Software evaluation with Vista compatibility

Since the beginning of 07, Microsoft's Windows Vista system has been fully integrated into the market. Many experts have predicted that this will bring a profound change in the field of operating system and replacement. Powerful features, beautiful cool screen, intimate user design, so that the vast number of users of Microsoft this new operating system is full of yearning.

But there are always freckles on the face of any newborn, and there are many things that are not satisfactory to vista. High power consumption, demanding computer configuration, these affect our choice of Vista and use. In addition, a large number of software and Vista incompatible, resulting in our work and learning inconvenience, it is a has been unable to completely solve the problem.

Here we have a lot of users will often use some software for Vista compatibility Evaluation, hope to be helpful to everyone. To ensure fairness, our tests will ensure that no software is installed on a new machine to prevent other software from affecting the test results. Test results are relatively simple, but simply to explain whether the software in the Vista operating system can be normal operation and the problem, not for its reasons for too much in-depth research, the main purpose is to let everyone know, what software can be used, what software is not used.

Video playback Software

Video playback software is one of the most commonly used software, a good piece of new film dynamic rendering depends on it. Because of the wide variety of video playback software, and Windows Media Player is Microsoft's biological child, there will be no compatibility issues, we only choose to use the most extensive software in addition to WMP two to compare.

Storm Audio 1.0 07.03.23: According to a large number of users, under the XP use rate is very high video playback software storm audio and visual, and Vista compatibility is very poor. Although there is no problem with the installation, but every time the computer started prompted Vista to prevent the built-in multimedia system startup, and the computer inside the RMVB movie file icon is not recognized state, although also can be opened with a storm, but still let people worry that there will be some other incompatibility problems. At the same time, the Storm AV and Vista is not compatible with DirectX 10, there are a lot of problems, the destruction of the Dircetshow function.

Realone player 2.0:realone player before installation through the UAC user Account Control of the program identification system checks, Vista has passed the software certification, in theory, such programs have a low probability of compatibility problems. After installation RealOne player is normal, no compatibility problems, DirectShow function has not been damaged, the trial time for various features of the demo also did not appear problems, that it can and Vista perfect compatibility.

Conclusion: Windows Media player is no doubt the preferred video playback software for Vista, but the huge demand for RMVB format videos by Chinese users makes RealOne Player a good choice for Vista video playback.

Download software

Downloading a file is one of the things that we need on the web, so it is extremely necessary to download the software's compatibility evaluation. Here we choose the Network Thunder, BitComet and Electric donkey three popular download software as the evaluation object.

Web Thunder: Now the most popular download software to the number of network thunder, but in Vista, we are afraid to enjoy its advantages, its advantages, the installation process did not pass the UAC certification, but also not normal use. Just click on the right button, select "Download through the Web", will pop up dialog box, and then click to allow the program will automatically exit, repeated many times is so, it seems really incompatible with Vista operating system.

BitComet 0.89:bitcomet is my personal favorite BT software, it also did not escape the UAC certification, but in the actual use of its performance is quite good. The same seed, BitComet connection speed is very fast, download speed quickly to 50k/s, let me excited, but its flaws are also very obvious, as long as the task paused, it can not continue to download, continue to automatically exit the program, can only click the seed to start again, There seems to be a big compatibility problem.

The Emule 0.47c build 070418:emule is another very popular peer-to-peer download software that uses a huge group of people, but it does have a very big problem when it comes to installation. First of all, it did not pass UAC certification, and then the installation is almost over when we saw the Windows Security platform warning, we choose to always install, and then the machine has a blue screen crash, which we never thought of. After the reboot, the software can still run, and it does not seem to have any impact, but also because I am not familiar with the software, at least I have not encountered in the trial process too much impact.

Conclusion: Judging from the stability of the use, BitComet should be more useful in this kind of software, although it can not achieve perfect compatibility.

Instant Messaging Software

QQ and Vista incompatibility problem, once noisy uproar. Many media outlets are rushing to report that Microsoft has created a huge incompatibility between QQ and Vista to help live Messenger capture market share. As a user, we are mainly concerned about which software to use, the behavior of the enterprise is not more attention.

QQ 2006 Official version: QQ This online chat software is almost every computer necessary, there are a large number of users, it and Vista has a great conflict, almost how to operate will encounter the situation of blue screen, can not be used, which makes many people difficult to accept. In fact, this is Tencent in order to prevent the theft of the phenomenon, QQ joined the keyboard encryption technology caused by, we have found a solution.

Delete the two files in the diagram can solve the problem, QQ and Vista compatibility problem will be solved.

Live Messenger 8.1: As Microsoft's own child, live Messenger runs in Vista without any problems. The only thing missing is that there is no QQ so many rich expressions and fun things.

Conclusion: QQ and Vista do have a huge incompatibility, it is more recommended to use live Messenger. But because of the huge cost of such software migrations, users who want to use QQ still have a way to improve their compatibility. It is believed that Tencent will also improve the compatibility of the new version of QQ in the future.

English Dictionary Software

In the field of English electronic dictionaries, "Kingsoft" has been a solo show. But with the development of the Internet, the application of online dictionaries is more and more extensive. The timeliness of its interpretation and the interpretation of uncommon words and professional terms are not comparable to the general stand-alone dictionaries. "Youdao Mass Dictionary" is the forerunner of this field.

PowerWord 2006: The most stable and commonly used "Kingsoft PowerWord 2006", in the Vista under the big problem of incompatibility, the entire software can not operate normally. In the new version of "Kingsoft PowerWord 2007", the compatibility problem has been partially resolved, but there will be some small problems in the use, such as the screen can not take words, many netizens have encountered a variety of errors and denied access. In addition, many netizens reflect the "PowerWord 2007" Thesaurus is obviously not enough. It seems that PowerWord is now a lot of problems.

Youdao Mass Dictionary: Youdao A large number of dictionaries are netease new search engine "Youdao" (www.yodao.com) at present, one of several products. Its "network interpretation" function is relatively novel, by looking for the corresponding English and Chinese in the page to explain, can find common but not in the traditional dictionary included in the professional abbreviations and popular words. As an online dictionary, it has the advantage of not having to install any clients, so there is no compatibility issue. But for users accustomed to the client, Youdao a large amount of dictionaries and provide a lightweight gadget download, user-friendly access to the word. This Gadget is currently ranked top three in Vista Gadget gallery download rankings.

Conclusion: From the view of compatible stability and the breadth of thesaurus, it is slightly to have a large amount of dictionaries.

Overview of common software Vista compatibility evaluation results

　　

Type	Software	Compatible	Not compatible
Video playback Software	Storm AV 1.0 07.03.23		√
Realone Player 2.0	√
Windows Media Player 10	√
Quick time	√
Download software	Web Thunder		√
Bit Elf 3.2.2.215		√
BitComet 0.89	√
Electric Donkey 0.47c Build 070418		√
Instant Messaging Software	QQ 2006 Official Edition		√
Live Messenger 8.1	√
English Dictionary	Kingsoft PowerWord 2006		√
A mass of dictionaries	√