I bought a laptop (that I really like!!!) that has Vista Home Premium on it. I use Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office on it and they all work very well. Also, playing music and the fun stuff works great, too. When I started doing development and needed to know where files were saved and mapping to the server, etc.; I had to learn a new operating system. I recently started using Ubuntu also. Of the two Ubuntu was much easier to work with and it was very intuitive. Vista on the other hand had played hide and seek with many of its familiar features. I find it almost unusable due to the learning curve. I suppose I could learn how to turn off the stuff I don't want, and eventually find all of the features I need; but that would not be a productive use of my time.
Does anybody know why they insist on moving everything around and hiding the stuff you (as a developer) really need? I can only imagine what the new model Microsoft automobile would be like. Configurable pedals with the default being Accelerator on the left, brake in the middle and clutch on the right - alphabetical. Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: > "I come to condemn M$, not to praise it" (as I did reluctantly last > week). > > (background: I needed some Vi$ta capability for testing, etc. Bought > my Long Suffering a new box. Vi$ta Home Premium. Dammit.) > > OK a rant and a question for anybody who has figured out this thing: > > Rant: I hate Vi$ta. Hate it. Slow. Stupid assumptions. (Example: > Bring up "Explorer" it shows you "My docs" and has no way to see > other drives, local or mapped. You have to use "My F'in Computer" to > do that. Idiotic.) > > Question (with a Rant, too, just for good measure): > > 1. I set up user accounts for her and each of the munchkins. Didn't > have that before, each just had a folder in the old (W2K) "My > Documents." > > 2. Now I am trying to transfer files from the folder to the default > folder Vi$ta assigns to a user account. (So, between user accounts.) > > 3. So, I am logged in as my wife, full administrative privileges. Two > Explorer windows open, one showing each "user" directory. It made me > enter a munchkin's password to "see" her user directory. Sharing is > "on" for that folder. > > 4. I select all of her files in the "wrong" account folder, and drag > them to the "right" one. No error or warning. The "OK" symbol shows, > I "drop" --- nothing. Again, no error or warning, just *nothing* > happens. > > 5. I try to use a "neutral" folder. It lets me copy them into that > one from the "wrong" one, but not back again into the "right" one. > > WTF??? Why can't I do this when I have full Admin. privileges? Do I > need to don a cape and become "Super Admin."!?!?!?! > > Ken > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
