My Upgrade to Windows Vista

[Xarea]

I've just put the disc in, and i'm going to like do this little diary crap thing until it's done, so I can see how long it's taken.

I got it free with my Dell PC [it's an upgrade], and it's Home Premium. Why not, lol.

6.50 - Placed 'Dell Windows Vista Upgrade Assistant' in the drive.
6.52 - It's replacing drivers so my PC shouldn't die when it upgrades.
6.57 - It's replacing some BIOS thing...
7.04 - Rebooted my PC to do some BIOS thing.
7.09 - Removing programs that won't work with Vista. Only two Dell help tools, will automatically install new versions itself.

I'll post updates, woop. Feel free to comment on how stupid I am. :eusa_whis

[MattGarner]

Good Luck installing Vista. It's bloody fantastic :D

[dannyisnotamazing]

Oh cool haha, let us know how easy the process was at the end. [:

[cocaine]

vista is ****.

[Dentafrice♥]

i hate vista

[Xarea]

7.30 - All completed (upgrade assistant). Computer restarted, booting from CD atm, now loading.

[Xarea]

7.36 - First fault!!!! lol. When loading it on boot [even though they recommend upgrading when your PC is properly on], I get some error. Hey, i'll guess ill try doing what the instruction manual says.

[Xarea]

Gave up. It broke three times.

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[Dentafrice♥]

it's pant's ant it

[Xarea]

2.47 - Trying to install again.

[Shawnstra]

Good luck. You should like it, well at least I do :)

[&]

I got a free upgrade to vista :P
But im on Acer, and had to request it.. The only complaint I have is the Flip 3D isnt installed, atall!

Also... the control panel wont open:s. explorer.exe just reboots itself >.<

[Earthquake]

Ah how much was the dell computer. Once I get a bank account and they take money from me, I'll sue them so I can afford a computer... Everyones doing that to get more cash lol, Anyway hope it goes well :]!

[Xarea]

Sorted - on Vista now... however, Dell lied to me. Graphics card not good/powerful enough for Aero or Flip 3D?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... they said it would work.

[preposterous]

i have vista and its alright i guess. sometimes it wont let me right click which is very annoying. also ie crashes and restarts itself and at times it doesnt open new windows or programmes.

annoys me so much :@

[MattGarner]

Sorry to hear everyone's problems. But since I got Vista on my new PC it's been wonderful apart from a random blue screen which never came again :)

[lew!]

Ooh, I swear its more trouble than its worth :(
[Unless its pre installed on the pc your buying]

My friend had to install his and he had to wait 7 hours before the blue screen went "/

[Recursion]

My install took my about 30 minutes on my Laptop, installed fine, was up and running, dual booting with XP within 45 Minutes!

[DaveTaylor]

Ooh, I swear its more trouble than its worth :(
[Unless its pre installed on the pc your buying]

My friend had to install his and he had to wait 7 hours before the blue screen went "/
moron? blue screen take about 3 seconds to create a file dump then they restart oh yes so 7 hours :|

[Earthquake]

I am a wannabe vista user, I downloaded the vista theme pack, its great! :D

[Technologic]

Lol, most people install vista before checking their computer is compatible.

People complaining about not having aero or flip 3d may have vista basic :]

If you want vista i guess its best buying a new pc (what i did) or using fairly new one :]

[Boomitsliiam]

Sorted - on Vista now... however, Dell lied to me. Graphics card not good/powerful enough for Aero or Flip 3D?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... they said it would work.


Just sue them.

Im taking them to court next week.

[Wig44.]

Just sue them.

Im taking them to court next week.

Don't get me wrong but in a thread about wl 8.5 you said you were 13, and didn't know how to do a simple switch around with the language files. Now you are a taking a multi billion pound company to court. :rolleyes:

[Liam!]

Just sue them.

Im taking them to court next week.
the funny thing is about that; you're not even joking.

post the result.:rolleyes:

[=gamemaster=]

Uhh sounds annoying your situation :l

I just got a new laptop from acer and the graphics are imense and the screen is shiny wich also makes them look betta! and I have windws vista home premium, already on. But mine was about £20 cheaper coz it was only one left and was off display, so they gave me discount!

BTW people if you are having a problem with getting MSN to work or ne other programs and it pops up with this gay thing saying blady blah stoped workin, PM me, You just need to download your latest security thing, It stops coz MSN takes up to much memory!

[Callumhall]

I have Vista Home Premium
It works Completly Fine
The Type Of Pc i am Currently Running it on is a HP Desktop
I have No problems its Just uses all my Shared Graphics
So it doesnt play games aswell ¬_¬
My overall Performance is 2.3 ¬_¬
Which is Poor My Friend Who Is running a worse Computer and Ulimate is getting 3.3 ¬_¬
so i will be Upgrading my Graphics Card any ideas What to Get ?

[Rix]

When i upgraded from Xp to Vista Installation took 5 hours i have a single core but its pretty good specs for australia. 2.8ghz, 256mb Nvida, 320gb hd 1gb ram
vista ran great for about a week and then i reverted to xp because it worked better i think if i'm to get vista i'll either buy a Mac and dual boot or i'll just buy a new computer

[Highjacker-x]

When I installed Vista, All went smooth and fantastic.

I love it.