Maybe my criticisms of Vista were excessive, assuming that you want to spend
a lot of time tweaking it. One of my problems is that Windows Explorer
doesn't work (I have installed all the Windows upgrades, but it still keeps
crashing about 80% of the time I try to do a file copy). So I'll take Joe's
advice and get the file handlers he recommends. As for UAC (user access
control) I still have not figured out how to access some of my directories
despite having an administrator's account, but perhaps that will come with
time.
Still, it is awfully slow, especially doing things in Windows Mail. Maybe 3
GB is not enough.
I should add that our Vista machine is a Sony Vaio laptop, and when I went
to the web for advice I found lots of similar complaints from Sony owners.
It may be that my hardware is the problem, not Vista. Still, I know that
many people who bought new desktops with Vista soon decided to go back to
XP. It's an operating system that some people love and others hate. I am one
who hates it.
By the way, my comment about problems upgrading laptops from XP to Vista are
based on discussions with PC technicians, not on my own experience.
Bill Silvert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Ledvina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] moving from a PC to a Mac???
More and more people are coming around to Vista, and for some good
reasons...
I've been using Vista since January, and I love it. I used to use a
3rd-party file manager (FreeCommander) and copy handler (TeraCopy),
but Explorer improvements have made them unnecessary. UAC can be
adjusted to be hardly obtrusive, and it works.
