What do you think of Windows Vista

My mum has just bought a new laptop and she knows absolutely nothing about computers and just about knows how to turn it on and log in.

On there, is Windows Vista preloaded and she asked me if i could set up her wireless connection to my dad's router.

I said I would have a look but I found there was no logical place to find anything unlike previous versions of Windows.

It took me ages to find the Network Connection settings and even IE.

What does everyone else think of Vista.....my first opinions are I DON't LIKE IT

I'll tell you in 2 weeks when i have sampled it

VISTA - FTL (for the loss).
Worst thing ever {full stop}

One of my old college lecturers referred to the default menu on Windows XP as "Fisher Price" becuase it is just too simple and 'Eye Candy' but Vista is even worse.

I think they have done a worse job making things much more difficult to find and adding useless, resource hogging, desktop cluttering items such as the clock and that other useless thing I don't even know what's for.

D'ya mean the sidebar, AdRock? If you do i am sure that can be turned off (my gran has Vista).

How MS decided to do vista.

How can we make windows better in vista?
>Let's make it so shiny, the shinyness takes up loads of memory!
>>And let's make users have to click continue every time they open an exe, including the exes that come with windows.

I can't remember. I was so annoyed at trying to do the simplist thing I forgot what it looked like but it was at the right side of the screen under the nanlogie clock
Takes up loads of memory....heheheh..i bet that's right and I heard it now comes on a dvd becuase it's packed with so many useless features that iot won't fit on a standard cd anymore.....and what's this i heard it now takes a couple of gig install instead of about half a gig of hdd space?

Vista: 4gb (abouts)
XP: 700mb

About 3.5 Gb worth of crap

*4gb

you we get used to it after 2 weeks

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Windows Vista = Spawn of Satan!

Bloated and too thrilly around the edges!

End!

OK, WATCH OUT, Vista lover comin through!!!

I've been running Vista Business for a couple months now on my notebook and have come to love it. Of course it took a while until I could say this but once I had learned how to use it, I found Vista just as nice to use as XP. A couple of improvements on XP:
- the new explorer is really nice and very much more user-friendly. Also the file copy/move functions are a lot nicer.
- I know that a lot of the 'new' look was "copied" from Mac, but, hey, it still looks good.
- 3D flip RockZZZ. I'll admit it's totally useless, but you can always impress your friends with it
- Accessing other computers in a local network is a lot easier and doesn't take so flippin long as it did with XP.

I agree, that is really annoying, BUT IT CAN BE DISABLED!
Download TweakUI for Vista and you can kill all the extra crapp and Vista becomes a lean, mean, sexy, shiny OS

Alot of people I have spoke to have said its annoying at first but you get used to it - like all change.

I found the opposite Dan.
Amusing at first, but then yout find out how annoying it actually is.

What i found really annoying was trying to shut down when you are on the login screen.

What a stupid place to put the options to shut down, restart etc....right at the bottom of the right hand side of the screen......not obvious at all

Thats where they've always been

Also they hide "run".
You have to press win + r.

he? Have you actually used Windows before? When you say stuff like that it makes my wonder....

a) right-click the start menu --> Properties --> Start Menu --> Customize and you can configure exactly what you want to see in your start menu.
b) what's wrong with keyboard shortcuts? that's why computers have keyboards, so you don't have to use the mouse the whole time....

I always use the shortcuts.
Just annoyed me as I spent ages trying to find the run button before I thought to use the keyboard shortcut.