Fed Up With the VISTA OS

I just caught the ad on CNN regarding the Windows "Mojave Experiment." At
first glance, VISTA seems to be a dream come true, but as time goes on,
VISTA changes from a dream to a nightmare, I am sorry to say. When I first
bought this machine last September, VISTA was smooth, responsive and fast. I
was a big fan of the OS. But all of that has passed by the wayside now. As
more and more "patches" are sent to be installed, the whole thing slows down
and even goes in the wrong direction sometimes.

Here are examples: WORD 2007 closes and on occasion it says in the dialog
box, "WORD has stopped working." Or suddenly, the video driver for the HP
w1907 flat screen monitor simply kicks out and the screen goes black. Or
legacy software is determined to be "incompatible" with VISTA. Email
contacts cannot be deleted directly by right-clicking because that action
freezes Internet Explorer. I have to go through the hard drive and manually
delete huge files which serve no purpose, even though Trend Micro and Spy
Sweeper claim they are free of troublemaking code.

Maybe it should be the other way around: VISTA is incompatible with me. This
machine is supposed to serve me, not the other way around.

I certainly hope that Windows 7...or whatever the next version
is...addresses a lot of these concerns. If I were the only one complaining,
it would be an entirely different ballgame. But I'm not alone in my
criticism of this OS.

Microsoft needs to know from as many users as possible that VISTA just does
not cut it anymore. And it's the users who determine what is acceptable and
what isn't.

Thanks for letting me vent!

Doug Parrish

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:25:18 -0400, "Doug Parrish"
<> wrote:

>I just caught the ad on CNN regarding the Windows "Mojave Experiment." At
>first glance, VISTA seems to be a dream come true, but as time goes on,
>VISTA changes from a dream to a nightmare, I am sorry to say. When I first
>bought this machine last September, VISTA was smooth, responsive and fast. I
>was a big fan of the OS. But all of that has passed by the wayside now. As
>more and more "patches" are sent to be installed, the whole thing slows down
>and even goes in the wrong direction sometimes.

Your experience is far from being common to the vast majority of Vista
users. I would suggest that you have participated in the problems
that have been developing over the past year.

Programs you have installed/uninstalled that didn't uninstall cleanly.
Bad system maintenance. Use of registry cleaners. The list can go on
and on.

Doug Parrish wrote:

I don't know man. I am not having all those problems. Vista is working
well for me, and I am doing a lot more with Vista than what you're
talking about. But I keep Vista installed with only Vista compliant
software too, and I am not running any snake-oil like registry cleaners
and things of that nature. I do system maintenance regularly like Disk
Clean-up, Defrag, etc, etc. The system is running smooth and with no
problems.

I am hardly having problems either. I have Windows home premium 32 bit on an
Acer PC desktop. I have noticed most problem's are on HP PC's. Don't know
its maybe that there is alot of them sold.

Bob


"Junk Yard Dog" <> wrote in message
news:%23k6QTz8$...
> Doug Parrish wrote:
>
> I don't know man. I am not having all those problems. Vista is working
> well for me, and I am doing a lot more with Vista than what you're talking
> about. But I keep Vista installed with only Vista compliant software too,
> and I am not running any snake-oil like registry cleaners and things of
> that nature. I do system maintenance regularly like Disk Clean-up, Defrag,
> etc, etc. The system is running smooth and with no problems.

Bob D. wrote:
> I am hardly having problems either. I have Windows home premium 32 bit
> on an Acer PC desktop. I have noticed most problem's are on HP PC's.
> Don't know its maybe that there is alot of them sold.
>
> Bob

I am using a HP DV9000 Entertainment Laptop. It could be malware running
on the OP's computer undetected, along with installing non Vista
compliant software on the machine that is causing problems. Malware is
not going to be Vista compliant either.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:49:00 -0500, Paul Montgomery
<> wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:25:18 -0400, "Doug Parrish"
><> wrote:
>
>>I just caught the ad on CNN regarding the Windows "Mojave Experiment." At
>>first glance, VISTA seems to be a dream come true, but as time goes on,
>>VISTA changes from a dream to a nightmare, I am sorry to say. When I first
>>bought this machine last September, VISTA was smooth, responsive and fast. I
>>was a big fan of the OS. But all of that has passed by the wayside now. As
>>more and more "patches" are sent to be installed, the whole thing slows down
>>and even goes in the wrong direction sometimes.
>
>Your experience is far from being common to the vast majority of Vista
>users. I would suggest that you have participated in the problems
>that have been developing over the past year.
>
>Programs you have installed/uninstalled that didn't uninstall cleanly.
>Bad system maintenance. Use of registry cleaners. The list can go on
>and on.

