Comments on: Things to Love & Hate about Vista http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/184/things-to-love-hate-about-vista Mobile experience, user interface design, software and new ideas. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hampe http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/184/things-to-love-hate-about-vista/comment-page-1#comment-800 Hampe Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:11:35 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=184#comment-800 when right clicking picures in a map and clicking "Print" you get a "Printing wizard" but it can't print three images on one page (2 smal and one bigger) as in XP and that so called wizard doesn't even find my printer! the search sucks compared to xp as mike said... all wizards sucks explorer doesn't remember my viewing settings, like if i set it to "View larg icons" or "View details" and close it and go back it just pick a random view and its difrent in all directories It is eating memory as shit, I have 2GB RAM and if I doesn't have any program opened and look in task manager it's using 1GB - 1.3GB and no it's not a virus, add or anything like that cause it have been like that since i installed it... and desktop > right click > personalize > choose between 50 diffrent windows for diffrent settings compared to XP: desktop > right click > properties > and taadaaa set any screen saver/display/background settings I use Vista and overall I like it :) when right clicking picures in a map and clicking “Print” you get a “Printing wizard” but it can’t print three images on one page (2 smal and one bigger) as in XP and that so called wizard doesn’t even find my printer! the search sucks compared to xp as mike said…

all wizards sucks

explorer doesn’t remember my viewing settings, like if i set it to “View larg icons” or “View details” and close it and go back it just pick a random view and its difrent in all directories

It is eating memory as shit, I have 2GB RAM and if I doesn’t have any program opened and look in task manager it’s using 1GB – 1.3GB and no it’s not a virus, add or anything like that cause it have been like that since i installed it…

and desktop > right click > personalize > choose between 50 diffrent windows for diffrent settings
compared to XP:
desktop > right click > properties > and taadaaa set any screen saver/display/background settings

I use Vista and overall I like it :)

]]> By: Mason http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/184/things-to-love-hate-about-vista/comment-page-1#comment-799 Mason Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:31 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=184#comment-799 Other things that changed for no good reason, causing me to waste time looking for something that I once went to quickly: - "Add/Remove Programs" renamed "Programs and Features" - "Uninstall" button in Add/Remove programs is very hard to find and blends with other buttons despite its primary importance in that dialog - Network settings once in one place now spread all over (sharing wizard, network center, etc) Overall, I agree with you. I love Office 2007, but Vista misses the mark and just adds frustration in terms of my daily usage. Couple that with its outrageous hardware requirements and it costs a lot of money without adding substantial value. I have uninstalled it on two of my machines, but kept it on my Media Center because I do like the new widescreen interface there. Other things that changed for no good reason, causing me to waste time looking for something that I once went to quickly:

- “Add/Remove Programs” renamed “Programs and Features”
- “Uninstall” button in Add/Remove programs is very hard to find and blends with other buttons despite its primary importance in that dialog
- Network settings once in one place now spread all over (sharing wizard, network center, etc)

Overall, I agree with you. I love Office 2007, but Vista misses the mark and just adds frustration in terms of my daily usage. Couple that with its outrageous hardware requirements and it costs a lot of money without adding substantial value. I have uninstalled it on two of my machines, but kept it on my Media Center because I do like the new widescreen interface there.

]]> By: garyh http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/184/things-to-love-hate-about-vista/comment-page-1#comment-798 garyh Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:36:15 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=184#comment-798 "Better system searching. Finally. - You get relatively fast results without too much pain. It has room for improvement but it’s 100x better then XP searching." Uh...except for the fact that I can't specify both a filename expression and a different expression for inside the file to search for at the same time. Without that it makes it almost unusable to me. “Better system searching. Finally. – You get relatively fast results without too much pain. It has room for improvement but it’s 100x better then XP searching.”

Uh…except for the fact that I can’t specify both a filename expression and a different expression for inside the file to search for at the same time. Without that it makes it almost unusable to me.

]]> By: Mike Wyman http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/184/things-to-love-hate-about-vista/comment-page-1#comment-797 Mike Wyman Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:47:20 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=184#comment-797 If you really need to play solitaire at work, it's simple enough to enable games access in the Business Edition. See http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2044/vista_business_edition_install_enable_games If you really need to play solitaire at work, it’s simple enough to enable games access in the Business Edition.

See http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2044/vista_business_edition_install_enable_games

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