Windows Vista sucks canal water.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up and buy Vista.
A few months ago we bought a new Sony laptop complete with the Vista operating system. Buyer BEWARE. If you are shopping for a new computer, try to get one with XP or use some other operating system.
All kinds of problems with Vista. Examples:

The clock cannot be set to the correct time. No matter how many times we set it to EST, it automatically resets itself for 1 hour earlier.

If you type too fast or click back and forth while surfing or posting on the net, then the computer just freezes up with a clicking noise.

About 50-60% of the time when we try to get on the net, we have to reboot the machine because it will not acknowledge that the wireless network is working. We do not change anything with the network, we just have to reboot the machine.

A couple of weeks ago we could not turn the machine on. Nothing would work. Thank God for the Geek Squad at Best Buy. They told us to remove the battery, wait 15 minutes and then turn it on again. (Golly, why didn't I think of that????) Seems Vista was overriding something something and not allowing the computer to turn on - they have had many calls with the same problem and figured it out.

God bless Bill & Melinda Gates for their charitable efforts.

God Damn Bill & Microsoft for their Vista operating system.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I have had nothing but trouble with the program also. It removes things with out any one around, it just decides it does not want that program in the computer so it removes it.
Good luck!
September 29, 2008 at 8:55 AM
Big Red Dawg said…
FWIW - we did get some help from an 800 number for the Sony Vaio computer that we have Windows Vista on.
She called 3 times over a couple day period and was able to get several things straightened out.
It still has a few "quirks" left.
There are some updates on the Windows Vista website that might be of some help.
September 29, 2008 at 10:11 AM
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