Say something good about Vista

[Joe101]

Two questions please:

1) I realize that this place is for fixing problems, thus it is normal to
see mostly problems, but I would hope 9 out of 10 users are tickeled pink
with Vista. I'd like to hear from folks who are not just satisfied, but
those that truly find better functionality and what are they???

2) I am from the "old school" and value utility over glitz that may rob
valuable screen space. I prefer the old detailed view explorer look on
folders. Does anyone know if I can set explorer to the familiar classic
look and feel????

Thanks Joe101

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

Two questions please:

1) I realize that this place is for fixing problems, thus it is
normal to see mostly problems, but I would hope 9 out of 10 users are
tickeled pink with Vista. I'd like to hear from folks who are not
just satisfied, but those that truly find better functionality and
what are they???
2) I am from the "old school" and value utility over glitz that may
rob valuable screen space. I prefer the old detailed view explorer
look on folders. Does anyone know if I can set explorer to the
familiar classic look and feel????

Thanks Joe101

You can dumb down the graphics (eye candy) to look like Win98 and by doing
so pick up a bit extra performance

 

[Peter in New Zealand]

You can dumb down the graphics (eye candy) to look like Win98 and by doing
so pick up a bit extra performance

Just adding my 2 cents worth - I quite like Vista. Got the odd software
incompatability, including one that's a real pain. But no one made me
upgrade; it was my own decision and overall I am enjoying it over XP Pro
that I used for a few years previously. Can't stand the folk who throw it on
the machine, see it works a little differently to what they are used to, and
conclude the OS is crap because it doesn't suit them. They revert to their
previous OS and spend the next three months skiting about how they found all
these things wrong with Vista and aren't MS a bunch of crooks for foisting
such crap on the poor innocent victims around the planet. Whew! Gimme a
break. They clog up the newsgroups with their bitchin' I moaning, and expect
sympathy - HA!

Shoot - I'm goin' th' same way; 'cept I'm moaning about the moaners moaning.

Sorry 'bout that. Cheers.

 

[PapaJohn]

Hi Joe 101,

I can answer one of your two...

I wrote an article for MaximumPC's spring quarterly issue about 'Making
Movies in Vista'. About 1/2 way thru writing it I came accross the feature
that a movie project didn't need to be rendered to a movie in order to get
it onto a DVD. The new DVD Maker app can take the movie project file and
create the DVD from it. Vista's DVD Maker is the first such software from
Micosoft and the synergy between it and Movie Maker was a welcome
surprise... which made me change my whole approach to the article.

For new functionality, I don't have to go very far to appreciate over and
over the new Start > enter a few letters of the app or file you want > and
the picklist is there.... is great new functionality. It saves putting icons
on the desktop or shortcuts in the start menu.

My old school habits still have me wanting to know where my files are... in
what folders... I'm not wanting to be overly helped with virtual folders. So
I'm glad that Total Commander (the modern Windows derivitive of Peter
Norton's 'Windows Commander' works on Vista. It's been my file management
utility for decades, a key reason that I never warmed up to Explorer.

 

[Richard Urban]

I agree on Total Commander. I have also been using it - for 15 years now. A
wonderful file manager. Makes any version of Windows Explorer look like a
toy!

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Adam Albright]

I agree on Total Commander. I have also been using it - for 15 years now. A
wonderful file manager. Makes any version of Windows Explorer look like a
toy!

I guess that's your speed. Total Commander is so 80's.

 

[Lano DeRetard]

The DVD is very nice looking. Fits in the drive and spins when accessed.
There, I said something nice about Vista.

 

[Adam Albright]

The DVD is very nice looking. Fits in the drive and spins when accessed.
There, I said something nice about Vista.

The packaging Vista comes in is cool. Hard to open, but cool. ;-)

 

[Bill Yanaire]

You can use Vista to run Excel and Word

 

[Vista User]

Vista is more secure then Ubuntu

Look at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid to compare the vulnerabilities.

Try Vendor: Microsoft
Title: Windows Vista
Version: Select Version

You will see 1 page

Try Vendor: Ubuntu
Title: Ubuntu Linux
Version: Select Version

You will see 20 pages.

I'll stay with Vista its more secure.

 

[Richard]

It keeps me awake trying to find functions that were right there in the top
layer in XP. Thanks to the Vista team for renaming well know functions and
moving them into new locations in newly named folders. I needed the
challenge.

Richard

 

[Vista User]

Had the same problem going from 98 to XP.

 

[Joe101]

Adam Albright says I'm so..... 80's. (how about 60's) I take 80's as a
compliment. Us nerds (a.k.a geeks and wire heads) were so cool back then
with our pocket protectors full of colored pens and pencils. We really
needed all those pencils back then. I programmed before assembler languages
in the 60's, with machine language, and used coding forms and toggle
switches for data entry.... only 4K of magnetic core memory, so we wrote
real tight code. Let's keep this thread going for legitimate pros and cons
(I'm still interested) along with some good humor, like Lano who likes the
little spinny disk in the DVD. That's so cool that I may even order Vista
tonight.
Joe101

 

[Joe101]

Adam Albright says I'm so..... 80's. (how about 60's) I take 80's as a
compliment. Us nerds (a.k.a geeks and wire heads) were so cool back then
with our pocket protectors full of colored pens and pencils. We really
needed all those pencils back then. I programmed before assembler languages
in the 60's, with machine language, and used coding forms and toggle
switches for data entry.... only 4K of magnetic core memory, so we wrote
real tight code. Let's keep this thread going for legitimate pros and cons
(I'm still interested) along with some good humor, like Lano who likes the
little spinny disk in the DVD. That's so cool that I may even order Vista
tonight.
Joe101

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I programmed before assembler languages
in the 60's, with machine language, and used coding forms and toggle
switches for data entry.... only 4K of magnetic core memory, so we wrote
real tight code.

Out of curiosity, on what machine?

 

[Adam Albright]

Adam Albright says I'm so..... 80's.

I was referring to the application, not the user. ;-)

 

[Joe101]

Dastrom 046................................punched paper tape back-up
Bunkero Ramo 340 (TRW)..........punched paper tape back-up
Control Data 636.........................punched paper tape back-up
Control Data 1700.......................punched paper tape back-up
Control Data 3200........................................IMB punched card
back-up
TI 969..........................................................IMB punched
card back-up
Modular Computers Mod-Comp 2...............IMB punched card back-up
Modular Computers Moc-Comp Classic......IMB punched card back-up

These were all process control computers at Union Carbide Corp.
NASA usesd ModComp 2s for the Saturn 5 Lunar Lauches.

And You?
Joe101