Things I hate about Vista

Tony Williams · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:54

It's a shame there wasn't a theme on Vista to look like XP/MCE that would probberly smoothen the transistion of migrating.

I totally agree on the control panel it's aweful.

PhilthyPhil · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:07

It is rumoured that in Vienna the shell will be compleatly replaced with things like the taskbar and start button ceasing to exist. I wonder how all you stuck in your ways whingebags will cope if that does actually happen

ic1male · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:14

PhilthyPhil said:
It is rumoured that in Vienna the shell will be compleatly replaced with things like the taskbar and start button ceasing to exist. I wonder how all you stuck in your ways whingebags will cope if that does actually happen

Indeed - I can see the Office 2007 ribbon UI evolving as a core object in the next Windows OS somehow.

danieln1 · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:17

I was reading pc pro and i remmber on statment in there.

that said this

All UK hate it and rest world love it dont know how true that is.

Energize · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:25

PhilthyPhil said:
It is rumoured that in Vienna the shell will be compleatly replaced with things like the taskbar and start button ceasing to exist. I wonder how all you stuck in your ways whingebags will cope if that does actually happen

I can imagine no one buying it.

Meatball · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:26

any screenies of the control panel?

PhilthyPhil · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:36

Terrible isn't it

Robert · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:54

Damnit I want my student loan now. argh!

Vertigo · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:12

Have to say you sound exactly like I did back when XP first arrived and I was running 2000.

A lot of it is simply familiarity. I resisted XP for quite a while but eventually saw which way the wind was blowing and jump on board. I'm not bothering to make the same mistake this time and will jump right in with Vista.

End the end of the day, whether you like it not, it's the future as dictated by MS.

Slam62 · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:17

But its the same as xp with a few fancy graphics (on the outside) so no one should care either way.

Oh sorry you're right i dont like the start menu approach or the way you put the thing in stand by. :rolleyes:

Meatball · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:21

PhilthyPhil said:
Picture

Terrible isn't it

NathanE · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:22

PiKe said:
I honestly cannot stand this OS for more than 5 minutes

Give it more time. It took me weeks to even start liking XP.

EirePlane · 7 Jan 2007 at 19:35

I would have switched to Vista as soon as I got RC2 if they didn't make ICS so difficult to sat up
It just looks so much nicer than the fisher price layout of XP

Tony Williams · 7 Jan 2007 at 20:04

PhilthyPhil said:
Terrible isn't it

Now that doesn't look too bad if the icons were tiles. I'm sorry, as I lack Vista knowledge I'm still using XP as my primary O/S.

PhilthyPhil · 7 Jan 2007 at 20:14

You can have tiles if you want. I'm not sure why you would want them though, they're crap

m4cc45 · 7 Jan 2007 at 21:07

The thing I like with Windows is that it's very easily customisable.

I have mine with a classic control panel and start menu (as I prefer that) disabled UAC (as it annoys the hell out of me).

I love Windows Aero - initially you don't notice the difference it makes like if you leave the mouse hovering over minimised windows you get to see live data which I think is great and the alt-tab button on the quick launch bar is great again with live data being displayed there (by live data i mean you can actually see the movie playing, the download bar moving, etc.)

On my system I also notice that it boots faster than Windows XP the patch management system is much better (requiting far fewer restarts than XP) and encompassing all products (yes I know you can do that in XP but it's not as easy as this).

Again the fonts, for me, are easy to read and like everything else with windows can be turned on / off.

With regards to the Windows 2000 post the reason for not staying with it is blatently obvious. The lack of support for it, which in turn means that nothing is being patched, means your machine will be wide open should someone release an exploit for it.

Anyway thats my 2p worth....

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 21:08

ic1male said:
Believe me, OS X has nothing to worry about, unless Leopard turns out to be completely pants.

OS X doesn't have enough users to worry..

Gerard · 7 Jan 2007 at 21:14

Can't really find anything i dislike about vista, besides the startup processes being in the region of 45 compared to my trimmed down 20 for xp.

The os has a really sharp snazzy look to it, i really like the scrolling through programs option using aeroglass as well. Memory usage is a bit heavier but afaik it releases the ram when a game or demanding ap is launched so no bother.

Gerard · 7 Jan 2007 at 21:16

ic1male said:
Believe me, OS X has nothing to worry about, unless Leopard turns out to be completely pants.

The way you worded that was as if osx could be used on regular pc's, ive used osx on my cousins mac laptop and find vista to be visually a lot more appealing.

Energize · 7 Jan 2007 at 21:35

Gerard said:
The way you worded that was as if osx could be used on regular pc's, ive used osx on my cousins mac laptop and find vista to be visually a lot more appealing.

Illegally it can without emulation.