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I eat vista said:
I am very happy to say that things I have been saying over the past 1
year
are all confirmed. Of course I am sad to see that I had to say all these
things in the first place.
Vista should have been better, then no need for criticism and rejection
would exist.
Sure sure.
- Vista is far slower than XP
Huh? not here. About the same for regular apps.
- Vista search is horrid, slow, gets corrupted and thrashes the disk.
The
service should be turned off. It doesnt work.
'Can't comment. I know where to find my stuff so ..
- The vista start menu design is extremely bad, with menus that collapse
upon itself.
I like it.
- Vista is unstable and incompatible with no great reason since it is NT
kernel.
Stable and compatible here. To be honest my cheap Logitech Webcam would
only work with Beta drivers and *Logitech* decided to drop support. I use
a much better camera now so it doesn't matter. All else works A1.
- Vista is not user friendly, creating frustration to the simple user
Wrong. It's very good that way.
- Readyboost is a gimmick that helps only a small percentage of
machines.
I've read that it has less of an impact the more RAM one has. As my
machine has over 1GB I don't really need it.
Its more of a crutch to help vista pull its own obese weight. Many have
reported a NEGATIVE result when trying it on machines with much ram.
Poor quality stick. One needs to use a stick that's quick, of course ..
duh.
- Vista is not compatible with XP when in dual boot, since its restore
format conflicts with XP and XP detects it and erases it. Clearly a
vista
problem since the vista designers should have taken this into account.
Install XP .. switch active partitions .. install Vista .. switch active
partion back .. bootpart [free]. Voila! No problems what so ever.
-The colors and fonts and general design of the theme makes it hard to
see
the information presented. Numerous people have complained about this
with
good cause.
Adjust it. Some people perfer 120dpi than the default 96. It's right
there in 'Personalization" if you cared to look before mouthing off.
- The SPEECH to Text function is a joke. It doesnt work!
'Can't comment yet .. I still use a mouse.
- Vistas "better memory management" is a myth. By loading vast amount of
data on to the ram and therefore "using it all" there is no significant
improvement in performance compared to XP. In fact XP wins hands down on
almost all comparisons.
[clearing my throat] Sure sure. Vista does a better job at scheduling the
processor, memory management etc. etc. and the code is from the Server
2003 fork. So please ..
- The fast vista boot is also a myth. Systems with lots of programs
installed,
start just as slow as XP
ZZZzzzzz Boots just fine here, particularly my laptop. 50-53 seconds to
stable desktop [no hour glasses] on an ordinary laptop and that's
including the selecting of an account and entering a password.
- The "Branded sounds" in Vista was a stupid thing that users don't like
and
are looking for ways to change.
Oh, please. If the user wants to use other sounds it's right there.
- Windows Mail uses EML format and that creates thousands upon thousands
of
files when you have lots of emails, the result is slower loading of
windows
mail and very bad performance.
Works quite well with newsgroups and there's thousands of headers and
hundreds of bodies in those files.
- The simplified vista DEFRAGMENT with no visual feedback is slower, and
most people absolutely hate it. A clear degrade from XP's defrag. The
result
is people searching for third party solutions
The general purpose defragger will keep the disks healthy and performing
well .. it's designed as a behinds the scenes utility i.e. no particular
need for visual feedback .. set it and forget it. Third party programs
are good too as they provide real enhancements that some users might
want.
-Copying and moving files in vista is a joke.. even deleting small files
takes up to much time.
Bull. It's fast. I'm copying gigabytes worth all the time and it works
very well.
-Network speed is horrendous
No. It's as fast or faster.
-People hate the internet explorer 7 toolbar that cannot be configured.
Absolutely wrong. The tool bar is configurable.
-SP1 will not save vista, its bad design is so well integrated that
nothing
can save it.
Sinners need salvation. Successful money making operating systems such
as Windows Vista don't need to be "saved".
-Windows vista is over-all comparably the worse OS Microsoft has ever
made..
even worse that windows Me.
Bull. Windows Me had its with upgrades. Funnily enough, with a clean
install on the right hardware it was almost as stable as NT. But this
fact was usually overlooked by its critics.
-The cost of use of vista (in time, labor and upgrade expenses) is more
than anything ever seen before.
Windows Basic can upgrade the older hardware (one does need 512-1024MB
RAM). For all the eye-candy, yes one will need WDDM video. But what's a
RAM upgrade? I've done so many ..
-People who really like vista are stupid. No one who has above average
intelligence could actually think vista is a good OS. Sorry guys.
You should be sorry, it's a strange statement.
Over all vista has a "not finished" badly designed, amateur, and stupid
feeling to it that frustrates the common user. So much that people have
shot vista computers with guns!
Cute, but the guy who did that probably had issues. First off, what's a
handgun doing outside of lock and key?
I have more.. I might add with later posts...
It's OK if you don't bother .. really.
Saucy
