Upgrade to Vista? - Comments Page 2

The biggest complaint I have with Vista so far is that it tries too hard to save you from yourself. For example Vista makes it really hard to turn off enough of the goo-gaws and zowies that Microsoft seems to think are useful features to make the computer usable again. Most or all of the same controls over system appearancce and behavior are still there, but you really have to dig for them in some cases; all the while enduring endless warning dialogs helpfully informing you that you're about to do whatever it is that you have been trying so dilligently to do.

Another example of Vista's over-protectiveness is a program that I have that needs to dynamically register a number of plug-in DLLs on start-up. To run this progam in Vista I have to use the "Run As Administrator" option (and say OK to the inevitable helpful warnining dialog every time) EVEN WHEN I AM LOGGED IN AS AN ADMINISTRATOR!

The other caveat of course is that as with any major revision of Windows (I hesitate to use the word "upgrade" until at least the first SP comes out), it's likely to take hardware driver developers a while to catch up. Figure six months to a year. So some of your peripherals may not run right until their drivers have been through another rev or two. And of course some older stuff won't be seeing any new driver updates so if the old ones don't work with Vista you can kiss it goodbye.

I have VISTA Business on a SONY VAIO VGN-SZ notebook running OFFICE 2003. Here are my problems...

1. Have pinned WORD and EXCEL to the Start Menu but they don't work! They do however work with shortcuts on the Desktop. Any ideas why this?

2. OFFICE SOUNDS work OK but causes very jerky and slow mouse scrolling, especially in OUTLOOK 'sent items' and 'inbox' columns. I know this because I uninstalled SOUNDS and mouse scrolling worked normally. I reinstalled SOUNDS and mouse scrolling reverted to slow and jerky. I use Intellimouse updated for VISTA and ALPS Touchpad also updated for VISTA.

I have reported these things to MICROSOFT but no acknowledgement and NO SATISFACTION.

If you have any suggestions or advice I would be most grateful.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Vista is beta-test software. You are the tester...

We just finished an internal study with users, tech support, security, developers and bean counters, for a large multinational corporation. The bottom line was that Vista doesn't really add anything useful at all except for a very cool GUI.

And that GUI would be removed in the corporate default install anyway since we don't want to spend money to upgrade some 100.000+ PCs. The powers that be has now decided that Vista will only be allowed in lab/test situations, until Microsoft announces the end of support for XP.

Then we will decide if we should take the step to Vista.

Until then a new workgroup has been created to evaluate shifting our desktops to some Linux based platform.

The latter move was actually initiated by the bean counters, looks like they don't like to have their hands forced by a single software provider.

Vista looks cool and I guess looking cool is supposed to be expensive. Since I have XP Pro, upgrading is limited to Buisiness or Ultimate versions. If I am going to buy anything I want the full version. I think I will stick with what I have right now until I'm tired of hearing about Vista or my wallet gets too fat to close.

I just purchased a new PC with Vista Home Premium. Unfortunately, of you are an accountant, or tax consultant, Vista will not run QuickBooks 2006 or earlier. If you need to access a client's 2005, or 2006 QBooks files, work on them, and then give them back to the client as 2005 or 2006 files, this presents a huge problem. Vista will not run DOS applications either. And you will have a hard time connecting Vista to workgroups where XP is running.

Also, I was quite frustrated with the Adminstrator security. A user account that is an Administrator type account, cannot access files in the personal folders of other users. That seemed wierd.

Hi; Why always when I wanted to download from what you explain us my computer denied says the website I open is not safe or software is not a genuine ones. Why?.

EDITOR'S NOTE: If you're talking about links on this site, your security software is defective, and is generating false positives.

Thanks for this great article, I like XP more than vista, some settings on vista seem hard to control, I need use the 3rd tools to do these jobs, like winbubble, I think new OS vista is not easy to use, but I like the desktop style with vista.

Having just bought a brand new computer, i was looking forward to the Vista experience with great hopes. What a disaster it is. It can only be described a a peice of junk. At least with ,98,me,2000,XP the programme did what you wanted it to do, but now you get what the computer wants do do which is not always the same thing. Xp is far more superior than this piece of trash and the sooner i take this crap out the better..If you want to feel angry and disappointed them go for Vista.