5 things I don’t like about Vista
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I’ve been using Vista for a year now and although it’s not perfect, it has improved over the year. Programs that used to not start up at all in the past at least run now. Paint Shop Pro X was one of those programs that did not work on my laptop in the past, but now works. Most of the time though, I have to find a hack to make a program work by either running it as administrator or copying a dll in it’s directory.
Anyways, there are 5 things about Vista that have not been fixed and may never be fixed in the future.
1.) The Device Manager link on the System page when you right click on Computer and click Properties does not work. I have UAC set to not bug me so I don’t know if that’s what made it stop working or what it could be, but in order for me to go to Device Manager, I have to go to the Control Panel.
2.) It seems like no matter how much memory I add to my computer it is never enough. Before, I used to have 1.5 GB of RAM and even after 2 days of use it still managed to stay under 2GB, but now that I upgraded to 2 GB of RAM, it uses more. I could not figure out why that is. I haven’t added any new programs because I like to keep minimal programs running on a laptop.
3.) I can’t leave my computer on for longer than a week because Explorer will find a way to crash, which I know why it does. It’s because it runs as one process and if you do things too fast, it crashes. You would think Microsoft would have learned not to put the desktop icons and taskbar into one process, but I guess they don’t get it. I think it’s dumb because if something goes wrong I have to log-off and log-on in order to get all my icons back in the system tray.
4.) I have a Desktop which has Windows XP and after 2 years it does not have one single filesystem corruption, yet my laptop with Vista seems to get all these corruptions out of nowhere. The hard drive is new by the way. I have a dual-boot set up on my laptop and the reason why I have not taken XP off of the laptop yet is because I have to boot into XP in order to scan the Vista partition for corruption. I am forced to do this ever month otherwise programs and system tasks will stop working.
5.) In XP, I have Internet Explorer’s Options set to “Never Dial a Connection” and it stays that way, but on Vista if I change it to that setting it goes back to “Dial a connection whenever needed.” The solution I used to keep the setting at “Never Dial a Connection” was to go into the Registry and set permissions on the setting so that nothing can modify it. That works, but don’t use Internet Explorer afterwards because it will be slow. It works for me because I don’t use Internet Explorer.
5 Comments
Mr.Wizard
June 5th, 2008
at 11:56am
#1 has always worked fine for me - don’t turn off UAC
#2 isn’t a bug, it’s intentional - free ram is wasted ram - vista fills up your free ram with dlls and things it thinks you might want to load in the future based on your past usage. if that memory is needed for something else e.g. a large photo in photoshop, the cached memory acts as if it was free ram.
#3 explorer crashes are usually caused by 3rd party add-ins, but if it does crash you can restart it without rebooting by killing explorer.exe in task manager and starting it again using File-Run in task manager
#4 has never happened to me ever - even if it’s a new hard drive, i think that’s a hardware issue
#5 never happened to me, but I don’t use dial up…
the oracle
June 5th, 2008
at 1:33pm
Wow, only 5 things… that must be nice.
a0369
June 5th, 2008
at 4:15pm
Response to Mr. Wizard, on #2, that would seem weird why they would do that, but ok. #3, it’s not that I can’t start explorer afterwards, the problem is that I use the system tray icons for program access and they don’t show back up when explorer crashes. #4, I don’t know what hardware error it could be, I used XP for 2 months and it didn’t get any corruption, so maybe it’s a driver in Vista. I have 3 partitions, one Vista, one XP, and one for data. The Vista partition is the only one I have issues with. #5, I would delete the connection, but sometimes I have to use it in case the DSL is down or I’m somewhere that I can’t get on the internet, which then I use my phone as a modem.
Doug
June 6th, 2008
at 4:31am
I have three computers that are either running Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows VIsta Enterprise.
1. All of them have UAC turned off and accessing “Device Manager” from “System Properties” isn’t an issue.
3. Simple answer, turn off your computer when you are not using it. Turning off you computer lowers your carbon footprint. If you are worried about the system not be on when you want to use it, go into the BIOS and set a time for it to be turned on automatically. Turning off your computer will lower your carbon footprint. Even when I am using my computers, both laptops and desktops, I will purposefully do a restart every once and a while keep Windows happy. My computing is so critical that I can’t take a little more than a minute to restart my computer.
3 (cont). This is something that happens to me even in Windows XP. Easiest way to get around this problem, don’t have lots of programs running in the background. That’s primarily the purpose behind the “Taskbar;” to hide applications that aren’t really using. Plus, if you have less applications running, you have better performance.
Vista one big painful Experience for windows Users
September 24th, 2008
at 6:05am
First thing after Installing vista will make anyone struggle for there device drivers in case of an OS upgrade on existing hardware, second thing one has pool in extra cash for upgrading memory, graphics card etc etc to get boost in performance, without it one will go dead with sick OS from Microsoft. Third thing if one is running OpenGL applications then either application will cry
or out of the box dead. Vista is real bad with OpenGL applications, same applies most non OpenGL applications which might be running smoother with earlier OS 2000-PRO or XP-PRO but refuse work at all on VISTA. last most important thing is for gamers, all the guys from gaming world will be really unhappy with their respective games performing when running them on VISTA compared to XP, I would suggest XP users not to upgrade to VISTA – because XP is best workstation OS ever created by MS from all perspective –stability, reliability with total dependability and well supported by all software vendors.
As Microsoft claims that its development team has been working around 5 long years on changing complete functional core architecture in VISTA when compared to earlier XP or 2K platform but finally what actually people got is an OS with no future, just another sick Microsoft strategy to mint money from innocent people, who doesn’t really know, care or aware what actually goes into their computers and importantly is it worth the cost.