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Story: Top 10 Windows Vista annoyances

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2008-01-06. Vista is a downgrade. Part 4.

Truncated again.. i think the whole rest should fit in this one now:

- Ok i'm ok... Imagine how livid I would be if i actually had to have paid 400 buckaroos for that piece of junk of an Operating system that took more than 6 years to develop.. I know you don't get the irony of it like i do... If you only knew that it was probably 3 years too long in the making... Oh and I didn't pay for Vista because it's licensed from Work...

- I have 2 Network cards on my PC... One no longer works since I installed Vista.... Why? I don't know... Probably because I haven't spent another half a weekend googling that around too!

Another big Vista hardware victim? My PDA..... Boohooo mwaaaaa! Mommy! My Toshiba e380 PDA is shot to hell on Vista. It doesn't sync and it's not recognised. I can't use it and I don't know why! When I call Toshiba I'm told it's not supported on Vista... I ask them why since I've only had it 2 years and they said they're sorry it's not supported... But it was working PERFECTLY FINE BEFORE!

- This is the first new version of the Windows operating system that I didn't need, didn't want, had to have and had to use, tried to use, tried to fix, tried to like and you guess what I DONT WANT IT ANYMORE !

- I can't do what I'm used to as easily as before. Stuff I used to do easily before I now have to do more difficultly ! I've upgraded to newer versions of Windows before (oh and I say "upgrade" but I have Vista installed on a reformatted hard drive... it's a brand new install!) And for the times when I upgraded in the past where i couldn't do what i was used to do the way I was able to in prior versions at least i was able to do it quicker, stronger, better with the newer versions of Windows that I upgraded to... But with Vista? Forget it... It's an unreacheable dream... An incessant nightmare.

There's one good thing with Vista though: When I installed my VPN for work I used something akin to a Wizzard that was able to connect me almost immediatly and effortlessly whereas in XP I had to go into advanced settings of the TCP/IP entry of my VPN connectoin and modify alot of settings there; I also had to add static routes to the LMHosts and Hosts files... But not on Vista... Woohoo.. Big whoopy doo... (

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