Gnomie Mike Dixon writes:

Chris, Love your Webcasts, miss TechTV, yada yada yada…

Here’s my ever growing list of Vista Annoyances and Bugs. The first one is the most recent one I found this morning that pushed me over the edge because of its lack of accessibility for the disabled.

File Replacement Dialog Is Mouse Only
Copy a file and paste it so that you’ll get the Copy File prompt for “There is already a file with the same name in this location.” Now, without using the mouse, try and execute one of the options. Sure, you can TAB to each of the options, but you can’t hit ENTER to actually execute one; you have to click it with the mouse. Also, as a side note to this buggy dialog, TAB allows you to tab to the different “buttons,” but the cursor keys only allow you to switch between Copy and Don’t copy - leaving “Copy, but keep both files” out of the cursor key loop, even though the cursor keys let you go up off the “Copy, but keep both files,” it doesn’t let you get back to it.

Not only that, but when I right click and paste that file, the file replacement dialog is shown, but isn’t the active window! No Window is active! You have to mouse click the dialog to even get it to accept keyboard input.

Standard User Can’t Turn on UAC
If you are logged on as a Standard User, and UAC is off, going into the User Accounts, selecting Turn User Account Control on or off, and then checking the “Use User Account Control (UAC)…” checkbox and clicking OK does NOTHING. Vista gives you no warning or indication that you need to be an administrator to do this.

Standard User Can’t See User Pictures
If you are logged on as a Standard User, and UAC is on, going into the User Accounts and selecting “Manage another account” prompts you for the Admin password, then once in the list of accounts, only the guest account has a picture, the rest are blank.

End Task Opens Behind Task Manager
If you CTRL-ALT-DEL to task Manager, it runs “Always on Top” by default. Choosing a “Not Responding” program and selecting “End Task” causes the resulting dialog to appear behind the Task Manager.

Mike Dixon, Software Developer - XP User - Vista Hater

[tags]vista, bug, windows, microsoft, xp[/tags]