jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Mar 20 16:33:18 CDT 2009
Charlotte, > That and anything I can't change to a classic style so I can find what I'm looking for. This is what I dislike the most. I have Vista installed on my laptop and have used it for about two years now. And I still hate it. Everything is moved, everything is wizard driven. Just give me the damned control to do things. I know what is happening under it all, it is mostly exactly the same stuff, but there is a layer of CRAP over everything preventing me from directly getting at it. And the CRAP is not an improvement. Go to the desktop. Right click. A "browser looking" thingie comes up with a ton of different things I can do. All I want to do is change the display settings. So I click Display settings. A "display settings" dialog comes up but it doesn't have all of the stuff right there, I have to dig. C'mon already!!! Open explorer. What the HELL is this thing? I come up in Documents inside of JWColby. I am CONSTANTLY minimizing documents so that I can even SEE jwcolby so that I can minimize that so that I can see my system and the disk drives. C'mon already. I didn't ask for this!!! Where in the heck is the NIC stuff hidden? I have to search for ten minutes EVERY time I want to look at that stuff. It is buried down three levels in a completely unfamiliar looking dialog. Why does my Win2K3 machine's browser service find all the machines on my network just fine (including the vista machines) but the vista machines ONLY find each other reliably? Go to Programs / Accessories. Where did Communications go? Where did entertainment go? What is the point of rearranging these very common menus and hiding this stuff somewhere else? It is the same old "let's make it so simple that a 5 year old can use it", but... it takes 17 layers of crap to make it that simple so that NOBODY can figure it out any more. It is just frustrating! And I have been using it for a LONG time now!!! Part of the problem is that I continue to use Win2K3 for my servers and XP on other machines, so I continue to see and use the old "do it yourself" interface, which just makes it more jarring when I have to go do the same thing on Vista. I am reasonably certain that if Vista was all there was I would learn how to do things "the Vista way" and eventually be fine with it. In the meantime I just want the Vista way to go away. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Charlotte Foust wrote: > I think the fairy godmother twinkle is what I hate most about Vista. > That and anything I can't change to a classic style so I can find what > I'm looking for. > > Charlotte Foust