[OKDXA] I HATE VISTA

[Gene Lewis]

PITA= Pain In the *** (posterior)
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From: "RGA" <rga4k5sit at pldi.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] I HATE VISTA


> Hi Ross,
>
> I guess I'm just old and dumb.  What is PITA?
>
> Bob k5sit 73
>
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> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] I HATE VISTA
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>> I've found that a LOT of programs that work fine on 9X or Win2K won't 
>> work
>> on Vista.
>> Microsoft software runs fine. I wouldn't mess with it but the wife has to
>> teach it this
>> Fall semester. It's been a PITA all the way. XP device drivers rarely
>> work. Vista
>> has this thing called UserAccessControl which is yet another PITA I built
>> her
>> another system with all the goodies, installed Vista. (Install went fine)
>> and found
>> all the utilities and drivers on the CD for the mobo don't work on Vista.
>> Personally,
>> I would recommend you swap the hard drive for a new one, save it for a
>> year or
>> two until Microsquash gets its' act together for drivers & utilities that
>> work, stick the
>> hard drive from your old system on the new one. The problem there is
>> unless you
>> UNINSTALL the video driver, you run the risk of blowing up your video 
>> card
>> unless
>> the old and the new mobos have the same video card (or chipset)
>>
>> It's a PITA no matter how you approach it. Good luck.
>>
>> Ross K5RH
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>> My old desktop's mother board went south after several other repairs had
>> previously been made. So with it's replacement came a new
>> OS.............Vista.
>> Which I absolutely hate, but had no choice. Could not find anything on 
>> the
>>
>> market with XP.
>>
>> I've dwnlded the W6EL prop forecast program and DX Telnet but cannot get
>> them installed. On Telnet I keep getting msgs which advise the files are
>> corrupted and to redownload....................
>>
>> Is anyone familiar with Vista and can tell me how to install these  pgms
>> ???????  Mny TNX
>>
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