Ten Cool Things about Vista you may not have heard of

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=166334


#1 A truly multithreaded explorer. In Windows XP, if you opened a file
dialog or a window that had to connect to the CD/DVD drive or to the network
the whole shell would hang while it did its thing. Not so in Windows Vista.
In Windows Vista, that all is done in a background thread. Getting around
the OS is always a very fluid experience.

#2 Wireless networking is much improved. The built in wireless networking in
XP was pretty awful. Most users ended up having to a user a kludgy or
bloated third-part wireless network manager instead. The one in Windows
Vista is not only better looking, it "just works".

#3 Incredibly good plug & play. While it is true that video driver support
for Vista at launch was spotty (and not to say "I told you so!" but...read
this article from over a year ago). The reality is that most things do work
and work extremely well. If I buy a brand new device today and plug it in,
odds are it'll work without me having to do anything. And Vista has a nice
little progress dialog that you can check to see how your new device is
working. On XP, you just got little pop up messages during every stage. And
how many times on XP did you run into something just not working when you
plugged it in with no real explanation? That won't happen on Vista. At the
very worst case, you'll be able to see where things went wrong in the
progress dialog that you can look at.

#4 More polish. Polish matters. If it didn't, we wouldn't be talking about
the iPhone all the time. A good user experience matters. Look at the
screenshot to the right here. Don't be afraid. This is one of the reasons
why Jenny Lam is my hero (her team at Microsoft really did a great job on
this). This kind of improved experience throughout the OS makes Windows
Vista much more pleasurable. While there are plenty of people who use our
software to make XP look a lot like Vista, there's no substitute for the
real thing.

#5 More information about your system. A lot of us have big giant cases
under our desk. In fact, in the age of the monitor having the USB ports, the
case is getting farther and farther away from us. So the days of being able
to simply listen to the hard drive crunching are long over. On Windows XP,
if my system was slow, I'd bring up the task manager and check CPU. And if
the CPU meter wasn't pegged then I'd go and look at the case to see if I
could hear the hard drive crunching. On Vista, the task manager will tell
you how much of your hard drive bandwidth you're using up and tell you what
process is accessing the disk.

#6 Much higher tolerance for handles. On Windows XP, if your system runs
out of handles, programs won't launch and weird things start to happen.
There's no warning message about it. Almost nobody knows what a user handle
is. On Windows XP, users would just reboot their machine. People who know
what handles know how to kill them off. I wrote an article "How to keep
Windows XP stable" that goes into this. On Windows Vista, the system seems
to do just fine with high handles so far. This means a much more stable
experience.

#7 Assessments. If you're reading this, you're probably the person who
people call with computer questions. On Windows XP, you might ask them "What
kind of computer do you have?" and the likely response was "It's a Dell." or
HP or Gateway or Toshiba or whatever. On Windows Vista, you instead ask them
what their performance index is which they can get to very easily. This
instantly lets people see how fast their computers really are.

#8 Better thumbnails. Windows Vista has "Windows Photo Gallery". But 99% of
the time I'm going through photos in Explorer. In Windows XP, my choice was
"thumbnails" which topped out at 128x128 thumbnails. In Windows Vista, I
can have them as large or small as I'd like which can make for very handy
viewing of lots of pictures at once.

#9 Better Laptop experience. In Windows XP, I didn't ever know for sure if
my laptop was really going to come back from sleep or hibernation. Some of
my laptops still run XP and it's a difference between XP and Vista I am
constantly reminded of. In Windows Vista, my PC is definitely coming back
from sleep. I know there are still people who complain, I'm not saying it's
perfect but it's a lot more reliable for me than XP was (or OS X Tiger was)
in this regard.

#10 Usability improvements. There are so many tiny touches in Windows Vista
that you won't see mentioned anywhere. For instance, in Windows Vista, if
you click on the system tray clock, you get a nice calendar dialog. By
contrast, in Windows XP, I would double-click to get the date and time
properties and it was slow (the Vista calendar pops up instantly). It's
just a nice small but useful touch. The home folder is a really nice touch
that wasn't in XP in a meaningful way

Those are your top 10.
I happen to disagree with most of them.
No matter how hard I try, I just can't force myself to like what they have
done with Vista.
I can make it all work, I just don't like the extra hoops which they claim
is security.
Even if you have 6 deadbolts on your front door, a true thief will crawl in
the window, or use the back door anyway.
The 6 deadbolts just give you a false sense of security....like UAC.
To me, it's a step backwards.
I'm glad some people like it, but I can't count myself among them.
Whenever someone calls to ask how to fix Vista....I say, you bought WHAT?
--
A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!

