vista question...reason for dislike?

If I use my computer for Word, PowerPoint, Internet, Email, rip/Burn cd's, play dvd's, and listen to music....am I going to find the reason everyone else has for hating vista, or is it when peoples get more involved with the computer does the "love" for Vista fade??

 

great question as I'm new to vista (home p) and I am not having any dislikes as of yet.

 

I have only had Vista now for 2 days and am enjoying it. I can see complaints about driver issues but I haven't experienced any yet.

 

No, in fact, I think it's better for multimedia than XP.

The main reasons is performance in games, and the difference is negligeable imho.

The biggest argument against Vista comes from mouth to mouth where more than half the people haven't tried it.

 

Personally I'm having a hard time seeing why anyone with a properly functioning Vista would have any reasons to hate the OS.
If you're among those that are suffering from driver issues, OS crashes, software incompatability (update your software dammit , are there actually any even remotely major applications that aren't Vista compatible? Hell, even all the freeware and assorted low price utilities I use work just fine), I can understand why you would want to go back to a (probably) stable and reliable XP/2000.
Similarly if your hardware isn't up to the task - but if you're trying to run Vista on a system with 1 GB RAM, a slow single core CPU and a graphics card that was low end already a few years ago, you obviously only have one person to blame.

Despite still having some unfortunate and annoying blue screen of death issues with Vista myself (around one a week since I got this laptop back in November), I'm otherwise perfectly happy with Vista.
Just as fast and responsive as Win 2000 (though Vista does tend to have a bit more going on in the background at regular intervals) - and much prettier to look at . Not to mention that I also think they've made some fairly significant improvements to the overall interface layout (the control panel etc.).

I use my computer 8+ hours a day for work (web design), light graphics work, web surfing (obviously), video, music and all the other usual stuff.
I must admit that I've pretty much given up on PC gaming though, in favor of my XBox 360 and PS3 - and a nice big TV and a comfy chair, rather than hunchbacked over my PC .

 

Just make sure you have 2GB of RAM and a half-decent video card, and you're good to go.

 

Vista is a good operating system, however there are some things I didn't like about it:

1) You MUST turn UAC (User access control) off because it really interferes with your file copying, etc. I can't believe it is turned on by default.

2) Printer driver setup on a network also took me by surprise. You have to activate UAC, install the driver, then turn it off. My printer is a Canon LaserJet, I'm not sure if others have the same experience.

On the flip side, there are some good improvements in Vista, e.g.
1) The filenaming now highlights only the filename (not the file extension) so when you type in the new name, you don't replace the file extension. I like that little touch.

2) The multimedia aspects of Vista are definitely better than XP. You can feel more 'gloss' in Vista and 'multimedia friendliness'.

3) The speed of Vista is also better. I find that on my Thinkpad X61, Vista screams while on my desktop (which has XP) - it chugs along. My desktop has about the same specs as my laptop.

 

Yep.. Power management in Vista is a big improvement too.. you'll get better battery life on a notebook with Vista than XP...

 

Why would you gut the security system of Vista? UAC has a clear use and it doesn't bother me one bit. Off course you need to click a bit more during installation of an app but thats worth it. UAC makes sure malware has a lesser chance of installing itself on your machine or intefering with the OS or other apps.

UAC is definetly useful. It provides essential protection by prohibiting apps from installing themselves (without your permission) or writing to important directories like C:\Windows or C:\Program Files. It's only triggerd if you work in sensitive area's of the OS. During normal computer use it never shows it face. Do yourself a favor and turn it back on.

 

There is nothing to hate Vista about except:

1) People hated it coz many things were placed in a new location as it's a new Operating System and they were so used to XP that they uninstalled it right away without getting used to the new design.

2) You will get annoying Security pop ups for everything you do that has to do with system files or installing a new application, this is just for your own safty, but if it gets annoyong, you could turn those pop ups/warnings off like I did and rest in piece .

Just know what software you are installing and that it's safe and you'll be good!

Vista is an evolutionary Operating System

 

This will solve your questions. Try using search next time.

 

As an Ubuntu user, I am accustomed to the operating system asking for the root password before granting access to core files. I'm glad MS finally adopted this practice. UAC hasn't caused me one bit of grief.

You also don't need 2GB of RAM to run Vista. My wife's 1420 has built-in video and 1GB of RAM, and it runs Vista Ultimate like a champ. Of course, depending on the tasks (video editing, image processing, gaming, etc) you might want more memory, but for general purpose computing, 1GB of RAM is plenty for efficient Vista operation.

 

The more I use it the more I enjoy the layout of it. Things despite me having to learn them seem like they are almost more logically placed as far as what would make sense. I am having no issues acclimating to Vista from XP.

 

Vista is fine with 1gb. I just got 2gb because a game. I'm thinking of going to 4gb eventually.

UAC is one of the best things about Vista. It helps protect the OS from malware and as an admin you can restrict what idiot users can do to wreck the OS.

 

wow! thanks. Sounds like it's not so bad after all. I'm getting it with my Fujitsu so I'm confident now.

 

No problems here. How did you have to re-enable UAC???

 

The only one I have found is that old games sometimes don't work. And the occasional internet problem.

 

I have UAC on, and it never interferes with my file copying. If it's interfering with your file copying, then either your file or directory permissions are wrong (and should be fixed using Explorer), or you're copying files to a directory you shouldn't be messing around with.