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I know I’m not the first, but here we go.  I have Windows Home Vista Premium with nothing else installed.  I then get McAfee VirusScan Plus 2007, with anti virus, anti spyware and firewall software.

Windows then says are you sure click continue – you know as a server engineer as you get familiar with the tools these kind of messages become the ones you don’t read, yes fine whatever, let me do what I want…

Anyway it installs, everything goes fine, it installs and then says near the end McAfee Firewall 2007 is not compatible with Vista, ok fine, not a problem I acknowledge the message, and think well, I’ll reboot it and uninstall.

• MY laptop reboots, I log in, and then it says explorer.exe has failed, and it basically hangs, and with my new fancy task bar, it doesn’t like running explorer, and I just get my wallpaper.
• OK, I think, we’ll power it all off, think of Christmas and try again.
• It now completely barfs, group policy has prevented your logon and logon has failed or something – group policy? It’s not part of the domain, I haven’t got a domain what do you mean and hangs.
• I reboot again this time it says network connection was aborted by the system.

Now at this point any technical person will say I could log on to www.google.com do a search find out how to fix it, what the problem is and resolve it, also that I could have bought Vista on OEM and saved myself money, true, but I wanted to know what a consumer might find when they upgraded..

Anyway, I’ll rebuild it at some point, but I am not impressed. Opposite the long line of Windows XP Home Premium boxes there were the McAfee anti virus software boxes including the one I’m using. At least XP would have the decency to barf complain, dr watson a bit, but then I’d run McAfee or Norton live update and download the patches to fix it, has windows got all controlly on me? The control is the element I want with windows, I trust mac os x to do it’s stuff, windows I know needs defragmented, firwalled, anti virus and everything else…

So Do I stay with Windows XP?  Well I paid £199 for my Vista Home Premium cdrom, (seriously the name is too long), which I can’t really face taking back, to be honest, my thinkpad works on xp fine, and Vista would probably toast it, and I refuse to upgrade it, I’ll get a macpro and vmware.  In the meantime the whole anti virus thing is irritating, and I’m sure fixable, ctrl shift f9 whilst pressing 7 with my left toe, but come on this kind of thing should all have been done in testing, fine you might not test anti virus from 2006, but anything in the last 12 months, and particularly if it’s included in the google pack.

Will I stay Vista, Yes, but only because I paid £199 for it, not because I’m a major fan…

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