F**king Vista!

[paul99]

Ive defended Vista a few times on here before but i take back every word i said about it, its f**cking shite!

Last night i turned of my machine and it began to install 6 updates, fine i thought.. Went to turn it on again tonight and it will no longer boot up into Windows It just sits on 'Configuring updates' which i have left it doing for 2 hours. I then reset it and now it wont even get that far, it wont boot into safe mode with or without command prompt so it appears to be properly buggered, all from a Microsoft update. Thanks Bill you t**ser!

Just running the repair now which failed first time round, fingers crossed it works this time otherwise its going to be a lot of hastle to get back all my data.

[ScuttleRX]

I had trouble with the update's when I had them set totally to auto, now I have to it set to the one where it informs you when theres new updates and you start it yourself, works much better.

Hope your repair works ok

[NickFRP]

my boss bought a brand new Toshiba laptop. booted it up and got the screen of death
reinstalled vista 3 times all of which bailed out and crashed

£950 is what he paid for it

and he couldnt boot it up!

[wolves_wanderer]

NickFRP said:

my boss bought a brand new Toshiba laptop. booted it up and got the screen of death
reinstalled vista 3 times all of which bailed out and crashed

£950 is what he paid for it

and he couldnt boot it up!

Sounds more like faulty hardware to me.

[LordGrover]

paul99 said:

Ive defended Vista a few times on here before but i take back every word i said about it, its f**cking shite!
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But we all appreciate you guinea pigs/paying testers for all your fault finding experiences. By the time SP2 comes out it should be fine.

[bga]

LordGrover said:

paul99 said:

Ive defended Vista a few times on here before but i take back every word i said about it, its f**cking shite!
...

But we all appreciate you guinea pigs/paying testers for all your fault finding experiences. By the time SP2 comes out it should be fine.

what, like when XP SP2 came out and hosed even more computers

[Globulator]

LordGrover said:

paul99 said:

Ive defended Vista a few times on here before but i take back every word i said about it, its f**cking shite!
...

But we all appreciate you guinea pigs/paying testers for all your fault finding experiences. By the time SP2 comes out it should be fine.

Unless history is anything to go by

BTW: I wonder how people on dial-up are supposed to survive Vista?

[hawkaye]

paul99 said:

It just sits on 'Configuring updates' which i have left it doing for 2 hours.

That's the problem right there, you should have left for at least 5 hours

[jon-]

Both me and my housemate are huge geeks and microsoft haters (we ran a company based on opensource applications) yet both have been running Vista for months without issue. To me, it's just XP with some nice pretty UI polish.