Carey--
"Clear, confident, connected" and "just fine" on the most superficial of
levels.
If you think that 5456.5 "runs just fine" I think you're not doing much more
than checking email and moving a few files around--not the stuff of an MVP
on a Win OS spanking new build "first branch of RC1." Drill it a little
Carey. Upgrading from Beta 2 is still unstable and faulty--but the money
incentive is on fixing this so eventually it will probably get fixed. It is
too integral to the main reason for Vista that dominates Redmond--mo money.
There are a few very superficial screen changes.
Try SFC /scannow a major Windows repair tool, and tell me how well that
works. It's trashing the registry much of the time forcing people to use
Win RE for which there is no MSFT documentation whatsoever on their sites.
The latest advice from Vista Redmond is not to run it. except in an sfc
/verifyonly or sfc /verifyfile switch --"does not repair" which is one of
the major repair features in the most of the previous Win OS since '98 and
Windows Server 2003.
Try Win Mail and watch the toolbar entries shuffle around constantly no
matter how many times you change them. Look at the All Programs menu.
How's it expanding? All Programs doesn't expand properly and doesn't
include many of the programs installed although you can do a simple
workaround and take the 4 file paths to folders that comprise All Programs,
copy them into one and shortcut it somewhere--but you shouldn't have to.
What happens when you shortcut to your XP boot and ole VSS System Restore
can't save your Vista restore points? They can't or refuse to fix this,
they announced in a chat on Friday June 23. I'm having a great deal of
difficulty seeing how PM Eduardo Laureano and his team have made it any
better. It's access from Win RE may be an improvement for those who can't
get into any safe mode option for it--most only try one and not the three
they could use. The 500 million people who buy OEM pre-loaded Vista aren't
going to be seeing Win RE though. Many people are going to be shocked when
they realize on a dual boot that if they so much as shortcut to the XP
desktop from Vista by typing its file path they'll lose all their system
restore points in Vista immediately.
WMP says it can't rip when it can (one of scores of false error messages).
Several Help entries are still unfilled. Explorer organization is a total
mess, failing to incoroporate the great View>Arrange Icons by> Show in
Groups Feature of XP. They've had 6.5 years plus another one to get their
"tin ear to bugs" act together. The return of list view is hardly a
substitute for that. The superficial Aero "Eye Candy" much like the brain
dead CNN and other Cable news "swooshes" doesn't work well and is transient
for a lot of people after non-intuitively requiring activation. The ratings
for hardware are inconsistent and apparently made up on the fly.
Error detection is faulty and errors are still not in usable English and
http://oca.microsoft.com is still a joke in Vista--offering no significant
info or help at all. Logs are obscure and difficult for the average user to
find and still remain metastasized and ectopic to the four corners of the
Windows Vista operating system. Setup logs have the name Tiger in them--was
Chris Jones hoping to get a free ipod with this homage to the device that
Softies hide in their purses and pockets?
CH
