Now that SP1 is available, is it time to move from XP to Vista? Keep reading →

• List of Vista SP1 problems - be careful with Service Pack 1
  A list of issue that have been raised so far with SP1.
  (tags: SP1 )
• Remembering Windows XP?s early days
  Ed does an excellent job pointing out how Vista’s current criticism isn’t anything new. The same people that now criticize Vista, did the same to XP when it was released. Funny how that unworthy XP has become “God’s Gift” now.
  (tags: Review XP )

Ed does an excellent job pointing out how Vista’s current criticism isn’t anything new. The same people that now criticize Vista, did the same to XP when it was released. Funny how that unworthy XP has become “God’s Gift” now. Keep reading →

• Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks
  Ed talks about his own Vista vs XP file copy tests, and some insight he learned in the process that relates to installing SP1, and background tasks.
  (tags: XP Performance SP1 )
• Windows Vista Team Blog : Update on Windows Vista SP1 Prerequisite KB937287
  Microsoft knows about the problems some users have been having, and have suspended distribution of the update until they’ve figured out the issue, when they will make a fix available.
  (tags: SP1 Updates )

Ed talks about his own Vista vs XP file copy tests, and some insight he learned in the process that relates to installing SP1, and background tasks. Keep reading →

• Vista SP1 vs. Windows XP SP2 file copy performance
  Michael talks about the results of a Vista vs XP test, and comments on it’s validity.
  (tags: XP Performance )
• Vista SP1 prerequisite updates send some PCs into endless reboot
  More on the endles reboot situation with SP1
  (tags: SP1 )

Michael talks about the results of a Vista vs XP test, and comments on it’s validity. Keep reading →

When it takes more than five seconds to generate a Network Access Protection (NAP) statement of health (SoH) message on a Windows Vista-based computer or on a Windows XP Service Pack 3-based computer, client connections do not authenticate successfully with a Cisco switch.

Consider the following scenario. You try to upgrade a Windows XP-based computer to Windows Vista. When you run the Windows Vista Setup program, the upgrade option is disabled in the Install Windows window. Additionally, the Install Windows window displays the following text:

Upgrade has been disabled.
- Your Windows configuration cannot be upgraded.

The following message is logged in the Setupact.log file:

Date Time, Info MIG Expanding raw path D:\Documents and Settings
Date Time, Info MIG %ProfilesDirectory% (D:\Documents and Settings) is not on drive C
Date Time, Info [0x080755] MIG DoComplianceChecks: CheckUnsupportedConfig not satisfied (- Your Windows configuration cannot be upgraded.)
Date Time, Info MIG pCheckForPendingRunOnce: found 0 values
Date Time, Info MIG pCheckForPendingFileRename: PendingFileRenameOperations not found
Date Time, Info MIG DoExternalComplianceChecks: calling ntdsupg.dll [DsUpgradeCompatibilityCheck]
Date Time, Info MIG DoExternalComplianceChecks: calling fveupg.dll [FveUpgradeComplianceCheck]
Date Time, Info [0x080021] MIG IsCompliantForUpgrade: failed
Date Time, Info [0x080043] MIG Callback_Compliance: Not a compliant system
Date Time, Info [0x08003e] MIG Not a compliant system, upgrade is disabled

Consider the following scenario. You map a drive to a Windows XP-based computer from a Windows Vista-based computer. When you try to access the mapped drive from the Windows XP-based computer, you receive the following error message:

System error 5 has occurred.
Access is denied.

This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:

• Both computers are members of a workgroup.
• You do not give the Full Control shared permission to the Everyone group.
• You give the Full Control shared permission to the Administrators group.

Note: This access failure occurs regardless of the NTFS file system permissions that are assigned to the mapped drive.