> 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 think it has helped novices, but I completely agree that those already familiar with operations have faced a learning curve in adapting to Microsoft's new way of thinking. It took me a while to get used to Microsoft's new management UI for failover clustering, but now find it vastly superior to the older UI. Not everything has been that way...I hate networking. Takes several more clicks to get to the window I want--the damn physical adapters. > 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'm sure they have been...I'm just not big on file managers. I was a big user of Norton Navigator in the old NT Utilities package, but when I upgraded and found they no longer worked and Symantec stopped development on that product...I stopped using file managers. I'd just rather not trust other utilities when working with my files...even though they likely call the exact same APIs. Just a personal choice. That being said, I do sometimes use TeraCopy for file move/copy operations on Pre-Vista (and even Vista pre-SP1) systems thanks to its superior error handling (and speed). > > 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. > I'm curious...why do you use a third party program to do partitioning? Greg
