So after running the Vista upgrade, I log into my machine and all looked well. I was happy and excited about the new Aero interface…then the week went by and I realized that on the outside the upgrade was successful, but when it came right down to it, there were many things I had to work through.
So, after a week with Vista, Business Edition, running on my Inspiron 6000 here’s some major highlights on the damage report:
1. Flex Builder, stop error on start (Had to run as administrator)
2. Flex Builder, blank workspace navigator. (C:\Documents and Settings\{username} is now in C:\Users\{username} so I had to open a new workspace)
3. Wireless card showed as working properly, however it could not connect to any wireless networks. (Had to uninstall the device and drivers in device manager and reinstall the device drivers)
4. Sound card was working but headphone jack was not. (Had to uninstall the device and drivers in device manager and reinstall the device drivers)
5. Had to reinstall Avast Antivirus. (AV uninstall and reinstall is expected when doing an OS upgrade, but still…)
6. IIS was installed on my XP build, and when I logged into Vista, the C:\Inetpub directory was there, but no Web Publishing Service was installed as an additional component. (Btw, IIS on Vista is version 7…and when you upgrade from XP, WWW is turned off by default for security reasons…I still don’t see the service in service manager, but you can start the WWW site from the IIS Manager)
7. ActiveSync 4x for my Windows Mobile 5 device just disappeared and stopped working. (I had to download drivers and then find the new Vista sync manager called Windows Mobile Device Center)
8. My synaptics touchpad, lost the capability to turn off touch. Had to reinstall the drivers…
9. By the way everything is different:
9a. Windows Explorer window navigation – address bar defaults to being mouse driven
9b. Control Panel -Various renames and additions, such as ‘Add/Remove Programs’ now being called ‘Programs and Features’
9c. Display Settings – Rather than right-clicking the desktop and immediately getting to display settings, you have to go through a Personalization manager to get to the display settings.
9d. UAC – There is a new feature in Vista called UAC, it throws a prompt asking the user for confirmation whenever they try to perform an action that requires elevated privileges. For instance, when you click on Scheduled Tasks, this alert will throw your system into a modal state and require you to answer the prompt before you can do anything else. You can turn this feature off, but it will require a reboot.
But you know…with all being said…Vista is pretty dang sweet. He he…
