Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

jacquieL — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:08:27 GMT

Say what is taking so long. We Vista users need a good fix for the incompatibility of Flash Player and Vista. I have read so many sites of quick fixes THAT DON'T WORK.

I am getting frustrated and am already sorry I bought a new computer with Vista installed. YOu are driving us right into the arms of Mac. Is that what you really want???????????

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

Mick Emmett — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:16:53 GMT

Since I installed Vista Ultimate on my system I have to put in the password for my e-mail account every time I want to check for; or send a message (yes I tick remember password every time I use it). Also a few programs are coming up as unregistered every time I use them, I'll put in the reg code; the program accepts it and it comes up as a registered product but the next time I use it; it comes up again as unregistered. Presumably these faults are related in some way. Not holding out much hope of any assistance here; as Greg54 rightly says, there's not many answers on here!

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

GreenGirL — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:45:13 GMT

My topic wasn't premade for me- so here I am possibly in the wrong area for help.

PC WILL NOT STAY ASLEEP WHILE MONITOR DOES.

Does anyone out there in VistaLand know how to correctly activate the 'sleep' and or 'hibernation' features so that not only the monitor accepts the command?

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

The_Thunderdog — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:25:32 GMT

Found a good site for Vista compatible software. Gets right to the point & provide some good advice. Bought some stuff with coupon codes and specials from Adobe, McAfee, etc. http://www.vista-software.info

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

Greg54 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:39:28 GMT

Was just looking at other posts, seems there are no answers to any questions. Oh well guess this may of been a waste of time.

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

Greg54 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:23:29 GMT

Also was wondering if anyone knows why occasionally my speakers make a crackly electrical sound. Running new system with Vista 32 bit home premium. This is a replacement system, speakers and the tower totally replaced by Dell because they thought as did I , that my operating system was bad, but it turned out when I got the 2nd system when it did the same bizarre stuff, I figured out it was the refresher, within the first 21 days so they replaced it all. The speakers also replaced still make that cracklin noise even when not playing music. actually never jeard it while playing music. Have the Dell XPS 720

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

Greg54 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:18:44 GMT

Wanted to let you know that "myrefresher.com" a pretty cool tool that works great with XP will crash Vista after about 4 hours or so of running, such as to refresh a blog, etc. Windows ICONS disappear, clock stops, start button won't bring up start menu and the task bar at the bottom disappears. Fun fun fun. Finally figured out that is what was doing it. Please send to whoever is working on service pack 1 or the appropriate dept. Thanks.

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

kwdaves — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:30:20 GMT

Whoops, forgot to say that the "bug" purportedly involves double color management when printing. Any truth to that?

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

kwdaves — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:16:26 GMT

I have been told by an Adobe "insider" that there is a bug in Vista's color management that printer manufacturers in particular are trying to get Microsoft to fix. Is that true and, if so, is any fix in sight?

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

tegler27 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:02:25 GMT

Quicktime!

Please put a .mov codec into the Vista Media Center! What a pain that it's not there!

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

cquirke — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:17:53 GMT

Dark Matter

There's a "dark" facility in Vista that automatically applies compat settings for wobbly apps. This can be a problem when these settings are applied inappropriately, e.g. to RegEdit after some race condition etc. triggers a spurious "compat" issue and response.

We do need a "window" to manually manage these settings, or at least reset them on a per-app basis. As it is, I now have a PC out there with a possibly bent Regedit, and no insight as to what the impact might be.

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

cquirke — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:14:30 GMT

App compat is a killer, speaking from my experience as a PC builder. After an initial rush of folks waiting for Vista, the demand for new PC builds slumped to inescapable replacements for lost PCs etc. and of these, around half had to be reverted to XP to keep LoB apps alive.

The problem isn't always unavailability of new compat versions of these apps; often the cost of these is prohibitive. In some cases, apps have been carried forward from Win9x to XP PCs over the years. Virtual PC is hindered by licensing issues for Vista Home, and lack of physical legacy ports on modern PCs for dongles etc.

Executive summary: App compat is a killer.

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

bryaniselement — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:13:45 GMT

I lost my vista key and don't have the money to buy a new one, now vista stopped working. I have my xp media center cd and i want to install that instead. The Cd isn't working in the System Recovery though... it aborts after the 3rd % any ideas of how to get vista off my computer and go back to xp please help!

re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

Mahdi1944 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:33:55 GMT

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re: Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

dentaku — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:30:22 GMT

They're going to have to fix DivX sometime soon because it causes Vista DVD Maker and Media Center to crash instantly whenever you access a DivX or XviD encoded file. The only alternative is to uninstall it and use FFDSHOW instead.

I have a feeling the DivX people just don't care.