I hate Windows Mail and WMP 11

[MorseLady]

Thanks Noo. So if had decided to buy Vista it would be best on my main machine which is the one I would have used anyway. I was only using the other machine because I did not want to mess about creating a new operating system partition on my main machine for only a few days. I do not use the other one much partly because it belonged to my Husband and partly because the 128MB ATI graphics are horrible. Even my old compouter with 64MB Nvidia looks better and I have never liked ATI graphics much.

I wish I could get hold of a copy of Home Premium to try on here meaning the machine with 256MB video card as I would have liked to try out the media centre and I was very disappointed when a friend sent me Business to try but of course too polite to tell him so as it was nice of him to send it.

[Ferrit]

I highly doubt any 64 meg card would look better then a 128 meg card.
Ati and Nvidia have been battleling it out for years and neither is better or worse at any one given time. Usually its drivers which define them, and ATI has had that edge since Vista came out. If that ATI card is in the Radeon 7000 era it wont be very good thats for sure.
As for the windows mail its a simple matter to say load Thunderbird mail which in my opinion still beats anything Microsoft has. Coupled with Mozbackup which is a simple backup and restore for every byte of information in Thunderbird.
OE had no spam detector at all and using block sender was useless. The new windows live mail has a spam detector i would assume but i don't use it as i said.
As for windows media player its, I guess a matter of personnel choice which one you like

[MorseLady]

Ferrit yes it is the Radeon 7000 series and it really is very poor and comparing the two computers on the same monitor there is no comnparison with the ATI card really wishy washy despite my efforts to change the settings. This computer looks really good with the Nvidia 256MB card.

Having been dumped from my MCDST course which was oversubscribed - see my new topic in Certification - I am waiting to hear if I can do the Vista course next year, if so I will try and be friends with Vista and its various things I dislike.

[Ferrit]

Of course already it is a 256 meg versus 128 and its likely a higher end card.
And like all iikely not an original ati at all. Many manufacturers make these using ati chipsets and some are far worse then others

[MorseLady]

Both the Nvidia 256MB card and the Radeon 128MB card are genuine as supplied by one of the UK's foremost computer manufactuers, Evesham.

[Matridom]

Morselady, the business edition you where given to "trial" do you have the CD?

The reason i ask is that Microsoft uses the same DVD for basic, home, home premium, ultimate and business. The only thing that separates them is the product key used during the installation. Vista is a rather unique OS, Did you know you can install it without a product key? if you do, you get 30 days of "trial" before it shuts you down.

[Ferrit]

In fact it can be extended to 120 days giving you a much better experience by using this.
Apparently it violates none of the Microsoft agreements or licenses
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/02...ctivation-key/

[MorseLady]

The DVD is Vista Business only and yes I did know about the 30 days. It is OEM and sent to me by friend who was told to dump them after upgrading a college suite.

I really need to try Home Premium or Ultimate before I can decide whther to buy but my friend says they were all the same.

I will look into the 120 day thing but really Vista Business does not wow me at all.

[MorseLady]

Matridom I forgot to say that I do not have a product key for the DVD.