Vistannoyances
by marco
1) Startup takes forever.
2) Shutdown, even right from a startup gives a “general fault” type error.
3) RECLAIM FILETYPES – freeamp/zinf mp3player needs you to put “reclaim filetypes every single time you
open it up. The built-in Windows MediaPlayer overrides it and makes itself the default no matter
what. Every time. EVEN AFTER telling it it’s NOT the default.
4) FREEZE-UPS – ctrl alt del takes about as long to get to as every other program during a freeze-up
5) Just opening Firefox with 2 tabs, Opera with 5 and checking email at the same time uses all 2G RAM???
6) If you inadvertantly leave a music disc in your CDRW/DVDRW don’t even think about opening a
few different applications.
7) I don’t need 301 fonts built-in totalling 160+ MB.
8) In the end I didn’t really like prefetch. What made them think I’m going to like Superfetch??
9) I bet I’m going to hate the newest version of indexed searching too. I don’t even want to look.
10) Why does search NOT default to showing you the filesizes? And I just tried to add FILESIZE as
a button and now I’m frozen up on that, notepad, opera, and two directories opened.
(In fact I’m retyping this in notepad on my xppro laptop right now while reading it off my PC’s
LCD screen beause VISTA’s locked-up “hourglassing” before I had a chance to save the last 6 items
I “hate.” How surreal and postmodern is that???)
This is NOT the top 10 personal problems. It is literally the first 10 I found a few days out of
the box. I have a factory installed version of Vista on a machine that can handle it. Don’t get
me started on the things I found the next few days while trying to put XP on this thing with their
“easy to use” partition shrinking application before deciding to just keep Vista in its current
state on the harddrive which I’ll just tuckaway for a while and then install a new SATA drive for
a clean XP Pro install.
I’m typing this in notepad.exe and even THAT is fighting with my global search of 1627 factory
installed .GIFs
But wait, there’s more.
The OS takes up 14+ GB memory on the harddrive, plus a 9G partition for restoring
since they don’t trust the end user with serial # and install disks anymore!
Ummm. what if there’s one little bad sector in the OS with another in the restore???
Or worse yet, a complete harddrive hardware failure?
And why is the first 300MB of my 2G RAM seemingly nonexistant? No, I don’t mean
already used up in taskmanager, it’s hidden from view!!!
It took me 3 weeks to hunt down drivers for an XP “downgrade” on this machine.
But I finally did it. I’m running XPPro SP2 on one harddrive and Ubuntu 7.10
on the other. Each is about 10 times faster than the Vista factory install,
boots up in about a minute and a half, and lets you power down without any
Fatal Errors or anything.
I’ll stop here. I could go on for decades. I think Vista needs to get back
to me at Service Pack 3 or so, because I’m not even in the mood to try SP1,
ok? This was a nightmare, of epic proportions, let me tell you. So let me
just say, I didn’t like VISTA when it first got discussed, as Longhorn, etc.,
and I wasn’t planning on running it ever, but I did this on a brand new
machine just to see “up front and personal” what everyone’s complaining
about. And boyeeee were they right.