twoshots wrote:
Every time vista has kicked me in my crotch, I've been doing something which, while entirely reasonable, is probably outside the activity sphere of the average user.
Vista does that to me constantly. A day doesn't go past without me cursing it in one way or another. There are just too many things that have been dumbed down for the "average user" if such a person actually exists. As a software developer I need to delve into the data directory (AppData) so have to set it to view all files and folders, but then of course all the crud elsewhere shows up such as the Desktop.ini files (two for some reason in Vista).
It also likes to second guess how I want to view each folder and keeps getting it wrong. I find it very irritating when it suddenly decides that my data files are really photographs and removes the valuable information such as date modified, file size and file attributes - instead it shows star ratings!! ! Vista has become a version of the dumbed down pop-idol program. I don't want star ratings for my data files!! !
Has anyone tried the disk defragmenter in Vista? It stinks. I can't set it to run automatically as it wants to, because if I'm not using the computer it is either on standby or shutdown. So I have to run it manually. Instead of just doing it, I have to sit staring at the screen for five minutes while it decides that yes, indeed the disk does need defragmenting and would I like to proceed - YES FFS! That is why I'm running the F'ing program in the first place!
Vista crashes out if you have any zip files on the disk containing lots of files - it tries to treat it as a folder and expands it. This bombs out Windows Explorer - ironically this same problem exists in XP but MS have not got around to fixing it or exen acknowledging the problem exists. Those in the know have to hack the registry to get rid of this "feature".
Windows Explorer in Vista - this is a complete abortion. It tries to change what it does depending on what you are viewing and is a real wrestling match.
I also support a lot of old Visual Basic version 6 software - there is a certain irony that every time I run VB6 that I get a warning that the software is unknown as was written by an unknown publisher (the publisher was Microsoft) do I really want to trust this software? Duh - you tell me Microsoft - you wrote it! The frustrating thing is that I have to go through this stupid conversation with Vista every time I run VB6.
All the old and very useful things have been stuffed into the search box. So to access the SendTo folder you have to type shell:sendto in the search box. Similarly for Regedit which I need to use a lot.
The Media player in Vista is unusable. I have lots of mp3 files on an external drive. Media player does not have the facility to simply play them - first it wants me to compile them all into a libraries and play lists. Vista just gets in the way with everything I want to do. Everything takes more mouse click, more key presses, more aggravation than it did in XP.
Software incompatibility - this is a big issue with Vista. I've got lots of software that just doesn't run on Vista. So it means buying some software again that I already own just to get the Vista compatible version.
Vista - I've got it, I use it and it sucks.
Unfortunately I earn my living writing software for Windows so just have to put up with whatever bug filled crap Microsoft turns out.
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I've left WP indefinitely.