If you are going to install KB938371

[NightbladeXX]

whats XP again oh yeah that old os that peeps are still clinging too

to date since August 07, when I installed Vista HP, I set it up for triple boot:
1. Vista
2. XP Pro
3. Ubuntu

Too date I have booted into XP no more than 5 times, usually to find what .dll is responsible to what XP system functions, or to copy a .dll or other system files over for a customers corrupt files

times booted into ubuntu 0 sry penguin fans havent found a need

I love Vista now SP1 is sweet tremendously sped up my ethernet connections especially considering that i have a buffalo link station live for my music and pictures huge performance gains

[NightbladeXX]

I think at that time there were only 2 brand name CDROMs on the market with 2x speed. One was Toshiba, which is the one I bought. I don't recall the other one. For $500 though I think a guy should've pulled up to my house in a limo and put the thing in for me! I had a no name case with like zero mechanical engineering invested in the design. If I had it to do over I would've gone with a PS/2 machine with Microchannel. I saw a guy change out the floppy drive. Push a button, flip open the front bezel, push a button, pull the floppy drive out. Push the new drive in until you hear a click. Close the bezel. Done. No tools, screws or cables. But at that time I thought it was important to have an ISA bus for max compatibility. Oh well.

oh dear lord, this reminded me of the nightmare I had with my first CD-ROM an NEC 2x hug external thingy that required the use of the good ol trays, and to top it off it was SCSI, took a major feat of IRQ management to get the SCSI card to work in my ol 486DX2 66 and then like a month to hunt down the proper scsi cable needed for the cd-ron to scsi card since there were like 3 types back then, man how much easier things have become, and thank god

[NightbladeXX]

It does have its gotcha's. Just for grins I made a customized command prompt loading DosKey and a bunch of macros. I didn't want it to take up space in the Taskbar so I made a copy of the shortcut, pasted it in the Startup folder and renamed it. Then I have a little AutoIt3 script to hide the Taskbar button. The renaming is to keep the shell from grouping buttons on open of another command prompt(which has the effect of unhiding the button.)

Anyway, this all works perfectly in XP. But in Vista, it insists on prepending "Administrator: " to whatever you named your prompt. So when another prompt opens named "Administrator: Command Prompt" the grouping kicks in unhiding my button and I end up with "C:\" in the Taskbar after the second prompt window closes. It wasn't broken!! Why did they fix it?

did you edit your registry to open up cmd prompts in admin mode or u using the standard vista security fiasco setup?

prolly vista's only flaw is the annoying admin mode pop ups, thank god fer registry edits

[MilesAhead]

Still got a bunch of caddys in the cellophane

oh dear lord, this reminded me of the nightmare I had with my first CD-ROM an NEC 2x hug external thingy that required the use of the good ol trays, and to top it off it was SCSI, took a major feat of IRQ management to get the SCSI card to work in my ol 486DX2 66 and then like a month to hunt down the proper scsi cable needed for the cd-ron to scsi card since there were like 3 types back then, man how much easier things have become, and thank god

Yup. I bought like a 10 pack of caddys online because they were much cheaper than in the brick & morter stores. I think I still have 6 or 7 of 'em in
the cellophane.

[MilesAhead]

got it covered

did you edit your registry to open up cmd prompts in admin mode or u using the standard vista security fiasco setup?

prolly vista's only flaw is the annoying admin mode pop ups, thank god fer registry edits

I've got it covered now. One of my previous posts details the "glomming" reg settings. Works fine. The only other time I'm likely to pop up another command prompt is when FAVC does its thing. So a grouping threshold of 3 works well.

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

@ Nightblade or Miles or anyone else ... Do all the regular "Freeware" applications that are used in Video and Audio stuff work in Vista now!?!? For example like "SUPER", and other ones?

G!

[cynthia]

I haven't had any DVD program that could not run in Vista. Tried Super for some weeks ago and no problems.

I had more problems with old software when migrating from Win9X/Me to XP.

[Chewy]

the compatibility mode in xp seemed immature? Is it more obvious in vista?

[cynthia]

Some of my old 16 bits program had problems in XP in the beginning before updates were issued by the authors.

[MilesAhead]

Super

Hi folks,

@ Nightblade or Miles or anyone else ... Do all the regular "Freeware" applications that are used in Video and Audio stuff work in Vista now!?!? For example like "SUPER", and other ones?

G!

SUPER came out with another update recently. They claim better Vista compatibility. I've installed but I haven't run any jobs with it yet. The previous update worked with a few glitches so this one is prolly ok.

[NightbladeXX]

it has been kinda hit or miss with some freewares with mostly getting hits altho some run a tad slower thru vista

[MilesAhead]

ones I use most

it has been kinda hit or miss with some freewares with mostly getting hits altho some run a tad slower thru vista

The freeware converters I use most that seem to run fine on Vista Home Premium 32 bit are:

AviDemux 2.4x
DVD Flick 1.2.2.1
FAVC 1.06
QuEnc 0.72
Gui4ffmpeg 2.1 (specify byte count, not kbytes in bitrate settings)
VirtualDub & VirtualDubMod seem fine too(although I don't usually do
advanced stuff in Vdub so go by what Vdub users say)

[MilesAhead]

helped some anyway

If you are running AVG - close it down before installing this update. It gave me serious problems having it running.

And this update is a prefix before SP1. Makes you wonder what problems that installation will end up with...

Vista is for sure a hate and love system.

Installing this update was the only way I could get Visual Studio 2008 to install on Vista. But after messing around for several hours, C# still didn't play well with ActiveX Controls.. so I unloaded it. At least I did get to update the .NET frameworks though. The installer still has a hinky feel to it. Doesn't seem like something I want to depend on.

[MilesAhead]

Funny thing happened on the way to KB938371. I have autoupdates turned off so when I enabled, before I could get a list of updates to select this one, a box popped up that said something to the effect "Before you can update, you must update the updater". Is this a Kurt Vonnegut novel or a Woody Allen movie? I'm still tryin' to decide.

In any case, one day in, I don't notice anything bad happening so this looks like one of the good updates.

[Gary D]

I still have have an upgrade coupon to vista, maybe I should auction the coupon on fleabay

How much are you going to pay one of us??