Vista Temperature Check
December 11, 2007
Judging by the search strings which bring visitors to this website, the pattern of problems encountered by Vista users is changing. There are still people looking for solutions to slow performance and freezes, but there are far larger numbers more concerned with specific issues, such as how to enable the audio “what you hear” channel (which Microsoft deliberately crippled in Vista) or why it is almost impossible to do any kind of video encoding in Vista without something major crashing.
Here is a selection of “Vista problem areas” (in order of number of relevant hits on this site) and the related search strings:
COM Surrogate and Windows Explorer Crashes Associated with Video encoding
Description:
Tendency for the “COM Surrogate” process to crash when encoding video, and for drag/drop operations on video files to crash Windows Explorer where certain video codecs are used.
Related posts:
Vista’s Video Nasties
Search strings:
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“What You Hear” Disabled
Description:
Disabling of “stereo mix” or “what you hear” audio channels
Related posts:
With Vista what you hear is not what you get
How to get what you hear
Search strings:
recording what you hear on vista, “what you hear” in vista, vista audio capture what you hear, stereo mix vista, what you hear sound driver, vista disabled audacity streaming audio, enable what you hear in vista, what you hear audacity, “Stereo Mix” o “What you hear” vista, what you hear windows vista, “what you hear” vista, audacity “what you hear”, vista record what you hear
Nero 6 does not work with Vista
Description:
Nero 6 does not install or does not work correctly in Vista
Related posts:
Nero Burning Rage
ImgBurn the answer?
Search strings:
fix for nero 6 in vista, nero will not work on vista, nero burning update for vista, problem nero 6 not working in vista, Specified host adapter invalid nero, nero burning on vista compatibilty
MS Visual Studio 6 does not install correctly on Vista
Description:
Installation of Visual Studio 6 on Vista does not complete correctly so that service packs cannot be installed
Related posts:
Getting Visual Studio 6 to install on Vista
Search strings:
Is Visual Studio 6 compatible with Vista, vb6 vista ole error, vista & vs6, visual studio 6 vista compatible, “Visual Studio 6″ Vista, visual studio 6 setup fails, visual studio ver 6 vista, install visual studio 6 on vista
Confusing UAC messages caused by some startup programs
Description:
Vista repeatedly blocks some programs that launch on start-up (eg Adobe Update Manager) because they trigger User Account Control
Related posts:
Now UAC it, now you don’t
Vista: Confusion, alarm and annoyance all rolled into one
Search strings:
vista blocking adobe update manager, vista startup items always ask, vista startup programs safe to stop, adobe update manager and windows vista, adobe update manager vista startup
Vista’s Slow performance & Tendency to Freeze
Description:
Vista tends to perform sluggishly, particularly on lower end machines, and can lock up altogether with some applications
Related posts:
Vista and the Curse of the Rotating Blue Bagel
What’s so great about Vista that it’s worth crippling my PC for?
Vista’s Morning Sickness
Vista’s voracity for RAM
The suckiness of Vista was evident long ago
The majority of Vista PCs being sold right now aren’t powerful enough to run Vista
Well worth the upgrade from Vista to XP
Dipping my toe back in
Search strings:
Performance/freezing issues with iTunes iTunes runs slow on vista, itunes vista freeze, itunes slow launch vista, does itunes slow down vista, itunes causing vista to freeze Relevant posts Vista performance, resource requirements vista runs like a dog,”windows vista runs slow” “cpu”, superfetch sucks, 1gb enough vista Relevant posts Vista freezes vista freeze, why does vista freeze right up, busy cursor freeze vista
