[dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Vista Ultimate

It's best if you can actually uninstall them I think. I had tried to
just stop things and that didn't work. There was some stuff continuing
to run in the background.

On 12/15/08, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> I didn't get the response box.  So no contact w/Tech Support.  I uninstalled
> WnFax Pro which is not supported any more and didn't really play well with
> Vista Home.  I'm running Sygate and AVG.  I'm going to try again with both
> of those stopped.
>
>
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
> 858-259-4334
> www.e-z-mrp.com
> www.bchacc.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 8:38 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Vista Ultimate
>
> Bummer. Welcome to the club. Did you send in the response to Microsoft Tech
> Support when it prompted you to?  They eventually contacted me and guided me
> through getting my SP 1 update to work. Did you have any sort of Antivirus
> on it?  That was the thing that ended up killing my update and I had to use
> the McAfee uninstall and then did the unistall in some "stand alone update"
> mode they guided me into.
>
> GK
>
> On 12/15/08, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> wrote:
> > Well, it finished, said the upgrade failed, didn't say why, restored
> > Vista Home Basic.  I have no idea why.
> >
> >
> > Rocky Smolin
> > Beach Access Software
> > 858-259-4334
> > www.e-z-mrp.com
> > www.bchacc.com
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 7:39 AM
> > To: Off Topic
> > Cc: List
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Vista Ultimate
> >
> > Good luck with it. I had the SP1 update fail a few times on me after
> > getting all the way through to saying it was 100% complete but then
> > something went back and it had to restore it to preupdate status which
> took another hour.
> > It's the trying to preserve your stuff that maybe takes it that long.
> > If you had just loaded from scratch it would have probably been a lot
> > faster. And the SEVERAL HOURS estimate is maybe a worst case
> > possiblity in case you had less than speedy hardware.
> >
> > GK
> >
> > On 12/15/08, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
> > <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Upgrading my Vista Home to Vista Ultimate today - primarily so I can
> > > run VPC on it.  It's at the major upgrade phase now and at the
> > > bottom of the dialog box it says "Your upgrade may take SEVERAL
> > > HOURS to complete" (emphasis mine).
> > >
> > > WTF? Several hours?  What could they be doing for several hours?
> > >
> > > That said, the Vista OS has been pretty solid so far.  Not sluggish.
> > > O2K7 is a pig but Vista isn't as bad as I thought it would be.
> > > Although It's on my backup box -primary development machine is still
> > > XP - so I'm really not doing much with it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Rocky Smolin
> > >
> > > Beach Access Software
> > >
> > > 858-259-4334
> > >
> > > www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/>
> > >
> > > www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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