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Hi,
My old laptop died, so I ran out and got a new one. I'm a HP addict, so the
only OS I could get on the model I wanted was Vista. So, now I am on Vista.
I swore a while back I never would upgrade unless I had to. That jinxed me
and here I am with a beautiful Aero desktop and a bunch of security
babysitting I have spent more time to disable that it normally takes
installing XP. I have run Windows since 3.1 for Workgroups without one
serious virus or malware attack. So I know what I am doing, but Vista wants
to do it for me. I can't save wallpapers in the wallpaper folder. I can't
run browser add-ons I have run for years. The whole UAC thing is totally
overkill for me, and yet, I am not able to fully control it the way I want.
Oh well...
And now you may think "here's another Vista basher", but you are wrong. I
love Vista! I will never go back (except when I can run my trusty old Linux
distro which I do from time to time). Deep down in Vista resides new memory
management and other file system improvements that makes the OS run like,
yes, a Unix based OS. It's rock solid as soon as you get rid of all the
fluff. So, this is what it's all about for me: I can run my flaky old, and
a couple of new, application with the OS in full control of the resources.
The whole "feel" of Vista running applications is truly satisfying in a way
no other Windows version have been. It's all in this ppt:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-82d6-208d3754b2d6/MemoryManagerInWindows.ppt
Interestingly enough, a lot of the ideas and concepts in this presentation
I've seen sometime late last millennium while the software company I worked
for was studying memory management before doing a port of some software to
Linux. But who cares where it comes from as long as it's all good!
I'm now so glad I was forced on to Vista except for all the "security
enhancements" which seems to be based on the theory that if you prevent
someone from doing anything at all it will also include the possible bad
stuff he/she might do. I do not like that in an OS, or in politics or
parenting for that matter!
All you people bashing Vista for one reason or another, please take some
time to look under the hood. There's a beautiful engine down there!
Now back to finding a way to disable UAC so that I do not get a warning
every time I boot.......
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//ceed
My old laptop died, so I ran out and got a new one. I'm a HP addict, so the
only OS I could get on the model I wanted was Vista. So, now I am on Vista.
I swore a while back I never would upgrade unless I had to. That jinxed me
and here I am with a beautiful Aero desktop and a bunch of security
babysitting I have spent more time to disable that it normally takes
installing XP. I have run Windows since 3.1 for Workgroups without one
serious virus or malware attack. So I know what I am doing, but Vista wants
to do it for me. I can't save wallpapers in the wallpaper folder. I can't
run browser add-ons I have run for years. The whole UAC thing is totally
overkill for me, and yet, I am not able to fully control it the way I want.
Oh well...
And now you may think "here's another Vista basher", but you are wrong. I
love Vista! I will never go back (except when I can run my trusty old Linux
distro which I do from time to time). Deep down in Vista resides new memory
management and other file system improvements that makes the OS run like,
yes, a Unix based OS. It's rock solid as soon as you get rid of all the
fluff. So, this is what it's all about for me: I can run my flaky old, and
a couple of new, application with the OS in full control of the resources.
The whole "feel" of Vista running applications is truly satisfying in a way
no other Windows version have been. It's all in this ppt:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-82d6-208d3754b2d6/MemoryManagerInWindows.ppt
Interestingly enough, a lot of the ideas and concepts in this presentation
I've seen sometime late last millennium while the software company I worked
for was studying memory management before doing a port of some software to
Linux. But who cares where it comes from as long as it's all good!
I'm now so glad I was forced on to Vista except for all the "security
enhancements" which seems to be based on the theory that if you prevent
someone from doing anything at all it will also include the possible bad
stuff he/she might do. I do not like that in an OS, or in politics or
parenting for that matter!
All you people bashing Vista for one reason or another, please take some
time to look under the hood. There's a beautiful engine down there!
Now back to finding a way to disable UAC so that I do not get a warning
every time I boot.......
--
//ceed