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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 756 |
| | Posted: | | | | My main PC finally gave up the ghost last weekend after 5 years of service, so I have been given permission from the Finance Director of Mole Ltd. to build a new one.
One of the (many) questions I must consider is whether to dump XP Pro for Vista Ultimate. Generally, there seems to be a lot of negative feeling towards Vista at the moment, but my question for this forum is limited to "Are there any compatability issues with running DVDP 3.1 under Vista?". I did a quick search round here and there was a flurry of activity in the early part of this year, but it appears to have died down; can I take this to mean that the latest DVDP is now fully compatible with Vista? | | | | Chris |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Nope, I have not experienced any real problems running the DVD Profiler program under Vista Home Premium. I've been using Vista for about 5-6 months now.  | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,715 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mole: Quote:
My main PC finally gave up the ghost last weekend after 5 years of service, so I have been given permission from the Finance Director of Mole Ltd. to build a new one.
One of the (many) questions I must consider is whether to dump XP Pro for Vista Ultimate. Generally, there seems to be a lot of negative feeling towards Vista at the moment, but my question for this forum is limited to "Are there any compatability issues with running DVDP 3.1 under Vista?". I did a quick search round here and there was a flurry of activity in the early part of this year, but it appears to have died down; can I take this to mean that the latest DVDP is now fully compatible with Vista? If it's a business PC take Software Assurance - You can start with XP (since it's more stable) today and upgrade to Vista anytime you want to (if your PC will last five years again, then there will be the moment you wish to have Vista sometimes in future...)... Regards, AA | | | | Complete list of Common Names • A good point for starting with Headshots (and v11.1) |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Vista Ultimate. No issue. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Based on the comments of SHE who must be obeyed (my wife the IT Director)...not yet. I think she is not planning to upgrade her company network until sometime next year. It still seems to cause her some concern.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,339 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
Vista Ultimate. No issue. same - going on 4 months now... and for the record, i have not any really serious program incompatibilities from other commonly used programs either... i wouldn't worry at all | | | | -JoN |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ruineddaydreams: Quote:
and for the record, i have not any really serious program incompatibilities from other commonly used programs either... i wouldn't worry at all I think the biggest thing people upgrading need to worry about is if their older programs are compatible with Vista. It's true that many will not even work correctly, needing upgrades to actually properly run in Vista. Which is weird, because I use a little 58kb program written way back in 1995 that still works perfectly with Vista.  | | | | Corey | | | | Last edited: by Katatonia |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 4,679 |
| | Posted: | | | | DVDP runs fine on my home PC using Vista Home Premium. The only real problem I've had with Vista is that I had to chuck my old Dymo Labelwriter since there were no Vista drivers for it (and Dymo had no intention of writing any...  ) I would not want to upgrade my work computer to Vista yet, though. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
I think the biggest thing people upgrading need to worry about is if their older programs are compatible with Vista. It's true that many will not even work correctly, needing upgrades to actually properly run in Vista. And the huge amount of hardware peripherals that are a few years old and have no Vista drivers (nor do the companies that made them intend to develop one) | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | The basic rule when dealing with Microsoft OS's is to wait until the first service pack has been released.
Of course, they released the first service pack for Windows 2000 the day it was released.... |
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