VISTA, are the differences big ones?.

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Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

Some of the changes are a right windup like the must be an administrator box that pops up when ever you try to do anything. You can disable it but then it blankly refuses to let you do anything.

Adding additional layers of security is not a 'right windup'

And if you disable UAC, it does not 'blankly refuse to let you do anything'.

free4440273

^absolutely: UAC is designed to protect you - the user - from nasties and misappropriation of software; and one can still use the 'Run As...Admin' command

totalsolutions

Hi Once the Sony is up and running have a couple of DVD's handy and create the restore discs before you do anything else. Then run decapifier to remove unwanted trial software, ie Norton 360 and Microsoft Office

Coveredinbees!!!!

anewhope wrote: »

And if you disable UAC, it does not 'blankly refuse to let you do anything'.

Try and install anything with it off then :rolleyes:

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Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

Try and install anything with it off then :rolleyes:

I have done and do daily

Marty999

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

Try and install anything with it off then :rolleyes:

Not a problem for me, this was the first thing I did when I got a Vista PC. The UAC is a right pain.

Reggie_Rebel

Vista is the dogs gonads, like Conor says even applications years old run perfectly. Anyone who still says it's rubbish is talking gonads

aliasojo

Personally I dont like Vista. It just doesn't seem as intuitive to me, even if I didn't have a clue what I was doing, I could find my way round XP eventually and get to where I needed to be, but Vista isn't like that for me.

I dislike the warning boxes that continually open, I dislike the start menu with all the Windows things listed. My old but good HP printer wont work as there are no suitable drivers etc etc.

My Vista is new so I appreciate I'm still finding my way around, but first impressions are that I dont like it and I'm having to work at finding stuff out. I daresay, I'll get used to it though. :rolleyes:

superscaper

aliasojo wrote: »

My old but good HP printer wont work as there are no suitable drivers etc etc.

Isn't this a demonstration of how rubbish HP are rather than Vista? They're the ones too lazy to update their drivers given years of a head start.

rancid-a

Reggie_Rebel wrote: »

Vista is the dogs gonads, like Conor says even applications years old run perfectly. Anyone who still says it's rubbish is talking gonads

I sent my custom PC back last week and I'm blaming Vista. Soo slow. Games took ages in install, some wouldn't even uninstall, accessing dvd content was a joke. Cutting down on all those crappy services you don't need made absoulutely no difference. Maybe it just doesn't run well on 8Gb of DDR?

I'm still on the lookout for a decent gaming rig, but it won't come with Vista.