Malcolm H wrote:

"David Looser" wrote in message
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"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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I am a licensed user of Cool Edit 2000 and have been for many years.
When I purchased it originally the license was about $20. Cool Edit
2000 worked perfectly under Windows XP and is definitely the best
audio editor I have used - and I have tried most of them!

I agree totally , I've used it for many years, under win98, win 2000
and now winXP, and it's always worked perfectly, which is more than
can be said for most software I've used!

When I upgraded to Vista I had problems with Cool Edit 2000.

Sounds like yet another reason NOT to use Vista! Microsoft will have
to drag me kicking and screaming before I'll touch it.

David.


I WAS dragged kicking and screaming into Vista because I wanted to use
Windows Media Center with a Media Center Extender - and WMC is only
available in Vista.

My computer is configured with dual boot XP/Vista and for several months
I primarily used XP - and only used Vista when necessary. Now I must
confess I have got used to Vista and use it all the time, only reverting
to XP when really necessary (increasingly rare!). I have disabled
annoyances like UAC (User Access Control) and the infantile arty-farty
desktop graphics and now find that, after all the Vista updates and SP1,
all my applications work fine. Even Cool Edit 2000 is acceptable if
allowances are made for small display inaccuracies.

I now find that Vista is more stable than XP (I have never seen a blue
screen!), more secure, and in some ways easier to use than XP.

If you have the time and patience give Vista a try. You might end up
preferring it!

Malcolm


I was just about to Freecycle a USB DAC someone in a recording studio
gave me about 10 years ago - it had only ever worked under win98, and
then not very well IIRC. For some bizarre reason it was correctly
identified, down to name and model, and automatically installed drivers
under Vista. Seems to work perfectly.

Just plugged it into my Mac and again, picked up perfectly. Opcode
Sonicport.

Rob