At 10:54 PM 12/27/2008, you wrote:
Some comments in line... I do find that with all of the high-color icons, it can occasionally be more challenging to identify a particular icon when you're looking for it. Other than that, I find the eye candy fairly appealing...it just adds a modern flair to Windows that it was lacking.
The problem is that it extends into control panel, setup and config screens and I find that it makes things that I know how to do hard to figure out. I see no reason for these changes other then to attempt to make it easier for novices... and I don't think they have.
I've found several of the enhancements very useful--the clickable address bar, for one. The built-in "in-directory" search has been immensely useful. I use "Copy as Path" on a fairly regular basis as well. Renaming a file selects up to the extension--which saves a second here and there.
All of those, and a lot more have been available Opus for a while. And they do have a 64 bit version... thank god... because I really find Vista Explorer annoying and hard to use.
I don't know that it does anything to the MBR, but I do know that all
VSS-type operations are radically different in Vista...that may be what your older software is choking on.
I think you may be right about that. I have Acronis True Image and Director10 which I discovered doesn't support Vista 64. Fortunately I found a freeware solution to partitioning, but I will have to buy Acronis True Image 2009. Anybody know if this now has online activation... will it let me get away with using it on my desktop and laptop like version 10 does.
GUI notwithstanding, I think that a lot of people fail to realize that Vista e Windows file-sharing protocol was re-written (SMB 2.0) and provides vastly improved throughput--I regularly get full-wire speeds in file copies on my gbit network (>115MB/s). That alone is a killer must-have feature for me.
This I did notice and do like. However, I do not know if it is worth all the other annoyances of Vista.
