Vista...

[Typedink]

Ok so who other than me has been using this? I had no choice, it came with my laptop. Sure its pretty but thats about it. I HATE the new scrolling thing for the programs in start menu. HATE.

I hate that every time I want to do something I have to ALLOW the comp to do it. I hate that like 95% of the time my task bar notification icons, like volume, network, battery icons disappear. I have to end explorer.exe and re-start it in task manager.

So I wonder who else is being overly annoyed with Vista? Any good tweaks? Recommendations to make it more bearable?

[Eggie]

I got my wife a laptop at christmas and it came with Vista... there are some features I like... but on the whole its horrid - overly colourful, overly helpful and generally a pain in the bum. It needs loads of tweaking to get it from how it is defaultly configured to being semi-usable...

I got annoyed with the frequently popping up confirmation dialog window to asking for permissions to continue a task too. I found how to disable it...

Control Panel > User accounts
disable UAC

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[Susan]

Do a google on this and you'll find limitless numbers of people who are annoyed with Vista.

The solution?

INSTALL XP.

Or find someone who can do it for you.

[Typedink]

See I thought of installing XP BUT to finally have a legit version of Windows that I can update with no hassle on my laptop is what keeps me from putting XP on it cause it sure wouldn't be legit.

Thanks for the tip Eggie!

[Sokkratez]

I've been using Vista since January and I'm a fan. No problems that I wasn't expecting, such as UAC, altered Start Menu and Explorer layout. I got used to them after a week or so (disabled UAC immediately), grew to PREFER the scrolling start menu and modified Explorer to my needs. Now I'm loving it.

Of course, I rarely actually use my start button. The only reason I even use the task bar anymore is because the system tray is so good. I use Object Dock to access tasks and apps.

edit: Oh, another thing. Use ctrl+shift+esc instead of ctrl alt del. Takes you right to the task manager.