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buachille

buachille

buachille

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i've tried vista a few times. just installed it again for a look and thank christ i put it on a seperate disk while my normal xp disks were disconnected because it has damaged my xp install in the past (which is not something i need to happen again anytime soon), and i knew i might not want to keep it, and.......

IT IS SO IMPRESSIVELY, MASSIVELY, FRUSTRATINGLY - ANNOYING :eek:

i have a cracking new multifunction printer (canon pixma mp 830) and vista doesn't like it. i have adobe golive and vista doesn't like it. i run sage version 12 and vista doesn't like it. i have alcohol 120% and vista doesn't like it. i didn't even try to install the drivers for my nvidia 7800 cos i've heard vista doesn't like it. i wanted a third party firewall but none of the good ones have a vista version yet.

i know this is not microsofts fault, but the end result is that vista, at this time, just really got on my wick and coming back to xp was a breath of fresh air.
 
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i've just ditched it and gone back to xp. for me, vista performance was great. i had drivers for all my hardware. games played just as well they did in xp except no vsync for pro evo 6. all in all i had no major problems......

but what got me down is all the little niggly things with the user interface. no 'up' button in explorer is crap. the breadcrumb bar is a pain in the ass and it doesn't do what i want and you have to concentrate too hard on what your clicking. also selecting files in explorer is too laggy. i want to right click on files but it responds too slow and i don't get the context menu i want. so you have to click on something, wait a second, and then right click. sorry, that's not good enough.

the save dialog is most apps is a nuisance. always starts minimised so i have to click and drag to make it large enough to be usable.

another pita is the file copy dialog. when i want to overwrite a file, it doesn't show the details of both files. sometimes i need that just to be sure of what i'm doing. in vista i have no such option.

all in all the explorer interface is too clunky and don't get me started on the control panel. what a joke. have to drill down about 4 levels of crap just to do the simplest of tasks. i guess it's good for noobs but there just isn't enough customisation available for the advanced user.

there are loads of other niggles i could moan about but i'll leave it there. :p
 
marc2003 said:
all in all the explorer interface is too clunky and don't get me started on the control panel. what a joke. have to drill down about 4 levels of crap just to do the simplest of tasks. i guess it's good for noobs but there just isn't enough customisation available for the advanced user.
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Classic control panel tbh, or show it as a link on the start panel.

I agree with the right clicking files comment though, how annoying that is!

If I could be bothered to backup my stuff and re-install XP I would. :)
 
well nice to know i'm not the only one that is not impressed.

when you first get into it it looks great, but when i came back to xp that does what i want it to, xp looked better.
 
WotDa said:
Not bothered by the slow copy speed? :)
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i'm not sure what you mean? backing up files to my external drive takes the same time in vista as it did in xp.... besides even if it did take longer i wouldn't be bothered as i always leave my pc unattended when backing up. :p
 
marc2003 said:
i'm not sure what you mean? backing up files to my external drive takes the same time in vista as it did in xp.... besides even if it did take longer i wouldn't be bothered as i always leave my pc unattended when backing up. :p
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I mean getting speeds of about 10mb/s when copying, but the drive benchmarking at around 30mb/s. :)

There was a thread on it a while back.
 
I just ditched vista aswell and went back to XP. Just got Supreme commander today and it kept either crashing to desktop or causing a BSOD with the Process_has_locked_pages thing. It got rather frustrating, plus the fact there are no decent XFI drivers available.
 
i went back to xp after finding i couldn't play titan mode under vista i got a ctd when loaded the new map / a memory error.dll i don't know what to blame maybe my xfi maybe my 8800 or maybe just 2142. i had no real probs with vista until 2142 conquest runs fine supplyslines mode runs fine just titan that goes wrong.
 
buachille said:
i know this is not microsofts fault, but the end result is that vista, at this time, just really got on my wick and coming back to xp was a breath of fresh air.
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Then direct your complaint at the Adobe, Sage and Canon etc.
 
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