Questions for Vista users

John Pollard · 2007-04-17T22:17:27+00:00

1.) Does Vista have Windows Explorer? If not, what is the Vistaequivalent?2.) Does the Vista Windows Explorer (equivalent) default tohiding the XP equivalent of "protected operating system files"?3.) Does the Vista Windows Explorer (equivalent) have a Searchfeature? Is there any appreciable difference in the VistaSearch feature from the XP Search feature.4.) Does Vista have a "Documents and Settings" folder? If not,is there an equivalent and what is its name?5.) Does Quicken install folders in the Vista "Documents andSettings" folder? In both the "All Users" folder and the folderfor each specific Windows user?6.) Does Quicken install a file named anywhere on yourhard drive for Vista users? If yes, where?7.) Do any of the answers to the questions above differ if youare using different flavors of Vista: are the answers differentfor users of Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, or VistaUltimate?Thank you in advance.

Apr 17, 2007 24 Replies

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Bob Wang 19 years ago

I, too, am grateful for the bleeding edge frontiersman ;-)

Bob

Let me echo Margaret's reply: thanks for all this. I too will be salting it away.

I think it will be a while before I am actually using Vista, but I do keep running into those who already are, and hopefully I will now be a bit better able to communicate with Quicken users on Vista.

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R. C. White 19 years ago

Hi, John - and Margaret.

I doubt that either of you, personally, will encounter any significant problems with Vista, either x64 or x86, and Quicken.

As I recall, John, you don't dual-boot, so whichever version of Vista you choose should perform as straightforwardly as WinXP Pro. If you don't choose x64 and see the new Program Files (x86) folder, you may not notice much change, especially in Quicken. But, to sustain the quality of support that you have given here so freely for so long, I know you will want to explore past the basics, and you are almost guaranteed to see some glitches there.

Margaret, I think I've seen your posts in the EPoX newsgroup and they indicate some sophistication with multiple operating systems. You will have the same opportunities for confusion that I have seen and described, especially if you dual-boot WinXP x86/Vista x64, but you are clever enough and persistent enough to solve them without too much trauma.

I recommend Vista to both of you. The conversion path will have more bumps smoothed out if you wait a while, but you can't even start climbing the learning curve until you take that first step.

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MartinC 19 years ago

Fraid not,... Dragon Naturally Speaking doesn't run in 64 bits and never will :(

Martin

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R. C. White 19 years ago

Hi, Martin.

"Never will"? Maybe.

"64-bit WinXP or Vista will run all 32-bit software"? Maybe.

Did we both overstate our case somewhat? Maybe. ;^}

As I said, during the Vista beta period, I found several 32-bit programs that would not install and run in Vista x64. One that frustrated me was Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0. But that one wouldn't install in Vista x86, either, at first. Another was Nero Burning ROM. By the end of the Vista beta, though, both those programs were available in versions that are now working in Vista x64.

I've never tried to run Dragon NaturallySpeaking, or any similar program. As of today, the Nuance website says, "Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5 does not support 64-bit versions of Windows Vista."

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But that does not say "never will". Also, it does not clearly say that the 32-bit version of DNS will not run as a 32-bit application in WinXP x64, just as I'm now running Quicken 2007 Basic - a 32-bit program - in Vista Ultimate x64. That's what I meant to say in my quoted comment. Sometimes, "support" does not mean the same thing to users as it does to vendors. Many applications that are not "supported" will actually run, but we won't be entitled to get tech support from the developer if we hit a snag.

Have you actually tried to run 32-bit Dragon NaturallySpeaking in Vista x64, Martin? Or know anyone who has? What was the result?

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