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| Time: 00:15 EST/05:15 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Preston Gralla: Unlike many people, I'm a fan of Vista. But I can also recognize it has some awful features as well. Based on writing several books, and countless reviews, I've found five Vista features that are little more than a simple waste of bits --- or worse. | ||
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| #1 By 75046 (201.52.211.146) at 7/9/2008 8:18:30 AM |
| It´s from ComputerWorld.. so skip the reading... ;) |
| #2 By 8556 (12.206.195.4) at 7/9/2008 3:15:59 PM |
| Since there was no poll or voting the five worst features are one person's opinion. I personally dislike Vista's defrag applet as being too juvenile and lacking of information to the user. But, there are so many useful free and commercial defrag programs that the defrag applet is not important. |
| #3 By 2332 (66.92.78.241) at 7/9/2008 4:09:36 PM |
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"What can I say about this feature that hasn't already been said? It's intrusive, illogical, and poorly designed. It drives many people absolutely batty. Let's hope when Windows 7 ships, this one bites the dust."
Ah... yet another moron who has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. UAC is the best possible solution to a problem that only exists on Windows... a massive legacy software base that was all designed to run with admin privs. When Windows 7 ships, Microsoft will likely move to a VM-based compatibility solution... so UAC might "bite the dust" as requested, but only because technology has progressed to the point when another solution is a viable one. Until then, deal. I see UAC prompts *very* rarely. If you're seeing them a lot, you're probably doing something wrong or stupid. |
| #4 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 7/10/2008 8:36:35 AM |
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#2, Bobs, Maximum PC did a good piece based upon lab testing on the defrag util in Vista.
The tested against DisKeeper Pro and many others. The default in Windows Vista did a better job than even the best commerical defrag utilities and it was in most cases, faster. The editors were surprised, it seems... they concluded about costly third party defrag utils: "Don’t Waste Your Money or Time!" They also offered the obvious: "We like the Vista defragmentation program for the simple fact that it’s, well, there. It comes with Vista and is enabled by default and runs its defragmentation routines during the wee hours of the morning. And even if you alter this time or run your own manual defragmentation, the program runs at a low processor priority, so you can easily multitask without hampering your computing experience." While I am glad Maximum PC did this piece, I was taken aback a good bit by their reversal, as the magazine listed the new defrag in Vista as one of the reasons to avoid Vista in an article published a year earlier...?!? For those that feel they need to "see" what Vista's defrag is doing, you can manage the program from the console. Open a console and type defrag ? to see a list of relevant switches and options. By design, Vista's GUI based defrag.exe is limited as it is well designed to perform its work out of view and out of the way of users and their work. #3, Dead on! See how dry the truth is.... Microsoft is going to continue to have a tough time re-marketing Vista. It takes so much effort to communicate the truth and few people care to hear it, or read it. |
| #5 By 26651 (75.156.151.211) at 7/11/2008 5:12:18 AM |
| Hi, On a recent experience with Vista, it took three hours to complete the routine security updates on identical hardware. This is on current 6 month old dual core laptop equipment, would you consider this performance normal? And how do you sell Vista as a performance solution? |
| #6 By 685760 (91.207.6.210) at 2/4/2012 3:30:18 AM |
| Hello. xaxanjasdijwewe And Bye. |
| #7 By 686583 (91.207.6.210) at 2/5/2012 7:38:03 PM |
| Hello. http://danaseverance.com And Bye. |
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