I have a P4 3.0 PC. I upgraded to Vista. After 2 weeks, I am going to back to XP. Too many problems with Vista.
1 - The PC blue-screened twice
2 - My HP Photosmart printer, HP is not making Vista drives for it -- they say its too old
3 - Nero 7 is not compatible with VISTA
4 - System slows down by 80%
5 - I see no gains switching to VISTA

Why should I have to pay for a new printer, upgrade my applications (for a price)

...and the question is ?????

Nero 7 is compatible with vista. Also you need to check hp website to see if they came out with drivers for that specific printer. if it is a 7760 or higher. You need atleast 2 gigs of ram to run vista with aero smoothly.

Jim R

I did not have a question, just expressing my view point and experience with VISTA that may help out other people. Nero 7 would not install. The printer is a HP Photosmart 1215. I checked with HP, and the printers that are 7 years old. I have had this printer for about 4 years, there is nothing wrong with it. Why do I have to purchase a new one on top of all the other upgrades I would need to do. And I have 2 gigs of RAM. I think the slowness is due to the PC being a 3.0mhz P4. Perhaps when I'm ready to purchase a new PC, VISTA will be more appealing.

Dual cores are much better than having a single core trying to run vista. Also if you really wanted to you could dual boot vista and xp just so that you can have a operational printer. Did you try the recent nero 7 that is downloadable at nero website listed below. also listed below is a workaround for the hp driver.

http://winvistaforums.com/windows-v...

http://www.nero.com/enu/downloads-n...

Jim R

I am running a fully licensed version of Nero 7 on Vista Ultimate 64 bit, and have no problems.

As far as buying a new printer, well yes eventually if you are going to keep up w/ OS up grades the hardware peripherals that worked with your old OS, will no longer be supported in the new OS. Any hardware maker is only going to produce new drivers for so a given number of OS's.

The "slowing down" of your system sounds like one of those "combo" problems, low RAM, little free space and a video card that doesn't have enough memory. Its ahead to say which of those factors is the ultimate culprit, but since it looks like you have enough RAM I would check to see how much free HD space you have and the Video card is a critical component w/ Vista. A card w/ less than 256 MB of RAM and a 3D capable chip set is not going to fare to well.

I guess the decision really comes down to why did you want to go to Vista in the first place? OS upgrades are always a cost benefit equation. Sounds like for now you might be better off (happier any way - since you already spent the upgrade $$) sticking w/ your old setup. One doesn't have to be on the cutting edge all the time.

I switched to Vista because I am a System Admin for the past 10 years. I wanted to finally start using the latest tech and learning the ins and outs of it. I have plenty of harddrive space. I'm using two internal harddrives and all my personal data sits on the 2nd drive. Applications and the OS was loaded to the primary HD. Had about 40 gigs free. The video card is a Radeon X800 Platiumn. After I did the upgrade, I really wondered why I did anyway. Perhaps sometime early next year, after the holidays, I'll purchase a new PC and use Vista to it's fullest potential.

I know about dual booting. With the limited amount of time I have on my home PC, I really don't have the time to switch between XP and VISTA on the same PC. I did try the alternate driver for the printer, it did not work.

Vista IS slower. Period.

And many people are not moving to Vista because it is a very poor OS.

Read almost any computer mag and you'll see that most industry experts agree.

You should not have to upgrade everything just to have a new OS.

Although a 7 year old printer might be pushing it just a little. :)

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Make sure you you are not running anything more than Vista Home Basic
In the meantime turn Aero or Vista Basic scheme off
Right click on Desktop
Personalization
Windows Color and Appearance
Windows Classic or Standard

I just made it simplier, I went back to XP - and I'm happier that I did.

Good move.

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