What is your Vista niggle?
- Thread starter the-void
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Niggles - hmmmmmm, the way it just eats up 'free' space:
restore points (15% HD space gone just like that!) and no (easy) option to resize.
Virtualstore folder/system - Finding actual files in use is a bit of a pain - Vista copied a number of my Steam files into here (nearly 5Gb worth). No information it had done so
What else?
Even though it's been RTM for ages seems very few pieces of software/ companies have the support for it at the moment (will that all change tomorrow?)
Drivers
- example: scrolling the mouse in anything other than IE7 requires many more 'turns' of the wheel - grrrrrrr
UAC - 'nuff said
The way the folder views insist I want to give everything a Star rating (I don't!!)
Having to relearn it all is to be expected - I do find myself clicking in vain through the Control Panel Options!
But saying all that - I do like it
restore points (15% HD space gone just like that!) and no (easy) option to resize.
Virtualstore folder/system - Finding actual files in use is a bit of a pain - Vista copied a number of my Steam files into here (nearly 5Gb worth). No information it had done so
What else?
Even though it's been RTM for ages seems very few pieces of software/ companies have the support for it at the moment (will that all change tomorrow?)
Drivers
- example: scrolling the mouse in anything other than IE7 requires many more 'turns' of the wheel - grrrrrrrUAC - 'nuff said
The way the folder views insist I want to give everything a Star rating (I don't!!)
Having to relearn it all is to be expected - I do find myself clicking in vain through the Control Panel Options!
But saying all that - I do like it
My niggles...
The dog's dinner they have made of the Explorer interface compared to past versions of Windows, and the complete lack of configuration options re button size, button placement and text under buttons. Inexcusable. No 'up' button in Explorer. It should be there for those who want it. The menubars are disabled by default, a case of form over function.
The network activity icon; it both doesn't work properly (flashes seemingly randomly rather than in line with actual activity) and the colours for on/off are too close together. In previous versions of Windows it was very clear; in Vista they have messed it up.
The Start menu is crap compared to XP, and there is no option for an 'XP style' menu. Why not?? (You choose between '9x/2000' style, or Vista style.)
You can no longer shutdown with Windows key-U-U, or restart with Windows key-U-R. The shutdown button is now convoluted and involves a silly dropdown menu.
ctrl-alt-delete no longer brings up the Task Manager straight away, you have to go through an extra step to get to it, like in Windows 2000. I don't like this.
I could go on
The dog's dinner they have made of the Explorer interface compared to past versions of Windows, and the complete lack of configuration options re button size, button placement and text under buttons. Inexcusable. No 'up' button in Explorer. It should be there for those who want it. The menubars are disabled by default, a case of form over function.
The network activity icon; it both doesn't work properly (flashes seemingly randomly rather than in line with actual activity) and the colours for on/off are too close together. In previous versions of Windows it was very clear; in Vista they have messed it up.
The Start menu is crap compared to XP, and there is no option for an 'XP style' menu. Why not?? (You choose between '9x/2000' style, or Vista style.)
You can no longer shutdown with Windows key-U-U, or restart with Windows key-U-R. The shutdown button is now convoluted and involves a silly dropdown menu.
ctrl-alt-delete no longer brings up the Task Manager straight away, you have to go through an extra step to get to it, like in Windows 2000. I don't like this.
I could go on
dirtydog said:
Although all of the functionality of the menu bars appears to be available in the menus that are visible (and right click) anyway... correct me if I'm wrong. (edit: I am wrong. Map network drive doesn't seem to be there)
yeh that one is annoying. Hopefully fixed in SP1.
Personally I prefer it, you don't end up losing focus all the time and closing the menu. The best thing is you can press the windows key, then type the first couple of letters of what you want to get to it really quickly. Exceedingly useful for finding things in the control panel without looking through all the menus.
Look in the power settings to change what the big button next to the menu does.
Press ctrl+shift+escape.. It took me less than two days to get used to doing it this way round (and all the xp uni computers do the same here) (and it's easier to do with one hand)
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