I was a beta tester on Vista and now have Vista ultimate and have never had a problem till recently see my earlier thread 'Seriously...' or so I thought till this morning.  Sure Vista gets your ok before it does something but can turn those off, I don't simply because I have deleted too many files over the years by accident.  Vista is more stable than XP, and the big problem is that 3rd party companies didn't upgrade their own software, even when they knew that Vista was on the way.  Example, the reason I had to buy a new DVD burner was because the old one which still worked fine, didn't work with vista.  The software actually only went up to win98 not even ME or 2000, much less XP.  I got it to work by finding a 3rd party driver file that worked under XP.  Samething with my flatbed scanner, although it's software went up through win me.  This had gotten me wondering just how many problems people have with windows is actually due to some other software that hasn't been upgraded since win 95.  It still might work under win me, 2000, but by the time you get to XP, problems are starting to crop up.  Then you start looking at Window since it is the operating system, not a software problem from you scanner, printer or what have you.  I am sure that the people who know software and hardware can usually fix these kind of problems with no effort.  But the rest of us, usually don't thing about the 3rd party software that sits on our computer.  I know that I usually don't.  It's always something to with Windows.

Here's what happened this morning...

This morning, I got the directions on how to remove the software from a DVD Burner I had bought and the software wouldn't load under Windows Vista. The burner was made by Sony and the software is made by NERO. The cleanup program supplied by NERO removed the earlier version of the software and loaded the new software and it works under vista. Here's the whoops. After it cleaned the earlier verison of NERO that didn't work, I checked my email and guess what! everything was there. All the stuff that I thought I had lost was sitting where it should be including all my documents and everything. So here's the question, Did Vista knock everything like I assumed or was it the NERO software? I got the update for Vista on the sameday that I got the Burner. The Nero Software hung up and wouldn't finish loading. That night I got the update for Vista rebooted the computer the next morning. So was the screwed version of NERO or Vista that caused the problem.....
Inquiring minds want to know.....

Earlier this weeked I posted a message warning about Vista and the upgrade that I had thought had destroyed, erased or whatever a bunch of my files.  But when I got NERO straighted out, all and I mean all of my stuff was suddenly back.  The Problem it seems was with NERO not Vista...