I can not get the program to work with windows Vista -- it worked fine until installed the new operating system -- please update software

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I can not get the program to work with windows Vista -- it worked fine until installed the new operating system -- please update software

I'm running it on three different vista machines without problem. Did you reinstall Boinc after the upgrade?

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I can not get the program to work with windows Vista -- it worked fine until installed the new operating system -- please update software

If you are running as a standard user then you will need to install BOINC into C:BOINC rather than the C:Program filesBOINC folder it defaults to. If your running as administrator (or Standard Admin as is the default) then you should be ok.

The reason for this is VISTA new security measures and reading/writting to the folder in Program files. It will take some time conduming modification of how BOINC works to fix this as a defualt, but give them time and it should be done. They are getting hold of VISTA to do some development on. Other than that it should work fine.
Has done for me for months now.

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Any other problems noted or suggestions to make Rosetta work better under Vista?

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Any other problems noted or suggestions to make Rosetta work better under Vista?

Yes, If you run as a service do not enable it to interact with the desktop (on a normal vista setup) you'll get asked all the time to allow communications between different 'levels' (or something like that, since it's been a while since I tested that again).

Always use the 5.8.8 version if you want it to be identified as VISTA and not Longhorn.

Last time I looked it did not identify accelerators, could have changed in these later 5.8.x versions.

Need to test if ReadyBoost helps out any (it seemed to but that could have been the tasks that where running)

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readyboost does not help at all, only if you have 512Mb and you use close the 512. If you have to choose between RAM or flash, get more RAM.

it is ready to boost ... but it does not ... heheheh


who?

readyboost does not help at all, only if you have 512Mb and you use close the 512. If you have to choose between RAM or flash, get more RAM.

it is ready to boost ... but it does not ... heheheh


who?

Not Rosetta maybe but it certainly work in general even with my 1G of RAM
given I have the USB pen drive plugged in anyway I may as well use it. It is just a caching system for the harddrive.

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I think it's also useful if you are just doing reads from the readyboost drive. . if it's cached there your HD doesn't need to spin up if it's gone into power saving.

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I was talking to my computer store the other day, and I was not impressed with what I heard regarding VISTA. Not that there is anything wrong with it or something like that, but it was the lack of any real advantages to upgrading that struck me. I was wondering what others here thought about upgrading: is it really worth it to upgrade to VISTA?

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I was talking to my computer store the other day, and I was not impressed with what I heard regarding VISTA. Not that there is anything wrong with it or something like that, but it was the lack of any real advantages to upgrading that struck me. I was wondering what others here thought about upgrading: is it really worth it to upgrade to VISTA?

General day to day use for a home user who browses the web and a may even stretch to a few word documanets, then a big NO. No point in upgrading since you gain very little.

If your buying a new computer, well you may as well get VISTA.


For gamers then yes when the DX10 games and graphics cards become mainstream so they can actually play the games.


For a networks it works well (especially like the graphical mapping feature) and does make it a bit easier for the less technical.

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I was talking to my computer store the other day, and I was not impressed with what I heard regarding VISTA. Not that there is anything wrong with it or something like that, but it was the lack of any real advantages to upgrading that struck me. I was wondering what others here thought about upgrading: is it really worth it to upgrade to VISTA?

General day to day use for a home user who browses the web and a may even stretch to a few word documanets, then a big NO. No point in upgrading since you gain very little.

If your buying a new computer, well you may as well get VISTA.


For gamers then yes when the DX10 games and graphics cards become mainstream so they can actually play the games.


For a networks it works well (especially like the graphical mapping feature) and does make it a bit easier for the less technical.

I'm using Vista right now and I was Beta tester. In my opinion it has also advantages for home users. Vista has a lot of new multimedia features and integrated programs which make daily use easier and more comfortable (well not if your computer is a modern typewriter), like the new explorer or the indexed search (also available for XP by the way), image gallery with integrated editing tools, the gadgets, calendar, contact manager, ...

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I was talking to my computer store the other day, and I was not impressed with what I heard regarding VISTA. Not that there is anything wrong with it or something like that, but it was the lack of any real advantages to upgrading that struck me. I was wondering what others here thought about upgrading: is it really worth it to upgrade to VISTA?

