Azureus/Vista problem

[Parrot of Doom]

I upgraded to Vista last night, and now Azureus won't work. I get this error:

"Too many successive failures occurred on port *****, UDP - processing abandoned. Please check firewall settings for this port to ensure that it is enabled for receiving connections"


I'm running Windows firewall, as I did on WinXP.

[Parrot of Doom]

I have another problem. I have loads of completed torrents, but Azureus thinks they're all in the old directory under Windows XP (c:\documents and settings\etc etc etc)

Now this directory doesn't exist in Vista. I can't get Azureus to change all these torrents for some bizarre reason.

I also cannot recreate this directory in Vista. It keeps moving it to c:\users, I don't understand why it does this.

How can I tell Vista to get the out of my business, and do what it's told?

[chris watton]

Parrot of Doom said:

.....How can I tell Vista to get the out of my business, and do what it's told?

LOL, I remember having the exact same sentiments when I installed Vista Ultimate on my new PC, just before I reinstalled XP Pro!

I could only conclude that Vista is good if all you want to do is play the odd game and watch Microsoft endorsed media - if you rely on the PC for work and other stuff, Vista is not ready at all - it was the most restrictive/intrusive piece of software I have ever come across - and to think, an OS should just be sitting quietly in the background, allowing you to use your PC, not take it over and be a 'Nanny State' type overseer!

Edited by chris watton on Tuesday 29th May 11:26

[ThePassenger]

Parrot of Doom said:

How can I tell Vista to get the out of my business, and do what it's told?

To do that you'll need to sit and spend a good few hours tinkering and tweaking with Vista to turn off all of it's 'features', look at it this way. It's probably quicker to backup and reinstall XP + software than it will be to trawl the internet finding out what stuff to disable.

[jamieboy]

Parrot of Doom said:

I have another problem. I have loads of completed torrents, but Azureus thinks they're all in the old directory under Windows XP (c:\documents and settings\etc etc etc)

Now this directory doesn't exist in Vista. I can't get Azureus to change all these torrents for some bizarre reason.

I also cannot recreate this directory in Vista. It keeps moving it to c:\users, I don't understand why it does this.

'Documents and Settings' was where your user profile lived in XP. Under Vista, your user profile lives under 'Users'. I think the reason it moves stuff if you try to re-create the folder is so that you don't get your profile split with some stuff (behaving properly) in \\Users and some other stuff (not behaving properly) in \\Documents and Settings.

I know nothing about Azureus, but if it is hard-coded to look for a specific folder, then I think they should be your first port of call to find a solution.

Can't really understand Chris's problems - I'm able to use Vista for work every day with no real problems at all.

[chris watton]

jamieboy said:

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Can't really understand Chris's problems - I'm able to use Vista for work every day with no real problems at all.

Well, as I said before, if your livelihood depends on your PC, little things like a brand new Microsoft Laser mouse not working correctly (zoom for the wheel) in a CAD program, and being informed that the new M/S product has 'known issues' with Vista, or my very expensive Quark program, which I absolutely need for work, won't work at all, Vista does become a huge problem - unless of course I spend thousands upgrading all my software to the latest versions (Something I did with my CAD programs, but sadly, the wheel mouse was unusable, thus crippling productivity)

Office XP worked though.....

Edited by chris watton on Tuesday 29th May 11:59

[Parrot of Doom]

I managed to get Vista to keep out of my business by disabling the 'user account control' thingy; now it no longer asks permission to do everything.

I still can't get Azureus to work properly though, which is annoying as I've got a 2.5Gig file that hasn't been shared yet

[jamieboy]

chris watton said:

Well, as I said before, if your livelihood depends on your PC, little things like a brand new Microsoft Laser mouse not working correctly (zoom for the wheel) in a CAD program, and being informed that the new M/S product has 'known issues' with Vista, or my very expensive Quark program, which I absolutely need for work, won't work at all, Vista does become a huge problem - unless of course I spend thousands upgrading all my software to the latest versions (Something I did with my CAD programs, but sadly, the wheel mouse was unusable, thus crippling productivity)

My livelihood does depend on my PC, which is why I checked all the software I need worked on Vista before upgrading my main machines.

If your MS mouse is meant to work with Vista and still doesn't with all the proper fixes and drivers installed, then that's a poor show. Does it not work at all, or just within the CAD program?

[chris watton]

jamieboy said:

My livelihood does depend on my PC, which is why I checked all the software I need worked on Vista before upgrading my main machines.

If your MS mouse is meant to work with Vista and still doesn't with all the proper fixes and drivers installed, then that's a poor show. Does it not work at all, or just within the CAD program?

The mouse (and I tried two other types, too)did work, albeit sporadically, but not properly with Vista, and the same in my CAD program (which I use to zoom in and out - the worst prob though, was that when I went to same a DWG file, it crashed to desktop instead, losing all work!)
I too looked at my software websites for Vista compatibility, and applied the patches that were meant to fix Vista issues, now, whether or not I should blame M/S or the CAD/DTP software companies is neither here nor there; the products did not work properly in Vista. My Corel suite installed OK, but Vista wouldn't let me activate it - I know there's a few things I should have tried with hindsight, but at the time I panicked! After having problems with my programs which had all Vista patches applied, I had enough, cut my losses and reinstalled XP.

Even then, I was reluctant because I did like Vista, I even built my new PC with Vista in mind, a quad core extreme CPU, 8800GTX Direct X10 GPU etc – and I loved the Aero desktop, and the fact that it installed my Sata drivers with my RAID0 without any hitch whatsoever (unlike the faffing you have to go through with XP) – but…it just wouldn’t allow me to work as well as I could using XP, and, like the OP, had no idea which of my other programs would work or not if I tried to install them.

I fully intend to reinstall Vista in the future, but not yet, not until some of the compatibility issues have been sorted (even with Microsoft’s own hardware!)

I may even get a copy for the HTPC, as it’s perfect for watching movies and playing games, and with a nicer interface.

[trooperiziz]

Parrot of Doom said:

I managed to get Vista to keep out of my business by disabling the 'user account control' thingy; now it no longer asks permission to do everything.

Yup, I imagine that is exactly what every single person in the world does, one of the most annoying features i've ever come across.

Also, turning off the thumbnail generation is usually the next step, as this will massively speed up your file transfers.