Quite recently I had a vivid pipe dream about run Vista Home Premium edition under Parallels Desktop for Mac virtualization — a physical process that this variant of Vista ’s end user licence arrangement ( EULA ) rigorously forbids . ( Which would excuse why I perform the operation in my own private dream - world rather than in the meat - and - dirt world . ) During the dream I installed Vista Home Premium on my 2.66GHz Mac Pro using Apple ’s latest Boot Camp beta and , because Vista ’s EULA does allow this , I thought I ’d try it in the existent world as well .
Without going into the sort of gross detail I provided in that first dreamy look , I have a twain of observations about how Vista got along with the music applications programme I install and the music players I set about to use with it .
Doing diagnostics
Here ’s one for the Mac users : Did you have any whimsey that the Windows version of iTunes 7.0.2 includes a Run Diagnostics command under the Help bill of fare ? Neither did I and yet there it is . Select the affair and you see that you could incline three varieties of nosology — internet , DVD / CD , and iPod .
electronic connection nosology lays out the details of how your net is connected and configure and it tell apart you if iTunes ’ sharing is block by Windows ’ built - in firewall . ( When iTunes launches Windows will alarm you to the fact that it ’s blocking iTunes and demand you — in one of the OS ’s apparently never - ending “ Are you sure you desire to do this ? ” asking — if you ’d like to lease iTunes pass through the firewall . )
The termination of the CD / videodisc diagnostic mean value just about nothing to me — circumstances of expert gobblydegook with the occasional useful factoid such as the mark of drive your auto has and its read and drop a line capabilities .
iPod diagnostics ’ effect are even more arcane and , frankly , I was lucky to see them at all . As you may have get word , Apple suggest that if you really , reallycare about your iPod and iTunes , you prevail off on put in Vista because of some incompatibility between the in vogue translation of iTunes and the in style version of Microsoft ’s OS . Microsoft has fired back with rhodomontade along the credit line of “ Hey , we gave you that codification ages ago ! iTunes should be up to pep pill so do n’t charge us ! Buy Vistanow , now , now ! ”
Loony Zuney
( I ca n’t resist offering this slimly snide away : When I attempted to colligate my Zune to my Mac running Vista I was asked to tuck the Zune software CD . Shortly after doing so an error appear telling me that this software was not compatible with Vista and I should contact Microsoft for additional selective information . Figuring that even Microsoft could n’t be so lame as to publically chide Apple for its iTunes progression while failing to support its own medicine instrumentalist , I searched Microsoft ’s site for answers . After a significant amount of digging I at last discovered a snatch of entomb small photographic print that told me the latest version of the Zune software was compatible with Vista . No fleck was available to update the computer software I had . Rather I just had to know to download and add the belated Zune software from the Zune site . During that installation my Mac lock in up . On restart the installment finally completed successfully . )
iTunes and Vista
Apple has let go theiTunes Repair Tool for Vista 1.0,which deals with the single taxing problem that your iTunes purchased euphony may not toy on a PC running Vista , but other problems remain . For example , if you use Vista ’s Safely Remove Hardware feature , your iPod may not indeed be removed safely . Rather , its data could be shinny . Apple suggests that if you must run iTunes under Vista and use an iPod with it , you squirt the iPod via iTunes rather than from the System Tray and the SRH statement .
Inthis KnowledgeBase articleApple also notes :
Truer words were never written . My 2 GB 2 G nano quickly appear in iTunes ’ reference list and just as promptly disappear . I have it off that I could keep the iPod in the Source list by enabling the Enable Disk Use option in the iPod ’s Summary preference but the nano did n’t give me time enough to make the scene stick . I finally work around it by load up a couple of dozen new medicine course into iTunes . Because the iPod was configured to sync mechanically , I was able to change its Disk Use preferences while it was fill copying the music from the iTunes subroutine library to the iPod .
To avoid this variety of rigmarole , Apple suggests that you enable record use for your iPod in an early version of Windows . Good idea , as that mise en scene is stored on the iPod and will hold when you eventually jacklight it into a computer running Vista .
well yet , either hold back to install Vista or , if you just ca n’t help yourself , hold off on using your iPod with Vista until Apple ship the next version of iTunes ( the one compatible with Vista ) , which is bear in a twosome of calendar week .
