Vista is driving me round the bend...
Monday, October 26, 2009 by Fuzzy Logic | Discussion: Personal Computing
Here's hoping my Windows 7 disc arrives soon, because I've had enough of Vista.
Explorer window: Suddenly, for no reason, this will forget what size it was. It will open up about 640x480 and I will have to resize it.
Start Menu: I've all sorts of problems with this, mainly due to permissions. It wouldn't allow programs to create shortcuts on installation, I couldn't move items to where I wanted etc.
Worst, a few moments ago, the Games folder vanished. Poof! Just gone. After half an hour searching for it, I had to restore from yesterday's backup to get it back...
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Reply #22 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:50 PM
I had some serious issues with Vista SP1 at startup. It would take 2-3 tries to boot sometimes, but would run fine once the Vista logo came up. After SP2, I've had no issues at all with Vista. I'm eventually getting a free copy of Win7 from work, but may just wait for Win7 SP1 before I upgrade anyway. None of the new features I've heard of sound like they're worth a reformat at the moment.
Reply #23 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 7:58 PM
How about faster, more responsive? How about faster file move/copy? Better/easier networking? Less bloat and clutter?
While Win 7 may look similar to Vista, it is a vastly improved OS and certainly more productive.
Yup, definitely worth a reformat... and with a free copy through work, even moreso. 
Reply #24 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 8:13 PM
There's more than one?.....
Yeah, I also had no real issues with it, short of being butt ugly, a terribly designed navigation system [explorer and start menu] and a massive pain in the ass to skin.
Other than that.. it was only 4 stars less attractive to me than XP...
On a 4 star scale. 
Reply #25 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 8:22 PM
I'm so far around the bend I don't even remember the curve.
No wonder Vista seems normal to me.
Reply #26 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 8:33 PM
I'm so far around the bend that I can make out my own butt just a little way up ahead. 
Reply #27 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 9:00 PM
Good thing there's no 'with' between 'out' and 'my' ...
Reply #28 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 10:12 PM
Apparently I'm a lucky one too. I've had my Vista for over four months now, and it's been great. The only problem I had was when an update didn't install properly and it kept crashing, but in less than an hour I was able to roll it back to the previous update status. But that was a one-in-a-million glitch. Other than that, I couldn't possibly be happier with it.
...Unless it came with free coffee or something.
Reply #30 Thursday, November 5, 2009 8:20 PM
OK, shall we bring an END to that discussion? 
Reply #32 Thursday, November 5, 2009 9:00 PM
As you wish. 
Now the all important question: is the release of Win 7 signalling the death knell of Vista?
Has Vista's life expectancy been somewhat shortened by 7's arrival?
I hope not... support-wise, that is. Despite having Win 7 on mine and the missus' machines, I expect that we'll be keeping Vista on our spare machines into the foreseeable future and hope that MS will continue support for quite some time to come.
In any event, we should be grateful for Vista, and all its mistakes... though none greatly affected me. If it were not for the new ground that Vista broke, all the new coding and technoligical advances, including the glitches and mistakes, Win 7 would not be the great OS it is today.
Thank you Vista.... and hail Win 7.
Reply #33 Thursday, November 5, 2009 9:02 PM
Would that be the Peter Meter???? 
Reply #34 Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:27 PM
Windows 7 is built upon Vista. It is still Vista at it's heart. Just an upgrade is all.
Reply #35 Thursday, November 5, 2009 11:06 PM
Talk about projection
Reply #36 Thursday, November 5, 2009 11:24 PM
I'd like to show you a series of pictures and find out what you see
Reply #37 Friday, November 6, 2009 5:23 AM
So anyone got a Vista disk they are willing to part with?
Reply #38 Friday, November 6, 2009 10:16 AM
You should ask tazgecko for his coffee coaster...
Reply #39 Friday, November 6, 2009 10:42 AM
Sorry, kona.... XP is all I'm willing to part with. I've built us 2 spare rigs and Vista will go on those instead of XP, which prior to getting Win 7 for our primary machineswas my original plan.
Reply #40 Friday, November 6, 2009 12:23 PM
My disk arrived today but you can't have it.
I have Vista Ultimate here if anyone wants to buy it before it goes on ebay
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Reply #21 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:09 PM
There's more than one?.....
Yup, I've had no major issues with Vista... well none that I hadn't caused myself. While I had some teething issues early on with Vista Ultimate x86, Vista Home Premium SP2 in the 64 bit version has never let me down in the 12 months I've been using it.
Having said that, I am enjoying using Win 7 x64 tremendously... a major improvement on Vista all round.