Data Backups for Windows Vista

Robbie Ferguson: I would like to take a look at data backups for Vista, so— Christy Burton: Me too, I was so excited when I heard we were going to cover that tonight. That’s what I need to know. Robbie Ferguson: You're running a Vista system at home? Christy Burton: Yes. I'm trying to run a Vista system at home. Robbie Ferguson: Okay,—for you like learning what were you on before that? Christy Burton: I love the XP, you know I got around that so easily and I found for Vista, everything is painful. I don’t know why there were so many changes but I'm trying to backup my system and it just keeps saying, backup failed, terminal failure, catastrophic failure. Robbie Ferguson: Oh goodness. Didn’t it seem like this is just my—as an outsider looking in, with clients and stuff that it felt like for people when they upgraded, so to speak, from XP to Vista, they might as well have tried Mac OS. Christy Burton: Well I didn’t do it intentionally and that’s what really bothers me. My computer crashed, there was a—I was in a lightning storm and I just grabbed this great price per bundle and this one come with Vista. Robbie Ferguson: Did it feel like you could have gone with Mac OS or Linux, like the learning curve was that high that you could have tried any new operating systems? Christy Burton: It’s similar in some respects in what it promises, but then once— Robbie Ferguson: To XP or— Christy Burton: Well just XP I guess but the setup is different so I thought, you know the way you look at it once you get used to what it looks like and then you just click on familiar sounding words and it should be the same thing but it’s not and some of the things that were working great with XP are now no longer working with Vista. Robbie Ferguson: Yeah a lot of the legacy applications, games especially, if you’ve got old games that—I love my Need for Speed and that doesn’t work on Vista, I mean you just couldn’t get the legacy stuff to work so— Christy Burton: And even stupid things like the date on Vista. Robbie Ferguson: It’s just different. Christy Burton: You know when you're typing a letter in Office and then you start typing January at the top of the letter, so you get J-a, and then with XP it would go January 27, 2009 and then you just click on that box and it pins it for you but you do J-a and it says, do you want January? And you click on yes so then it gives you January, but then you still have to go down to the bottom right to get the date. Robbie Ferguson: Are you sure you authorized that, continue, continue? Yeah I just found that a lot of users do not spend too much time talking about Vista but a lot of people found that it was such a big change from XP that I might as well have tried something else. Christy Burton: Yeah. Robbie Ferguson: Yeah.