I finally got around to removing Vista from my laptop at work and my home desktop. I still need to find the time to remove it from Whim’s computer as it’s still being a huge pain in the butt.
This weekend I installed this game (which is very addicting) on my computer and my kids computer, both of which are running Windows XP. The game ran just fine. But when I tried to install it on Whim’s computer running Vista it coughed up a number of errors. When my brother-in-law tried installing it tonight on his Vista box, it gave him similar problems.
I’m convinced more than ever that Vista is big crappy piece of bloatware. I have two machines less than a year old that should have no problem running Vista, but Microsoft screwed the pooch with it’s heavy handed DRM and performance killing bloat. Add sketchy driver support and you have an operating system that’s guaranteed to provide you with hours upon hours of frustration.
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I want out!
My Gateway MX8711 notebook came with VISTA pre-installed.
Gateway refuses to help with uninstalling.
I wiped hard drive completely clean with dban. But when attempting to install XP I get a message saying it can’t find the hard drive.
Intel informs me that Gateway modified its Quanta motherboard for use with VISTA (hope this doesn’t mean I can’t use any other OS on this hunk of junk).
VISTA robs me of 40-to-60% of my daily productivity. I HATE IT!!!
Any help or insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
THANX,
Ron E.
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Ron,
Sorry to hear about your troubles with Vista. This past week I started a new job and my laptop (Toshiba M5) came with Vista installed. The first thing I did was wipe it and install Windows XP.
It’s hard to imagine that Gateway locked down the motherboard to only work with Vista. That would be absurd.
If your laptop is new (sounds like it is) you might want to see if Gateway will exchange it for a model running XP. Did your laptop come with a reinstallation CD/DVD? If so you could use that to Vista back on your laptop and eBay it. 🙂
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