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Wow! I can't believe how much I dislike Vista!
Posted by SweetViolet • 3/21/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: computer, laptop, operating system., os, vista
So, my house was burglarized on Valentine's Day and one of the casualties was my laptop. The thieves missed an old laptop and I have been trying to make do with it, but it was prone to crashing several times an hour. After taking it to the shop and having it de-bugged, we ultimately had to wipe the hard drive and install everything from scratch.
That didn't help either. Ultimately, we discovered that it was a network problem...as long as I turned off my wireless radio, the computer was relatively stable, but enable it to connect to the web and it was a wild rodeo ride.
The insurance company has been dragging its feet...I cannot figure out why, since it was pretty cut and dried...we walked in before they finished their "work," so the police found our TVs neatly lined up with their remotes next to the window they had come in. Had they not wasted time ransacking every room in the house looking for the safe that does not exist, they would have gotten away with a lot more stuff. But still, the insurance company drags it out and tries to make us accept a settlement for a bare-bones laptop when mine was set up for graphics (including a 17" hi res screen).
So, when I started taking over Hubby's ThinkPad (which was under the bed and they missed completely) so I could access my email, he made a plan and last night I became the proud possessor of a Dell Studio...a pink one.
YAY! New computer! BOOOOO! Vista! What a crap OS! What makes people think that unnecessarily complicating something is an improvement??? Anybody else having the Vista Blues?
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I do
It's complicated for no reason at all.
AT ALL
They didn't improve anything they just made it require more RAM to run.
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I was pressured into installing VISTA and hated it. I had it removed and am running just on XP. -
For most things, in day-to-day use, I don't even notice the difference. But when I'm trying to do anything to customize my computer, that's when Vista drives me crazy. They've slaughtered all of the menus and nomenclature so that I can't figure out how to do the hundreds of things I've always tweaked on my computer before. If you're going to change the name of a function, at least call it something vaguely intuitive, people!-
Amen! I have never liked "folder view," for example and it took me half an hour to get rid of the damn list of folders on the left when I opened "my computer." And where did those convenient little icons on the left go? You know...the red X for delete, the folder with a star for new folder, etc?
And have you tried to install fonts? I do graphics so I use a lot of fonts. What used to be a one step operation (drag & drop) now required drag & drop PLUS click in the bar at the bottom and give the bloody thing permission to do what I have already commanded it to do.
I hate hate hate it! We have ordered the "down grade" CD that will allow me to go back to XP, but I know my husband...by the time it gets here, he won't want to do the install because it means he'll have to burn half a day setting up the software and email all over again. I am stuck with this monstrosity...although the pretty pink Dell with the big screen in very, very nice!
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I'm sorry you were burglarized.
I don't have Vista, and I'm none the worse for it
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Well, I was wanting to get a new computer since the one they stole was more than 3 years old and seriously obsolete. But I really had planned to remove my personal files from it first...and the thought of getting stuck with Vista...was causing me to cling to the old one.
The silver lining in the burglary cloud was a new computer...but the cloud of Vista remains. -
Ha! Good way to spin it
My little bro uses Vista, and he likes it - but he does stuff on computers that confuse the hell out of me - so maybe I'm just not tech-geeky enough for it. -
Wow, they got your personal information? You should put freezes on your credit reports. I would also contact your state to find out the local procedures regarding identity theft.
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Nah, no personal information, just my graphics and other creative files. I backed up recently so they didn't get much that I don't already have on the backup drive, but all of my sent emails went with the wind.
I'm not in the US and my husband takes care of all of the financial stuff, so there's nothing like that on my computer. They got his laptop as well (he has a "home" laptop and a "work" laptop and they got the "home" one), but this is South Africa and the internet security features of the local financial community puts the US to shame! It's been over a month and nothing has happened with our finances. What these guys do is steal the computers, wipe the disks, and sell them on.
I'm to take this one to an engraver and have "This computer was stolen from SweetViolet (+27 82 555 1212. Reward for return." engraved in big letters on the cover!
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I made sure to get the new x64 version of Vista when I got my laptop. I have never had a problem with it. It has x32 drivers installed as well and has never failed to run any program no matter how old or new.
I really don't understand what is so difficult about it. You are able to customize all the settings, if you take the time it can run just like XP if thats what your going for.
I guess for people with not much computer experience it can be confusing, because it's like learning new software for some aspects. However, I actually really like it. Perhaps it's because I have 4GB of RAM to run it, so I never have issues with speed either.-
I've had a computer since 1977 and lived and worked in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley for nearly 30 years...so I am hardly an inexperienced user.
I hate it because what used to take 1 step now takes 3. I hate it because they changed the names of stuff and now I don't know what to put into the search box in the "Help" file. I hate it because it is even less intuitive than XP (if that is even possible). I hate it because it does not work the same way XP did and there was absolutely NO reason to change the UI. None whatsoever.
A good upgrade would be totally transparent to the user, not a huge change full of unexplained and unnecessary differences. It would look and feel the same to the user, just have new stuff a user could access or add on if they wanted, but no unwanted changes forced on the user. I hate it. I am stuck with it, but I don't have to like it. (I also have 4GB RAM...this is a maxed-out computer set up for graphics. I still hate it.)
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It's not so bad if you turn off all the unnecessary stuff they have tacked onto it. I hated it passionately until I found a list of stuff to turn off and now I don't mind it.-
Oh, please share!
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These 12 are a good start.
www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/51444-12-things-turn-off-vista.html -
cool! I'm going right there! Thanks!
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Exactly
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I didn't even know that some of those existed! Thanks for the link.
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Donkeh---Thank you SO much for that link. Hubby went there and followed the instructions and a lot of the kak that was pissing me off is now turned off.
Brilliant! Thanks again!
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I was using vista before but back to XP SP3 for good-
Would you mind telling us why? I am supposed to get the downgrade disk Monday evening and I may need some good arguments to convince my husband to take me back to XP!
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Vista takes close to 500-600 MB of page file just for the kernel and the daemons.. bloody Memory hogger
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Very sorry to hear you were robbed.
IMO, all things Microsoft suck.
I deal with XP and Vista when I must, other than that it's all Linux.
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