Windows Vista is everyone's favorite tech punching bag, and not without reason. But the reviled operating system has some amazing potential and with some tweaks and a few utilities, you can do what Redmond didn't: make Vista great.
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Member since:2005-11-13
BTW, this post is on-topic for this thread subject. The very best way to fix Vista on any machine is to re-format the drive and install a better alternative OS.
Well, you don't really need to 'fix' Vista because technically, it isn't broken. I have spent some time with Vista and I can say that as long as you feed it quality software and drivers that are compatable with it, it runs very smoothly. It's slower than XP and has a lot of 'idiot-proof' features that just annoy the hell out of power users, but it's not broken. Honestly, I don't know if any OS that's going to run happily if you load a bunch of bad drivers on it and install softare that wasn't designed to run on it.
It's just too bad that most people's experience with Vista is having it installed on top of XP with a 3yo version or Norton Something on it, or purchased from OEMs with at least 30 craplets running in startup. No wonder people hate it so much. On it's own though, Vista is quite capable.
As for Windows Explorer, just forget all that mess and install Directory Opus
Sure, you'll balk at the price as I did, but spend some serious time with it, and you'll never want to use anything else again. It is just light years ahead of any other file manager on the planet. See, that's the thing about Windows... it's like Firefox without any extensions installed. It's not very impressive by itself, but what makes it great is the stuff you can load on it
Member since:2007-02-17
Well, you don't really need to 'fix' Vista because technically, it isn't broken. I have spent some time with Vista and I can say that as long as you feed it quality software and drivers that are compatable with it, it runs very smoothly. It's slower than XP and has a lot of 'idiot-proof' features that just annoy the hell out of power users, but it's not broken.
Google for "Vista" and "NAS".
Google for "Vista" and "proxy settings".
Google for "Vista" and "file copy".
These are just a few examples, apart from the ones noted in the referenced article (such as, to quote another poster on the thread, "the completely insane and useless automatic view settings in explorer"), of huge annoyances or just plain "don't work right" aspects of Vista.
Its broken alright.
Edited 2008-10-16 01:52 UTC
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2007-02-17
I'm going to correct a different part of the comment.
Average user doesn't know that the FOSS alternative to Windows exists. They very much care that Vista is so atrocious, but they are lead to believe (by vested interests) that there is no alternative (or that the alternative is too hard for them to use when in reality it is easier), and are never offered the FOSS solution that would solve their problems with Vista and be much kinder on their wallets.
No. People need to know that they do have an alternative.
BTW, this post is on-topic for this thread subject. The very best way to fix Vista on any machine is to re-format the drive and install a better alternative OS.
Edited 2008-10-15 22:33 UTC