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"Tie Various" <> wrote in message
news:...
> http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=166334
>
>
> #1 A truly multithreaded explorer. In Windows XP, if you opened a file
> dialog or a window that had to connect to the CD/DVD drive or to the
> network the whole shell would hang while it did its thing. Not so in
> Windows Vista. In Windows Vista, that all is done in a background thread.
> Getting around the OS is always a very fluid experience.
>
> #2 Wireless networking is much improved. The built in wireless networking
> in XP was pretty awful. Most users ended up having to a user a kludgy or
> bloated third-part wireless network manager instead. The one in Windows
> Vista is not only better looking, it "just works".
>
> #3 Incredibly good plug & play. While it is true that video driver support
> for Vista at launch was spotty (and not to say "I told you so!" but...read
> this article from over a year ago). The reality is that most things do
> work and work extremely well. If I buy a brand new device today and plug
> it in, odds are it'll work without me having to do anything. And Vista has
> a nice little progress dialog that you can check to see how your new
> device is working. On XP, you just got little pop up messages during every
> stage. And how many times on XP did you run into something just not
> working when you plugged it in with no real explanation? That won't happen
> on Vista. At the very worst case, you'll be able to see where things went
> wrong in the progress dialog that you can look at.
>
> #4 More polish. Polish matters. If it didn't, we wouldn't be talking about
> the iPhone all the time. A good user experience matters. Look at the
> screenshot to the right here. Don't be afraid. This is one of the
> reasons why Jenny Lam is my hero (her team at Microsoft really did a great
> job on this). This kind of improved experience throughout the OS makes
> Windows Vista much more pleasurable. While there are plenty of people who
> use our software to make XP look a lot like Vista, there's no substitute
> for the real thing.
>
> #5 More information about your system. A lot of us have big giant cases
> under our desk. In fact, in the age of the monitor having the USB ports,
> the case is getting farther and farther away from us. So the days of being
> able to simply listen to the hard drive crunching are long over. On
> Windows XP, if my system was slow, I'd bring up the task manager and check
> CPU. And if the CPU meter wasn't pegged then I'd go and look at the case
> to see if I could hear the hard drive crunching. On Vista, the task
> manager will tell you how much of your hard drive bandwidth you're using
> up and tell you what process is accessing the disk.
>
> #6 Much higher tolerance for handles. On Windows XP, if your system runs
> out of handles, programs won't launch and weird things start to happen.
> There's no warning message about it. Almost nobody knows what a user
> handle is. On Windows XP, users would just reboot their machine. People
> who know what handles know how to kill them off. I wrote an article "How
> to keep Windows XP stable" that goes into this. On Windows Vista, the
> system seems to do just fine with high handles so far. This means a much
> more stable experience.
>
> #7 Assessments. If you're reading this, you're probably the person who
> people call with computer questions. On Windows XP, you might ask them
> "What kind of computer do you have?" and the likely response was "It's a
> Dell." or HP or Gateway or Toshiba or whatever. On Windows Vista, you
> instead ask them what their performance index is which they can get to
> very easily. This instantly lets people see how fast their computers
> really are.
>
> #8 Better thumbnails. Windows Vista has "Windows Photo Gallery". But 99%
> of the time I'm going through photos in Explorer. In Windows XP, my
> choice was "thumbnails" which topped out at 128x128 thumbnails. In
> Windows Vista, I can have them as large or small as I'd like which can
> make for very handy viewing of lots of pictures at once.
>
> #9 Better Laptop experience. In Windows XP, I didn't ever know for sure if
> my laptop was really going to come back from sleep or hibernation. Some of
> my laptops still run XP and it's a difference between XP and Vista I am
> constantly reminded of. In Windows Vista, my PC is definitely coming back
> from sleep. I know there are still people who complain, I'm not saying
> it's perfect but it's a lot more reliable for me than XP was (or OS X
> Tiger was) in this regard.
>
> #10 Usability improvements. There are so many tiny touches in Windows
> Vista that you won't see mentioned anywhere. For instance, in Windows
> Vista, if you click on the system tray clock, you get a nice calendar
> dialog. By contrast, in Windows XP, I would double-click to get the date
> and time properties and it was slow (the Vista calendar pops up
> instantly). It's just a nice small but useful touch. The home folder is a
> really nice touch that wasn't in XP in a meaningful way
>

lol..... for once I posted something positive about the worst OS ever made
and I get crtitisized for doing so.
GET LOST BIRDBRAIN!

