Well, I finally got most of my web design software installed on my new Vista computer. The first really big compatibility issues I have noticed are with Flash, specifically versions MX2004 and version 8, and WS_FTP Professional.

When opening movie clips in older versions of Flash, the program goes into a weird slow-motion mode, wherein a dotted box slowly expands and contracts around the movie clip you are trying to open. If you have this problem, here is a link explaining the solution.

Also, I upgraded to the supposedly Vista-compatible version of Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional. Well, I was happily coding along in another program when I suddenly got an error message out of nowhere: “WS_FTP does not appear to have been installed correctly for the current user. WS_FTP will now exit.” I wasn’t even running this program!!! To fix this problem, right click on the WS_FTP icon, click on properties, and choose “run this program as administrator.” This seems to have fixed the problem for me. Even though my login IS the administrator.