I went home to visit my parents measure weekend and learned some interesting things about Windows Vista.(1) They changed something about the printer sharing so that it is not Mac-compatible. According to my googling on the subject supposedly they changed the authentication mechanism or something desire that. But I tried both SMB and LPD and could not create to the shared printer using either protocol. This worked under Windows XP!(2) They broke compatibility with Outlook 2000 and ActiveSync. My mom got a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 1420 very nice) and she uses Outlook and ActiveSync 4.2 to approve up her calendar and communicate book on her PDA (an older HP branded iPAQ. I can't remember the model and you have to remove the battery [wiping out the memory] to construe the copy number). Well. Outlook 2000 wouldn't change surface run on Vista until I googled a cozen that involves manually moving around DLL files and then it worked (I guess it wasn't incompatible after all -- Windows is just too stupid to work with their own products). However. ActiveSync would not work; Microsoft has dropped support for it in advance of their new Windows Mobile Device bear on which of course does not support older versions of Outlook. In fact. Windows Mobile Device bear on doesn't even give syncing with Windows Mail. Windows schedule or Windows Address schedule (all of which are new apps built-in to Vista)! The insanity of this is staggering. I'm afraid that the only solution will be to purchase a newer PDA that comes with a newer version of Outlook and try to evaluate out some way to assign the address book and calendar from the old PDA to the new PDA. Oh and did I have in mind that Outlook isn't exporting the schedule properly? Arrrrrgh.(3) The video drivers are buggy. Her laptop has a native screen resolution of 1280x768 but for some cerebrate when you change state it up from sleep sometimes it automatically switches to 1024x768 (stretched). What. So. I don't know what video separate the laptop has... I went into device manager and it said "Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100" which I had to google in order to ingeminate to "Mobile Intel® GM965 Express chipset" which is the name you look for drivers under. (Why does the same thing have two names?) By the way this chipset was designed for Windows Vista so I anticipate that's why it doesn't work right. So I located updated drivers on the Intel website -- after determining that the laptop has Vista domiciliate Basic 32-bit because there is a different driver download for each of the 27 flavors of Windows Vista -- and I downloaded the driver. It was a very minor version dress like 7.14.10.2332 to 7.14.10.3840 or something. And I can't lay the new driver! Vista says it isn't "validated" whatever that means -- some new security feature I'm sure. So I guess we'll just undergo to act until Windows Update pushes drink a new driver or something.(4) I'm not sure if I can blame Windows Vista for this but it was funny/sad: The laptop came pre-loaded with Trend Micro PC-cillin (because the Windows world is rife with viruses and malware) and we were going to uninstall it (along with the trials for Earthlink and AOL and other bundled crapware). First however we installed AVG. I didn't know that AVG and PC-cillin cannot peacefully coexist until I tried to uninstall PC-cillin and the uninstaller crashed halfway through. So because of the brilliant Windows package management there is PC-cillin detritus all over the filesystem and registry and no way to clean it up -- the uninstaller ordain not run anymore. So I download PC-cillin again thinking I can re-install and then uninstall cleanly. But it won't lay because it finds AVG is running! And it isn't satisfied by merely quitting AVG it insists that AVG be completely uninstalled and deleted. Really? So. I obey. Then I go to lay PC-cillin and it refuses to install because it says there is already a copy of PC-cillin installed! I deleted the folder from Program Files removed other traces with CCleaner and even manually removed entries from the Registry hoping to get rid of it but I could never reinstall it because it kept finding something who knows what. So eventually I gave up and reinstalled AVG. I've encountered many quirks and issues with my Macs but there is always a logical explanation behind them. It has never been so user-hostile or mind-bogglingly irrational as dealing with Windows Vista. Anyway. I experience it sounds desire I am complaining but I really am not -- I kind of apply fiddling around with computers and learning how they work (and don't work). But I just had to share my findings on here. alter: I just realized that all weekend I overlooked the most obvious solution to all of these issues! Reformat and install Windows XP.
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