Apparently you dont know anything about my opinion


"Not Me" <> wrote in message
news:Ouq$...
> Those are your top 10.
> I happen to disagree with most of them.
> No matter how hard I try, I just can't force myself to like what they have
> done with Vista.
> I can make it all work, I just don't like the extra hoops which they claim
> is security.
> Even if you have 6 deadbolts on your front door, a true thief will crawl
> in the window, or use the back door anyway.
> The 6 deadbolts just give you a false sense of security....like UAC.
> To me, it's a step backwards.
> I'm glad some people like it, but I can't count myself among them.
> Whenever someone calls to ask how to fix Vista....I say, you bought WHAT?
> --
> A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!
>
> Change Alpha to Numeric to reply
> "Tie Various" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=166334
>>
>>
>> #1 A truly multithreaded explorer. In Windows XP, if you opened a file
>> dialog or a window that had to connect to the CD/DVD drive or to the
>> network the whole shell would hang while it did its thing. Not so in
>> Windows Vista. In Windows Vista, that all is done in a background thread.
>> Getting around the OS is always a very fluid experience.
>>
>> #2 Wireless networking is much improved. The built in wireless networking
>> in XP was pretty awful. Most users ended up having to a user a kludgy or
>> bloated third-part wireless network manager instead. The one in Windows
>> Vista is not only better looking, it "just works".
>>
>> #3 Incredibly good plug & play. While it is true that video driver
>> support for Vista at launch was spotty (and not to say "I told you so!"
>> but...read this article from over a year ago). The reality is that most
>> things do work and work extremely well. If I buy a brand new device today
>> and plug it in, odds are it'll work without me having to do anything. And
>> Vista has a nice little progress dialog that you can check to see how
>> your new device is working. On XP, you just got little pop up messages
>> during every stage. And how many times on XP did you run into something
>> just not working when you plugged it in with no real explanation? That
>> won't happen on Vista. At the very worst case, you'll be able to see
>> where things went wrong in the progress dialog that you can look at.
>>
>> #4 More polish. Polish matters. If it didn't, we wouldn't be talking
>> about the iPhone all the time. A good user experience matters. Look at
>> the screenshot to the right here. Don't be afraid. This is one of the
>> reasons why Jenny Lam is my hero (her team at Microsoft really did a
>> great job on this). This kind of improved experience throughout the OS
>> makes Windows Vista much more pleasurable. While there are plenty of
>> people who use our software to make XP look a lot like Vista, there's no
>> substitute for the real thing.
>>
>> #5 More information about your system. A lot of us have big giant cases
>> under our desk. In fact, in the age of the monitor having the USB ports,
>> the case is getting farther and farther away from us. So the days of
>> being able to simply listen to the hard drive crunching are long over.
>> On Windows XP, if my system was slow, I'd bring up the task manager and
>> check CPU. And if the CPU meter wasn't pegged then I'd go and look at the
>> case to see if I could hear the hard drive crunching. On Vista, the task
>> manager will tell you how much of your hard drive bandwidth you're using
>> up and tell you what process is accessing the disk.
>>
>> #6 Much higher tolerance for handles. On Windows XP, if your system runs
>> out of handles, programs won't launch and weird things start to happen.
>> There's no warning message about it. Almost nobody knows what a user
>> handle is. On Windows XP, users would just reboot their machine. People
>> who know what handles know how to kill them off. I wrote an article "How
>> to keep Windows XP stable" that goes into this. On Windows Vista, the
>> system seems to do just fine with high handles so far. This means a much
>> more stable experience.
>>
>> #7 Assessments. If you're reading this, you're probably the person who
>> people call with computer questions. On Windows XP, you might ask them
>> "What kind of computer do you have?" and the likely response was "It's a
>> Dell." or HP or Gateway or Toshiba or whatever. On Windows Vista, you
>> instead ask them what their performance index is which they can get to
>> very easily. This instantly lets people see how fast their computers
>> really are.
>>
>> #8 Better thumbnails. Windows Vista has "Windows Photo Gallery". But 99%
>> of the time I'm going through photos in Explorer. In Windows XP, my
>> choice was "thumbnails" which topped out at 128x128 thumbnails. In
>> Windows Vista, I can have them as large or small as I'd like which can
>> make for very handy viewing of lots of pictures at once.
>>
>> #9 Better Laptop experience. In Windows XP, I didn't ever know for sure
>> if my laptop was really going to come back from sleep or hibernation.
>> Some of my laptops still run XP and it's a difference between XP and
>> Vista I am constantly reminded of. In Windows Vista, my PC is definitely
>> coming back from sleep. I know there are still people who complain, I'm
>> not saying it's perfect but it's a lot more reliable for me than XP was
>> (or OS X Tiger was) in this regard.
>>
>> #10 Usability improvements. There are so many tiny touches in Windows
>> Vista that you won't see mentioned anywhere. For instance, in Windows
>> Vista, if you click on the system tray clock, you get a nice calendar
>> dialog. By contrast, in Windows XP, I would double-click to get the date
>> and time properties and it was slow (the Vista calendar pops up
>> instantly). It's just a nice small but useful touch. The home folder is
>> a really nice touch that wasn't in XP in a meaningful way
>>
>
>

