Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer

Actual headline. Just can’t resist reblogging this; there’s just so much wrongness in it. One thing: apparently Vista *redirects* writes to a sensitive folder to *another location* on the system. This wouldn’t have *that* bad, if the alternate location wasn’t as sensitive as the first! I don’t have the details, but the article says the drivers were still active, which implies that wherever Vista redirected the files, they were still loaded at that location. Actually, it *had* been that bad: how does it make any sense at all to not just write-protect the folder instead? Oh, old installers would stop working then, you say? But apparently those that would’ve stopped working then are those that aren’t compatible with Vista anyway! Urrgh, I can’t stand it.