The other day, I purchased a Windows Vista Home Premium laptop computer for travelling around with and for web development whilst enjoying an Americano! Anyway, after stripping away the sheer load of rubbish that came pre-installed with it (and by rubbish, we're talking Norton, Works, internet connections, media players etc) I had a rocking and rolling little machine ready for customising.
And that's when my Vista Compatibility troubles started!
First, I installed the trusty AVG anti-virus. No problems there, fully compatible. Next, in went Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird and various open source or freeware utilities - all of which installed without mishap. After all that, I wanted to take an image of the system to use as my base restore image. Out came True Image 9. Sorry, not compatible with Vista! Grrrr! I then ordered version 10 from Amazon, which will be installed as soon as it arrives. Next, I installed Visual Studio (I have two licenses). This needed a ...