-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Specials
- From: Keyboard Cowboy <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:22:30 -0700
See below.......
Regards,
Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy"
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Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
Will Rogers
> It would be far easier to tell you what is so good about it. The
> only "good" thing I have heard anybody say about Vista is that it
> is more secure than XP. And no, they were not laughing when they
> said it. They repeat it on the second Tuesday of every month, but I
> still don't believe them.
It does, indeed, have better protection and the tools it has are better
integrated.
>
> Now, to answer your question:
>
> It is bloated full of fancy geegaws and gimmicks to make the
> gullible think it is better than it really is. Despite what
> Micro$ofts says, you need at least 1GB of RAM for Basic and 2GB for
> Premium to get anywhere near "optimal" performance.
That's probably true. To be honest, most MS OSs need more than 2 gig to run
well. I don't irder a computer with less than 4 gig now. I know it's personal
choice, but I actually like the widgets they have..........of course, I added
them in Win XP using a third party software. They work much better in Vista
than the third party ones did in XP. I only wish they offered more of them.
>
> In addition, all the icons for Windows Explorer, Windows Mail,
> Internet Explorer and a few others I keep on the Quicklaunch bar
> have been changed and are too different and look to similar to be
> recognizable.
>
> They "fixed" the Start Menu when it was not broken. I don't want
> to search for a program... I want to find it on the menu.
This is easily remedied. Just go to options and select the "classic" mode.
The choice is the users to make.
>
> They deleted the word "My" from their vocabulary. How long has it
> been My Computer? And now its not? If its not mine, who's is it?
>
> Did they teach Windows how to remember restore UP so we would not
> have to deal with the ALT-F X (File>Exit) to force it to remember a
> resize up.
>
> Did they fix any of the other annoyances that drive users crazy?
>
> The new look of Freecell and Spider Solitaire are disgusting!
> These are simple easy to play games and thay have glossed them up
> with shiny this and gaudy that trying to make them more appealing.
> Instead they ruined them. The look really $*&(s.
>
> Have you had any luck finding drivers for that almost new printer
> that worked fine under XP?
As I noted previously, when I tried all my programs this time they all worked
perfectly. All my hardware works too. I suspect it is because the updates
including SP1 have removed a lot of the issues. I have probably 40 different
programs running including a great many Photo programs that are traditionally
resource hogs....they all run well, in fact better, than on XP.
The bottom line..........those who have been around a while know full well how
much I disliked Vista when it first came out. I posted many issues on this
list, and worked on several other lists to document problems (and solutions).
In spite of that, I have to say the current Vista is a great deal better than
the original release, and I suppose, to be fair, probably many of the third
party software program writers have updated their software to run better under
Vista. At this point in time, I would have no problem recommending Vista.
>
> Don
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:56 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Specials
>
>
>> I have not used Vista yet, what is so bad about it in a nutshell?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Christine
>>
>
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