My Top 10 Vista Annoyances Part I
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As with most new software releases, there is always something missing or something different from the previous version that annoys at least one user. Sometimes you can eliminate annoyances with a few simple changes. Others you have to live with.
Since working with Vista throughout the past year, I have found several features and changes that get on my nerves. With that, I have managed to come up with my Top 10 Vista Annoyances.
1. Budget Breaker
No one likes to see the price of products go up so you will certainly be annoyed when you go to purchase Vista. Although you can buy Vista for as low as $100, all you are getting for this price is Vista Home Basic. This version is so basic that most people will not want it. It does not even support the Aero interface which Microsoft has been toting as one of the great features of Vista (see my number five annoyance - Aero hardware requirements). As a result, most people will move to at least Vista Home Premium, which costs $239 retail for the full package. The price only goes up - topping off at a whopping $399 for the full package of Vista Ultimate.
2. Too Many Flavors
Having too many options to choose from annoys many people. Along with the annoyance, it can be confusing for newbies when deciding which version is best for them. Purchasing an operating system used to be simple because your choices were very limited. You could choose between this or that. With Windows XP, we saw four different versions of the operating system and now Vista things get even more complicated. The latest release of the Microsoft Windows family comes in five different versions: Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate.
So which one do you choose? It all depends on what you plan to use it for or what type of environment you work in (or on some cases, what a sales person can talk you into). What it comes down to is you need to do some research and find out what features of Vista you need (or want). This will definitely help to narrow down your choices. The bottom line - buying Vista is like buying a new car.
Tags: vista, windows, vista problems
2 Comments
paul sheriff
October 20th, 2007
at 3:47pm
hi just thought i would drop you a line ..vista yes i would agree its not most stable my dell 1520 has so far crashed 3 times and if it wasent for knowlege of computer would have def needed to pay some 1 to fix it ..ps can i have my start menu back like i had in xp ..may be there is a way to do this i have realy looked as yet …but i would like to warn u of a big problem i have found mat be u can warn others ..the program is called patition magic …when you down load it it will tell you that it is not conpatable with vista yes that and a other 100 programs but you can still run it ….as i did as needed it to turn a old hard drive back to fat32 ..as to use with Hard Disk USB Media Player Enclosure MP3 as its the only way it will see the files …any way as i said i istalled the program and it came up straight away that it had found a problem whith 1 of my partitions ..yes i let it fix it big mistake …all seemed well untill about a 4 hours later i though i would find a better program that was conpatable
so i tryed to unistall it have way through it crashed the hole lot gone ..and i mean there was now way back restore no chance anfter trying every thing i know i had to go in and delete all the partitions and reinstall it all ..and beleave me i tryed every thing no way round it ..so word of warning do not install partition magic
Barry Marks
May 13th, 2008
at 9:45am
Actually, I am not as put off by Vista as I thought I would having read all the negative reports. I have been using it on a new Dell laptop with dual core processor, 2GB RAM with Vista Ultimate and it has been fine, though I have no compelling reasons to encourage switching to Vista, especially on older computers. The major annoyance is getting to the desktop when starting the Latitude D830 on a new network connection. Frequently, I have to power down and start the machine again though it has been less so after installing SP1.