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OK, if I can't get these Vista problems fixed, the Wow ENDS next week!
My biggest problem with Vista is how long it takes to cache the video
thumbnails when looking at a folder full of videos (maybe 20-30 videos). It
seriously takes up to 5 minutes! Even worse, during that time, the computer
is practically unusable! It's almost as though it has crashed! I almost
dread opening a folder full of videos for fear of this! I would just turn
off the thumbnails, but it's hard to tell the videos apart without it! I had
no problems with thumbnails in XP. They were instantaneous! Who cares about
scalable thumbnails if they take 5 minutes to load EVERY TIME I OPEN THE
FREAKIN FOLDER!!!
My 2nd biggest problem with Vista is with WMP 11. When I try to open a file
(both music and video, though video is worse) it takes 30 seconds to a minute
to load! Again, this was practically instantaneous in XP. Tack this on to
the time it takes to open the folder the video is saved in and you've got a 6
minute process to load a freakin video! This is ridiculous!
OK, my final major problem is actually within Office 2007 on Vista (I'm too
afraid to install it on my XP laptop to see how it runs on XP).
Specifically, my problem is with PowerPoint 2007. I do a lot of timed slides
and the timing is crucial to the fraction of a second. Unfortunately,
PowerPoint runs so slow that the timing is EXTREMELY screwed up. My only
solution to this is to use my laptop and Office 2003 until the problem is
fixed.
These are just the major problems which are driving me out of my skull.
Does anyone have any ideas about solving any of these problems? I've been
patiently dealing with these problems since Vista launch. I'm going back to
XP if I can't solve these problems by next week.
Computer Specs:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
2 GB Ram
500 GB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon X850 (AGP)
Sound Blaster X-Fi
Window Vista Ultimate (for now, but the countdown back to XP has started!)
My biggest problem with Vista is how long it takes to cache the video
thumbnails when looking at a folder full of videos (maybe 20-30 videos). It
seriously takes up to 5 minutes! Even worse, during that time, the computer
is practically unusable! It's almost as though it has crashed! I almost
dread opening a folder full of videos for fear of this! I would just turn
off the thumbnails, but it's hard to tell the videos apart without it! I had
no problems with thumbnails in XP. They were instantaneous! Who cares about
scalable thumbnails if they take 5 minutes to load EVERY TIME I OPEN THE
FREAKIN FOLDER!!!
My 2nd biggest problem with Vista is with WMP 11. When I try to open a file
(both music and video, though video is worse) it takes 30 seconds to a minute
to load! Again, this was practically instantaneous in XP. Tack this on to
the time it takes to open the folder the video is saved in and you've got a 6
minute process to load a freakin video! This is ridiculous!
OK, my final major problem is actually within Office 2007 on Vista (I'm too
afraid to install it on my XP laptop to see how it runs on XP).
Specifically, my problem is with PowerPoint 2007. I do a lot of timed slides
and the timing is crucial to the fraction of a second. Unfortunately,
PowerPoint runs so slow that the timing is EXTREMELY screwed up. My only
solution to this is to use my laptop and Office 2003 until the problem is
fixed.
These are just the major problems which are driving me out of my skull.
Does anyone have any ideas about solving any of these problems? I've been
patiently dealing with these problems since Vista launch. I'm going back to
XP if I can't solve these problems by next week.
Computer Specs:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
2 GB Ram
500 GB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon X850 (AGP)
Sound Blaster X-Fi
Window Vista Ultimate (for now, but the countdown back to XP has started!)