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Vista SP1 Is Even Less Compatible

Posted by kdawson on from the preemptive-diasabling dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Microsoft is now saying that Vista SP1 disables some 3rd party applications. The KB article on SP1 incompatibility states: 'For reliability reasons, Microsoft blocks these programs from starting after you install Windows Vista SP1.' It does link to several vendor support pages with updates or workarounds. Unfortunately, at least one of the suggestions consists of merely disabling part of the program, which could leave you with half an anti-virus solution."

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  1. Increased security. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does Vista really need anti-virus software anyway?

  2. Re:Vista again? by garett_spencley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Huh ?

    Sorry but this is slashdot. Sticking it to Microsoft NEVER gets old.

    Are you new around here or something ?

  3. Wine for Windows by Xtifr · · Score: 4, Funny

    After I had a couple of old Win95-era games that refused to install on my brother's Win2k system (I haven't had Windows for nearly a decade, so I was thinking of giving them to him), I've been wondering if it might not be possible to get Wine to run on Windows. Sounds like this might be an idea that will only become more and more reasonable as time goes on. So...how about it, Wine team? Can we possibly get Wine for Windows? It could run on top of Cygwin/X. :)

  4. Re:AntiTrust concerns? by obstalesgone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Son of a bitch! He got modded up.

    Debian! Debian! SUSE! SUSE! Hippopotami! Hippopotami!