What is your Vista niggle?

Are you sure?
Are you really sure?
Are you really ***** sure?
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No. I just decided to click on this file for the fun of it you idiot machine :rolleyes: I don't care that it hasn't been digitally signed by whatever fool in Redmond, and I sure as anything didn't ask your opinion on it.

-Leezer-
 
gizmoy2k said:
Just click on where you want to go in the address bar, You can Go Up as many folders as you want.
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that's too much effort. it requires that you actually concentrate on what your doing - you really have to focus on where you want to go. the up button was much more user friendly - just bash away to get to where you want. :)
 
My niggle? The fact that it won't install on my machine at all. It gets to the "Completing Installation" stage and then blue screens (usually with a page fault). On re-boot it says that there has been a problem with the install and I'll have to start again.

I've tried everything - ripping the machine down to the barebones (CPU, ABit KN9 mobo, RAM, ATi 1950 Pro gfx card, unRAIDed SATA HDD) and it still happens. What makes it more frustrating is that Windows XP 64-bit works fine, even with RAIDed HDDs. The only thing that WinXP 64 doesn't like is my webcam and I'm fine with that.
 
I don't have any big problems with Vista, been running it was my main OS for about a week now. My only niggle, so to speak, is its inability to force processes. For instance, if you shut down XP with a couple of IM programs open, XP will just close the programs and shut down. Certainly not in Vista though - if you leave MSNM or Skype open while you shut down, the OS will hang indefinitely and the screen will go black, or it will just hang on the 'logging off' screen. Hopefully MS will sort that out in SP1 or sooner.

The only other thing is that in spite of the fact that I've set the 'off' button to mean 'shut down', it always seems to sleep instead. Silly.
 
Lysander said:
I don't have any big problems with Vista, been running it was my main OS for about a week now. My only niggle, so to speak, is its inability to force processes. For instance, if you shut down XP with a couple of IM programs open, XP will just close the programs and shut down. Certainly not in Vista though - if you leave MSNM or Skype open while you shut down, the OS will hang indefinitely and the screen will go black, or it will just hang on the 'logging off' screen. Hopefully MS will sort that out in SP1 or sooner.
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Interesting. If programs don't close here then it comes up with a semi-transparent overlay, saying exactly which program is still not shutting down. You can then cancel the shutdown or wait a few seconds for it to force them to close.
 
Zogger said:
Interesting. If programs don't close here then it comes up with a semi-transparent overlay, saying exactly which program is still not shutting down. You can then cancel the shutdown or wait a few seconds for it to force them to close.
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Which programs - can you do an experiment for me and leave Skype and MSNM open and signed in, and try to shut down Vista? Then let me know what happens. Would be interesting to see if more than one person had this.
 
Lysander said:
Which programs - can you do an experiment for me and leave Skype and MSNM open and signed in, and try to shut down Vista? Then let me know what happens. Would be interesting to see if more than one person had this.
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I can't say I have skype installed, but I've never closed messenger and it's been fine. I'll install it now and when I go out at some point in the next two hours I'll remember what happened...
 
My only niggle with Vista is that the ATi beta drivers (both Asus 8.3.3 and ATi 8.3.1) cannot play games. 20% of the time, the game actually opens fine, but changing video settings will crash the computer.

And the _constant_ HDD activity.
 
My niggle is I cant make out wich version to get.. its gonna be OEM and prolly ultimate, but its the old do I x64 or x86... :rolleyes:

Do you install apps and things different in x64?
 
Zogger said:
just went for a reboot anyway for a look in the bios and both of them went away happily on their own.
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mm thanks for trying that out. Any idea why this could be happening to me?

And for some reason the version of MSN I'm running says BETA in red letters at the top. No idea why. And this is the latest version, strangely.
 
Yeah.. like everyone else has said, drivers are a pain in the arse.

My Netgear WPN311 wireless NIC seems incapable of streaming at full speed (either via Media Center to my 360, or via Samba to my XBox/XBMC setup). Netgear are notoriously bad for their driver support.. so no idea when this will get sorted.

My nForce4 USB ports recognise high speed/2.0 devices (flash drives, etc) but none of the devices start properly. USB 1.1 devices like my keyboard/mouse are fine.. and I can use flash drives via the 1.1 ports in my keyboard. So very slow though.. :(

The Realtek AC97 drivers that were downloaded on install are pretty poor.. lots of clicking. Download the latest ones from Realtek's home page.. they seem pretty solid.

Arnie
 
Lysander said:
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mm thanks for trying that out. Any idea why this could be happening to me?
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no idea tbh

And for some reason the version of MSN I'm running says BETA in red letters at the top. No idea why. And this is the latest version, strangely.
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mine too. I think they must have a special version for vista. When I ran WLM for the first time it made me download a new one..
 
Jimbo said:
My niggle is I cant make out wich version to get.. its gonna be OEM and prolly ultimate, but its the old do I x64 or x86... :rolleyes:

Do you install apps and things different in x64?
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Nope, the surface is identical.
 
It installs 32bit programs in there. It's just a normal program file folder for x86 software. You have two program folders in C: - Program Files and Program Files(x86).

It just runs from whichever is more appropriate.
 
So if you install a x86 app, which will be quite a few.. it will automaticly put it in x86 folder? or do you have to manually do this?

Sorry for the interogation lol. ;)
 
Haha it's ok. It seems to automatically put it in the x86 folder, whereas it will put x64 ones in the main program files folder.
 
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