“We’ll walk you through Vista’s many neat features and more than 50 tips on installing Vista optimally, configuring it for you and your family, improving system speed, and turning up its coolness. When we’re through, you’ll have made the new OS uniquely yours.”
1. avoid
2. repeat
make this – 5 also, you faggot
Quit being stupid and deliberately trolling, then maybe your comments wont be ranked down. Go back to Slashdot.
Interesting response. Shall I help modding you down?
A lot of these aren’t Vista specific, but more Windows general tuning. The article title is a bit misleading but having said that it’s probably worth reading if only to rebuild your Vista DVD to save you time in the future.
A lot of these could easily be used for a pocket “Idiots Guide to Windows Vista”.
I’ve done this for XP and now my re-installs are completely configured with all the drivers, apps and configurations I like.
Edited 2007-04-30 21:03
Talking about idiots…
The virtual keyboard tip, “Oh, my keyboard is broken! So now I only have to klik on start, then goto search to punch in OSK…”
<.< .. >.>
“Anybody have a spare USB keyboard so I can type OSK to get the virtual one?”
“A lot of these aren’t Vista specific, but more Windows general tuning.”
I think that’s correct. Even some of the tips are “for entertainment only” (e. g. #5), others are completely useless (e. g. #15, because kids usually are smarter than their parents).
“The article title is a bit misleading but having said that it’s probably worth reading if only to rebuild your Vista DVD to save you time in the future.”
I found the article quite amusing in some points. For people who have never used any MICROS~1 product some of the tips are really strange. ๐ But for the average “Windows” user there might be some interesting and useful points to consider (security, usability, performance etc.).
I would like to add the following: Everytime MICROS~1 ships a new “Windows” which they clame to be “better than ever, easy, and does everything by itself”, thousands of books, magazines and articles pop out, such as “Windows installation made easy”, “Windows administration for everyone”, “How to do this and that in Windows” and the like. I’m avoiding appendices like “for idiots” or “for dummies”. I mean… if “Windows” really would be that easy and doing everything by its own, why these articles?
“A lot of these could easily be used for a pocket “Idiots Guide to Windows Vista”.”
You could even extend the audience by eliminating the word “Vista”, because most of the tips seem to be very generic, as you have noticed before.
Finally, I’d like to know if all these tips where the user is supposed to click somewhere will work with any of the different “Vista” versions…
what it is promising, I know that without reading the article and so I won’t. I don’t even know a lot about Vista. Instead, it is only about an hour ago that I ran WindowsVistaUpgradeAdvisor.msi, just out of curiousity. All hardware is fine for the good Vista-stuff, except, I only got 14,5 GB left on C, but I’d need 15, haha. Guess what MS, I don’t – I keep OS, data, Swap and Desktop on different partitions and if by way of upgrade, a 30 GB Partition still doesn’t satify you for an OS ONLY, then I don’t know. (yeah, I know.. I am trolling, the stupid thing obviously doesn’t know that, then again, it is not me holding myself out to be qualified to judge the capability of my system for a Vista upgrade) — Christ!! another 15 !! GB!
By way of example, it says my Nero would need updating, and for that it offers me a link, how convenient. That doesn’t sound like a big deal, because I patch my system all the time, after all. But it doesn’t tell me the full story, as it appears. To prove my point, I just entered my Nero serial to check the update price at Nero.com – it says I’ll have to pay 48 Euros to make a perfectly fine working Nero.. err, working (running 6.6.x – so don’t tell me I am hanging on to things from the distant past here). The same is true for the other harmless comments the tool is making. Is this to say that I have to pay a couple hundred Euros more on top of a 490 Euro (no shit – I just checked Amazon) Vista Ultimate in order to get my apps working..? Why am I not impressed? I happen to have that Vista Ultimate on the pile of geek-trash next to me, didn’t even open the box because I couldn’t care less. I only obtained it because I know an MS employee who can get em for about 25 Euros. If an absolute must-have-game I am interested in should require DX10 in 3 years time, then I will put it on a gaming partition…
Get real people, the update-advisor-comparo chart is revealing – ONLY the Business and Ultimate versions offer remote desktop access – on an OS they spent more money on to develop than the US government spent on faking the moon-landing – I got no respect This got to be the most basic function ever, and they want you to dash 500 Euros out for it. Maybe it is only me, but personally, I’d be a tad embarrassed and would rather hide that fact.
