starbucks hates vista

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am went to starbucks in trafford centre today with laptop while having wall fixed,and to have mocha and internet,the trafford centre starbucks has free wifi.
today,they were?are? allowing all day free wifi internet useage,which was great until found out they are not vista compatible for some reason.
it found the connection good enough,but wouldn't connect,one of the staff said to support worker-for vista,something has to be downloaded before their network can be used,wondering what exactly it is that needs downloading to get it working on vista in starbucks,anyone know?
supposed to work easy on xp and osx but not vista.

I upgraded my Vista to XP. maybe you should do the same and get rid of that s**t OS.

am agree,like the way are saying upgraded rather than downgraded to xp,it does seem like an upgrade to how it is at the moment,am do not want to downgrade just yet,as have got to used to using vista as main os.

one of the night staff here bought a laptop from pcworld [worst place of the lot],it had vista on and she couldn't even work out the gui,so she took it back and got a refurbished laptop with xp on.

vista shouldn't have been released so early when developers,and places like starbucks haven't even been able to update for them yet.

Starbucks isnt the only thing that hates Vista - trust me.

Thats because Vista has good for nothing program support.

Get yourself a Mac instead. Macs r0xx0r.

does anybody love vista?

I Dual boot XP and Ubuntu 7.10. I can get online even if one is fussy.

As Psychotic says, accurately, you may need to upgrade to XP.

I've just help a friend to do that. His new laptop, as supplied, only had ineffective Vista, where sound was not fully supported.

Other than a bit of hassle getting the XP drivers, there was no problem with the upgrade.

the question to ask is:

"who doesn't hate vista?"

starbucks and I have something in common

I say get an iBook (if you can find one, but don't get the clamshell), get it a fresh battery, and use that for your wireless internet needs. Or if you can't find one, get a MacBook, not as great mobilitywise, but still pretty good, and you'll get wicked fast Leopard. I've had a lot more luck with Mac wifi than with my Compaq laptop.

I got a new laptop, and it came with Vista. I'm having no luck getting back to XP-my brother tried it and said the laptop has 2...compartments, I think he said it was. Maybe the word was sections. Something like that. XP needed it to be like 1 room, but the laptop is set up like 2 rooms. Any suggestions on getting the new computer to use XP like my old one did? (By the way, in case the 2 compartments thing is weird and you're wondering what the hell kind of laptop would do such a thing, it's an Acer Aspire 5610-2738) If anybody has any suggestions I'll show this thread to my brother, so don't be afraid to answer in TechSpeak-I assume he'll understand, though I obviously won't.

I don't hate Vista. I've never tried it. I'M SCARED!

Besides, my machine only(!) goes up to 2GB of RAM. From what I've read, Vista needs that just to warm up and 4GB to function properly(?). Also, I read that XP SP3 is going to give a speed boost, while Vista SP1 isn't and XP is already faster than Vista.

"Partitions" is the word you're after.

The two partitions you have are the one Vista lets you see, and the one where Acer keeps all the intall files for Vista, hidden away.

The extra partition is so that the manufacturer can con you, by not giving you an install DVD, hence saving some pennies, and also stealing some space on your hard drive.

Acer, and others, were already playing this game with XP machines, before Vista.

There's nothing to stop you splitting the Vista partition and installing XP as well.

I've just helped someone local, to upgrade a new Acer from Vista to XP. The only problem I ran into was that the Acer website rather hides the drivers you need (ethernet, display, touchpad, sound, and so on - everything!). Not much a problem, just fiddly. Got everything, in the end, with the help of Ubuntu, which recognised everything from the start. I.e. I dual-booted with Linux, first, so I could use the internet to locate and download the drivers for XP (it couldn't even access the ethernet on its own).

In this case, he had decide to throw Vista right out of the window, as it wouldn't ran any of his paid-for software. You can keep Vista and XP, and even have a Linux system, all on the same machine. On this machine, I have two copies of XP (my original one broke (odd display driver problem), but I keep it as a "spare"), and a few Linux installs, including this Ubuntu, a Debian and a Fedora. I actually have three hard drives, divided up into 23 partitions - which is rather silly.

Thank you, Lau. That was excellent help.