Things I hate about Vista

andshrew · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:20

Caged said:
What a simple, concise, easy to use menu . Does typing in wallpaper in the search show what option you need to click to change the wallpaper?

Since its most likely the classic view will only be used by power users, you would expect them to know how to change the wallpaper.

The normal view is much more accesible for general users.

PhilthyPhil · 8 Jan 2007 at 15:35

Personally I thought it was pretty damned obvious that changing wallpaper would be under personalisation :confused:

NathanE · 8 Jan 2007 at 16:00

That's only obvious from the screenshot above. The first one (displayed in Classic view) is just a complete mess really.

Seems that Microsoft couldn't be bothered to fix the fundamental problem of fragmented control panel applets and instead just decided to put a nice new front page to help the user find what they want.

I know for a fact that Microsoft has a team of about 10 people in the Windows division just dedicated to the Control Panel user experience - what the hell have they been doing for 7 years?

This is one area that Mac OSX beats Windows Vista hands down. Shamefully for Microsoft, it was also one of the easiest to tick off the (very small) list.

Roll on Fiji/Vienna :/

Energize · 8 Jan 2007 at 16:19

At least the classic view in xp was useable. The other view is just annoying because you have to click on multiple things to get to what you want.

PiKe · 8 Jan 2007 at 16:42

PhilthyPhil said:
Google ClearType tuner and it should be the first link

Still isnt very comfortable to view even after tuning.

Caged · 8 Jan 2007 at 17:23

I really hate the way Grab / whatever the screenshot program is puts a red border around everything.

Bony Maloney · 9 Jan 2007 at 11:59

Caged said:
I really hate the way Grab / whatever the screenshot program is puts a red border around everything.

Snipit tool. Turn it off or change the colour in the options. Have a little look at it, it won't bite you

PhilthyPhil · 9 Jan 2007 at 12:14

NathanE said:
That's only obvious from the screenshot above. The first one (displayed in Classic view) is just a complete mess really.

I've always used classic view and it seemed quite obvious to me that to change the wallpaper I would have to go into personalisation :confused: