by Enjay » Thu Aug 13, 2009 14:43
My initial frustration with Vista has subsided too. But, yes, it still has problems even after SP2. The silly "predict which type of folder you are using and apply changes then randomly forget folder view settings" is one, but there is a registry work around for it.
Occasionally going back to the default screen resolution is another common issue that, again, there is a tweak for.
One of my beefs is the removal of the hardware abstraction layer which thereby EAX effects in a significant number of games that I play unusable. This time, Creative's "Alchemy" program takes care of it and my machine is fast enough to not have some of the speed issues that some people have reported with this.
Oh yeah, and it's insistence that a zip file is a folder is infuriating. I have tried to apply a few tweaks which fix most of the issues. However, if I ever try to use a program to load a zip file (eg uploading a zip using Firefox) the file filter doesn't show the zip "coz itz a foldur". So, to get a list of zips, I then have to type *.zip in the file field and magically the zips appear.
Other than a few times when other settings and so on were forgotten, stability has not been too bad but I didn't have any similar problems in XP in all the years that I used it.
It also starts relatively slowly and the hard drives chug away for minutes after startup. when accessing my secondary drive (which is not set to power down or anything) sometimes it can take ages to read it the first time that I try to access it.
It does have some nice features, like very quickly being able to open up a directory at the command prompt or go to the location of a found file but I'd already set things up like that in XP too.
But... yeah, it's not as good as it should be.
My initial frustration with Vista has subsided too. But, yes, it still has problems even after SP2. The silly "predict which type of folder you are using and apply changes then randomly forget folder view settings" is one, but there is a registry work around for it.
Occasionally going back to the default screen resolution is another common issue that, again, there is a tweak for.
One of my beefs is the removal of the hardware abstraction layer which thereby EAX effects in a significant number of games that I play unusable. This time, Creative's "Alchemy" program takes care of it and my machine is fast enough to not have some of the speed issues that some people have reported with this.
Oh yeah, and it's insistence that a zip file is a folder is infuriating. I have tried to apply a few tweaks which fix most of the issues. However, if I ever try to use a program to load a zip file (eg uploading a zip using Firefox) the file filter doesn't show the zip "coz itz a foldur". So, to get a list of zips, I then have to type *.zip in the file field and magically the zips appear.
Other than a few times when other settings and so on were forgotten, stability has not been too bad but I didn't have any similar problems in XP in all the years that I used it.
It also starts relatively slowly and the hard drives chug away for minutes after startup. when accessing my secondary drive (which is not set to power down or anything) sometimes it can take ages to read it the first time that I try to access it.
It does have some nice features, like very quickly being able to open up a directory at the command prompt or go to the location of a found file but I'd already set things up like that in XP too.
But... yeah, it's not as good as it should be.