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Story: Top 10 Windows Vista annoyances

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2008-01-06 Vista is an upgrade - Part 2

Sorry.. my article got truncated upon submit, here is the rest:

... I cannot describe how much too big the top part of my Windows Explorer Window is... Hrm about... Let me measure it... Ok it's about an inch and a half heigh! Why oh why can't I customize it back to something more sensible so that it only takes 3/4 of an inch maybe? I don't need it any bigger! Also, everytime I end up in a folder Vista displays a bunch of Columns that I DON'T NEED! Rating? Come on... Now it's relatively easy to remove the columns, add the ones I want, save that setting under "apply to all folders" but NO! It doesn't do it to all folders! A few days later I will go to a folder and bam the columns I have removed will be back. Oh another gripe I have is the sorting... When I sorted huge amount of files in Explorer under XP I got an hourglass until it was done; now you sort? Nothing happens... You may start to think that Vista is not doing anything and so you may reclick incessantly because of that which is a bad idea because it will reset your attempted action. Then after a while poof! It's sorted! No sound, no visual feedback no sort of indication whatsoever... If you blinked? You missed it. (The exact same behavior occurs when you bring up the Add/Remove programs window from the control panel and you only see a few items.... then some delay... then a few more items... then more delay... You just don't know when it's actually done displaying to you the whole list of installed programs on your system).

- Now in Vista when I click on Start I actually have to click on "all programs"... Then it shows me my start menu items (program groups) in a tiny claustrophobic inducing rectangular listbox... But if I have an item in there who's name is too long? Forget it! It's displayed truncated! And you can't make the listbox any bigger!

- Maybe you're an IT person like me and liked to have the Run box right there when you click start.... But noooo... Where is it? Haha good luck! I found it hidden somewhere tucked away real nice... You can Google around for 10 mins like me and find out where it's at yourself... *wink* :)

- I'm trying to give real life examples of totally absurd, crazy, useless meaningless stuff that Vista is crammed with that does not justify the name "upgrade" or "better".. And certainly does not justify the astronomical price! Vista does NOT improve on XP ! XP is actually better in so many ways, tried tested and true and so obviously so that I should probably be spending my time elsewhere than on write a long post like that but you know what? I've had it under my necktie way too long and now I'm going to write it down and email it to myself and I'll post this all over the world to every postable place; including my webpage called flooductions.

- What annoys me also is this: All these entries in the "Accessories" program group that start with "Windows"... Windows Calendar... Windows Contacts... Windows Defender... Windows Explorer, Windows fax and Scan... Windows Live Mail... Windows Live Photo Galleray... and 5 Other ones.... And i'm only running the Business edition! Talk about self advertising... This is way too over the top. Its like having a classmate that walks around saying constantly look at me i'm kewl... And he's not.

- Here's another reason I don't like Vista after running it for months... There is a whopping load of programs I used to run on a regular basis under XP that no longer work on Vista... Starting with a biggy: Ati Mulimedia Center 9.06 (for my TV Tuner Card)... I click on it and I get an error.. I've tried reverting to old versions of that software... reading the FAQ, the ATI support page, google.. newsgroups...blogs.. you name it... probably spent about 4 to 5 hours alone just trying to get that program to work and it doesn't work... As a workaround I am using the VLC player to watch TV on my PC and it doesn't play well at all and it doesn't

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