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Old 12-04-2007, 04:48 AM
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just got a new laptop...it came with Windows Vista and not XP. I searched efi.com(wich reccomended XP) as well as the stickies and didn't see anything mentioned about Vista. Can Vista be used to tune? Or do I need XP?
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Old 12-04-2007, 04:59 AM
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EFI LIVE works fine with VISTA. I've been using it for nearly a year on my laptop. One suggestion I will make is that you allow full access privileges to the EFI Live folder in Program files. The 7.5 update gave me an issue in that I couldn't full flash without these rights set to full access or opening the tune tool as an administrator.. Once set to full rights its all fine.
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You also have compatibility modes you can enable in Vista if things dont run stable.
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There's quite a few threads on www.forum.efilive.com addressing Vista issues.
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thank you guys for the good info...its good to know I can tune with Vista as well.
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Rhino79 tuned mine yesterday with EFI LIVE on Vista no problems to report.
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I use HP Tuners with Vista Premium, no issues.. though if I could go back I'd just keep Windows XP SP2, much faster.




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