General day to day use for a home user who browses the web and a may even stretch to a few word documanets, then a big NO. No point in upgrading since you gain very little.

If your buying a new computer, well you may as well get VISTA.


For gamers then yes when the DX10 games and graphics cards become mainstream so they can actually play the games.


For a networks it works well (especially like the graphical mapping feature) and does make it a bit easier for the less technical.

I'm using Vista right now and I was Beta tester. In my opinion it has also advantages for home users. Vista has a lot of new multimedia features and integrated programs which make daily use easier and more comfortable (well not if your computer is a modern typewriter), like the new explorer or the indexed search (also available for XP by the way), image gallery with integrated editing tools, the gadgets, calendar, contact manager, ...

Beta/RC tester here as well, still using build 5744 on my main computer ( though that is pretty much the same as the final bar the number changes and a couple of bug fixes additional help)

What you mention are advantages but though they are neater I wouldn't think it was a 'must upgrade' benefit.
New explorer is nice but a lot is cosmetic that makes it nicer, Internet explorer and index search are available for XP like you say (bar a few differences, mainly in the way the search works)

Gadgets, nice but there are free addons for XP to do that (google, and other clones). Calendar, CM and inage editing again can all be had with freeware programs, not something worth the upgrade (as new yes ;-) but not an upgrade.

There are lots of other neat things that make life easier but again not a must have at the moment.

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I was talking to my computer store the other day, and I was not impressed with what I heard regarding VISTA. Not that there is anything wrong with it or something like that, but it was the lack of any real advantages to upgrading that struck me. I was wondering what others here thought about upgrading: is it really worth it to upgrade to VISTA?

General day to day use for a home user who browses the web and a may even stretch to a few word documanets, then a big NO. No point in upgrading since you gain very little.

If your buying a new computer, well you may as well get VISTA.


For gamers then yes when the DX10 games and graphics cards become mainstream so they can actually play the games.


For a networks it works well (especially like the graphical mapping feature) and does make it a bit easier for the less technical.

I'm using Vista right now and I was Beta tester. In my opinion it has also advantages for home users. Vista has a lot of new multimedia features and integrated programs which make daily use easier and more comfortable (well not if your computer is a modern typewriter), like the new explorer or the indexed search (also available for XP by the way), image gallery with integrated editing tools, the gadgets, calendar, contact manager, ...

Beta/RC tester here as well, still using build 5744 on my main computer ( though that is pretty much the same as the final bar the number changes and a couple of bug fixes additional help)

What you mention are advantages but though they are neater I wouldn't think it was a 'must upgrade' benefit.
New explorer is nice but a lot is cosmetic that makes it nicer, Internet explorer and index search are available for XP like you say (bar a few differences, mainly in the way the search works)

Gadgets, nice but there are free addons for XP to do that (google, and other clones). Calendar, CM and inage editing again can all be had with freeware programs, not something worth the upgrade (as new yes ;-) but not an upgrade.

There are lots of other neat things that make life easier but again not a must have at the moment.

ok, i agree it's not a "must" upgrade :p
Since you're still using the RC2 you should consider to upgrade to the final version, it runs much smoother (and uses less RAM)

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I was talking to my computer store the other day, and I was not impressed with what I heard regarding VISTA. Not that there is anything wrong with it or something like that, but it was the lack of any real advantages to upgrading that struck me. I was wondering what others here thought about upgrading: is it really worth it to upgrade to VISTA?

ok, i agree it's not a "must" upgrade :p
Since you're still using the RC2 you should consider to upgrade to the final version, it runs much smoother (and uses less RAM)

I was just answering the original question ;-)

I have final waitin gto install, it's just getting the time. Though it will actually upgrade from build 5744 which is nice.
5744 is RC2 (but the refreshed version of RC2) so there is not that much different, it already runs very smoothly and no problem with RAM either. Only problem is I cannot install the USB, Media Centre and (don't need the HD-Audio one) or the Application Compatibility, >3GB RAM bug and some others that are already out :-)
The only problem I had was with my Leadtek DTV Dongle (DIB7700 based) but they have Vista drivers for most of their cards now :-)

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