Windows Vista on The Acer Guy
Posted by 
Michael Walsh) on Apr 23 2007 | Tagged as: Acer, Orbicam, Windows Vista
Here’s an interesting fact: Nearly half of the visitors to The Acer Guy are using Windows Vista.
I am assuming these Vista visits have a lot to do with the surge in interest over the Orbicam problems under this same operating system. And, as these Orbicams “stopped working”, I’m assuming all these people upgraded from XP.
Well, if you are in the 48.28% of visitors, can you let me know how the upgrade went? Were you brave enough to do it on your own or did you use Acer’s Express Upgrade?
Just for fun, here’s the OS split:
Windows Vista - 48.28 %
Windows XP - 47.52 %
Windows 2000 - 1.72 %
Mac OS - 0.95 %
Unknown - 0.57 %
Windows 2003 - 0.57 %
Windows 98 - 0.19 %
Windows CE - 0.19 %
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on 30 Apr 2007 at 3:56 pm 1
Ashley (Check me out!) said …
I bought my Acer with Vista already installed. The Orbicam worked for the first few hours, then crapped out.
I’ve had it for over a month now, and it’s still not working. I’ve given up completely.
on 30 Apr 2007 at 4:13 pm 2
Michael Walsh (Check me out!) said …
Ashley.
I know this is probably going to infuriate you if you’ve already checked it out but have you looked to see if there’s a problem in Device Manager?
Unfortunately these things are usually caused by software conflicts (as opposed to broken hardware) so your best bet, if the Device Manager option doesn’t work is to get on to Acer Support and DEMAND they help you get back on track.
Don’t give up!