Comments on: Windows Vista: Services and msconfig

By: William

William — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:28:18 +0000

Nothing speeds up that inevitable Mac conversion like wasting a few hours of your life trying to understand Microsoft’s bass-ackwards logic. Instead of “recommending friends and family to steer clear of Vista” you should just send them to http://store.apple.com instead.

By: Vista

Vista — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:39:08 +0000

My seven week old new compaq vista laptop was sent back to compaq yesterday blue screening non stop and unable to recover

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:55:22 +0000

Let me know if you need a few copies of Windows 7. Have a Few Copies of the release candidate lying about the office if you want .

By: intas

intas — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:30:00 +0000

it’s make me speechless! i told in mine too! why sometime it just happen in a specyf circumstance. but there’s alot myfriend tell me about vista and what technlgy bring back over! thansk anyway for wrote this! sory about my screwspeels!

By: Briele Chittim

Briele Chittim — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:06:19 +0000

I like the gui and feel of Vista, but that’s where the relationship ends. It came preinstalled on my current 1525 Dell Inspiron, and I have reinstalled 4 times already, had two complete BSOD meltdowns for no apparent reason and with little warning. I want to use the notebook as a DAW (so I have 4gigs ram – although I know it’s arguable that over 3 Gb makes no dif) I’ve had the machine for four months and never got it stable enough to use consistently. One of my forays into msconfig to turn off startups… ended up in an eventual BSOD.

One thing I can warn about – in Vista, if Internet Explorer suddenly crashes and won’t work, backup your data immediately before you shut down your machine again. I’m currently researching ‘upgrading to a former technology’, namely, XP – I have all the drivers and know about the bios switch. The only thing is, it voids the warantee and I still feel uncertain that it will work. There are so many possible hardware combinations in the Dell 1525… but one day soon I’ll forge ahead and just try with my fingers crossed. I don’t like using this word, but I ‘hate’ Vista.

By: wekebu

wekebu — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:03:34 +0000

I don’t know what all the fear of learning Vista is about. I’ve been using it for a year now as well as several of my friends. I find it more advanced than XP and frankly, when I go to my work place and ‘have’ to use XP it feels so 1990’s to me. All new OS’ have learning curves. Try Ubuntu or OSX. Jump in, seize the moment, experiment.

And thank you for this post. I had used services.msc before, but forgot the command. In my search, I found your blog and the answer.

~Wendy

By: Brina

Brina — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:12:24 +0000

Thanks for writing this.

By: setup network with windows vista

setup network with windows vista — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:27:37 +0000

setup network with windows vista

Yes indeed.

By: colm mc grath

colm mc grath — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:06:44 +0000

yeah using vista myself iam sorry now i didnt stick with xp nothing seems to be compatible with vista. so when i ordered a new notebook for my daughter from dell for xmass i stuck with the old reliable xp..

By: Niall Doherty

Niall Doherty — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:45:49 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Paul. I’ve been recommending friends and family to steer clear of Vista. Just more trouble than it’s worth.