Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Vista Transformation Pack

One thing I forgot to mention in all of my updating is the reason why I had a long posting gap. Well, here it is: I’m stupid.

I have made some pretty bad choices in my downloads before, like Internet Explorer 7, well that wasn’t bad, just that it was still in the BETA version! I have also before managed to download spy ware and all kinds of other fun stuff. Well, my most recent misguided was this Vista Transformation Pack 6.0. The idea is that is makes your computer look like Windows Vista (I’ll just assume that you all know that that’s the newest Operating System from Microsoft) and it works great. Until you try restarting your system. Then I started getting error messages about Windows Explorer and I couldn’t do anything (operating without a taskbar is hard). Anyway, I decided to restart and same thing happened again. Now, here I should explain that everything else that I’ve downloaded could be fixed relatively easily. Just uninstall and it’s fixed. But this Vista Transformation Pack actually went in and changed some pretty important files, so when I uninstalled it. It didn’t fix those files. The result was that when I restarted again, I only saw a black screen telling me that I was missing a System32 file and I needed my Operating System CD. For about three days, I was restricted to web mail and I thought that I’d lost everything on my computer, indeed, I thought that I’d lost my computer all together. My only consolation was that I might end up with a newer computer (with Vista), but I really didn’t want to spend money I didn’t have. But eventually, I found the CD (which I didn’t even know I had) and was able to repair my system.

I would just like this post to stand as a warning to anyone who wants a Vista look for their computer. DON’T USE VISTA TRANSFORMATION PACK. Even though I have my computer back, I still get error messages for just about everything. I’m still looking around, but I think I’m going to have to buy a registry cleaning program. That will cost a good $30, which isn’t as much as a new computer, but I could have saved myself time and money, by not downloading that stupid program.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'll take your mistake to heart, although I doubt that the Vista Transformation Pack would work on my Windows 98 computer :)

Isaac said...

I'll probably just go with the real Vista. Not until Microsplat releases the non-beta version, tho...

ztr_rider said...

Would that be the "Alpha" version???