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AlexB
I want to mention that I am still a Vista fan. A lot of what happened to my
systems has been self-inflicted as I see in retrospect, however, the fault
ultimately may be laid on MS developers. I do believe they neglected human
factor in an egregious way. A lot of guys over there as I could see are of
East Indian origin and they although smart have no touch with you on the
human level.
An example. After some installs a black screen comes up and stays for an
unnervingly long time. You begin to panic. All it takes for you to take it
easy, go to the bathroom, take a shower, come back and you will see a
welcome screen. I am rather impatient and quite a number of time in the past
I would jerk the system, turn the machine off and start reinstalling the
system, thinking that I would save time this way. In fact I lost a lot of
time. I finally realized that Vista should be given a chance to do its dress
up and show up in splendor. Thus now I wait.
Another thing: In the Control Panel (except for the Classic view) all items
are not in alphabetical order. They are also not arranged in any logical
order of importance whatsoever. There are quite a few of them and it is
difficult to memorize this whole haphazard picture. Precious time is wasted.
I want to see the idiot who did it.
With that USB problem which still ongoing on one of my machine at least I
see this setup. A MyBook is plugged in in a USB port, I mean physically.
I can see this 500GB WD MyBook in Device Manager among disk drives. GOOD. It
says literally: WD 500AAV External USB Device. What else is needed?
Take a next step:
Universal Serial Bus Controllers root node:
USB Composite Device -- Exclamation sign.
Right click and you are offered to update the driver. I have done it already
5 times. Each time it offers me to download Hotfix: KB940199. I have it
listed twice in my list of history of updates. Both successful, both
*important* and both just a day apart.
What would it take for an idiot who designed this download system to check
for the fact that the download with this number is already installed?
What shall I do with the second Hotfix? Uninstall it or what?
I have installed that Download Cleanup manager Andre recommended. For some
reason it not showing among updates. perhaps it should be this way, I do not
know. So far no visible improvement in anything.
Please try to address all my points, not just one or two.
thanks.
systems has been self-inflicted as I see in retrospect, however, the fault
ultimately may be laid on MS developers. I do believe they neglected human
factor in an egregious way. A lot of guys over there as I could see are of
East Indian origin and they although smart have no touch with you on the
human level.
An example. After some installs a black screen comes up and stays for an
unnervingly long time. You begin to panic. All it takes for you to take it
easy, go to the bathroom, take a shower, come back and you will see a
welcome screen. I am rather impatient and quite a number of time in the past
I would jerk the system, turn the machine off and start reinstalling the
system, thinking that I would save time this way. In fact I lost a lot of
time. I finally realized that Vista should be given a chance to do its dress
up and show up in splendor. Thus now I wait.
Another thing: In the Control Panel (except for the Classic view) all items
are not in alphabetical order. They are also not arranged in any logical
order of importance whatsoever. There are quite a few of them and it is
difficult to memorize this whole haphazard picture. Precious time is wasted.
I want to see the idiot who did it.
With that USB problem which still ongoing on one of my machine at least I
see this setup. A MyBook is plugged in in a USB port, I mean physically.
I can see this 500GB WD MyBook in Device Manager among disk drives. GOOD. It
says literally: WD 500AAV External USB Device. What else is needed?
Take a next step:
Universal Serial Bus Controllers root node:
USB Composite Device -- Exclamation sign.
Right click and you are offered to update the driver. I have done it already
5 times. Each time it offers me to download Hotfix: KB940199. I have it
listed twice in my list of history of updates. Both successful, both
*important* and both just a day apart.
What would it take for an idiot who designed this download system to check
for the fact that the download with this number is already installed?
What shall I do with the second Hotfix? Uninstall it or what?
I have installed that Download Cleanup manager Andre recommended. For some
reason it not showing among updates. perhaps it should be this way, I do not
know. So far no visible improvement in anything.
Please try to address all my points, not just one or two.
thanks.