Dancougar:
"...BTW...you comment that you are one of the few 2005 users left here. While that may be true, we are here and we have invested in extenders and tuners and other hardware/software that will not ever work right with Vista. Sure, I may be able to throw it all away and buy new gear, but to be honest, I'd rather go on a nice vacation with my family then throw money into another platform that our friends at Microsoft will just abandon in the name of progress. Certainly, driver support for older hardware isn't totally Microsoft's fault, but the extender issue is."
-Dan
Here, Here Dan!,
I totally agree with you about not spending money on Vista which inevitably
leads to abandoning lots of other FULLY FUNCTIONAL hardware we already own.
My head spins when I read posts where someone has spent a seemingly excessive amount
of money on a brand new Vista HTPC, and cannot reap its benefits because Vista is not
playing nice with their hardware.
I once jokingly borrowed/paraphased a statement made by the late Charlton Heston saying
that "someone will have to pry XP/MCE 2005 from my cold, dead hands before I switch to
Vista"
Of course, I know that a day WILL eventually come when I will need to bid a fond farewell to
my XP/MCE system and finally start running Vista, but I will wait until this is absolutely necessary
before doing so.
As for experimentation with new software and the like, I too am always looking for the
"better mousetrap" and like yourself Dan, I have "broken" my share of perfectly fine running system
installations in the name of trying out something new. This is what we do and fortunately, we have
done it enough times to know the simple rule of thumb: backup, backup, backup! A concept that
I am forever trying to pound into the minds of some of my own IT clients.
And actually, the only reason I stated that I was one of the few remaining XP/MCE 2005 users
here on TGB was because it appears that almost all of the current posts pertain exclusively to
Vista related problems and issues and also, in the past few months, I posted several technical
questions and no one has even bothered to help me or for that matter even acknowledged the
questions at all.
To me, this is rather disheartening as in the past I have offered up help and advise to plenty
of other TGB members who were stuck and were seeking out answers. Once again, this is
what we do!
It's all good...I learned a long time ago that for the most part, we are simply on our own and
can usually only turn to someone else for help on rare occasions.
Best,
-Steve