Vista

[HawkerHart]

Another problem :@

Ok so this new shiney laptop may not be the answer to my prayers!

Having just got back to simming after a year or so break, I have been getting to know all the tools I used to mess around with again, mainly Traffic Tools and EditVoicePack. But I can't use them because it tells me that I do not have permission to save over things. I assume this is a Vista prob, as I never had it before (on XP). The programs run ok, but when I come to saving(which is needed to make the changes stick) I get...

" Unable to save:
Access to the path "C:\ProgramFiles\Bevelstone
Production\EditVoicePack\EditVoicePackData.xml" is denied. "

And similar in traffic tools.

I have admin rights, at least I assume I do as it says I am the administrator. Any ideas? HELP

[Garry Russell]

In Vista you don't have the same admin rites

I think........no sure, that some get arround this by not installing FS in the default programmes but eleswhere. Some folk can't even edit cfg files unless something like this is done

Someone who knows will come along, so hang in there ...all is not lost

Garry

[tonymadge]

buy a copy of XP ..not really the answer you want to hear, I have in taskmanager 33 things running and thats with cautious trimming but making sure my spyware and anti virus are running all the time, Vista is on my Dad's laptop and has 60 odd things running!!!!! Its an awful cumbersome OS and wants full controll, I believe you can stop the Admin rights to it which tells you whats needing permission etc, its the only thing that has stopped me buying a new PC ( oh and the cash)

[DaveG]

Turn UAC (User Account Control) off.

[RobDob]

buy a copy of XP ..not really the answer you want to hear, I have in taskmanager 33 things running and thats with cautious trimming but making sure my spyware and anti virus are running all the time, Vista is on my Dad's laptop and has 60 odd things running!!!!! Its an awful cumbersome OS and wants full controll, I believe you can stop the Admin rights to it which tells you whats needing permission etc, its the only thing that has stopped me buying a new PC ( oh and the cash)

Crikey.....I got 54 processess running! I need to look at trimming those down a bit I reckon! :o

[HawkerHart]

Turn UAC (User Account Control) off.

Thank you, that's sorted it.

Was getting rather annoying, everytime I wanted to move or change something it would tell me at least twice that I needed permission and if I wanted to continue... :@ YES ITS MY COMPUTER JUST DO IT :@ ahem sorry

So would people really recomend ditching Vista and getting XP. My sim runs fairly decently now, I guess with XP it would be that much better with less background use of my specs.

[DaveB]

I can only speak from a very limited experience with Vista and I immediately felt like you have and the many thousands of others. Fortunately, Vista is on my daughters laptop and not on any of my systems so I was happy with that

For those that have it.. I think the general concensus is that once the UAC has been turned off.. it runs pretty much like XP.. perhaps more stable. I'm not going to buy it unless I have to but that doesn't say it's not much cop ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[stegs]

Probably best sticking with Vista.
XP will be dead in a couple of years

[DanKH]

Dave: Spoken like a true Oracle of Delphi!

A long an interesting story with two possible outcome, that leaves the listener in a dilemma on which advice to go for

I can't vouch for on or the other, as I don't have Vista.

Some that have it says it's great, others that it's not... the same with XP really....

In the end my advice would be that if you feel good about what you have, don't do too much to change it, most likely you won't get any huge difference.

if you don't like what you have, change it a.s.a.p. ...

There's my tuppence...

[stegs]

Some of us old f***ts still miss Windows 3.1