Only the CLASSIC VIEW lists them in alphabetical order, not the CONTROL
PANEL HOME. Take a look.
What do you mean by more quickly? My Control Panel comes up in a fraction of
a second.
I am happy for you and your USB ports. I wish mine were behaving so nicely.
I've had a bad experience with firewire on of my prior external HDDs and
since then decided never use one.
"Dave" <> wrote in message
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> My Control Panel lists all programs in alphabetical order... I just wish
> it did it more quickly.
> I have no problems with USB ports. I have an external HDD on a firewire
> connection which has worked perfectly from day one.
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> "AlexB" <> wrote in message
> news:e8e#...
>> I want to mention that I am still a Vista fan. A lot of what happened to
>> my systems has been self-inflicted as I see in retrospect, however, the
>> fault ultimately may be laid on MS developers. I do believe they
>> neglected human factor in an egregious way. A lot of guys over there as I
>> could see are of East Indian origin and they although smart have no touch
>> with you on the human level.
>>
>> An example. After some installs a black screen comes up and stays for an
>> unnervingly long time. You begin to panic. All it takes for you to take
>> it easy, go to the bathroom, take a shower, come back and you will see a
>> welcome screen. I am rather impatient and quite a number of time in the
>> past I would jerk the system, turn the machine off and start reinstalling
>> the system, thinking that I would save time this way. In fact I lost a
>> lot of time. I finally realized that Vista should be given a chance to do
>> its dress up and show up in splendor. Thus now I wait.
>>
>> Another thing: In the Control Panel (except for the Classic view) all
>> items are not in alphabetical order. They are also not arranged in any
>> logical order of importance whatsoever. There are quite a few of them and
>> it is difficult to memorize this whole haphazard picture. Precious time
>> is wasted. I want to see the idiot who did it.
>>
>> With that USB problem which still ongoing on one of my machine at least I
>> see this setup. A MyBook is plugged in in a USB port, I mean physically.
>>
>> I can see this 500GB WD MyBook in Device Manager among disk drives. GOOD.
>> It says literally: WD 500AAV External USB Device. What else is needed?
>> Take a next step:
>> Universal Serial Bus Controllers root node:
>> USB Composite Device -- Exclamation sign.
>>
>> Right click and you are offered to update the driver. I have done it
>> already 5 times. Each time it offers me to download Hotfix: KB940199. I
>> have it listed twice in my list of history of updates. Both successful,
>> both *important* and both just a day apart.
>>
>> What would it take for an idiot who designed this download system to
>> check for the fact that the download with this number is already
>> installed?
>>
>> What shall I do with the second Hotfix? Uninstall it or what?
>>
>> I have installed that Download Cleanup manager Andre recommended. For
>> some reason it not showing among updates. perhaps it should be this way,
>> I do not know. So far no visible improvement in anything.
>>
>> Please try to address all my points, not just one or two.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
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