5 hours with technical support (including tier 2 support) with 3 different companies including M$. And M$ did not fix the no uninstall problem. It's not that I couldn't manage vista it's that with the exposure to, and insight from open source, I refuse to put up with a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma full of bugs and pay for it not to work. And if it just isn't that hard to manage vista why can't their own technical support fix it, why does every IT professional I know that has control of their network refuse to allow vista on it (including the NY port authority), and why has the public demanded and received xp on new computers instead of vista only. I can think of myriad other points of reason but I fear they fall on deaf or M$ shill ears. I restrained myself from using a proverb involving pearls and swine but I'm not confident of the propriety of either.
I begged and pleaded with one of my clients (the only one I knew it would be a problem with) not to put Vista on the network. On a whim they did. It took me days to figure out how to connect it to the domain (after of course being forced to upgrade to the ultimate version.) Then about two weeks ago my client called to say quickbooks wouldn't work, (it had been working for about a month) what had I done? After counting to 10 or 100 or whatever it took for the red to start clearing, I replied that this was why I had asked them not to get Vista.
I had turned automatic updates off. Somehow they were back on. I feel pretty sure it was in the fine print of something she installed that updates would be turned on.
2 hours with quickbooks started with uninstall and reinstall and ended with "if you can't uninstall you'll have to contact the computers manufacturer." 2 hours with Sony ended with "we won't support it unless you put the original OS back on." 1 hour with M$ led to an emailed msi uninstaller program which seemed to uninstall quickbooks. It didn't and quickbooks wouldn't reinstall. Another hour with quickbooks and a link to another M$ uninstaller program and I finally got quickbooks uninstalled, reinstalled and working so far.
I still have no uninstall option for about 30 out of 40 installed programs. Like the poster above only recently installed programs can be uninstalled.
I have been in the computer field for 27 years, I have M$ and Novell certs. My feeling now is that Vista will be the end of my computer career. At least until I become competent with GNU Linux. Another indication of my level of disgust with M$ Vista, I have been reading/. and other forums & blogs for many many years and this is the first post I have ever made.
Obviously I should remain a lurker(saksi). Anyway/. is great. Caio
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5 hours with technical support (including tier 2 support) with 3 different companies including M$. And M$ did not fix the no uninstall problem. It's not that I couldn't manage vista it's that with the exposure to, and insight from open source, I refuse to put up with a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma full of bugs and pay for it not to work. And if it just isn't that hard to manage vista why can't their own technical support fix it, why does every IT professional I know that has control of their network refuse to allow vista on it (including the NY port authority), and why has the public demanded and received xp on new computers instead of vista only. I can think of myriad other points of reason but I fear they fall on deaf or M$ shill ears. I restrained myself from using a proverb involving pearls and swine but I'm not confident of the propriety of either.
I begged and pleaded with one of my clients (the only one I knew it would be a problem with) not to put Vista on the network. On a whim they did. It took me days to figure out how to connect it to the domain (after of course being forced to upgrade to the ultimate version.) Then about two weeks ago my client called to say quickbooks wouldn't work, (it had been working for about a month) what had I done? After counting to 10 or 100 or whatever it took for the red to start clearing, I replied that this was why I had asked them not to get Vista. I had turned automatic updates off. Somehow they were back on. I feel pretty sure it was in the fine print of something she installed that updates would be turned on. 2 hours with quickbooks started with uninstall and reinstall and ended with "if you can't uninstall you'll have to contact the computers manufacturer." 2 hours with Sony ended with "we won't support it unless you put the original OS back on." 1 hour with M$ led to an emailed msi uninstaller program which seemed to uninstall quickbooks. It didn't and quickbooks wouldn't reinstall. Another hour with quickbooks and a link to another M$ uninstaller program and I finally got quickbooks uninstalled, reinstalled and working so far. I still have no uninstall option for about 30 out of 40 installed programs. Like the poster above only recently installed programs can be uninstalled. I have been in the computer field for 27 years, I have M$ and Novell certs. My feeling now is that Vista will be the end of my computer career. At least until I become competent with GNU Linux. Another indication of my level of disgust with M$ Vista, I have been reading /. and other forums & blogs for many many years and this is the first post I have ever made.
Obviously I should remain a lurker(saksi). Anyway /. is great. Caio