17 May 2008, 12:41 pm
17 May 2008, 1:09 pm
17 May 2008, 1:41 pm
I've just bought a laptop with Vista. It turned out not to have SP1 on it. While surfing the web (using Firefox or IE) after a while it became really sluggish, with pages timing out. My other computer with XP loaded the same pages much quicker. I installed SP1 and it now runs faster.
However, there is still one irritating thing with Vista. I only have a dial up modem (can't get fast broadband where I live) it keeps wanting to download Office 2007 SP1. Fair enough but I haven't got Office 2007 installed. It is too big to download anyway so out of curiosity tried installing the service pack from CD and it said it could not install because the computer hasn't got office 2007. All this contradictory behaviour means I can't use automatic updates because it keeps trying to download this massive file that it subsequently says it can't install anyway!! ! Grrr Vista. Thus far I hate it. I can't find most of the things I used on XP, too much is hidden.
It also gets very irritating having to confirm that I want to run programs. This is happening so often I'm getting blazai about it and just automatically click continue without even reading the message. It wouldn't be so bad but it even does this with Windows own programs like the disk defragmenter - why are Windows own programs untrustworthy? ... Don't answer that 
17 May 2008, 2:06 pm
However, there is still one irritating thing with Vista. I only have a dial up modem (can't get fast broadband where I live) it keeps wanting to download Office 2007 SP1. Fair enough but I haven't got Office 2007 installed. It is too big to download anyway so out of curiosity tried installing the service pack from CD and it said it could not install because the computer hasn't got office 2007. All this contradictory behaviour means I can't use automatic updates because it keeps trying to download this massive file that it subsequently says it can't install anyway!! ! Grrr Vista. Thus far I hate it. I can't find most of the things I used on XP, too much is hidden.
It also gets very irritating having to confirm that I want to run programs. This is happening so often I'm getting blazai about it and just automatically click continue without even reading the message. It wouldn't be so bad but it even does this with Windows own programs like the disk defragmenter - why are Windows own programs untrustworthy? ... Don't answer that
about the office 2007, you can select in settings to not check for updates, or when during automatic updates ut checkmark in office2007's sp1 and click hide, or remove it all together, (many new computers come with a 30 day trial of office 2007.
the confirm programs running thing is called UAC (user account controls) the reason why it asks you if you want to run a program (yes even disk defragmenter, or disk cleanup as well) is because some viruses and trojans can take control and its just vista's way of making sure its human initiated, and not from some trojan codes,
however there is a way to turn it off,
just go to start orb, then click your image at top of start menu then click the link at bottom that says turn user account control on or off then click continue then remove checkmark in "use user accoutn control (UAC) to help protect computer ten click ok or apply then close out.
17 May 2008, 2:26 pm
richie
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17 May 2008, 3:16 pm
However, there is still one irritating thing with Vista. I only have a dial up modem (can't get fast broadband where I live) it keeps wanting to download Office 2007 SP1. Fair enough but I haven't got Office 2007 installed. It is too big to download anyway so out of curiosity tried installing the service pack from CD and it said it could not install because the computer hasn't got office 2007. All this contradictory behaviour means I can't use automatic updates because it keeps trying to download this massive file that it subsequently says it can't install anyway!! ! Grrr Vista. Thus far I hate it. I can't find most of the things I used on XP, too much is hidden.
It also gets very irritating having to confirm that I want to run programs. This is happening so often I'm getting blazai about it and just automatically click continue without even reading the message. It wouldn't be so bad but it even does this with Windows own programs like the disk defragmenter - why are Windows own programs untrustworthy? ... Don't answer that
You summed up many of the problems I had with Vista on my desk computer, I finally ditched it and put XP pro w/SP2
on it....I am about to make an another attempt at installing Linux on it as well in its own partition on an external hard-drive.
Hopefully I can find a Broad-com 43xx driver that works in Linux.
17 May 2008, 6:37 pm
17 May 2008, 7:53 pm
I have vista with a new laptop and don't have any problems at all (so far 
) and this doesn't have SP1 on it
17 May 2008, 8:49 pm
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richie
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19 May 2008, 4:22 pm
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