Windows Vista - Bugs etc
Mac fanboy are we?Godfather wrote:Its XP with a glassier look and new name, lets face it , it has the same programmes and system files, take a peek. go on, right now , get your finger out.Sput wrote:Yup. Good job we have his years of experience in the IT industry to cut through the false positives and tell us something useful.
I'm with Hyma. OMG its teh same coz teh programs r hav names like old oens!!1Godfather wrote:Its XP with a glassier look and new name, lets face it , it has the same programmes and system files, take a peek. go on, right now , get your finger out.Sput wrote:Yup. Good job we have his years of experience in the IT industry to cut through the false positives and tell us something useful.
You're just making an ass of yourself. You should just stop posting.
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Having read most of this and not understood much, am I right in assuming that the workaround is to stay on XP?
Things I dislike about Vista
- I don't actually like the Aero interface, I find it unfriendly
- The new Start Menu where you have a scrollbox for programs is terribly inefficient (although the presence of a search bar mitigates this a lot)
- The fact that the file type association area has vanished into the abyss
- The way the file dialog prompt opens by default in collapsed view, that is totally stupid
- The annoyance that I can't drag down the taskbar to hide it from view, I used that a lot (I don't mean Auto Hide either)
- The fact that a lot of command prompt hassle was required to convince we-know-better Vista to give me Do Nothing as the On Battery Crticial action (this gets another good 15min of juice out of my laptop)
- The inconsistency between whether menus are gray and faded blue or gray and blue with no gradient (firefox uses the latter consistently which annoys the hell out of me when I usd it)
- The fact it comes with CRAP I don't want like gadgets and that stupid 3D alt tab idea
- The way that when a program crashes it spends a long time trying to do all sorts of nonsense and won't let you just end the task, it has a wonderful knack of making you feel extra bad about a crashed prorgam with that faded white screen it does
- The fact that they still haven't bothered to touch up Notepad, Wordpad, Paint or Calculator after god knows how many years
- The HIDEOUSNESS of the new Network and Sharing Center, we now have no nice Repair button instead we have something called Diagnose which spends hours saying some pretentious rubbish about how it is "Trying to diagnose the problem" before finally coming up with a TaskDialog containing lots of useless advice ("Try moving your computer closer to the router") and whatever it thinks might be handy, whcih is a random selection (but only one of) from "try to get IP settings again from the router", "Reset the wireless network adapter", "REnew IP address". Repair did all of this and was one click away. I hated Windows wireless networking under XP, it is just ghastly under Vista.
- The fact that I can launch any program with a hit of the WinKey and typing a few letters
- Protected Mode in IE7, I like how IE doesn't have access to my local files in the Internet security zone
- The live previews I get when using Alt+Tab which is part of Vista's new desktop composition
- The way I can control the audio of applications individually using the mixer
- Saved searches, these have become essential to me
- The way I am only one click away from a calendar, I don't always have Outlook running and in XP I had to open the actual applet to look around and even then I ended up setting the date wrongly by clicking OK instead of Cancel
- The way there is no trail/flicker when moving windows about
- The vastly improved power options available for laptops
- The fact that EVERY Windows GUI element seems to have a mouseover/hover appearance change, that's a really significant GUI improvment
- The handy Copy As Path and Open Command Window Here features we have when shift-right-clicking on files, the only question is why the shift key but I suppose I should be grateful, Copy Path is amazingly handy if I have found the file I want in Windows Explorer or by start menu searching and just need to paste it into a stupid tiddly File Open dialog, that means so much to me.
Wow, not only is it there, it's fantastic and much improved!Jovis wrote:Can't be arsed to read the whole lot, I'm quite tired, but I noticed that - go to Control Panel\Default Programs, and click 'associate a file type...', and there it is.The fact that the file type association area has vanished into the abyss
Thanks
So that would make you WHAT, cdd?cdd wrote:Wow, not only is it there, it's fantastic and much improved!Jovis wrote:Can't be arsed to read the whole lot, I'm quite tired, but I noticed that - go to Control Panel\Default Programs, and click 'associate a file type...', and there it is.The fact that the file type association area has vanished into the abyss
Thanks
Knight knight
You're not so much wrong, as inconsistent, cdd.cdd wrote:Things I dislike about VistaThings I like about Vista
- The fact it comes with CRAP I don't want like gadgets and that stupid 3D alt tab idea
Things I dislike about Vista
- The way I am only one click away from a calendar
- The live previews I get when using Alt+Tab which is part of Vista's new desktop composition
Things I like about Vista
- I don't actually like the Aero interface, I find it unfriendly
- The inconsistency between whether menus are gray and faded blue or gray and blue with no gradient
Things I dislike about Vista
- The fact that EVERY Windows GUI element seems to have a mouseover/hover appearance change, that's a really significant GUI improvment
Things I like about Vista
- The new Start Menu where you have a scrollbox for programs is terribly inefficient
- The fact that I can launch any program with a hit of the WinKey and typing a few letters