I read the post about the "Fix-it" problem and some of the other replies, but it would take me a long time to read all replies with the amount of time I have to do so. I'll say this though, the "automatic updates" for all versions of Windows from WIN95 through WIN-XP worked just fine, and that included Service packs, driver updates, security updates, etc. In WIN-Vista Premium Home Edition, or whatever it was called, however, once WIN-Vista Service Pack 1 came through, once it finished installing, I could not get the computer running. I had a Windows start up problem. Also, with Firefox 3, it kept crashing on me, and I was so fed up with the problems I was having, even with support help, that I decided to switch over to Linux. However, even if the operating system was different than what the downloaded file supported, all that would happen, when I tried to install like say a driver, it just would show me a message that it was made for a different operating system and wouldn't install. With WIN-Vista SP1, I even tried the 434 Mb file that supposedly had all of the necessary files, even the files that was needed before installing SP1, the installation ran for around 39 minutes, with the computer rebooting now and then, but when the installation got to the third stage, the computer would get stuck when trying to reboot. I will say this though, shortly after buying the computer I'm using right now, that had WIN-Vista on it, I made the three "Recovery" disks, plus later I made the "Diagnostic CD" too, so if worse came to worse, I could use the "Recovery" disks to place WIN-Vista back unto the computer to the factory settings. For the Media Center, there's a Kubuntu version where you install Kubuntu 7.10, then you have a second and third CD to install the media center, like if you'd want to watch TV on your computer using your Hauppauge PVR500 for example like I have...It uses drivers that are for the PVR150 card, and is about the same except for having two receivers in it, but the Linux version of the media center is mostly for controlling lighting, and for security cameras, etc., but you can use it for watching TV. As far as something being for the wrong or different operating system, sometimes the WGA says that you have the wrong OS, or that the file is for some other OS, but if you do the download manually, that isn't always the case, but it just won't install if it's for a different OS than what you are using. The only thing though, about using Linux over using Windows, I have quite as bit of purchased software that only runs on Windows, but I suppose that I could try that Linux software program that allows you to run Windows programs, and I have tried using it, WINE or whatever it's called, but the graphics are a little "choppy," and/or "slower," than when using Windows...Games, like the Atari games I played back in the early 80's, Pacman, Frogger, Pong, Centipede, Millipede, Asteroids, Battlezone, Crystal Castles, Warlords, Gravitar, Tempest, Missle Command, Breakout, Super Breakout, plus many more, but I see that Linux has a great version called something like LBreakout2 or whatever, and the only thing I don't like about that game is when you miss, there's a "cuss" word unless you run the child's version, but that isn't that great compared to the "regular" game. I also have card games, board games, encyclopedias on CD, Wheel Of Fortune, Family Feud, Mahjongg and Disney Mahjongg, Train Simulator, Flight Simulator, and a bunch of others, like WWII Normandy and Beyond Pearl Harbor in the "American Heroes Collection' CD, with two others and Mig Alley and Apache Havoc on another CD set, etc...a lot of educational software plus a lot of game software that only works in Windows, but maybe I can get Whine or Wine, or whatever it is, to work better than the first few times I tried to use it, unless I can get Solaris to work right, then it allows me to boot into either Linux or Windows so I could then run the "Windows only" software. Have a Great Day, Bernard
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I read the post about the "Fix-it" problem and some of the other replies, but it would take me a long time to read all replies with the amount of time I have to do so. I'll say this though, the "automatic updates" for all versions of Windows from WIN95 through WIN-XP worked just fine, and that included Service packs, driver updates, security updates, etc. In WIN-Vista Premium Home Edition, or whatever it was called, however, once WIN-Vista Service Pack 1 came through, once it finished installing, I could not get the computer running. I had a Windows start up problem. Also, with Firefox 3, it kept crashing on me, and I was so fed up with the problems I was having, even with support help, that I decided to switch over to Linux. However, even if the operating system was different than what the downloaded file supported, all that would happen, when I tried to install like say a driver, it just would show me a message that it was made for a different operating system and wouldn't install. With WIN-Vista SP1, I even tried the 434 Mb file that supposedly had all of the necessary files, even the files that was needed before installing SP1, the installation ran for around 39 minutes, with the computer rebooting now and then, but when the installation got to the third stage, the computer would get stuck when trying to reboot. I will say this though, shortly after buying the computer I'm using right now, that had WIN-Vista on it, I made the three "Recovery" disks, plus later I made the "Diagnostic CD" too, so if worse came to worse, I could use the "Recovery" disks to place WIN-Vista back unto the computer to the factory settings. For the Media Center, there's a Kubuntu version where you install Kubuntu 7.10, then you have a second and third CD to install the media center, like if you'd want to watch TV on your computer using your Hauppauge PVR500 for example like I have...It uses drivers that are for the PVR150 card, and is about the same except for having two receivers in it, but the Linux version of the media center is mostly for controlling lighting, and for security cameras, etc., but you can use it for watching TV. As far as something being for the wrong or different operating system, sometimes the WGA says that you have the wrong OS, or that the file is for some other OS, but if you do the download manually, that isn't always the case, but it just won't install if it's for a different OS than what you are using. The only thing though, about using Linux over using Windows, I have quite as bit of purchased software that only runs on Windows, but I suppose that I could try that Linux software program that allows you to run Windows programs, and I have tried using it, WINE or whatever it's called, but the graphics are a little "choppy," and/or "slower," than when using Windows...Games, like the Atari games I played back in the early 80's, Pacman, Frogger, Pong, Centipede, Millipede, Asteroids, Battlezone, Crystal Castles, Warlords, Gravitar, Tempest, Missle Command, Breakout, Super Breakout, plus many more, but I see that Linux has a great version called something like LBreakout2 or whatever, and the only thing I don't like about that game is when you miss, there's a "cuss" word unless you run the child's version, but that isn't that great compared to the "regular" game. I also have card games, board games, encyclopedias on CD, Wheel Of Fortune, Family Feud, Mahjongg and Disney Mahjongg, Train Simulator, Flight Simulator, and a bunch of others, like WWII Normandy and Beyond Pearl Harbor in the "American Heroes Collection' CD, with two others and Mig Alley and Apache Havoc on another CD set, etc...a lot of educational software plus a lot of game software that only works in Windows, but maybe I can get Whine or Wine, or whatever it is, to work better than the first few times I tried to use it, unless I can get Solaris to work right, then it allows me to boot into either Linux or Windows so I could then run the "Windows only" software. Have a Great Day, Bernard