You should be critisized for alot more. You probably don't have anything
else to do. You under house arrest and can't go outside?


"Tie Various" <> wrote in message
news:...
> lol..... for once I posted something positive about the worst OS ever made
> and I get crtitisized for doing so.
> GET LOST BIRDBRAIN!
>
> Apparently you dont know anything about my opinion
>
>
> "Not Me" <> wrote in message
> news:Ouq$...
>> Those are your top 10.
>> I happen to disagree with most of them.
>> No matter how hard I try, I just can't force myself to like what they
>> have done with Vista.
>> I can make it all work, I just don't like the extra hoops which they
>> claim is security.
>> Even if you have 6 deadbolts on your front door, a true thief will crawl
>> in the window, or use the back door anyway.
>> The 6 deadbolts just give you a false sense of security....like UAC.
>> To me, it's a step backwards.
>> I'm glad some people like it, but I can't count myself among them.
>> Whenever someone calls to ask how to fix Vista....I say, you bought WHAT?
>> --
>> A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!
>>
>> Change Alpha to Numeric to reply
>> "Tie Various" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=166334
>>>
>>>
>>> #1 A truly multithreaded explorer. In Windows XP, if you opened a file
>>> dialog or a window that had to connect to the CD/DVD drive or to the
>>> network the whole shell would hang while it did its thing. Not so in
>>> Windows Vista. In Windows Vista, that all is done in a background
>>> thread. Getting around the OS is always a very fluid experience.
>>>
>>> #2 Wireless networking is much improved. The built in wireless
>>> networking in XP was pretty awful. Most users ended up having to a user
>>> a kludgy or bloated third-part wireless network manager instead. The
>>> one in Windows Vista is not only better looking, it "just works".
>>>
>>> #3 Incredibly good plug & play. While it is true that video driver
>>> support for Vista at launch was spotty (and not to say "I told you so!"
>>> but...read this article from over a year ago). The reality is that most
>>> things do work and work extremely well. If I buy a brand new device
>>> today and plug it in, odds are it'll work without me having to do
>>> anything. And Vista has a nice little progress dialog that you can check
>>> to see how your new device is working. On XP, you just got little pop up
>>> messages during every stage. And how many times on XP did you run into
>>> something just not working when you plugged it in with no real
>>> explanation? That won't happen on Vista. At the very worst case, you'll
>>> be able to see where things went wrong in the progress dialog that you
>>> can look at.
>>>
>>> #4 More polish. Polish matters. If it didn't, we wouldn't be talking
>>> about the iPhone all the time. A good user experience matters. Look at
>>> the screenshot to the right here. Don't be afraid. This is one of the
>>> reasons why Jenny Lam is my hero (her team at Microsoft really did a
>>> great job on this). This kind of improved experience throughout the OS
>>> makes Windows Vista much more pleasurable. While there are plenty of
>>> people who use our software to make XP look a lot like Vista, there's no
>>> substitute for the real thing.
>>>
>>> #5 More information about your system. A lot of us have big giant cases
>>> under our desk. In fact, in the age of the monitor having the USB ports,
>>> the case is getting farther and farther away from us. So the days of
>>> being able to simply listen to the hard drive crunching are long over.
>>> On Windows XP, if my system was slow, I'd bring up the task manager and
>>> check CPU. And if the CPU meter wasn't pegged then I'd go and look at
>>> the case to see if I could hear the hard drive crunching. On Vista, the
>>> task manager will tell you how much of your hard drive bandwidth you're
>>> using up and tell you what process is accessing the disk.
>>>
>>> #6 Much higher tolerance for handles. On Windows XP, if your system
>>> runs out of handles, programs won't launch and weird things start to
>>> happen. There's no warning message about it. Almost nobody knows what a
>>> user handle is. On Windows XP, users would just reboot their machine.
>>> People who know what handles know how to kill them off. I wrote an
>>> article "How to keep Windows XP stable" that goes into this. On Windows
>>> Vista, the system seems to do just fine with high handles so far. This
>>> means a much more stable experience.
>>>
>>> #7 Assessments. If you're reading this, you're probably the person who
>>> people call with computer questions. On Windows XP, you might ask them
>>> "What kind of computer do you have?" and the likely response was "It's a
>>> Dell." or HP or Gateway or Toshiba or whatever. On Windows Vista, you
>>> instead ask them what their performance index is which they can get to
>>> very easily. This instantly lets people see how fast their computers
>>> really are.
>>>
>>> #8 Better thumbnails. Windows Vista has "Windows Photo Gallery". But 99%
>>> of the time I'm going through photos in Explorer. In Windows XP, my
>>> choice was "thumbnails" which topped out at 128x128 thumbnails. In
>>> Windows Vista, I can have them as large or small as I'd like which can
>>> make for very handy viewing of lots of pictures at once.
>>>
>>> #9 Better Laptop experience. In Windows XP, I didn't ever know for sure
>>> if my laptop was really going to come back from sleep or hibernation.
>>> Some of my laptops still run XP and it's a difference between XP and
>>> Vista I am constantly reminded of. In Windows Vista, my PC is definitely
>>> coming back from sleep. I know there are still people who complain, I'm
>>> not saying it's perfect but it's a lot more reliable for me than XP was
>>> (or OS X Tiger was) in this regard.
>>>
>>> #10 Usability improvements. There are so many tiny touches in Windows
>>> Vista that you won't see mentioned anywhere. For instance, in Windows
>>> Vista, if you click on the system tray clock, you get a nice calendar
>>> dialog. By contrast, in Windows XP, I would double-click to get the date
>>> and time properties and it was slow (the Vista calendar pops up
>>> instantly). It's just a nice small but useful touch. The home folder is
>>> a really nice touch that wasn't in XP in a meaningful way
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Jerry Atricks... (nice nick)

