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 #43 Friday, November 6, 2009 6:08 PM
I was amazed at my Win7 install. It went really fast and after the first windows update and a reboot everything was working. I didn't need to manually install any drivers or anything it........just worked! 
Reply #44 Friday, November 6, 2009 10:38 PM
Yeah, it's a bit of a thumb twiddler, really. You bung in the disc, enter your keyboard and region details, and away it goes... leaving you to twiddle your thumbs for half an hour while it does the business. Apart from entering the product key and personal details a bit later, there's nothing else to do. I even noticed that all my proggies installed faster than in XP or Vista on the same machine... so hip-hip hooray for Win 7.
Reply #45 Friday, November 6, 2009 10:55 PM
Yep...
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Reply #41 Friday, November 6, 2009 3:21 PM
Ok, here I am, in Windows 7. Vista, as usual, went down kicking and screaming. I couldn't do an upgrade, the damn thing blue screened numerous times. So clean install it was...
I've installed ATi drivers, amazingly it did my crossfire and resolution all by itself.
But I'm confused, what do I do next? Everything seems to be working - is it really that simple?