Help, I am in Vista Hell

[spoot]

anyone know how to add vista to an existing network set up with xp computers? I do the network setup thing in vista, but it doesn't see the network. I'm really contemplating installing xp on that computer. Vista ****es me off,

[Patrick1]

yeah it's your router call the router manufactor and they will walk you threw the set up

[Aquattro]

I've been running vista now for about a year, and I've grown to love it. Sure, the first few weeks are a bit frustrating, but I wouldn't go back.

[EmilyB]

For all of the problems I've read about people having one or two, we have them all. System won't shut down. System won't restart. Ghost windows. Lost data files with system restore because of bad restart. Incompatibility with virtually everything.

I researched online about the drivers (the hard drive is incompatible with XP) and even if we could get them, we would need to add a drive to install them (the install is in drive D:, the drivers need to be on another floppy drive as the install gives you the option to add drivers with F6 at one point).

Enough. We are taking it back tomorrow, it's not as if we didn't try. I really didn't even realize there was a 14 day return policy or it would have gone back a lot sooner.

[EmilyB]

Originally Posted by spoot

anyone know how to add vista to an existing network set up with xp computers? I do the network setup thing in vista, but it doesn't see the network. I'm really contemplating installing xp on that computer. Vista ****es me off,

We swapped off with router and wireless card between the Vista machine and the XP machine until we arrived at the best option. Base station on the Vista machine. It doesn't recognize the XP machine. Card in the XP machine it recognizes the Vista machine. XP machine will run IE but no email. Hope you have better luck installing XP.

[Moogled]

Man, I feel your pain.

After I built my new system I decided to go with Vista Home. The networking was a b1tch to deal with and certain applications kept crashing.

It seems to work awesome for some people but totally wreaks havoc on others. After a week of nonsense, I decided to switch back to XP 32-bit.

[Aquattro]

Does it seem the Home edition has most of these issues? I use Ultimate, no issues at all anymore.

[EmilyB]

Maybe that is the difference?

Just took the system apart and hooked up the old XP Dell. It makes a lot of noise and I hope I can get by until I get a new Dell.