vista promotes dementia.. I subscribe that you should keep away from it
while you still have some marbles up there.


"Jerry Atricks" <> wrote in message
news:...
> You should be critisized for alot more. You probably don't have anything
> else to do. You under house arrest and can't go outside?
>
>
> "Tie Various" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> lol..... for once I posted something positive about the worst OS ever
>> made and I get crtitisized for doing so.
>> GET LOST BIRDBRAIN!
>>
>> Apparently you dont know anything about my opinion
>>
>>
>> "Not Me" <> wrote in message
>> news:Ouq$...
>>> Those are your top 10.
>>> I happen to disagree with most of them.
>>> No matter how hard I try, I just can't force myself to like what they
>>> have done with Vista.
>>> I can make it all work, I just don't like the extra hoops which they
>>> claim is security.
>>> Even if you have 6 deadbolts on your front door, a true thief will crawl
>>> in the window, or use the back door anyway.
>>> The 6 deadbolts just give you a false sense of security....like UAC.
>>> To me, it's a step backwards.
>>> I'm glad some people like it, but I can't count myself among them.
>>> Whenever someone calls to ask how to fix Vista....I say, you bought
>>> WHAT?
>>> --
>>> A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!
>>>
>>> Change Alpha to Numeric to reply
>>> "Tie Various" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=166334
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> #1 A truly multithreaded explorer. In Windows XP, if you opened a file
>>>> dialog or a window that had to connect to the CD/DVD drive or to the
>>>> network the whole shell would hang while it did its thing. Not so in
>>>> Windows Vista. In Windows Vista, that all is done in a background
>>>> thread. Getting around the OS is always a very fluid experience.
>>>>
>>>> #2 Wireless networking is much improved. The built in wireless
>>>> networking in XP was pretty awful. Most users ended up having to a user
>>>> a kludgy or bloated third-part wireless network manager instead. The
>>>> one in Windows Vista is not only better looking, it "just works".
>>>>
>>>> #3 Incredibly good plug & play. While it is true that video driver
>>>> support for Vista at launch was spotty (and not to say "I told you so!"
>>>> but...read this article from over a year ago). The reality is that most
>>>> things do work and work extremely well. If I buy a brand new device
>>>> today and plug it in, odds are it'll work without me having to do
>>>> anything. And Vista has a nice little progress dialog that you can
>>>> check to see how your new device is working. On XP, you just got little
>>>> pop up messages during every stage. And how many times on XP did you
>>>> run into something just not working when you plugged it in with no real
>>>> explanation? That won't happen on Vista. At the very worst case, you'll
>>>> be able to see where things went wrong in the progress dialog that you
>>>> can look at.
>>>>
>>>> #4 More polish. Polish matters. If it didn't, we wouldn't be talking
>>>> about the iPhone all the time. A good user experience matters. Look at
>>>> the screenshot to the right here. Don't be afraid. This is one of the
>>>> reasons why Jenny Lam is my hero (her team at Microsoft really did a
>>>> great job on this). This kind of improved experience throughout the OS
>>>> makes Windows Vista much more pleasurable. While there are plenty of
