[OKDXA] I HATE VISTA

[RGA]

Thanks Gene.

I mis-read it the first time and thought it said People Eating Tasty 
Animals.

My apologys to vegitarins (sp) out there.

Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Lewis" <w5le at wildblue.net>
To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] I HATE VISTA


> PITA= Pain In the *** (posterior)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "RGA" <rga4k5sit at pldi.net>
> To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <RHunt at tulsacc.edu>
>> To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] I HATE VISTA
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> K8fu at aol.com
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>>> [OKDXA] I HATE VISTA
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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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>>>
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