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Travis King
It's getting a little late in the game to still have a lot of issues. Here
we are on Vista RC1 5600.
I will have some complaints and I will have some problems I wonder if anyone
else is experiencing. I'm not saying Vista is bad, I'm just merely
mentioning all the issues I've run across - I've reported them all.
Performance: Although it is drastically better than it was in Beta 2, it is
still not as fast as XP, and it's still rare when CPU usage is at 0% for
more than a second.
Bugs: While many bugs from beta 2 have been fixed, just as many new bugs
have shown up.
1. Just discovered: When I try to move my pictures off of my SD card using
Explorer and move them to my computer, it will not let me. I can only copy
the pictures. If I press CTRL + X, nothing happens. I also cannot delete
the pictures off of the card using Explorer. (It is not even there in the
menu.) If this is a security feature, I want it gone.
2. On only some folders and it seems to be at random, when I right click
and go to 'new', the only item that shows up in the list is 'Folder'. In
other locations including the desktop, however, I get all the templates that
I'm supposed to - 'Folder', 'Shortcut', Bitmap Image, etc. I also had this
issue in Pre-RC1 (5536).
3. Some icons are not representing what they are. For instance, when I go
into drive D:, there are pictures folders, music folders, and the like that
I have set icons for. In Pre-RC1 and RC1, I get very odd icons instead that
are not at all what I had selected. If I try to change the icons to
something else, they do not change.
4. WMP11 is still horribly slow as it was in Beta 2. It also eats a lot
more CPU than even WMP11 does in XP. In XP using the same visualization,
WMP11 eats 4 - 7%. In Vista, it eats over 30%. This is partly caused by
mfpmp.exe, which normally gobbles 8 - 12% of my CPU. Then, DWM sometimes
eats 15-20% of my CPU when WMP11 is running. Then, finally, you have 4 - 7%
that comes from WMP11 itself.
5. When I resume from standby, the screen resolution defaults back to
800x600, as opposed to 1280x1024. The ATI-made RC1 drivers are horrible by
the way, which is not Microsoft's fault.
6. UAC still gets in the way all the time - even for just simply moving a
picture or renaming a file sometimes triggers it.
7. At least in RC1 (I don't know if it existed in Pre-RC1 or not), the
multimedia keys on my keyboard to make WMP11 play, pause, etc. do not work
unless WMP11 is the active window. I did not previously experience this
issue in Beta 2.
8. Windows Defender blocks msconfig from startup after changing a few
startup programs - this is very annoying, and I can't find a way for Windows
Defender to ignore this. Oh, and don't shut off Defender using the security
center or else you'll get a balloon popup everytime you logon. Then, if you
disable the Windows Defender service in services.msc, you will get an error
message each time you logon.
-Complaints-
My RAM usage has actually been worse in RC1 and Pre-RC1 than Beta 2 - even
though the software load is the same. (Fresh installs each time)
Sidebar at times eats 8% of my CPU.
It takes way too much customizing to get Vista running right - this will
never do in the real world. Your average user won't know how to do all the
customizing you need to do to get Vista running properly.
You spend more time dealing with security messages of all kinds than you do
with getting a task done.
we are on Vista RC1 5600.
I will have some complaints and I will have some problems I wonder if anyone
else is experiencing. I'm not saying Vista is bad, I'm just merely
mentioning all the issues I've run across - I've reported them all.
Performance: Although it is drastically better than it was in Beta 2, it is
still not as fast as XP, and it's still rare when CPU usage is at 0% for
more than a second.
Bugs: While many bugs from beta 2 have been fixed, just as many new bugs
have shown up.
1. Just discovered: When I try to move my pictures off of my SD card using
Explorer and move them to my computer, it will not let me. I can only copy
the pictures. If I press CTRL + X, nothing happens. I also cannot delete
the pictures off of the card using Explorer. (It is not even there in the
menu.) If this is a security feature, I want it gone.
2. On only some folders and it seems to be at random, when I right click
and go to 'new', the only item that shows up in the list is 'Folder'. In
other locations including the desktop, however, I get all the templates that
I'm supposed to - 'Folder', 'Shortcut', Bitmap Image, etc. I also had this
issue in Pre-RC1 (5536).
3. Some icons are not representing what they are. For instance, when I go
into drive D:, there are pictures folders, music folders, and the like that
I have set icons for. In Pre-RC1 and RC1, I get very odd icons instead that
are not at all what I had selected. If I try to change the icons to
something else, they do not change.
4. WMP11 is still horribly slow as it was in Beta 2. It also eats a lot
more CPU than even WMP11 does in XP. In XP using the same visualization,
WMP11 eats 4 - 7%. In Vista, it eats over 30%. This is partly caused by
mfpmp.exe, which normally gobbles 8 - 12% of my CPU. Then, DWM sometimes
eats 15-20% of my CPU when WMP11 is running. Then, finally, you have 4 - 7%
that comes from WMP11 itself.
5. When I resume from standby, the screen resolution defaults back to
800x600, as opposed to 1280x1024. The ATI-made RC1 drivers are horrible by
the way, which is not Microsoft's fault.
6. UAC still gets in the way all the time - even for just simply moving a
picture or renaming a file sometimes triggers it.
7. At least in RC1 (I don't know if it existed in Pre-RC1 or not), the
multimedia keys on my keyboard to make WMP11 play, pause, etc. do not work
unless WMP11 is the active window. I did not previously experience this
issue in Beta 2.
8. Windows Defender blocks msconfig from startup after changing a few
startup programs - this is very annoying, and I can't find a way for Windows
Defender to ignore this. Oh, and don't shut off Defender using the security
center or else you'll get a balloon popup everytime you logon. Then, if you
disable the Windows Defender service in services.msc, you will get an error
message each time you logon.
-Complaints-
My RAM usage has actually been worse in RC1 and Pre-RC1 than Beta 2 - even
though the software load is the same. (Fresh installs each time)
Sidebar at times eats 8% of my CPU.
It takes way too much customizing to get Vista running right - this will
never do in the real world. Your average user won't know how to do all the
customizing you need to do to get Vista running properly.
You spend more time dealing with security messages of all kinds than you do
with getting a task done.