Vista??? Avoid it! Re: change from .hlp to ?

Harvey Brown wrote:

I've been using the Hellp program to make .hlp files in Microsoft Word
for many years. Vista doesn't support .hlp, so I've got to change to
something else.

And to be precise, WinHelp32 _does_ work fine with Vista.

In Winhelp case Microsoft just found one more place how to be a nasty
behemoth with their brand new operating system. They decided not to
include WinHelp32 support on Vista installation DVD. Yet they did
include the ancient 16-bit WinHelp system on the same Vista DVD, and it
gets automatically installed to Vista for the old 16-bit Windows
applications.

Currently Microsoft requires that every Windows user on earth must
separately go and download WinHelp32 support from Microsoft's site and
install it.
http://tinyurl.com/2n2z7g

And then when you have made this extra bowing to Microsoft's direction,
then Winhelp32 will mercifully start to work on Vista. Just as it has
worked on all earlier Windows versions from Win95 to WinXP.

My own User Experience just keeps telling me that HTML Help system is
slow and clumsy when compared to old WinHelp32 that still makes it's job
all right.

The fact is that Vista is not yet a good operating system for business
usage. Not good for small companies and especially not good for bigger
companies to start supporting.
http://www.news.com/The-XP-alternative-for-Vista-PCs/2100-1016_3-6209481.html
That is, Microsoft is "silently" allowing PC makers to keep delivering
XP operating system for business clients.

And Vista is not yet good even for governmental usage. This ban from the
US Department of Transportation against Vista operating system, Office
2007 and Explorer 7.0 is still valid. http://tinyurl.com/ytubtt

The Vista Bloatware is terrible. When you make a plain Vista
installation from the DVD you will get your \WINDOWS directory filled
with 9.7 Gigabytes of unreliable and slow garbage. Yes, it's almost 10
Gigs just to get the operating system up. And even that empty Vista is
crawling slowly on a 2.5 GHz computer with1 GB RAM memory and fast SATA
raid disks.

Currently I am advising all my business clients to stay away from Vista
operating system and order their new machines with Windows XP installed.

If the computer store says they no more have anything else then Vista
operating systems, you can say that you'll go to Fujitsu or Dell or IBM
etc. They still keep having a choice to select either XP or Vista
operating system.

I have spent weeks struggling with different Vista driver and
incompatibility problems and anomalies.

For instance, I had a fully installed Vista machine and applications set
for a client. Then customer transferred the machine to his office and
plugged the power cables and Internet cables. All seemed to work all
right. But the client could not find the IE Icon or the whole Explorer
anywhere, though I had left the IE Icon on the Desktop as usual.

I spent an hour over the telephone trying to help the client to find the
IE icon again. We failed; the Explorer was totally disappeared. Finally
I asked the client to write on the Command Line "www.microsoft.com" and
press OK button. This finally opened the Internet Explorer.
I was almost sure that the client does something very stupid while he
can't find as simple thing as IE Explorer from his Windows.

No, it was not the client's fault at all. The new Vista operating system
does routinely hide the IE icon so that it is really painful to find
again. Here are some tips how you can advice your clients over telephone
support to start Registry Editor and then make some changes to Registry,
and then you maybe will get the IE icon back.
http://tinyurl.com/yo4578

I'm sorry about the slightly bitter tone against Vista. It's just so
frustrating to struggle with new computer systems that are either damn
slow or in some way crippled right from the box.

Q: "Please, can you help me get my Outlook e-mail open in Vista, and
also to transfer my old Outlook emails to Vista.".
A: "Sorry my dearest client but Windows Vista no more has nor supports
the Outlook e-mail."

Yet I am supposed to be an application developer. Not a buggy operating
system and hardware specialist.
-Peter
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