VISTA Ultimate Problems

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But you don't have to read the up button or decipher where you're going.
You're just going up once. With Vista's overall attempt to isolate the user
from the storage, then the up button supports the concept of the parent
folder. The bread crumbs assume that what I am seeing now is always in the
same hierarchy with the same names and that I care about, or even know those
names. All I want to do is go up one. :)

And the up button is always in exactly the same place on the window,
regardless of the name of the folders being displayed. And it's easily
identifiable. To determine the second folder from the right, especially in
LTR languages, I have to parse the entire string or at least the latter part
of it, and to decode the arrows and buttons that those names can become.

I'm not saying those are bad things. Once you get used to them, and
especially the sub menus allowing you to easily go sideways in the
hierarchy, the interface has great uses. I still miss the Up button. :) It
would be a great finish to a great new Explorer.

Dale
 
I think your case is an exceptional one. I still don't have any of those
issues. I would be more concerned about why you are different than I would
be about Vista. Make sure that you have the latest known working drivers.
Maybe something did go wrong on your install. Backup your important data
and re-install. Maybe there are some problems with the Vista installation.
If so, see if you can reproduce it. That would certainly help.

I agree with the others about the install trashing another partition - it's
not expected. But it is possible. It does write to the partition table.
It does scan partitions and it follows your instructions or its default, as
appropriate, procedures for creating partitions and formatting partitions.
All of those behaviors could certainly be flawed. Considering the flaws
recently discovered with the Upgrade validation and licensing features built
into the Vista install, we can safely say that the installation is not bug
free by any stretch of the imagination. That said, you may have hit on
something. Can you reproduce it? And in any case, it still appears to be a
fluke. Many thousands of other installations have not yet reported that
problem.

Keep watching the group over the next few weeks. Perhaps it is a bigger
problem than we all think.

Dale
 
VISTA Windows Media Center didn't work for me either. I placed a good DVD+RW
into my player, called up Windows Media Center. At first it won't recognize
any DVD. So you open the drawer and close and then the GUI will ask "BURN A
DVD?" or "TAKE NO ACTION". Hell, all I want to do is to play the damn thing,
not burn it. It has an MPEG video file on it and it plays ok on my Dell
laptop with Win XP. My son works for Microsoft and he bought this VISTA for
me and he is all excited with his VISTA Home version. Mom says "there, there
dear, just learn to like it, at least for your son's sake!" I'm wondering if
I can fake a VISTA welcome screen and sneak Win XP behind it so my boy won't
know, ya think? Did anyone out there get their ATI All In Wonder X1900 super
graphics card and software to work with VISTA?
 
Vista does have a lot of issues, however compared to xp, the overall design
is much more attractive than xp. I like how you can view windows back to back
without having to minimise everything and search for a page you were at, if
you have xp set to open each page in its own window, which I did, I like
vista, but they never should have released it until 99% of the bugs were
taken care of. I had to pay another 40 bucks out to buy a vista version of
norton anti-virus 2007. Nero burning rom 7 will not install either due to
compatability issues, get those fixed and I will be ok. By the way, my pc is
newly built, vista won't allow me to use the onboard realtec audio.
 
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