If I hadn’t upped my RAM from 1 GB to 2 GB only recently, you could add that on top of the update price as well. Also, I would want a 2 GB ReadyBoost (?) stick to go with that Vista I don’t see myself installing anytime soon, so lets make that update to Vista an extra 1000 Euros in real life, on top of a fairly capable 64 Bit system, with fast HD, 7900 graphics and all that… I know why I don’t read the article. Installing Vista seems far like the moon to me.
Vista is an OS only, and in that, only good for writing *.rtf and browsing out of the box (no boyz, drooling does not count here). There is no “trick” that could make USING Vista easy, and 50 tricks won’t do the trick either. Anyway, now where I am at the end of my rant it occurs to me: How can “50” and “easy” go in one sentence when we talk fixing stuff..?
I think for those that use Vista the article wasn’t bad. Plenty of useful tips in there.
But you’re also right in what an OS should do. The OS should manage the hardware, not the hardware should run the OS. In my opinion Vista is too much “in your face”, it doesn’t run quietly in the back like a good OS should.
This sort of thing always reminds me how well FreeBSD runs for me and brings a smile to my face. ๐
I’ve found Vista to be obnoxious and intrusive and generally gets in the way of me when I’m trying to work. Explorer has become overbearing and cumbersome. UAC has good and bad features, but if you’re a seasoned user it’ll just hassle you needlessly. For better or for worse, MS has embraced a “protect the system from the lusers who use it by giving them the illusion of control” mentality.
What has really disappointed me about Vista is that the OS itself seems to be desperately seeking my approval. All the fluff crap in Vista boggs it down – changing folders in explorer grinds the system to a halt while it caches the folder/generates thumbnails/searches for the meaning of life.
As far as the article goes, I found the tips to be, for the most part, useless. I don’t know why #4 is on there as it’s not really a Vista tip. #5 is categorically stupid (the less time I see my computer booting the better.) Others are not so much tips and tricks as “hey, vista has this feature! Cool!” Some are even features that have been in Windows for a while now.
There are some gems, however. #28, #25, #40, and #8 are all good examples.
I’m trying to get video to play back smoothly. A Pentium III-750 running XP does it better than Vista on a 1.86Ghz Core Solo. I’m guessing I’ll have to wait for Direct X or driver updates.
Edited 2007-05-01 00:28
“[q]But you’re also right in what an OS should do. The OS should manage the hardware, not the hardware should run the OS. In my opinion Vista is too much “in your face”, it doesn’t run quietly in the back like a good OS should.
This sort of thing always reminds me how well FreeBSD runs for me and brings a smile to my face. :-D”
Vista and FreeBSD are aimed at entirely different customers – it’s not even remotely a fair comparison.
Maybe aimed at different customers, but if I look at the functionality the both OS’ can deliver, I wonder why Vista needs so much more horsepower to run.
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So why comment then?
If you’re not experienced on the subject or even prepaired to read the linked article then what makes you think that your post is worth the time for other people reading?
<blockquote>XPS (which stands for XML Paper Specification) can be very useful; it’s effectively an open-standard version of the popular-but proprietary Adobe Acrobat format. What does it all mean? You can create, edit, print, and save the documents without paying Adobe for a license.</blockquote>
Try (kinda) the other way around PCMag, you should know better. ๐
PDF is not adobe’s format, it is an open format that anyone can implement.
“PDF is not adobe’s format, it is an open format that anyone can implement.”
Adobe reserves the right to sue anyone that implements it, at their whim. Adobe threatened to sue Microsoft (in the EU, of course) to keep Microsoft from implementing PDF-export in Office 2007.
Adobe feared that it would undercut their own Office=>PDF conversion tools, and even went so far as to propose that Microsoft raise the price of Office 2007 if it included PDF-export, so as not to undercut Adobe’s own tools (a practice known as “collusion” and “price-fixing”). Microosft responded by ripping PDF-export out of Office 2007 (it was present in beta builds), and now offers it as a free downloadable plugin. Even then, Adobe still threatened to sue over the plugin (but I guess they decided not to, as they were losing the PR battle).
Does Windows use OpenAL, as in OpenAL ???
mmm, the article has more ads than content