What Vista Breaks

[ricki]

Hi

I have been testing a vista box on the network with all the programs we use in school and have found it breaks or does not run properly the following.

Older versions of gimp download the latest and it appears to work,
Retina scan
Focus a technology program
HACCP
Speedtest
Exambase
Autograph
Image resizer
MT thumbnail
Channel analysis
Elastrolab
Mapping skills
Silent vnc but ultra vnc works but will have to find a way of deploying it.

GPMC when service pack 1 install removes program. Am downloading latest version and trying that now.

Having problems with printers not installing automatically unless you are signed in as admin. Will have to have a look at putting extra drivers on the print server.

Please could other people post what it breaks and if you find solutions.

Also I have run some speed tests with a machine on xp and vista and it halves the speed of the machine.

Thanks for all your help.

Richard

[enjay]

Only thing I've found so far is RM Tutor 2.

[PatBoland]

Having problems with printers not installing automatically unless you are signed in as admin. Will have to have a look at putting extra drivers on the print server.

I have 45 Vista teacher laptops and installing printers as the user is a problem. If you install the printer as Administrator first then the user can add the printer but if the user is the first to install the Administrator credentials are required. Is this a problem or normal? Same for programs, which is ok and expected, as I have not given users local admin rights.

[DMcCoy]

I have 45 Vista teacher laptops and installing printers as the user is a problem. If you install the printer as Administrator first then the user can add the printer but if the user is the first to install the Administrator credentials are required. Is this a problem or normal? Same for programs, which is ok and expected, as I have not given users local admin rights.

Certainly in XP users are allowed to add printers, but not printer drivers, I assume this is unchanged on Vista. I run our printer script during startup and at logon, the startup runs as system so the driver is installed for when the users logs in.

[Michael]

Here's a very long Vista RTM compatibility list, which should still be applicable for Vista SP1.

[ZeroHour]

Ricki: are you testing these using custom MSI's/packages or original installers?

[srochford]

Certainly in XP users are allowed to add printers, but not printer drivers

Not quite true. If you have an XP machine (with no printer drivers installed) and you log on as a non-admin users you can connect to any *network* printer even if the driver is not previously installed. What you can't do is connect to a local printer.

[srochford]

Also I have run some speed tests with a machine on xp and vista and it halves the speed of the machine.

Things like this are among my pet hates :-)

What have you tested that was slower and what spec of machine? eg - power on to logon screen? Logon screen to desktop ready? Loading word? copying files? Saving files? Rendering 3D graphics?

Vista will need a machine of much higher spec than XP (eg a 2.4GHz Celeron with 512Mb of RAM is quite usable with XP for most classroom use; you'd probably want a 2GHz core 2 Duo with 2Gb of RAM to get comparable performance from Vista!) but if you're using a high spec machine and most things are still very slow then something seems wrong.

[ricki]

I am using original install msi and setup programs.

I have just managed to get the gpmc to work on my machine thanks to edugeekerd and can see and alter policies.

I have copied the files to the sysvol folder in the correct place and have created a new test policy for the and the results and the modeling say they have applied even gpresults /r say its been applied. But guess what it does not affect the settings. I have also created and it says the Policy definitions (ADMX files) retrieved from the central store so I am guessing that I must have the files in the correct place. I have read that you have to upgrade the schema to get all the features. I have read the information and the extra setting dont appear to be anything I need. Have other people upgraded the schema or do you have any more ideas.

[ricki]

Things like this are among my pet hates :-)

What have you tested that was slower and what spec of machine? eg - power on to logon screen? Logon screen to desktop ready? Loading word? copying files? Saving files? Rendering 3D graphics?

Vista will need a machine of much higher spec than XP (eg a 2.4GHz Celeron with 512Mb of RAM is quite usable with XP for most classroom use; you'd probably want a 2GHz core 2 Duo with 2Gb of RAM to get comparable performance from Vista!) but if you're using a high spec machine and most things are still very slow then something seems wrong.

I am running a dual core with 2 gig of ram and its half of the speed. I think I will have to turn off some of the extra features.

Richard

[srochford]

I am running a dual core with 2 gig of ram and its half of the speed. I think I will have to turn off some of the extra features.

Richard

But *what* is half the speed?? Which process did you time to find out it was half as fast??

[Joanne]

I've got an AMD 64 x2 5600+ with 4GB RAM...

Vista doesn't fly.... kinda dissapointing really!! Although I do like vista alot!

[enjay]

Can we drag this back to the topic which the OP started - namely what applications have people had problems with. There's enough Vista-bashing topics out there already without converting this into another one...

[farmerste]

The will to LIVE ?


;-)

[Sirbendy]

Itself, upon installation of updates/SP1. ;-)