Yep, I tell my customers to pay the extra 100 bucks to have Dell "downgrade" to XP

--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Kevin Cully <kcully@cullytechnologies.com> wrote:

> From: Kevin Cully <kcully@cullytechnologies.com>

> Subject: When is an administrator not an administrator?

> To: "profox@leafe.com" <profox@leafe.com>

> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:08 PM

> Answer: Vista

>

> I've got this new "hot" laptop, fully decked

> out. Vista Home Premium.

> Okay, I don't have to attach it to a domain so I

> don't need Ultimate or

> anything.

>

> I'm trying to get up and running with my development

> environment. Vista

> says that I'm the Administrator on the box, and there

> aren't any other

> users configured {Opps! WTF?!? I wouldn't have set

> myself up as an

> Administrator if I had known.} But wait! I'm trying

> to configure a

> West-Wind application and it's having trouble running

> the Console.exe

> magic which registers it. It's saying that I'm NOT

> an administrator.

>

> I'm about to poke my eyes out after a day of

> frustration when I decide

> to Google instead: "How do I know if I'm an

> administrator on Vista?"

>

> I found this tip to make the Administrator magically appear

> from

> nowhere:http://tinyurl.com/2q56p3

>

> Notice that when you "Run as administrator"

> there's no password

> required. Insanity.

>

> VFP definitely runs slower on my new laptop than on my old

> XP Pro desktop.

>

> I'm feeling dirty after running Vista, but I need it

> for day in and day

> out VFP development. Oh well. Thought I'd share.

>

> -Kevin

> CULLY Technologies, LLC

>

>

>

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