Windows Vista

[Ivens77]

Dear all,

I would like to propose you a new big Topic for this forum.

What do you sincerely think about Windows Vista?

What are its strongest good points?

In which aspects it fails completely?

According to your experience I wait for your suggestion.


Bye!

Simon

[kee-lo_]

Ah this is going to make for an interesting topic.

I think it's OK, no, so-so, it's not very good but it's not so bad I feel like it's like Windows ME.

I quite like the RSS feeds on the desktop, but I find the clock silly and I think Aero is a waste of resources.

Plus this silly stuff like Games manager and all that extra stuff, useless.

I do like readyboot and I like the design of the start menu

[F1Annie]

Dear all,

I would like to propose you a new big Topic for this forum.

What do you sincerely think about Windows Vista?

What are its strongest good points?

In which aspects it fails completely?

According to your experience I wait for your suggestion.


Bye!

Simon

I absolutely hate it.

I'm not a dinosaur - I love new things & when I first used XP it really was WOW! I loved it.

I've had this notebook & pre-installed Vista for a week now & I think Vista is a disaster.

I can't play any little website videos(don't know the proper name for them). Not talking about dodgy sites either. These are from Daily Telegraph, Channel 4 News, Eurosport etc.

I'm angry that Photoshop Elements 5 was pre-installed & when I try to open a picture in it, it says "not compatable with Vista"

I'm angry that before I even got started, Sony had to produce updates to resolve issues, one of them instructing me to un-install, then re-install the Bluetooth program.

Storage of files, pictures, music is unnecessarily complicated.

XP is simple, elegant and logical.

Dell are offering to uninstall Vista & install XP on new machines on request. I'm going to see if that's possible on this.

[Thalamus.]

Hi F1Annie,

welcome to Club Vaio..

You may find this post Full instructions to downgrade an AR31M from Vista to XP Pro of interest..

[F1Annie]

Hi F1Annie,

welcome to Club Vaio..  

You may find this post Full instructions to downgrade an AR31M from Vista to XP Pro of interest..

Thanks for the info. I'm not competent or confident to do it myself but I will pay a visit to my local PC doctor & ask him to do it for me!

[Thalamus.]

You're welcome F1Annie..

Make sure you create a couple sets of recovery discs before you do anything..

[davemee]

Vista has taken a lot of flak, mostly from people talking out of their rear, with very little experience.

'Media Center Reciever Service' crashes constantly on me. That's my main problem. Otherwise, I've found serious stability, and a huge number of user-facing improvements... this is the first windows I can say I've actually really enjoyed using. Media Center is fantastic, happily working with my linux server to pull in my media library, and handles so much stuff with aplomb that it's what I turn to first to handle media for group (or convenient) display. Media player is a massive improvement, the active searching is the don for large libraries. Start menu is a massive jump forward, I don't think people realise how much depth there is to it now... anything I do these days usually starts with the windows key, whether finding a phone number, running an application, or playing media (I used to use this from the days it was a seperate java application called LookOut, for Outlook only). OS-level RSS integration is nice, and the addition of 'tagging' is very welcome for managing files and data. I dismissed the winkey+tab as a gimmick to start with, but realise now it's an excellent tool for getting an overview of what's running quickly - I have legitimate uses for it these days, not just as eye-candy!

On the downside... some large-scale applications are showing their creakiness, creakiness that has been there for several generations, despite their recent high-profile acquisitions... and whether microsoft totally mistimes their release of vista is a story yet to unfold - the worst aspect of this being the amount of misinformation out there about it. Some of the 'ultimate' functionality should be released into all editions, and this was a bit cheeky on MS's part. Otherwise, it's been a dream for me. Well designed and informative all round. Device support and syncing (photos, mp3 players, cameras, WM5 phones) have been flawless and a joy to use - that's *never* been the case before, on any OS or hardware.

Sorry to buck the trend, I know most people want to hear that it's 'awful'. I've used computers for around 20 years, and I can say they've really done a good job of this - you can smell the young blood at MS. Very happy I waited for a Vista machine, and didn't join the hordes braying for their XP downgrade.

Dave

[Twisted-Rizla]

I'm angry that Photoshop Elements 5 was pre-installed & when I try to open a picture in it, it says "not compatable with Vista"

Hi

Adobe has a patch to fix this problem. You should be able to download it if you run photoshop again and when you get the incompatibility message you should be able to click the visit Adobe.com for the update patch from there.

[F1Annie]

I've remembered something else.

Last June I bought a Canon PowerShot S3IS which I love. It comes with ArcSoft photo editing software which I'd not used before but it's brilliant.

Not compatible with Vista.

[Thalamus.]

I've remembered something else.   

Last June I bought a Canon PowerShot S3IS which I love.  It comes with ArcSoft photo editing software which I'd not used before but it's brilliant.

Not compatible with Vista.

There appears to be a Important Patch for Windows Vista Users, not sure if it's for your application though, see more here..