However what I found was the owner was flumoxed by firewall or other settings.
Here's a thought. Ask in Cnet's Vista forum.
Bob
I love vista, its robust and is visually stunning. It has the visual feeling and responsiveness of Mac OS 10 yet with the robust performance of windows, infact i really think microsoft has copied alot of the graphic design for vista and office 2007 from the mac operating system.
However there are some major problems u should consider b4 installing Vista:
Firslty i recommend you use the dual boot system so u can boot back to XP to uninstall or change programs that don't work in in vista - and alot of programs don't work well on vista.
Expect up to 3 hrs for install of vista, better to clean install rather than upgrade.
1. Install it on a large hard drive - it requires 15G just for the op system, and don't use paritions - 6. Vista freaks out with stupid warning promtps when you copy and paste between partitions - so don't use
them
2. Have at least 1 G of ram
3. Uninstall all Norton symantec products esp norton internet security before installing upgrade of vista. It completely srews vista up and is hard to unistall from vista,esp the firewall - I use trend micro pccillin 2007 for vista
4. DISABLE USER ACCOUNTS CONTROL - this feature is stupid and so annoying in vista - its meant to stop uncontrolled use of programs from hacker and adware but i mean most good firewalls stop this anyways. These terrible prompts that come up all the time when u run programs - disable this
5. Cute FTP and WSFTp don't work on vista yet!
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