David McAfee
davidmcafee at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 16:41:36 CDT 2009
I hate the new search in Vista, compared to that of XP. I hate how folders are refreshed when you copy something over or switch to another window and switch back. I hate how they removed the run command from just above the start button I do like win Key + R = run (like in XP) so they havent taken that way from me I do like when navigating through folders in explore Alt + up arrow goes one level back up. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > 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 > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >