[chaos_5]

I’m not saying Vista is Gods gift to the PC. As for drivers, I was not talking about drivers. I was referring to applications. You listed a few there that don’t work. I believe you, I had to install XP on a virtual machine to run Solidworks. I also have a few XP applications that are running just fine, and some that required me to set the “XP application” and “run as admin” to work. As for the XP computers showing up on the network, no problems there. My printer is also a network printer and it works just fine too. As I said before, most of the problems have a work around. It’s a pain, yeah, wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t need a hack for every little thing you wanted to do. I guess if that was what I was interested in I would get a Mac. Personally I like the challenge.

[VeniVidiVici]

My Vista laptop has no problem seeing the XP boxes on my network. WTF is up with that? I’m sure they know they need to be plugged in.

Although, Vista is responsible for my gout and low sperm count.

[TheRake]

“Personally I like the challenge”

Personally I don’t have the time. You guys get this sorted out and let us non-techie’s know what to do. Thanks.

[Enchante]

"Personally I like the challenge."

Good for you, enjoy it. For the 98% of us who are not techies and have no desire ever to try to be, give us stuff that works properly, out of the box. With the vast sums paid to companies like Microsoft, is it too much to ask that consumers receive products that work easily and consistently? Is it too much to ask that we not have to waste our lives talking to tech support in India or hiring local computer "consultants" to try to fix the things that Microsoft did not make right in the first place?