Scott Peden wrote:
> Moose,
>
> Out of curiosity, was your old XP OS not the Pro version?
> Which Vista version do you have now?
>
> Before Pro, I suppose I hated XP worse then the Vista Home Premium I have now.
>
I have the same versions, XP Pro and Vista Home Premium. I do have XP
Home, or whatever it is called, on my Laptop. I've never had any
non-obscure problems with it, or noticed any operational differences
from the XP Pro on a desktop.
I did have a problem with the .NET service added for an MS Power Tools
add-on to show RAW files in Explorer and view them in Viewer. However, I
got prompt, excellent support from MS that walked me through fixing it.
I know ... I was surprised too, but I got a real person who quickly an
professionally resolved the problem. That functionality is included as
part of Vista.
> Probably the most persistent PITA I have with Vista Home Premium, is that the
> Office 2003, which I had disks for (shared non profit corp. disks, I left,
> can't reinstall) doesn't operate anything at all, like it does on my desk top
> which has the XP Pro.
This doesn't sound like a general Vista problem, for which the OS should
be slammed to others. Personally, I have no idea, as I am still using
Office '97. I don't do anything heavy duty in it these days, but have
done some really, really serious stuff in Excel in the past. Ancient
though it may be, it still does everything I want from it - and has
never operated differently under Vista than XP.
> Things I depended on, like being able to make folders to send lists of 10 to,
I'm sorry, this reads like a foreign language I've never studied to me.
I regularly create new folders in Excel and Word. "File=>Save As" opens
the Windoze file service in both versions of the OS. Clicking on the New
Folder icon creates a new folder and opens it for saving the current
open file. And I have no idea what "lists of 10" may be and how they may
differ from any other file.
The keystrokes for creating a new folder in Windows Explorer may have
changed with Vista? Certainly File=>New=>Folder creates new folders. As
does a right click on the existing folder in the folder list on the
left, then selecting New and Folder.
> can't be done as the interface is different, the option doesn't exist on the
> Vista machine yet it is there on the desktop
>
Again, I don't understand. I've seen no interface difference in my
Office '97 between XP and Vista. Exactly what are you trying to do, step
by step. Do you have the problem only with Office, and with nothing else?
> (which has some start up glitch and I can't afford to just wipe it and start
> over, once again, the OS and the Office disks were with the Non Profit I
> worked with).
>
So you are using unpaid for copies of the OS, XP and Vista, and of the
app, Office 2003, on two computers, meaning you have no access to
support and can't reinstall. I've no complaint about the free software,
but it does seem possibly unfair to label an OS as poor to others when
you can't get support because the OS is not paid for and you aren't
getting the updates offered by the maker.
For all you know, there may be an update to Vista addressing some
problem with Office 2003 that registered users have had for ages. There
have been a LOT of updates to Vista, although the pace has dropped off,
some of them addressing specific apps.
My Vista, and the XP before it, were both purchased pre-installed on
the respective machines
Moose
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