Anyone know where to get and ALPS 1300 Printer driver for Vista? I love that printer... so much for legacy hardware (kind of like 35mm). I hope there will be XP support for some time.

I can see the future artist scrambling to find an old dusty copy of Windows XP (with something called "The Key") to put on that legacy pc to do "old stuff", you know, the big one that you have to put on the floor. The legacy pc only has 4GB of RAM, a 3.4 Intel DualCore processor, only 64-bit processing, "DVI" monitor output, a !cable! for the Internet (omg), and IT USES FANS! It even requires one of those old things they called a "Hard Drive" back in the day; it spins around and gets hot!

How on Earth did they ever get anything accomplished?


Time for a very young old fart to get on with it; I'm moving to the next OS(two years from now).

Ahh Vienna, it rolls of the tongue. Vienna set for release in 2010, I understand... Ok - Reaaalllyy - How about December 21, 2012... Just in time for Christmas and the end of the Mayan Long Count!

Install without previous version is possable with upgrade version it was well reported you should be able to google for it failing that cnet,techrepublic,pcmechanic,pc world etc

It works by installing as a trial this is done by not putting the key in which gives you a limited time,then on restart install as full version and include the key & viola vista installed without previous windows or something like that.


OK back on topic unfortunately my machine can't run vista which pisses me off immensley
& i am in no doubt it is far better than xp after all it is a later OS it's only common sense so i can't wait too upgrade this machine or build a new one (send donations too *scorp needs a new comp fund* ), from what i've seen on the shelves it aint look'n too shabby tho i gotta say i like the thing ms showed off a couple weeks back where windows were moved by hand

And unless a wb has been vistafied,they look terrible.  

I am sure Stardock is working on making a solution on making skinning Vista easier.

i am 99.9% satisfied w/ windows vista. sure, theres no good WB skins for it but honestly. i am compeletly happy w/ the Aero interface. In fact its what i used as a WB skin in XP. And sure, theres a few problems with some legacy games. But that is a problem that rests with the developers and publishers, NOT microsoft. If there is lack of vista support its the company that made said item, NOT microsoft. If vista doesnt work for you thats fine, but dont use MS as the easy scapegoat. Theres alot that is simply out of thier control. I will say im still wonderin when the hell this Games For Windows initiative is actually supposed to take off. They really dropped the ball on that one. I wanna play on Live dammit! Halo 2 and Shadowrun are supposed to interest me? PUH-LEASE!

Let Me Reiterate... This is how I feel *chuckles*
No I won't berate anyone for using XP though

But Vista Rocks
Nough Said

um... well thats your Bad I guess.. I never had issues...
Eh to each their own though *shrugs*

I won't Force anyone to run to Vista...BUT I like Vista..

I like Vista too!
But at the start I´ve got some problems with drivers... but now it´s all right!

Ok heres what I think of Vista Ultimate which I am running right now. Basically, vista is to XP what "ME" was to 98. Vista is very little beside superfluous aesthetics and slight moderation to the operating system itself. Notable amongst its praiseworthy attributes is "readyboost" which allows you to plug in a USB flash drive (up to 4 gig) and vista will use it as extra memory. Thats about it !

any meaningful control over vista is hidden beneath a layer of BS so thick I'd be suprised if you havent smelt it - by which I mean instead of rapid access to such things as the NIC card via my network places you now have to open up the network centre and then click manage network then get to tcp/ip properties - thats just one example but the whole lot is like that. This is quite apart from aero being so top heavy that no games player could or would want it enabled as the resources it eats are phenomenal. For the same reason every right thinking network admin would disable it too.

This is all beside the fact that its handling of services and especially fault handling is supposed to be better - but you will find all this dumbing down has merely meant it makes windows harder to control - Once something starts crashing you first fight to get control off a machine thats so stuffed full of overblown code that it isnt responsive enough to any form of cancel command including the command to get the task manager into play then when it comes into play windows completely dumbs down the handling of the error.

The only reason I use vista is because some people who know no better bought dell office computers with vista preloaded and are now facing the consequence with network problems ranging from superficial to catastrophic in terms of downtime. After using vista now for more than a month I can safely say this computer is reverting to xp for about another year when I will test it again - by then MS will have released sp2 or sp3 because one things for certain - if youre running anything where memory is vital or uptime is crucial DONT USE VISTA - biggest pile of big dogs browneyes since they did that big promo campaign for the release of windows Millenium Edition and it tuned out to be a dog turd on a whale stool !!!

DXtremer

I have XP Pro and Just to day I installed and Played Halo 2
and so far the new Halo 2 Kicks azz

oh and it (XP) is the only OS i have.

Still hate it