I have posted this on another blog but thought it would be helpful to ActiveRain members as well...
I had a meltdown a couple of weeks ago when I replaced my laptop's keyboard using Gateway's "easy" instructions and damaged a ribbon cable on another part in the process. You guessed it, my backups weren't up to date. (Shame, shame!) Well, I dropped it off to my trusted tech fellow and he called me later that day to inform me that he couldn't get the part needed to fix my machine. OMG what is a girl to do? I have a PC but it's ancient - 6 years old now and slower than molasses...and my other laptop. Wow, that one could reside in a museum. I think it's from 1996 or ‘97. To my tech I asked, could he backup my files for me onto my external hard drive? Sure thing, Pam, he said...but that'll be $80. I bit the bullet and got him to back it up.
That night I went out and purchased a brand new HP Pavillion desktop with all the bells and whistles - 4600+ AMD Athlon dual core processor, 320Gig hard drive, 2Gig RAM, Nvidia GeForce graphics card, and the piece de resistance....a 22″ widescreen LCD monitor (Is it hot in here or is it just me?) Man, I was completely geeked. That is, until I fired it up and proceeded to enter a new listing in an MLS system for a client and realized that Vista is NOT COMPATIBLE with Paragon, nor is it with FlexMLS. Okay, I resorted to my 2001 dinosaur PC as slow as it was, and figured life was okay. Then, I needed to prepare a CMA for another client, went into Top Producer 7i and guess what? Right you are...NOT COMPATIBLE!
So, just a word to the wise. Prior to upgrading to Vista or buying a new computer take heed - it may not work with your third party software.
Cheers,
Pam Ivey, Cert SBM,CREA,PREVA,CRESS,CMP | REALTOR Solutions Specialist
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