> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Moose
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 4:38 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT Notes on Upgrading - III- Compatibility
>
> Tom Scales wrote:
> > Moose,
> >
> > I missed the beginning of your comments, but appreciate the level of
> detail.
> >
> Somebody besides me should gain some benefit from my "interesting"
> experiences. ;-)
> > I was a Vista user for a couple months and was forced back to XP
> because of
> > my Epson 7600. It's odd, because there IS a driver for Vista on
> Epson's
> > site, but I could never get it to find the printer. Weird.
> >
> Did you try uninstalling the old driver? Disconnect device. Uninstall
> device in Device Manager. Install new driver. Connect device. Let Plug
> and Play do it's thing.
>
> Sometimes this works where updating the driver in Device Manager
> doesn't. (Yes, now that you ask, "somebody" did mistakenly install an
> old driver in my new Vista....)
> > I'll get around to the upgrade again one of these days.
> >
> My basic theory is that one encounters less trouble by upgrading
> hardware and software together, new box with new OS pre-installed. This
> is the third time around, 98, XP and now Vista, and I'm convinced it's
> the low trouble way to go. There was no compelling reason for me to go
> to Vista at the moment, but it was time for an equipment upgrade, so I
> did both at once. Just as with 95=>98, and 98=>XP, I'm pretty sure an
> eventual OS upgrade would have been necessary. I actually could have
> ordered with XP installed and a Vista upgrade CD, but that just sounded
> like asking for more trouble to me.
>
> Moose
Nothing to uninstall. I did a clean install of Vista on my Dimension 9200
using Dell's upgrade disk (weird work around to make that happen, but it
works).
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