Dear Nerd, tried Windows 7 yet?

[Animavore]

I thought you could just update it for free anyway?

[JimC]

So, what is the concensus for Vista users?

Should we bite the bullet and update?

[leo-rcc]

So, what is the concensus for Vista users?

Should we bite the bullet and update?

If software allows, yes.

[Animavore]

Defo. Vista sucks to me now.

[Animavore]

Dammit. I hit my first real problem with this.
First it wouldn't recognise my web-cam, no big deal because its so crap I never use it, now it won't recognise my Walkman. With Vista and XP you just plug it in and it installs its drivers itself. It tries on Windows 7 and can't.

[AshtonBlack]

Dammit. I hit my first real problem with this.
First it wouldn't recognise my web-cam, no big deal because its so crap I never use it, now it won't recognise my Walkman. With Vista and XP you just plug it in and it installs its drivers itself. It tries on Windows 7 and can't.

Try a manual install of the vista driver, or see if the manufacturer has an updated driver, should clear that right up.

[Animavore]

Dammit. I hit my first real problem with this.
First it wouldn't recognise my web-cam, no big deal because its so crap I never use it, now it won't recognise my Walkman. With Vista and XP you just plug it in and it installs its drivers itself. It tries on Windows 7 and can't.

Try a manual install of the vista driver, or see if the manufacturer has an updated driver, should clear that right up.

I'm on the motherfucker. Should have it working when this thingy downloads.

EDIT: Content Transfer. Whatever that is.

[Animavore]

Nah. Didn't work. Don't have a disk for the Vista driver. This is a pain in the arse. The Sony website said that that would work.

[Gawdzilla]

Nah. Didn't work. Don't have a disk for the Vista driver. This is a pain in the arse. The Sony website said that that would work.

Try download.com.

[Animavore]

I'm not even sure type of driver I'm looking for. The Walkman has the driver built in but is not able to load it but the when I check it on the usb devices on driver details it says the driver's installed and up to date.

[Gawdzilla]

I'm not even sure type of driver I'm looking for. The Walkman has the driver built in but is not able to load it but the when I check it on the usb devices on driver details it says the driver's installed and up to date.

Did you hit this site? http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-i ... ews_id=173

[Animavore]

Yep. It gave me a download to make it compatible with Windows 7. It says simply plug in the device and it will pick it up.

[Gawdzilla]

Yep. It gave me a download to make it compatible with Windows 7. It says simply plug in the device and it will pick it up.

And you've done a cold boot?

[Animavore]

Yep. It gave me a download to make it compatible with Windows 7. It says simply plug in the device and it will pick it up.

And you've done a cold boot?

I don't know what that is.

[Gawdzilla]

Yep. It gave me a download to make it compatible with Windows 7. It says simply plug in the device and it will pick it up.

And you've done a cold boot?

I don't know what that is.

Warm boot is Ctrl-Alt-Del. The system never really shuts down. Cold boot is power off, wait about one minute, and restart. You'll get different results from each. I have software that won't restart properly after a cold boot, only a warm boot. Weird that, but c'est la vie.

[Animavore]

I give up. I've tried every suggestion on a heap of forums. I'll get my friend to have a look at it although one person on a forum suggested that its a Toshiba issue. Apparently they're taking their time making new drivers for this machine.

EDIT: On the plus side, my joypad works grand. At least I know its not a USB problem.

[Animavore]

After all that. I reset the Walkman and it works

[klr]

Yep. It gave me a download to make it compatible with Windows 7. It says simply plug in the device and it will pick it up.

And you've done a cold boot?

I don't know what that is.

Warm boot is Ctrl-Alt-Del. The system never really shuts down. Cold boot is power off, wait about one minute, and restart. You'll get different results from each. I have software that won't restart properly after a cold boot, only a warm boot. Weird that, but c'est la vie.

There is indeed a significant difference between the two, although how much is a movable feast ... YMMV, as usual.

[Animavore]

Paint is a lot easier to use. The new avatar took way less effort than the cheese trilby.

[redunderthebed]

Windows 7 seems to work quite well my sister and mum bought new laptops and both have it on there. I had to set it up so they could use the internetz and be safe so i downloaded avast and firefox and set up the wireless connect quite painless to set up and use and IE has improved but its not within a country mile of the greatness that is firefox. My only complaint is that microsoft want to dumb everything down so rich cunts with no brains and heaps of money buy computers (its assumed that unless its an apple it will have MS).

[Gawdzilla]

Windows 7 seems to work quite well my sister and mum bought new laptops and both have it on there. I had to set it up so they could use the internetz and be safe so i downloaded avast and firefox and set up the wireless connect quite painless to set up and use and IE has improved but its not within a country mile of the greatness that is firefox. My only complaint is that microsoft want to dumb everything down so rich cunts with no brains and heaps of money buy computers (its assumed that unless its an apple it will have MS).

Microsoft requires that anyone who makes computers put their operating system on ALL the computers or they won't sell them ANY software. So, yes, if it's not an Apple, it WILL have Windows on it.

[AshtonBlack]

Windows 7 seems to work quite well my sister and mum bought new laptops and both have it on there. I had to set it up so they could use the internetz and be safe so i downloaded avast and firefox and set up the wireless connect quite painless to set up and use and IE has improved but its not within a country mile of the greatness that is firefox. My only complaint is that microsoft want to dumb everything down so rich cunts with no brains and heaps of money buy computers (its assumed that unless its an apple it will have MS).

Microsoft requires that anyone who makes computers put their operating system on ALL the computers or they won't sell them ANY software. So, yes, if it's not an Apple, it WILL have Windows on it.

Not strictly true. In the UK, you can buy netbooks with a linux flavour installed.

[Gawdzilla]

Windows 7 seems to work quite well my sister and mum bought new laptops and both have it on there. I had to set it up so they could use the internetz and be safe so i downloaded avast and firefox and set up the wireless connect quite painless to set up and use and IE has improved but its not within a country mile of the greatness that is firefox. My only complaint is that microsoft want to dumb everything down so rich cunts with no brains and heaps of money buy computers (its assumed that unless its an apple it will have MS).

Microsoft requires that anyone who makes computers put their operating system on ALL the computers or they won't sell them ANY software. So, yes, if it's not an Apple, it WILL have Windows on it.

Not strictly true. In the UK, you can buy netbooks with a linux flavour installed.

Lucky you. In the US of Hay you'll get Windows and like it.

[AshtonBlack]

To be fair to M$, Win 7 is now on a par with OS X in terms of performance and ease of use.
Apple is Microsoft's research division. (IMHO!)
Finally, if you don't know how to make a dual boot PC with a linux flavour (or run windies in a VM shell of some form) then I think Windoze would be the best option for you.

[leo-rcc]

Microsoft requires that anyone who makes computers put their operating system on ALL the computers or they won't sell them ANY software. So, yes, if it's not an Apple, it WILL have Windows on it.

Not strictly true. In the UK, you can buy netbooks with a linux flavour installed.

Here I can buy complete desktop/laptop/netbook/server systems without any flavor OS on it. The forced coupled sale of Windows with hardware is considered illegal. You can buy with Windows installed, some with (mostly Ubuntu or Fedora or Suse) Linux installed, or just bare metal.