For those who remember me, hello, im back. For those who dont/are new - 
hello Im Ian.

First, I would like to say Thanks to my mate Bill and his operating system. 
Thanks to him I have been off air for the last few months. Dont trust Bill 
or his Vista system. Potted history - If you buy the Vista upgrade (cheaper 
than the full license version) you must already have an old windows 
operating system installed to upgrade from. I did have, so that was cool. I 
regsisterd Vista and everything was great. Me and Bill were best pals. Then 
i got sent some software that was not Vista compatible. WOW. It killed me. A 
driver install that kept crashing me pc. Went to DOS and deleted every trace 
of the software and associated drivers. Kept crashing. Once Vista tries to 
install a driver, it dont give up in a hurry. The driver was not there, but 
it still kept crashing.

I made the difficult and painful decision to rebuild the pc. Clean install. 
Great! im up and running. Love it. Lost loads of stuff, had to reinstall 
everything. But perfect.

50 Vista starts later, my now unregistered vista went into 'you are not 
going to use this PC until you register' mode. OK, ill register again. No. 
AGHHHHHH. As I had re-installed everything, from scratch, not from an "old" 
version of OS, i could not register my upgrade version of Vista. I should 
have re-installed the old OS first. Bill would not beleive that this was the 
case, and the only choice I had was to lose everything again and install the 
old OS then upgrade.

Problem. I dont have the Old OS as I had upgraded to Vista. The old OS was 
pre-installed on the PC when it was bought years ago. And the backup disc 
(if i ever had one) was lost/eaten by the dog. Well, youll have to buy a new 
operating system full version then. Thanks Bill.

Fuming. really really fallen out with Bill and his company.

Found a site that tells you how to install vista from an upgrade version 
without a OS already installed. Nice.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/1/31/6828

I now hate Bill.

Vista is now running, registered, stable. The OS itself is nice, I like it. 
Its Bill's policies.Grrrr.

Ian

Ian wrote:
>  Then i got sent some software that was not Vista
> compatible. WOW. It killed me. A driver install that kept crashing me 
> pc. Went to DOS and deleted every trace of the software and associated 
> drivers. Kept crashing. Once Vista tries to install a driver, it dont 
> give up in a hurry. The driver was not there, but it still kept crashing.
> 


Ian,

One feature of Windows XP, and I think 'Vista', is called 'System 
Restore'. Your computer, from time to time automatically establishes 
'restore points'.

If you have an unaccountable failure such as you describe it is often a 
quite simple exercise to go to Start>Programs>Accessories>System 
Tools>System Restore and choose a restore date prior to the date of the 
last item installed or saved. Do this and , voila, everything works 
again as it did prior to that date, while any 'data' established since 
that date is still preserved.

In the reputed words of Michael Caine.."Not many people know this"!

cheers
david

david s-a wrote:
> Ian wrote:
>>  Then i got sent some software that was not Vista
>> compatible. WOW. It killed me. A driver install that kept crashing me 
>> pc. Went to DOS and deleted every trace of the software and associated 
>> drivers. Kept crashing. Once Vista tries to install a driver, it dont 
>> give up in a hurry. The driver was not there, but it still kept crashing.
>>
> 
> 
> Ian,
> 
> One feature of Windows XP, and I think 'Vista', is called 'System 
> Restore'. Your computer, from time to time automatically establishes 
> 'restore points'.
> 
> If you have an unaccountable failure such as you describe it is often a 
> quite simple exercise to go to Start>Programs>Accessories>System 
> Tools>System Restore and choose a restore date prior to the date of the 
> last item installed or saved. Do this and , voila, everything works 
> again as it did prior to that date, while any 'data' established since 
> that date is still preserved.
> 
> In the reputed words of Michael Caine.."Not many people know this"!
> 
> cheers
> david

Even simpler and better solution - get a Mac.

"david s-a"  wrote in message 
news:604bsjF1p2938U1@mid.individual.net...
> Ian wrote:
>>  Then i got sent some software that was not Vista
>> compatible. WOW. It killed me. A driver install that kept crashing me pc. 
>> Went to DOS and deleted every trace of the software and associated 
>> drivers. Kept crashing. Once Vista tries to install a driver, it dont 
>> give up in a hurry. The driver was not there, but it still kept crashing.
>>
>
>
> Ian,
>
> One feature of Windows XP, and I think 'Vista', is called 'System 
> Restore'. Your computer, from time to time automatically establishes 
> 'restore points'.
>
> If you have an unaccountable failure such as you describe it is often a 
> quite simple exercise to go to Start>Programs>Accessories>System 
> Tools>System Restore and choose a restore date prior to the date of the 
> last item installed or saved. Do this and , voila, everything works again 
> as it did prior to that date, while any 'data' established since that date 
> is still preserved.
>
> In the reputed words of Michael Caine.."Not many people know this"!
>
> cheers
> david

The restore function would not function from CDROM boot, and Vista would not 
start to enable system restore -

tried but would not have it.....

:o)

Ian wrote:
> For those who remember me, hello, im back. For those who dont/are new - 
> hello Im Ian.
> 
> First, I would like to say Thanks to my mate Bill and his operating 
> system. Thanks to him I have been off air for the last few months. Dont 
> trust Bill or his Vista system. Potted history - If you buy the Vista 
> upgrade (cheaper than the full license version) you must already have an 
> old windows operating system installed to upgrade from. I did have, so 
> that was cool. I regsisterd Vista and everything was great. Me and Bill 
> were best pals. Then i got sent some software that was not Vista 
> compatible. WOW. It killed me. A driver install that kept crashing me 
> pc. Went to DOS and deleted every trace of the software and associated 
> drivers. Kept crashing. Once Vista tries to install a driver, it dont 
> give up in a hurry. The driver was not there, but it still kept crashing.
> 
> I made the difficult and painful decision to rebuild the pc. Clean 
> install. Great! im up and running. Love it. Lost loads of stuff, had to 
> reinstall everything. But perfect.
> 
> 50 Vista starts later, my now unregistered vista went into 'you are not 
> going to use this PC until you register' mode. OK, ill register again. 
> No. AGHHHHHH. As I had re-installed everything, from scratch, not from 
> an "old" version of OS, i could not register my upgrade version of 
> Vista. I should have re-installed the old OS first. Bill would not 
> beleive that this was the case, and the only choice I had was to lose 
> everything again and install the old OS then upgrade.
> 
> Problem. I dont have the Old OS as I had upgraded to Vista. The old OS 
> was pre-installed on the PC when it was bought years ago. And the backup 
> disc (if i ever had one) was lost/eaten by the dog. Well, youll have to 
> buy a new operating system full version then. Thanks Bill.
> 
> Fuming. really really fallen out with Bill and his company.
> 
> Found a site that tells you how to install vista from an upgrade version 
> without a OS already installed. Nice.
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/1/31/6828
> 
> I now hate Bill.
> 
> Vista is now running, registered, stable. The OS itself is nice, I like 
> it. Its Bill's policies.Grrrr.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 

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