How's the Vistie Boys Getting On?

chunter

Just wondering how people are setttling into the Vista thing
now that they've had it a while.

penrhyn

Most useful feature that I use is the search box in the start menu, no more scrabbling around looking for files/applications.
The Windows DVD maker is pretty good too.
Otherwise it ain't that different from XP.

mdbarber

was doing ok and despite spending hours assigning stuff, view hidden files, admin account etc, got really annoyed when a folder i needed to open came up with "access denied", denied by who i thought why is bill telling me what folders i can open on my machine?,
gonna scrub it tomorrow i think, too much hard work
agree the search thing is great as long as you know what it is you are searching for

petereverton

No problems so far and agree with the searchbox being useful.
Looks nicer to

devizes18193

its on a new lap top which i won , personallally i love it however would i upgrade not a chance

Bongedone

I have only had Vista on a new laptop for a few weeks. I am finding it much better than my old system. Need to turn of user account control to stop it annoying you.

I use the sidebar to track my trains to work as National rail have made a gadget. I also have the weather of my holiday destination on there. Going in a few weeks and its nice to watch the temperature and sun etc.

BillScarab

Personally I don't find UAC an issue, bit of a pain when you first get it and are installing things but day to dya it's not a big issue.

The search facility is far better than XP's. It's also got some parental controls built in that actually work and are easy to configure. DVD maker is OK but I tend to use other software. Windows Photo Gallery is alos much better than anything in XP, it's got some good tools to fix exposure and colour etc. and remove red eye, it also allows you to tag phots which is excellent for managing your pics.

Overall I like Vista, it's not perfect but I prefer it to XP and it looks much nicer too.

I'm with Devizes though I don't think I'd bother upgrading an existing XP machine, but if you're getting a new machine Id go with Vista.

esuhl

I have several test PCs at work, including a Vista one. Although you do get used to *some* of it's quirks, it's very slow (compared to XP on an identical machine) and totally unintuitive.

Like, if you browse to explorer.exe, right-click it, and run it as the Administrator... it doesn't run with Administrator rights. If you map a network drive and run an installation program that escalates to Administrator, the installer won't see the mapped drive. The only way to map a drive as Administrator (if you're not explicitly logged in as the Administrator) is via the command prompt.

There's just a lot of minor irritations like that with Vista.

I think I'm going to skip Vista altogether (on my home PCs) and stay with XP and Linux till the next Windows OS comes out. If I bought a PC with Vista pre-installed, the first thing I would do is replace it with XP!

frivolous_fay

I kinda liked it Vista, but it was on a work laptop, so when I had problems that stopped me doing my job, it had to go. I now have a nice, dull, FUNCTIONAL XP laptop.

Problems I had that I never managed to fix, and no-one ever managed to explain:

- Infuriating habit of deleting my static IP setting every time I restarted, disconnected the network cable, or it went to sleep. (And all the hits on google for this problem had no advice for that particular version of Vista)

- Complete inability to connect remotely to Filemaker Pro files on my company's server. I still have no idea if it was a hardware problem, Filemaker problem, Vista problem, port problem, OpenVPN problem or what, because seemingly no-one on t'internet had ever experienced it before.

mdbarber

busy currently "scrubbing" my vista htpc to put xp back on,
sick of being asked "do i really want to do that" and told "you can't do that" when i say yes lol

Lokolo

Its alright, only thing that annoys me is that now it akes a long time to load things such as program lists in Add/Remove programs, and control panel loading all the icons is a b*tch. But other than that its fine.