bin it and buy an ethernet router, problem solved. USB modems are the spawn of the devil

The main problems i'm having with vista are the software accounting packages that our customers run, sage, pegasus opera, SAP etc. They all seem to use a PDF printer/creator to generate the documents (invoices, sales orders, purchase orders etc), and the PDF printer it uses is the amyuni document creator, which used a kernel mode driver....which vista doesnt work with. Server 2003 used to have problems with them but it was nothing a group policy couldnt fix, but on vista it doesnt work full stop, no amount of fudging will make it work, as it only allows the use of user mode drivers. So for now Vista PCs and laptops are on hold if they want to run sage/opera. Sage Line 200/500 works ok though as it doesnt use a PDF printer as it is sql based and the docs are held in there. MMS doesnt work though

No VPN software we use works either, neither safenet softremote of sonicwall globalvpn have a vista compatible release yet (Safenet - June, Sonicwall - christ knows)

Still got it on my home PC and my work laptop without any major problems, but then again i dont run any of that shite anyway


To be honest i dont know what everyone is getting so worked up about, when XP came out fuck all worked on that so it's just same old story.

If microsoft wrote an OS that meant every single piece of third party software ran on it no matter how flaky then they'd still be working on a final release of windows 95

Rick It's only the installer you have to run in WXP SP2 mode, the program itself runs fine without any fiddling It was installing from the downloaded .exe package, whereas the pro version i assume will be on CD and wont need to use the compressed .exe. It probably uses some sort of linux bootstrapper that vista tries to block. Even setting owner and permissions on entire C drive to 'wide open' (inherited all the way down) it wouldnt work