Windows Vista Options

[impala454]

Sucks (for now).

I have come to this conclusion after using it every day for 4-5 months.

Reasons:
1. Sick of having folder view settings seemingly random as hell. I prefer to have all folders show the "list" view setting, and I set it that way but it never sticks for good. Pisses me of.
2. CD/DVD burning support is crap. Nero doesn't work, can't seem to even burn a CD w/drag and drop (although admittedly I did disable a lot of background services and maybe this messed it up). I have used the 32 bit version of vista and not had any CD/DVD burning probs.
3. 2572035902138059213753 background services running by default, about five of which are necessary.
4. The crap that said services attempt to do when my computer is idle. I have a WD Raptor 150 hard drive (10k rpm), and when I get in bed and twenty minutes later the thing spins up and starts goin bananas it pisses me off. I have yet to find out exactly which service does this (although disabling the windows search service stops it most of the time).
5. the fact that in list view, the clickability (if that's a word) of a file extends as a kind of a box, making it damn near impossible to click an empty area in the window (to de-select, right click for various reasons, etc). i like it better the old way how you click on the actual text of the filename.
6. no more 'up' button on the folder gui
7. the breadcrumb folder path listbox. i'd rather see the actual folder path

What I do like:
1. Vista Media Center. Friggin slick as hell. I have tried Windows MCE, MCE 2005, MythTV, and BeyondTV. This media center rules them all, and I may just use parts laying around to build another comp solely to run media center next to the TV with.
2. The window preview pic shown in the task bar when you hover over a taskbar item. that has come in very handy.
3. The file transfer window is much nicer than in xp. better information.
4. The changes in the looks of the gui. window gfx, icons, taskbar, window animations, all look very nice.

So, I gotta say overall, there's plenty I like, but there's enough I don't like to make me go back to XP. At least until/if the above issues are addressed. XP wasn't really great until SP1 anyhow. We'll see if they can get it goin. I can't see going linux as an option, as there's no visual studio .net '05, sql '05, etc support, and I really like IE7, office 07, photoshop, etc. so back to the ol xp sp2.

Commence the ridicule/laughing/gasping/etc.

[James]

The lack of the 'up' button would annoy me the most.

[Seeker]

the world is coming to an end

next impala will be installing linux and voting for hillary clinton (whom i hate by the way)

[James]

What major city was lost? (in reference to Lance's sig pic)

[Seeker]

new orleans, him and the neo-cons declined to build safer levees despite a mountain of evidence suggesting they were weak and to top that off he majorly bungled the rescue effort... and the city still hasn't been rebuilt because he cares more about sending money to iraq

[James]

ok

[impala454]

the world is coming to an end

next impala will be installing linux and voting for hillary clinton (whom i hate by the way)

nah i hate hillary too... and winxp sp2 is awesome as far as i'm concerned. nothing like a nice fresh install.

new orleans, him and the neo-cons declined to build safer levees despite a mountain of evidence suggesting they were weak and to top that off he majorly bungled the rescue effort... and the city still hasn't been rebuilt because he cares more about sending money to iraq

yeah bc it's the president's responsibility to build levees in new orleans...

[Seeker]

Bush vetoed a bill that would have spent Federal dollars to fix the levee system. So it was ultimately Bush's fault and his responsibility.

[impala454]

moved this discussion to the other thread.

[schwab]

i get the same spinning shit on my computer when its been closed and sitting on my desk...it is annoying

my other issue is that my IE7 and firefox dont work right, and wont connect every week or so, so i have to use system restore to get them back up

[impala454]

i get the same spinning shit on my computer when its been closed and sitting on my desk...it is annoying

my other issue is that my IE7 and firefox dont work right, and wont connect every week or so, so i have to use system restore to get them back up

I still would guess that's some kinda weird ISP/router problem. I had the exact same symptoms when my ISP lost connectivity a while back (on two separate comps, one connected wired, the other wireles, one vista, one xp).

[prefix]

I never thought I'd see this day either. But yea, there's almost no point upgrading from xp, nothing so fantastic about vista.

[impala454]

yeah and not even that, but annoying differences in the new one.

damn i forgot how fast this comp is on a fresh xp install... even in 32 bit when all 4 GB can't be addressed

[impala454]

So I'm back on XP for good. At least until Windows 7 comes out, or they change the things that bug the shit outta me. Or unless my new job turns me on to linux more than I have been in the past.

Not having an up button is driving me up the wall. The damn windows don't save the settings no matter how hard I try. And quirky shit happens when I try to RDP or FTP into my machine remotely. Not to mention Activestink sucks ass and doesn't sync properly half the time (works great in XP).

[Mommy]

for reals... Vista is really pissing me off. We have it on the laptop, and I hate it, especially their network settings. We bought an XP disk when we built this new desktop like 3 months ago. I don't want to ever use Vista.