enough!

some useful discoveries:
-doing the file and settings transfer worked when done over my home network
-the printer sharing was messed up because the drivers that worked in vista were, of course, incompatible with any XP computers that tried to access said printer over the network
-IE7 didn't know what to do when I tried to make a printable version of Google calender

After several other frustrations and a Power Supply that I had to fix, I decided to totally disassemble and reassemble, adding two more hardrives in the process. Now, I'm installing an OEM version of Home and perhaps later I'll have a dual-boot system (if vista allows that)

All in all, this experience will serve me in the future, when vista might actually be ready for the everyday consumer... right now, it makes me think of Steve Wozniak's quote, "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window"

the vista experience

So, I created this blog with the goal of journaling about my windows vista experience. I recently (read: today) built a new PC and installed Vista Home Premium. I honestly built a machine that wasn't up to my exacting standards. If it was that, it would have had Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs of RAM, a 300 gb HD, etc. etc. As it is, it's a mid-line AMD64 X2 with 1 gig of RAM and 80gb HD.

Partitioned the drive in half so I can put Linux on one side. I'm not going to even have room to play my computer games. As for the Vista experience so far, it's turning out like most installations, not that great. Glitzy and all that, but not much simplicity. The installation was fairly easy and easier to understand than previous versions. Ok, fast forward to my first snag when I was using the "Easy Transfer" wizard. Got all the old docs and settings from the old computer but then when they were being transferred to the new system, it hung up. Well, not exactly hung up, it gave me "invalid data file" on a bunch of random .mp3's, ok, make that numerous .mp3's. And the bugger of it was that all I could do was keep pressing continue (with cancel and retry being my other two options) they was no "skip all errors" button, and there seemed to be a lot of "invalid data" .mp3's. Well, that's one bug I can put down as "found" during this research.

So, I got frustrated and cancelled the operation; thus, the "easy transfer" wasn't easy at all. I think I'll try it again over my home network and see what happens for that. Good night.