Using Vista to Flash phones

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I am about to get a new laptop. The one I am interested in only has Vista installed. I don't mind that too much because Vista isn't that bad.

The problem I have is the unknown: What flashing software is compatible with Vista and which will give you problems?

I appreciate any help you all can give me on this. Thanks
 
I would say 15% of flashing software out there will give you issues. Plus Vista is very annoying with flashing software as a lot of it requires Admin rights meaning you will need to disable UAC. I really and strongly recommend downgrading to XP when you buy it.
 
I would agree, although I have vista on one of my machines with pretty much all software loaded up and have had some issues with it freezing but nothing major. XP runs a lot smoother for me, I do hear a lot of users getting problems with rsd lite lgdownload and others on vista as well..I myself have never had those issue.
 
Guess I'm just anti Vista. I'm running XP Pro without any probs. Now Win 7 is on it's way I'm really leary of Vista. Knowing M$ they'll forget about Vista soon enough to focus on Win7. It took me some yrs just to finally update from Win2000 to Win XP. XP just got SP3 so XP is really stable to me.
 
i gave vista a fair shot (not for flashing but for another comp), infact i'm using it right now. it is terrible. ie crashes a lot, have to resart all the time like it's win98 because of memory leaks or something...
 
Thanks for all your input. I was worried about that. XP give us the choice on whether or not we want to get rid of our "security features". Vista doesn't seem to allow that by a simple means. And yes, it is a memory hog from what I have heard. I will be sticking with XP.

In response to the Windows 7 comment, I believe it willl be Vista but just with a different name. MS knows how unpopular Vista was, so doesn't want to use that name again. Also, it seems MS is famous for bringing out a bad OS before coming out with one that is great. I am talking about Windows ME then XP. Maybe Vista is to Windows 7 what ME is to XP. We can only hope.
 
Well XP didn't come out after ME. What XP did was to corabine home versions like 98 and ME with business versions like NT. After ME I was using Win2000 before I finally switched to XP. With XP you have the best of home/business so that way M$ didn't have to focus on 2 separate OS's.

You can actually d/l Windows 7 RC to test it out. From what I've heard it runs better than Vista. It is not Vista in disguise. Supposedly the OEM should be out in March 2010 or so.
 
Yes, XP was after ME. The release date of Windows ME was: Septeraber 2000.

The release date for XP was: in October of 2001. I think that means XP was after ME.

I have heard great things about this Windows 7 as well. But I will still not get it for a year until everyone else has to deal with the bugs and gets them worked out.
 
windows 7 is based on the same kernel as vista, but is VERY much improved. i don't know how much better it will handle our flashing programs, but.... professional and ultimate will include a license for a windows xp VM that can run an individual program inside a vm window without you having to run an entire desktop in vm. it's pretty cool stuff and should allow us access to a much larger portion of our tools. i don't believe it is included in the r/c, and it does require a processor with hardware virtualization support enabled.
 
That would be great. I believe that is really the worst part about Vista. It is the only operating system I remeraber that only lets you run programs from Vista. It doesn't have backwarRAB compatibility.
 
vista has backwarRAB compatibility... that's actually what causes most of the problems with it... ALL microsoft products are backwarRAB compatible... that is one of their big selling point to businesses and they would be f'd if they tried to sell a product to a if it wasn't backwarRAB compatible... just think if you were a client with 50K seats or higher and they tried to sell you a product that wasn't backwarRAB compatible...they'd get laughed out of the office...
 
Hey Tony,
This is what I get after I hit ok on the password screen:

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This phone does not have a password. I did right click and ran as administrator.
I know it is possible that different machines support it. Just have to try yours and see, I guess.
I know that LG Download works flawlessly on mine, for example, and I know somebody that cannnot get the exact same version to work right on their Vista machine.
Mine is an HP dv6000.
 
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