Yeah, I can see you pontificating about them and never once hold
Microsoft accountable for any of them. Show me any poster that is
automatically opposed to Registry Cleaners out of ignorance and I'll
show you somebody that knows next to nothing about how Windows works.

Hint: Awful lot of no nothing prima donna types post to this
newsgroup. One is named Paul. ;-)

Interestingly enough, I have never, ever touched the Registry with
"snake-oil cleaners," scouring powder or canned air! Why would I go in where
angels fear to tread?! Just like you, I also do Disk Cleanup each week, and
defragging is scheduled to run once a month along with weekly A/V and
spyware protection. So, please, I'm not a babe in the woods when it comes to
computers. And just because I am having my fill of VISTA does not make my
problems any less legitimate. For as many supporters as you claim in favor
of VISTA, I have heard an equal number tearing it apart from seam to seam
and going back to XP.

"Junk Yard Dog" <> wrote in message
news:%23k6QTz8$...
> Doug Parrish wrote:
>
> I don't know man. I am not having all those problems. Vista is working
> well for me, and I am doing a lot more with Vista than what you're talking
> about. But I keep Vista installed with only Vista compliant software too,
> and I am not running any snake-oil like registry cleaners and things of
> that nature. I do system maintenance regularly like Disk Clean-up, Defrag,
> etc, etc. The system is running smooth and with no problems.

Doug Parrish wrote:
> Interestingly enough, I have never, ever touched the Registry with
> "snake-oil cleaners," scouring powder or canned air! Why would I go in
> where angels fear to tread?! Just like you, I also do Disk Cleanup each
> week, and defragging is scheduled to run once a month along with weekly
> A/V and spyware protection. So, please, I'm not a babe in the woods when
> it comes to computers. And just because I am having my fill of VISTA
> does not make my problems any less legitimate. For as many supporters as
> you claim in favor of VISTA, I have heard an equal number tearing it
> apart from seam to seam and going back to XP.

What can I tell you? I have not claimed any counts based on support. You
show somewhere in that post I made about counting supporters making
claims of support, and that *I* made claims.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:09:51 -0400, "Doug Parrish"
<> wrote:

>Interestingly enough, I have never, ever touched the Registry with
>"snake-oil cleaners," scouring powder or canned air! Why would I go in where
>angels fear to tread?! Just like you, I also do Disk Cleanup each week, and
>defragging is scheduled to run once a month along with weekly A/V and
>spyware protection. So, please, I'm not a babe in the woods when it comes to
>computers. And just because I am having my fill of VISTA does not make my
>problems any less legitimate. For as many supporters as you claim in favor
>of VISTA, I have heard an equal number tearing it apart from seam to seam
>and going back to XP.

Sadly it's the mentality of this newsgroup. Anyone reporting problems
is automatically labeled a dummy and usually some moron like Frank
goes on the attack. You have to go back to Windows BOB or ME to find a
more hated version of Windows than Vista. True, it works fine for some
people. What the apologists can't handle is an equal number, maybe
greater have issues. I mean come on, common sense. When the CEO of
Microsoft sheepishly admits, yeah, Vista has issues, plus 84% of
business users have NOT and will not upgrade and they're madly rushing
to get Windows 7 done you KNOW something is wrong.

Such sobering reality doesn't penetrate this outpost of unabashed
Microsoft support where the default position of the faithful is to
stick one's head in the sand and pretend Vista doesn't have issues.

Which it why it is a hoot to watch the naives go ape anytime anybody
is critical of Vista. Rest assured you're not alone as any Google
search looking for Vista problems shows. Hundreds of thousands are
having issues with Vista and that's just those that bother to post to
some forum or post a web page. Using the standard 100 to 1 ratio for
every person reporting a problem 99 others likely have the same or
similar problem, anyone but a fool knows Vista is on shaky ground at
best which is why as I've already said Microsoft is racing to get the
next version out and also why they didn't totally pull XP from
distribution either.

Ringmaster wrote:

<snipped>

What you stupid *clown*? Is there something wrong with pros and cons? Is
there something wrong with the negative and the positive?

Why you are no more than a two bit ambulance chaser in real life I bet,
or you use to be one, with your negativity.

Why don't you end your worthless life and be done with it, already?