Windows Vista Please Help

[u182155]

I am in desperate need of some help here. I have upgraded to Vista and am now having all sorts of problems. I am trying to uninstall Pro Tools 7.3 LE to do a fresh install. Everytime I try to uninstall I get an error stating that Pro Tools requires windows XP with SP2. Could someone please advise how I can delete.

[tonepad]

If I'm not mistaken you'll need to run 7.4 LE on a Vista machine. That's what I have running on a Vista Gateway box.

[spkguitar]

The problem is, if 7.3 was already installed when upgrading to Vista, the uninstall program won't run because it can't find the correct operating system, and then 7.4 cannot be installed until 7.3 is removed.


u182155, you might want to try the Pro Tools uninstall Utility.

[spkguitar]

Either that, or revert to the backup from right before the Vista upgrade.

You did backup your system before your did the upgrade, didn't you?

[albee1952]

At this point, it may be better to reformat and start from scratch. It s more wok but you may end up with a much better perfoming system. Backing up is king and I do all my updates with a complete cloned backup hard drive. Now you know why.

[tonepad]

OMG, I guess this is why my money machines are Macs. No flames please as I'm a long time PC user/abuser AND Bi platform. However the upgrade path to Vista is never recommended from the gurus I follow these days, such as Leo Laporte's gang at twit...notably Paul Therrott who always speaks of such an upgrade as a horror show. Their/my advice to anyone who hasn't done it is to keep the XP box native and save up or suck it up and buy a Vista native machine, a no-choice for off the shelf these days. That's exactly what I did and I have to say 7.4 LE is pretty good on it. I also think it's imperative to install a add-on GPU card...for PT machines I always go ATI. I kept my XP machine which I run games on but also as a fallback to Vista PT horrors....but so far so good with Win-V and PT 7.4 LE. I'm hammering on it for a guitar oriented music project now and it feels pretty good. Why not use my Mac/HD rig you/I might ask? Again that's for money making (my day gig is working as a Sound Supervisor/Editor/Designer) and the PC-v/PT LE rig is for fun and adventure.
Having said all this I can hear you saying...thanks a bunch buddy, but other posters have given you the proper updgrade route suggestion, so you need someone to shout "Abandon ship!, Head to dry land"...don't you?...I thought so <g>

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