Say something good about Vista

Two questions please:

1) I realize that this place is for fixing problems, thus it is normal to
see mostly problems, but I would hope 9 out of 10 users are tickeled pink
with Vista. I'd like to hear from folks who are not just satisfied, but
those that truly find better functionality and what are they???

2) I am from the "old school" and value utility over glitz that may rob
valuable screen space. I prefer the old detailed view explorer look on
folders. Does anyone know if I can set explorer to the familiar classic
look and feel????

Thanks Joe101

Joe101 wrote:
> Two questions please:
>
> 1) I realize that this place is for fixing problems, thus it is
> normal to see mostly problems, but I would hope 9 out of 10 users are
> tickeled pink with Vista. I'd like to hear from folks who are not
> just satisfied, but those that truly find better functionality and
> what are they???
> 2) I am from the "old school" and value utility over glitz that may
> rob valuable screen space. I prefer the old detailed view explorer
> look on folders. Does anyone know if I can set explorer to the
> familiar classic look and feel????
>
> Thanks Joe101

You can dumb down the graphics (eye candy) to look like Win98 and by doing
so pick up a bit extra performance

"GreenieLeBrun" <> wrote in message
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> Joe101 wrote:
>> Two questions please:
>>
>> 1) I realize that this place is for fixing problems, thus it is
>> normal to see mostly problems, but I would hope 9 out of 10 users are
>> tickeled pink with Vista. I'd like to hear from folks who are not
>> just satisfied, but those that truly find better functionality and
>> what are they???
>> 2) I am from the "old school" and value utility over glitz that may
>> rob valuable screen space. I prefer the old detailed view explorer
>> look on folders. Does anyone know if I can set explorer to the
>> familiar classic look and feel????
>>
>> Thanks Joe101
>
> You can dumb down the graphics (eye candy) to look like Win98 and by doing
> so pick up a bit extra performance
Just adding my 2 cents worth - I quite like Vista. Got the odd software
incompatability, including one that's a real pain. But no one made me
upgrade; it was my own decision and overall I am enjoying it over XP Pro
that I used for a few years previously. Can't stand the folk who throw it on
the machine, see it works a little differently to what they are used to, and
conclude the OS is crap because it doesn't suit them. They revert to their
previous OS and spend the next three months skiting about how they found all
these things wrong with Vista and aren't MS a bunch of crooks for foisting
such crap on the poor innocent victims around the planet. Whew! Gimme a
break. They clog up the newsgroups with their bitchin' I moaning, and expect
sympathy - HA!

Shoot - I'm goin' th' same way; 'cept I'm moaning about the moaners moaning.

Sorry 'bout that. Cheers.

--
Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.

I agree on Total Commander. I have also been using it - for 15 years now. A
wonderful file manager. Makes any version of Windows Explorer look like a
toy!

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"PapaJohn" <> wrote in message
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> Hi Joe 101,
>
> I can answer one of your two...
>
> I wrote an article for MaximumPC's spring quarterly issue about 'Making
> Movies in Vista'. About 1/2 way thru writing it I came accross the feature
> that a movie project didn't need to be rendered to a movie in order to get
> it onto a DVD. The new DVD Maker app can take the movie project file and
> create the DVD from it. Vista's DVD Maker is the first such software from
> Micosoft and the synergy between it and Movie Maker was a welcome
> surprise... which made me change my whole approach to the article.
>
> For new functionality, I don't have to go very far to appreciate over and
> over the new Start > enter a few letters of the app or file you want > and
> the picklist is there.... is great new functionality. It saves putting
> icons on the desktop or shortcuts in the start menu.
>
> My old school habits still have me wanting to know where my files are...
> in what folders... I'm not wanting to be overly helped with virtual
> folders. So I'm glad that Total Commander (the modern Windows derivitive
> of Peter Norton's 'Windows Commander' works on Vista. It's been my file
> management utility for decades, a key reason that I never warmed up to
> Explorer.
> --
> website references are to www.papajohn.org
>
> PapaJohn
>
>
> "Joe101" <> wrote in message
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>> Two questions please:
>>
>> 1) I realize that this place is for fixing problems, thus it is normal
>> to see mostly problems, but I would hope 9 out of 10 users are tickeled
>> pink with Vista. I'd like to hear from folks who are not just
>> satisfied, but those that truly find better functionality and what are
>> they???
>>
>> 2) I am from the "old school" and value utility over glitz that may rob
>> valuable screen space. I prefer the old detailed view explorer look on
>> folders. Does anyone know if I can set explorer to the familiar
>> classic look and feel????
>>
>> Thanks Joe101
>>
>
>

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 01:59:05 -0400, "Richard Urban"
<> wrote:

>I agree on Total Commander. I have also been using it - for 15 years now. A
>wonderful file manager. Makes any version of Windows Explorer look like a
>toy!

I guess that's your speed. Total Commander is so 80's.

The DVD is very nice looking. Fits in the drive and spins when accessed.
There, I said something nice about Vista.


"Joe101" <> wrote in message
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> Two questions please:
>
> 1) I realize that this place is for fixing problems, thus it is normal to
> see mostly problems, but I would hope 9 out of 10 users are tickeled pink
> with Vista. I'd like to hear from folks who are not just satisfied, but
> those that truly find better functionality and what are they???
>
> 2) I am from the "old school" and value utility over glitz that may rob
> valuable screen space. I prefer the old detailed view explorer look on
> folders. Does anyone know if I can set explorer to the familiar classic
> look and feel????
>
> Thanks Joe101
>
>

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:12:46 -0700, "Lano DeRetard" <>
wrote:

>The DVD is very nice looking. Fits in the drive and spins when accessed.
>There, I said something nice about Vista.

The packaging Vista comes in is cool. Hard to open, but cool. ;-)

You can use Vista to run Excel and Word


"Joe101" <> wrote in message
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> Two questions please:
>
> 1) I realize that this place is for fixing problems, thus it is normal to
> see mostly problems, but I would hope 9 out of 10 users are tickeled pink
> with Vista. I'd like to hear from folks who are not just satisfied, but
> those that truly find better functionality and what are they???
>
> 2) I am from the "old school" and value utility over glitz that may rob
> valuable screen space. I prefer the old detailed view explorer look on
> folders. Does anyone know if I can set explorer to the familiar classic
> look and feel????
>
> Thanks Joe101
>

Vista is more secure then Ubuntu

Look at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid to compare the vulnerabilities.

Try Vendor: Microsoft
Title: Windows Vista
Version: Select Version

You will see 1 page

Try Vendor: Ubuntu
Title: Ubuntu Linux
Version: Select Version

You will see 20 pages.

I'll stay with Vista its more secure.

It keeps me awake trying to find functions that were right there in the top
layer in XP. Thanks to the Vista team for renaming well know functions and
moving them into new locations in newly named folders. I needed the
challenge.

Richard