibly get any 
> worse between the economy, health care, jobs and what is left of your 
> 201K (formally 401K) retirement.
>  
> Dan
> K3SKE
> Frederick Cty
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Kirk Talbott <mailto:kirktal7237 at msn.com>
>     *To:* FARC <mailto:FARC at mailman.qth.net>
>     *Sent:* Saturday, October 18, 2008 16:56
>     *Subject:* [FARC] Vista's Other Shoe
>
>     While the initial results of installing a new Rigblaster driver
>     for Windows Vista to run PSK31 were positive, the "other shoe" of
>     Windows Vista did drop and squirrelly activity did ensue. 
>      
>     Number 1;  the WinPSK software I use has configuration settings
>     for adjusting the computer soundcard receive and transmit volume
>     levels.  When selecting these settings nothing happens, I had no
>     control of these settings.  I did have control when using WinPSK
>     on Windows XP. 
>      
>     Number 2; when starting the WinPSK program after a computer
>     shutdown I did not have receive audio and had to exit and restart
>     the WinPSK program in order to get it back.  I had to do this
>     after every reboot of the computer, having to start WinPSK twice
>     in order to get it to work. 
>      
>     Number 3; my soundcard, Realtek Audio, has a feature whereby every
>     time I connect or disconnect a cable or device to the soundcard
>     you get a message "a device has been connected" or "a device has
>     been disconnected."  Ordinarily this isn't a problem and is normal
>     for the Realtek Audio soundcard manager software but after every
>     transmission in WinPSK I would get this message, lose receive
>     audio in WinPSK, and have to restart WinPSK again.
>      
>     Number 4; the Realtek Audio soundcard controls for controlling
>     recording and playback audio volume levels had no effect on
>     receive audio in WinPSK.  I had to control receive audio in WinPSK
>     with the radio's volume control. 
>      
>     Number 5; Rigblaster instructions for connecting the receive and
>     transmit audio to a computer suggest using the LINE IN and LINE
>     OUT jacks of the soundcard for a desktop computer and using the
>     MIC IN and HEADPHONE jacks for a laptop computer.  I have no LINE
>     OUT jack on my soundcard so I used the SPEAKERS jack. This did not
>     work.  Next, I used the MIC IN and HEADPHONE jacks on my
>     desktop computer as if I were a laptop and this worked but
>     resulted in problems 1,2,3, and 4. 
>      
>     It is clear that while the Rigblaster's new driver for Windows
>     Vista probably works, the WinPSK software and other programs on
>     the Rigblaster's software library CD will not.  So, that's enough
>     problems for me to disconnect the Rigblaster and put it away.  I
>     tried.  Additionally the WinPSK program that I used does not have
>     an uninstaller.  If I want to get this program off of my machine I
>     have to go in and set a restore point in the operating system,
>     backup the system registry, then go into the registry and edit out
>     the entry for WinPSK, and then manually delete all the program
>     folders.  What a kluge and especially since I knew better than to
>     try and experiment with it on Windows Vista in the first place. 
>      The Rigblaster and software library CD are headed for the
>     sledgehammer.  
>      
>     73
>     KB3ONM
>     Kirk 
>