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So I've installed Vista a few hours ago, and since then I've been busy trying
to get the computer to a working condition for me to accomplish anything
today. All in vain.
I've encountered a few recurring problems and those are:
1. The text on the desktop is blurred. Its not me. I've used the magnifier
to check this. Whats the big idea about giving a small text a shadow twice
its size?
Through some incredible unrepeatable feat, I've managed to launch a dialog
box in which I've unticked one of many options to disable text shadows
(anyone care to help me find that box again?) But now the font is ugly. Its
as if they took the greyscale, and replaced it by white. Super fat letters is
not my thing. At the moment I've switched to the "classic" windows look. The
win98 were not my favorite days, buy hey, at least I can read my icon names!
2.My desktop disappears at will. Pretty much whenever it feels like it. No
error, no prompt, no action taken on my side. I leave the computer for a sec,
come back, no icons, no bar, no nothing. Only the background and the language
bar to keep me company. Thats right, the language bar. It happened to me
before straight after I've restarted the computer. Vista loads, a few other
programs load, everything disappears. Poof! Magic! Restart!
3.Loading is awfully slow. This is tollerable as I don't restart very often,
but moving from a 3 minutes from restart to complete reload of XP + software
to 7 minutes load of Vista alone is a bit over the top. My computer have got
4.8 on the Vista scale. I feel bad for those who have the minimum reqs
computer.
4.My folder all open in a new window. And yes, I've checked the folder
option in the control panel. According to the radio button, all of my folder
open in the same window.
Any help with those would be greatly appreciated. Until then, my trusty
laptop would get to see some daylight.
Thanks,
Itamar
EDIT:Coming to think of it, putting my computer specs here might make some
difference. I doubt it, but it might save some time later.
3.2G dual core, 2 x 1G ram sticks
ran XP home before, got a full (non-upgrade) Vista business
Thats about it. I believe the rest is irrelevant. Just trying to emphasize
that the slow load is not a matter of a weak PC.
to get the computer to a working condition for me to accomplish anything
today. All in vain.
I've encountered a few recurring problems and those are:
1. The text on the desktop is blurred. Its not me. I've used the magnifier
to check this. Whats the big idea about giving a small text a shadow twice
its size?
Through some incredible unrepeatable feat, I've managed to launch a dialog
box in which I've unticked one of many options to disable text shadows
(anyone care to help me find that box again?) But now the font is ugly. Its
as if they took the greyscale, and replaced it by white. Super fat letters is
not my thing. At the moment I've switched to the "classic" windows look. The
win98 were not my favorite days, buy hey, at least I can read my icon names!
2.My desktop disappears at will. Pretty much whenever it feels like it. No
error, no prompt, no action taken on my side. I leave the computer for a sec,
come back, no icons, no bar, no nothing. Only the background and the language
bar to keep me company. Thats right, the language bar. It happened to me
before straight after I've restarted the computer. Vista loads, a few other
programs load, everything disappears. Poof! Magic! Restart!
3.Loading is awfully slow. This is tollerable as I don't restart very often,
but moving from a 3 minutes from restart to complete reload of XP + software
to 7 minutes load of Vista alone is a bit over the top. My computer have got
4.8 on the Vista scale. I feel bad for those who have the minimum reqs
computer.
4.My folder all open in a new window. And yes, I've checked the folder
option in the control panel. According to the radio button, all of my folder
open in the same window.
Any help with those would be greatly appreciated. Until then, my trusty
laptop would get to see some daylight.
Thanks,
Itamar
EDIT:Coming to think of it, putting my computer specs here might make some
difference. I doubt it, but it might save some time later.
3.2G dual core, 2 x 1G ram sticks
ran XP home before, got a full (non-upgrade) Vista business
Thats about it. I believe the rest is irrelevant. Just trying to emphasize
that the slow load is not a matter of a weak PC.