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Over the Easter weekend I upgraded from XP Pro to Vista Business edition and I am really liking it so far. At first I wasn’t sure what to think, but the more I use it the more I like it. I find it’s somewhere in between XP and OSX. There are a few quirks but once you get used to them you really don’t notice them. And the only reason you notice them in the first place is because it’s acts differently then you are used to in XP.

But  below are some things I ran into while installing it and the solutions.

FlexBuilder
When I first  ran  Flex Builder it gave me an error and wouldn’t start up.  I thought something might be up so I re-installed it and the same thing happened. After some searching I found that you have to right click on the .exe and select “Run As Administrator”. You only have to do that the first time you run it though. And then when I got it working it decided to use the French Canadian Keyboard layout instead of the English one. I didn’t even have that layout selected but it was still using it. So I actually went in a deleted the entry from the Keyboard utility app in the Control Panel. It was really weird because every other app used the right layout.

Annoying Permission Popups
When you are installing a lot of apps at once you get these stupid permission popups asking you to allow the install. Think of that Mac and PC commercial by Apple where the security guard is standing behind PC. It’s pretty much like that. So to turn it off check out this link to turn it off.

Firefox
While I was customizing Firefox I deleted all of the bookmarks in the bookmark tab. If it’s empty the page while keep jumping on you. So just make sure you always have 1 bookmark in the tab.

Acrobat Reader
If you have turned off the annoying permissions popups you will get a “Temp Drive Full” when trying to install Acrobat Reader. The only way to fix this as far as I know is to temporarily turn on the permissions.

Now the only thing I still haven’t figured out is how to uninstall the Vista apps like Windows Calendar, MovieMaker, Mail etc… Really it’s not that big of a deal but it would be nice to get ride of them.

I hope this helps make installing Vista a little easier. And if you aren’t sure on whether you should upgrade I would recommend it.