I'm suing Bill Gates, Gateway AND Michael Jackson

I bought a computer on Thursday and have spent about 20 hours trying to figure stuff out. Why did nobody tell me that switching from XP to Vista was such a hassle? Little by little (with no help from the 5 Gateway CSRs with whom I spoke and the 3 on their chat thing) I've figured out nearly everything. I've learnt how to run things as though I were using another OS (XP) and that it doesn't always work. I understand the idiotic 'run as administrator' thing now.

Can anyone tell me how to download Adobe flash player (which this page is telling me to install)? I have the 64 bit thing. I know that Adobe's flash player isn't compatible yet. Their website and one of the gormless twits at Gateway say so. However, I know there must be a way to do it and I'm missing a step. I have gone to the exe file 'run as administrator'. I've tried the XP thing. I've disabled my UAC, which someone on some website said to do. I've installed and deleted this program more times than than our fair mayor (Kwame Kilpatrick) has thought 'oh shit' this year. If it weren't for our friends at Best Buy, I'd have chucked this computer in the Rouge River by now because so many things were too complicated. This is the only thing I haven't yet conquered. I'm hoping that this also resolves the grey blotches in webpages (where photos and videos are) too...

If you feel like insulting Bill Gates or Gateway, please feel free to vent. Let's share the love.

(I'm suing Michael Jackson just because he celebrated his 50th last week watching cartoons with children. I hate how paranoid our society is, but that's spooky shit.)

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Permalink Reply by Anita_Blake on September 7, 2008 at 5:13am: Mort, I would return the Gateway and get an HP....(if you looking to keep it reasonable). Ok, that was not much of a rant, just an opinion.

(I am suing the clothing company that put the stretchy elastic bands in kids clothes so you can avoid the hassle of a belt. I had been doing that for years prior to it being released in clothing.); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mort in Detroit on September 7, 2008 at 11:19pm: My previous two were HP. Instead of untrained Americans (at Gateway customer service), HP offers Indians I couldn't understand.

I really miss IBM PCs. I don't think I'll be happy with anyone else. My first computers were IBM and worked wonderfully, lasting until they were obsolete, the first with its floppy disc... They had the best computers and the best customer service in the business.

Don't say elastic to a gay man. That's almost as heretical as velcro or polyester. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anita_Blake on September 7, 2008 at 1:06pm: It was HIS kids he was going to spend his b-day with....not someone else's...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anita_Blake on September 7, 2008 at 3:40pm: According to CNN; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mort in Detroit on September 7, 2008 at 11:12pm: Thanks for responding. I'm not sure that I need a class. I'm only having trouble with downloading a flash player which is incompatible, yet some seem to have figured a way around it. Seem to have figured everything else out. It would sorely bruise my ego to do so after having successfully managed DOS and OS/2 on my first PCs without a class--just an infrequent call to a friend who had everything figured out before the rest of us figured out that a computer was something more than a fancy typewriter.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by The Real Uncle Bob on September 7, 2008 at 11:40pm: Some guy who was having problems watching movies on his new Vista machine fixed his problrms by switching his browser from 64 to 32-bit mode.

FWIW.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mort in Detroit on September 8, 2008 at 6:32pm: I'm having no problem with instant viewing with the 64-bit Vista.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on September 7, 2008 at 2:23pm: Let's share the love.

I have nothing productive to share except my love for anyone who uses the phrase "gormless twits."; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mort in Detroit on September 7, 2008 at 11:22pm: Gormless=clueless imbecile.

Is there such a thing as a gorm? Spellcheck doesn't approve--though spellcheck doesn't approve of spellcheck either. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mort in Detroit on September 7, 2008 at 11:21pm: Thanks. I frequently enjoy your comments too.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by 2McAbre on September 8, 2008 at 12:25am: Blucky!

I'd send it back and make them send you a new one with XP on it! Vista is the buggiest piece of crap that MS has ever come out with! So many things are not Vista compatible, and if you do manage to get something to work correctly, sooner or later Vista is going to decide it doesn't like it and ax it.

Well seeing Bill in an actual TV commercial the other day was sort of creepy. I mean instead of wasting his time there, he needs to check in with his programmers and engineers and find out WTF they are up too.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by jampony on September 8, 2008 at 8:09am: Finding a computer with XP on it is almost as difficult as finding an LCD monitor that isn't wide screen. :(; ▶ Reply to This