Software installation problems with Vista

[Ed Mullikin]

"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message

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> Gordon wrote:<span style="color:green">

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>> So define "unmitigated disaster".</span>

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> "I can't figure out how to configure it."

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> Bruce Chambers

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I had three progams I used frequently on XP that I could not use on VISTA

and my HP printer would not work causing me to buy a new one. I suppose

Vista cost me $300 extra and I do like it nearly as well as XP.

 

[Gordon]

"Ed Mullikin" <edmull2@***.net> wrote in message

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>> ~ Denis Diderot</span>

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> I had three progams I used frequently on XP that I could not use on VISTA</span>

Do you mean they wouldn't install. or wouldn't run? Did you try installing

them in Compatability Mode?

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> and my HP printer would not work causing me to buy a new one.</span>

Did you look on HP's website for a Vista driver for your printer? My Samsung

printer must be nearly ten years old - they produced a Vista driver for it,

so I would be VERY surprised that HP did not...

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> Vista cost me $300 extra and I do like it nearly as well as XP.</span>