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DB7 · July 21st, 2008

I've been quite lucky with the software I've used on Vista but I admit that I don't have a great variety on my PC.

My basic programs that I have installed on the Acronis image are; Photoshop Elements v1, DC++, Digiguide, Multilingual Speaking Clock v2.01, ItweakU Professional, Firefox v2, Microsoft Office XP, Nero Burning ROM, WinRAR and Symantec Anti-virus Corporate.

The only program I had to download a new version of was Nero (Symantec Anti-virus has a Vista compatible version on the install disc), everything else ran on Vista as it did on XP. Even my tweaking program worked under Vista for certain things, such as changing the background of the Explorer toolbars, but of course for others things it just couldn't do anything because of the changes in how Vista works.

Some of the older games I've tried work better under Vista than they did on XP SP2 with the dual-core hotfix. Fable TLC and Star Trek - Armada were very unpleasant to play on XP but ran without a problem on Vista.

July 21st, 2008	#64 (permalink)
DB7 Miserable Bugger Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,061	I've been quite lucky with the software I've used on Vista but I admit that I don't have a great variety on my PC. My basic programs that I have installed on the Acronis image are; Photoshop Elements v1, DC++, Digiguide, Multilingual Speaking Clock v2.01, ItweakU Professional, Firefox v2, Microsoft Office XP, Nero Burning ROM, WinRAR and Symantec Anti-virus Corporate. The only program I had to download a new version of was Nero (Symantec Anti-virus has a Vista compatible version on the install disc), everything else ran on Vista as it did on XP. Even my tweaking program worked under Vista for certain things, such as changing the background of the Explorer toolbars, but of course for others things it just couldn't do anything because of the changes in how Vista works. Some of the older games I've tried work better under Vista than they did on XP SP2 with the dual-core hotfix. Fable TLC and Star Trek - Armada were very unpleasant to play on XP but ran without a problem on Vista.