Using Vista for couple of weeks now

[Carelino]

Hello everybody,

Just like a lot of other people here I have installed Windows Vista Home Premium on my FE31M laptop. There are things I like and things I don't like about Vista. For instance when you press ctrl+alt+dlt you get for a sec black screen. When you hibernate you get a black screen, when you close lid you get black screen (fixed it by installing different BIOS, yet I think it is ridiculous). To see what ip address your using you have to really look for it where it is hidden where in the past I could do it in 2 clicks. Yes sure it looks better, but is it really worth it? To be honest I have to answer that question with a NO. Yet I will continue to use it bc I spend an awful lot of time installing it finding fixes and patches. By the way you definitely need 2GB of RAM. The start menu is just as useless as the windows xp start menu (first thing I did put it on classic). Over sized icons was also an annoyance. No options to make software part of desktop. I can go on and on. Is it all negative....well I have to answer that with a NO 2. I like the new feature with renaming file that I can leave extensions on of files and rename them without having to select a certain part of the text. I like the way it looks and the real-time menu switches. Internet explorer tabs are opening faster. If you ask me Microsoft spend a lot of time in the Usability and Looks. The security built in Vista I hate it. Damn that security that tells you you need freeking permission to do this or that. I rather have somebody hacking into my laptop then my laptop telling me I need permission to do what I want. Dissappointing it was for me to see how badly prepared everything was. No software, no good drivers, no help no nothing. I can imagine everybody who got this Upgrade must have become crazy about the issues that until this day haven't been fixed by Sony or Microsoft.

After working for a couple weeks with Vista I still have issues. One of my biggest and most annoying issue which has not been posted here yet I is something about the sound. After Hibernating a couple of times the left box sound scratchy. Kinda like when you use to much volume. Yes, I know you think it must be bc I abbused it, but no. When I restart my laptop that scratchy sound is gone. I checked couple of times if I have the latest driver installed and I did.

Besides that there are a huge ass amount of software issues. Blocky video's, no compatibility, crashing and so on. Until this day it look like a never-ending story. And every single day I have to go trough this and other people as well Microsoft gets for free BAD publicity.

I see Windows Vista as an Update not as an Upgrade. Just like when people had Windows xp you got ME or that other crap. I wish it would have been a big step just like from windows 98 to windows xp. I always said windows xp was for lazy people bc it did everything for you. Windows Vista is letting you do everything for him. Strange but sad the world still isn't ready for Vista. And neither is Vista ready for you.

In time Microsoft will force people to buy it. Let's hope that they will or we will find solutions for the badly timed Vista.

[jumbles1971]

I have XP and Vista set up on my laptop so I can use some of the features of Vista if I really need to. Today was one of those days - burning all the films I'd recorded in Media Centre (XP) to DVD using Movie/DVD Maker (Vista).

After about nine hours and three or four high quality DVDs (and a few where Vista had created brand new never seen before aspect ratios) I switched back to XP and it was just such a relief to not continually be asked for permission to access my own files or having to persuade Vista that it really was me that is trying to launch some program!

My three favourite things about Vista are the Sidebar and Movie/DVD Maker. Thanks to VAIOXP (no relation) I have sidebar working fairly well in XP. If only I could do the same for Movie/DVD Maker then I'd be over the moon!

[Blencogo]

Hi Carelino,

I think we have all been conned!! Vista is really just an upgrade to XP but has been released for one single reason - to be the biggest cash cow for Microsoft ever! Also an excuse for them to market a new expensive Office 2007 (full of all the features you never wanted and will never use) and other money making wheezes for Bill's pension scheme!

I must admit I quite like Vista and my introduction has been almost trouble free - but that is because I have two other Vaios running XP and do not need to install anything but fully Vista compliant stuff on the Vista machine. The benefits are mainly visual though but I do find it easy and rewarding to use. The jury is still out on the User Account Control - I can see the benefits but I'm not sure if they are worth the agro. Quite like the sidebar (can't you find a widget to show your IP Address? I'm sure I've seen several).

If I only had one machine, I would not run Vista only - I would either dual-boot like Jumbles or run XP alone. There are just too many programs that can't run on Vista. Little wonder Microsoft have suddenly released Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 as a comforter. There are still too many little bugs with Displays and Audio - not to mention device drivers for things like your webcam.

No - on reflection I think we have all been well and truly conned!!!

[kee-lo_]

Totally agreed and won't be falling for it again.

Leopard comes out in October and I bet I'll love it more than Vista.

[fai_lok]

if you look at vista from a user point of view, too drastic a change would have meant that people were less likely inclined to buy the product due to people not liking change.... And if the product was made too similar then it wouldn't be worth it.

People that buy P.c's are people that either need it for business (hence the forced necessity of it preinstalled at sale) or those who buy for pleasure (hence the abundance of graphical pleasures for the other end of the spectrum wishing to get high on gadgets and cold metal!)

Was it really such a let down if you were expecting the decision?

Vista had to arrive some time soon and the phrase 'somebody had to do it' fits the bill. Basically computer development is obviously increasing at the famous exponential rate (so much as silicone can be compacted) and setting up the small increments of change towards a sustainable future in the IT business was just part of life.

Vista's push for a stimulating graphical interface will be the last of its kind before the nueronal and hands on revolution. Vista is a bud waiting to flower at silcones peak age. It will come and have its short but necessary life.

there have been cycles of good operating systems and then bad. All with updates along the way.

[kee-lo_]

I'd like to see people learn how to use computers properly instead of heavily relying on Microsoft to make the OS so simple even a baby can use it.