Posts by Emmett Clifford

Dutch Consumer Association declares war on Vista

@Steve Welsh

The 1953 was a typo and should have been 1993. Prior to that it was all UNIX and for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. So I was around before MS. Guess my age and I'll sit on your face so that you may guess my weight as well..

Several Gotchas

I've been supporting Vista as a tech support engineer since May getting 8-10 calls a day for Vista issues. Here are some Gotchas that will help you avoid the more serious issues. By the way, I've been supporting MS Products, and I do not work for them, since 1953 and Vista is the cleanest release I have seen for MS

Gotchas

1. Do not under any circumstances update from XP or any other operating system to Vista. Do it and you are damned forever. A clean install is the only way to go.

2. Do not under any circumstances have Macafee running on Vista unless you want BSODs, system hangs, no internet, MS mail not responding, complete OD wipeouts and other serious consequences.

3. Do not under any circumstances try to run any version of Vista with under 2gb memory. You'll get slower and slower until you grind to a halt.

4. Forget Inet Exp ver. 7. Download Firefox.