Comparisons, conjecture, and controversy. Microsoft's new operating system is here, but is it ready for primetime? We spent 30 days with Windows Vista to see if it's worth the leap or if Microsoft should go back to the drawing board.
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Member since:2006-01-10
That's nothing, try after creating another user account to then create a folder within the Program Files directory.
It literally prompts you twice for the password and twice for no real reason. That's four prompts to create a folder.
To explain this in more detail, when you right click in Program files and select "New -> Folder" It'll prompt you if you really want to do it, asking "Continue / Cancel" then it'll prompt you for your Administrator password. Then it'll have a "New Folder" which has text input to change the name. Once you change the name, then it asks again "Continue / Cancel" then prompts you for the Administrator password a second time! That's just plain crazy.
Member since:2006-11-24
No. You click once in XP / W2K and the start menu opens. You click twice and the systems / programs / etc folder opens. I cannot think of anything that would even work with 3 clicks in XP.
Not because it is the worst, but i happen to use it often in practice (classic theme XP). Go into the HD setup in XP. You would never find it with sane reasoning, but if you know where it is and you wanna change something, say partitioning, etc... how many clicks is that - like 67..? XP is only "easy" because we are so familiar with it after 8 years. It seems "natural" to do things XP-way, I think.
Member since:2006-06-03
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2005-10-11
Yeah that's exactly what I meant. They made it so that you need to click 5 times to reach the same goal where in XP you had to click only 1 or 2 times. It's crazy.