Vista Rocks!

[PlatyPius 5]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

It was between that and "You dripping goat #######!"

Bonus points to anyone who can name the author who coined those terms/phrases...

[Kathryn41 3,205]

My new Acer Extensa 5420, I and my IT (programmer) husband do NOT like Vista! It is a DOG to work with! We ended up buying a 2 G USB flash drive to give Vista additional memory to 'hog' because it was taking forever to load and to access anything - even simple stuff. My husband finally went through and we deleted or disabled a lot of the unnecessary bells and whistles (the ones he could find at any rate!) and he agrees - there is no sense or order to the application at all. The issues we have - and we hoped would be addressed by removing some of the junk - is that the USB ports don't always recognize the devices we have plugged in on start up so I have to unplug the Flash drive and replug it in for the computer to recognize it on start up and unplug my firelight external drive and plug it back in. I keep my photos stored on the firelight. We have an internal network here at the house as well and if the system has been idle for any length of time (an hour), then the computer stops being able to find the internet link and will only connect to the internal network. I have to manually disconnect and re-connect it to the external modem - which sometimes doesn't work and I have to reboot. It has no trouble finding it on its own on start up, mind you. As well, without warning and no consistent trigger - and no incidents reports on the log to try and track it down - the screen just suddenly blanks out. So, I have to turn off the computer, turn it back on again, go through all of the messages about turning it off without being properly closed down. My husband is totally perplexed and the tech people at BestBuy where we bought it are totally perplexed - the response is , well, Vista still has some problems! Grrr!

Anyway, I would have preferred to keep my XP but when my old laptop died (and it really died ) we decided it was time for a new machine. I like the Acer - I don't like Vista. GRRRRRRRRRR.

And - worse of all - there are extremely limited options to change the appearance colours of the screens - I am stuck with Blues and I want greens and golds! (hehehehe)

Edited April 7, 2008 by Kathryn41

[Teacher Mark 53]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

It was between that and "You dripping goat #######!"

Bonus points to anyone who can name the author who coined those terms/phrases...

Hunter Thompson

[Marilyn. 340]

My new Acer Extensa 5420, I and my IT (programmer) husband do NOT like Vista! It is a DOG to work with! We ended up buying a 2 G USB flash drive to give Vista additional memory to 'hog' because it was taking forever to load and to access anything - even simple stuff. My husband finally went through and we deleted or disabled a lot of the unnecessary bells and whistles (the ones he could find at any rate!) and he agrees - there is no sense or order to the application at all. The issues we have - and we hoped would be addressed by removing some of the junk - is that the USB ports don't always recognize the devices we have plugged in on start up so I have to unplug the Flash drive and replug it in for the computer to recognize it on start up and unplug my firelight external drive and plug it back in. I keep my photos stored on the firelight. We have an internal network here at the house as well and if the system has been idle for any length of time (an hour), then the computer stops being able to find the internet link and will only connect to the internal network. I have to manually disconnect and re-connect it to the external modem - which sometimes doesn't work and I have to reboot. It has no trouble finding it on its own on start up, mind you. As well, without warning and no consistent trigger - and no incidents reports on the log to try and track it down - the screen just suddenly blanks out. So, I have to turn off the computer, turn it back on again, go through all of the messages about turning it off without being properly closed down. My husband is totally perplexed and the tech people at BestBuy where we bought it are totally perplexed - the response is , well, Vista still has some problems! Grrr!

Anyway, I would have preferred to keep my XP but when my old laptop died (and it really died ) we decided it was time for a new machine. I like the Acer - I don't like Vista. GRRRRRRRRRR.

And - worse of all - there are extremely limited options to change the appearance colours of the screens - I am stuck with Blues and I want greens and golds! (hehehehe)

you can change it if you right click on your desktop and then click on personalize and then click on window color and appearance.. you can almost get any colour you want....

it even lets you access the classic options...

Edited April 7, 2008 by MarilynP

[GaryC 7]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

It was between that and "You dripping goat #######!"

Bonus points to anyone who can name the author who coined those terms/phrases...

I thought it was from "The Stand" by Steven King.

[Jamie76 0]

Never had any problems setting up a wireless network with XP. Vista took me forever, and then it wouldn't work right. I had to get a tech to get it to finally work correctly.

Office 2007 is another story in failure. That suite is a complete joke.

[SqdnGuns 21]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

Someone say Frog Testicle?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

[Teacher Mark 53]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

It was between that and "You dripping goat #######!"

Bonus points to anyone who can name the author who coined those terms/phrases...

I thought it was from "The Stand" by Steven King.

I've read that book at least 10 times and I don't recall that phrase!

[RonMay 1]

vista is still too new for some company that they wouldnt use it as their official operating system if thats the word (at least not in the company i work from, and in our store too)... plus ive heard bad reviews from it (probably coz its still "new")... although i just got a mac and now using the mac os-x that has also a window xp on it (parallel window) so im happy about my new mac that if i need to use a window/ei, its just easy for me to switch. but my husband thought about buying a vista but i told him to wait till its wildly use... lol

[cmartyn 0]

Vista Rox!

And for the less technichaly proficient, the networking in Windows XP, we all know was in the control panel under networking. In Vista, its in the control panel under networking.

Fudsters.. your so pathetic.

[PlatyPius 5]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

It was between that and "You dripping goat #######!"

Bonus points to anyone who can name the author who coined those terms/phrases...

I thought it was from "The Stand" by Steven King.

Right author, wrong book.

Stephen King (and Peter Straub) - The Talisman.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The interface is only one of the problems. Yes, everything has been gratuitously and illogically moved around. There was no real philosophy put into the interface, they just wanted to make it look pretty. Sit down and use a Mac sometime and you will see exactly what I'm talking about. OS X (the Mac OS) was carefuly designed from the ground up to be intuitive. Vista wasn't so much designed as ordained by committee.

But the biggest problem with Vista is that it's simply a resource hog. Walk away from your computer sometime with no applications running. Come back in an hour and listen to your disk drive churning. And I don't mean a little click here and there. I mean heavy duty IO. What is it doing? I don't know. I have dual-core pentiums, 8GB memory, and a 500GB hard drive. My Vista machine is anything but resource starved. And yet it thrashes away continuously. (no, it's not antivirus or anything else. I shut all that down looking for what the issue might be, and it's a brand new installation, no shareware, etc.)

There's something wrong with an operating system that requires a minimum of 2GB memory just to run the OS. Especially when you consider that it's only job in life is to run your spreadsheets and games and browser.

I've noticed that too.

[GaryC 7]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

It was between that and "You dripping goat #######!"

Bonus points to anyone who can name the author who coined those terms/phrases...

I thought it was from "The Stand" by Steven King.

Right author, wrong book.

Stephen King (and Peter Straub) - The Talisman.

Ah, OK. I read a lot of Steven King. I just got it mixed up. The man is so demented. I guess thats why I like him so much.

[de_sjiem 0]

I also love Stephen King.. I've been reading him since grade school...