Today at work, the Vista machine started acting oddly. We hate Vista at work. It's system requirements are too high for our used hardware and the system is sluggish. Worst of all, we didn't install XP as a boot option with Vista, so we didn't really have an XP option to use at work, outside of our register.Well, we finally had it today. Vista had lost all it's network shares, connection to the internet, it's desktop background, and a few other minor things, along with the problems we have been having using the Vista operating system instead of XP. So, we backed up what was necessary and reinstalled Windows XP. Vista just wasn't cutting it, and we weren't about to spend hours running through the software to get it up and running the way we want.
So, we've got our new Techroom system, which Mitchell has dubbed "Milton" after the doofusy character from Office Space. A fitting title for our strange an unusual Tech Room system.
We'll probably just run Vista in an emulation mode, but more on that later, after it has been implemented.
BTW: the odd behaviour in Vista turned out to be more related to a bad network cable than a problem with the OS, including the desktop background, which was being loaded from one of our network drives. Ahh well.
