From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6407419.stm

Not a happy bunny

"Feel the pain

But soon the problems began to mount:

    * Where was the internet? I could see my router, but nothing beyond
- even after a full day of tinkering with various network wizards. My
BBC laptop proved that this was not a problem with my router or ISP.
    * Why did my Philips webcam refuse to work? The Upgrade Advisor had
explicitly said it would.
    * What hardware was responsible for the three driver errors flagged
up by Vista? One seemed to be the sound card - oh yes, why did I have no
sound? But which mysterious "PCI input device" was lacking a
driver? And what was the "unknown device" flagged up by Vista?
    * Why did I get a "disk is full" error message every time I tried to
install my keyboard's new Intellitype software? Why did Vista refuse to
uninstall the XP-version of Intellitype?
    * I knew that Apple had failed to make iTunes Vista-ready, so I
didn't even try.
    * But why did Microsoft's successor of Activesync, called Windows
Mobile Device Center, refuse to hook up Outlook to my trusty old Pocket PC?

Fiddling around with Vista's settings, I soon found myself deep below its
slick interface.

And the deeper I got, the more the look and jargon of dialogue boxes took
me back into the world of XP.

It took me one day to get online. The detail is tedious and highly
technical: reinstalling drivers and router firmware didn't work, but after
many trial and error tweaks to Vista's TCP/IP settings, I had internet
access."

Adam

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