I recommend that you sit back and take a deep breath. I have a one month old Dell laptop with Vista and it is working just fine. I never even used the setup that I paid for since I set it up myself and transferred files from my old desktop to the new laptop.
Go slow and easy. Legacy was installed, registered, and pointed to the family file which had been transferred, and works just fine. I also installed FTM and after an update it works fine. All in all my own experience with Vista has surprised me because I had been warned it would be bad. It wasn't. Elaine > I just bought a new HP computer with Vista on > it. We found a good sale > on it but we really got what we paid for. "Will > I ever learn?" Vista is > terrible, at this stage. You can't download > things easily. It only came > with junky programs or ones that you can only > get for 60 day trial period. > Because of Vista, you have to get extra help > from the companies before you > can download your favorite old programs or > installation discs. Everyone > told me AFTER I bought the computer that I > should have waited till Microsoft > got the bugs worked out, just as they did with XP. OR, I could have > gotten a computer built with XP and the > programs we use. Our only solution > now may be to spend more money to have Vista > wiped off the harddrive and > have XP installed back on the computer. So much for sales. > Legacy walked me through the download via the > web ONLY. Discs didn't work. > But, now that I have Legacy downloaded, it's > BLANK! (I'm shouting with > frustration!) All my data is still on my old > laptop with XP. Does anyone > have suggestions for transferring the data? > One other big question, when I retrieve info from > Ancestry.com<http://ancestry.com/>, > how can I import it directly to Legacy? I > usually have to write it in > longhand and then type it into Legacy. That's > very time consuming and prone > to mistakes. Thanks for any suggestions to these problems. > Donna Brown Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
