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Windows Vista – Upgrading Not For The Faint-Hearted

View Comments January 31, 2007 | Everton

If you were brave enough to install Vista yesterday, how did it go?  My experience has been a bit of a mixed bag.  Although Vista itself is running fine and was installed installed within 25 minutes, getting my software and hardware to work has been a real pain.

The really annoying piece of kit I can’t get to work is my Hauppauge Win-TV Nova T-500 TV card.  iTunes has also been acting a bit strange with Vista, and some of my tracks seem to have disappeared from my library.

My mouse also doesn’t work properly with Vista.  I really need to get my mouse working as I love it as it has volume, play/pause and FF/Rew buttons on i, which are essential for listening to music or watching TV, and it’s also moulded well for left-handers.  In fact, I love it so much I bought 3 of them so that I would have spares just in case it isn’t available for sale in the future!

Here are the items I haven’t been able to get to work with Windows Vista so far:

Software (haven’t installed most of my apps as I wanted to focus on hardware and tuning):

  • iTunes – buggy
  • Speedfan – support coming soon.  Need this ASAP as my machine sounds like a tornado with all the fans running at 100%
  • 3DMark06
  •  ATITool
  • KazaaLite Codecs

Hardware Not Working With Windows Vista

  • Logitech Pro 4000 Quickcam (Logitech not even working on driver)
  • Logitech MediaPlay Mouse (Vista support coming)
  • Hauppage Win-TV Nova T-500 TV Card

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About Everton: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day. View posts.

  • IE7 is causing me nightmares Everton. Mastercard, Paypal, Google Adsense and virtually most SSL type sites are rejected with "certificate error" failures.

    What the??? Does mastercard need a new certificate?

    Crikey. Thumbs down to IE7
  • Finding a mouse that is comfortable for lefties isn't easy as they are all moulded for right-handers - I wasn't taking any chances!

    You're using Vista as well - Are you finding IE7 in Vista very low? I haven't played with the security settings yet
  • Buying the same mouse three times for this purpose is kinda nerdy, don't you think :P
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