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Vista Ready NOT · Jul 11, 10:58 PM

My Dell laptop that I recently purchased came with a genuine Windows Vista Basic – and I just downgraded it to a one-eyed peg-legged version of Windows XP.

First, there were warnings of incompatible software, Tencent QQ Messenger being among the few, but they worked without a hitch anyway.

Then shit starts to happen. My webcam couldn’t work on Vista. Fine, I’ll just borrow someone else’s webcam temporarily.

Then I started playing around with the webcam API available in Adobe Flash. Accessing the webcam frequently freezes the program, and Vista has no way to shut down the program. I tried both Flash 8 and Flash cs3, no luck with both. Downgrading to Windows XP solved the problem.

No thanks Vista, I’ll wait till you get much more stabler, or perhaps I won’t at all.

Any problems with Vista out there?



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