>>>> people who use our software to make XP look a lot like Vista, there's
>>>> no substitute for the real thing.
>>>>
>>>> #5 More information about your system. A lot of us have big giant cases
>>>> under our desk. In fact, in the age of the monitor having the USB
>>>> ports, the case is getting farther and farther away from us. So the
>>>> days of being able to simply listen to the hard drive crunching are
>>>> long over. On Windows XP, if my system was slow, I'd bring up the task
>>>> manager and check CPU. And if the CPU meter wasn't pegged then I'd go
>>>> and look at the case to see if I could hear the hard drive crunching.
>>>> On Vista, the task manager will tell you how much of your hard drive
>>>> bandwidth you're using up and tell you what process is accessing the
>>>> disk.
>>>>
>>>> #6 Much higher tolerance for handles. On Windows XP, if your system
>>>> runs out of handles, programs won't launch and weird things start to
>>>> happen. There's no warning message about it. Almost nobody knows what a
>>>> user handle is. On Windows XP, users would just reboot their machine.
>>>> People who know what handles know how to kill them off. I wrote an
>>>> article "How to keep Windows XP stable" that goes into this. On Windows
>>>> Vista, the system seems to do just fine with high handles so far. This
>>>> means a much more stable experience.
>>>>
>>>> #7 Assessments. If you're reading this, you're probably the person who
>>>> people call with computer questions. On Windows XP, you might ask them
>>>> "What kind of computer do you have?" and the likely response was "It's
>>>> a Dell." or HP or Gateway or Toshiba or whatever. On Windows Vista, you
>>>> instead ask them what their performance index is which they can get to
>>>> very easily. This instantly lets people see how fast their computers
>>>> really are.
>>>>
>>>> #8 Better thumbnails. Windows Vista has "Windows Photo Gallery". But
>>>> 99% of the time I'm going through photos in Explorer. In Windows XP,
>>>> my choice was "thumbnails" which topped out at 128x128 thumbnails. In
>>>> Windows Vista, I can have them as large or small as I'd like which can
>>>> make for very handy viewing of lots of pictures at once.
>>>>
>>>> #9 Better Laptop experience. In Windows XP, I didn't ever know for sure
>>>> if my laptop was really going to come back from sleep or hibernation.
>>>> Some of my laptops still run XP and it's a difference between XP and
>>>> Vista I am constantly reminded of. In Windows Vista, my PC is
>>>> definitely coming back from sleep. I know there are still people who
>>>> complain, I'm not saying it's perfect but it's a lot more reliable for
>>>> me than XP was (or OS X Tiger was) in this regard.
>>>>
>>>> #10 Usability improvements. There are so many tiny touches in Windows
>>>> Vista that you won't see mentioned anywhere. For instance, in Windows
>>>> Vista, if you click on the system tray clock, you get a nice calendar
>>>> dialog. By contrast, in Windows XP, I would double-click to get the
>>>> date and time properties and it was slow (the Vista calendar pops up
>>>> instantly). It's just a nice small but useful touch. The home folder
>>>> is a really nice touch that wasn't in XP in a meaningful way
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Tie Various wrote:

> lol..... for once I posted something positive about the worst OS ever made
> and I get crtitisized for doing so.
> GET LOST BIRDBRAIN!
>
> Apparently you dont know anything about my opinion

You don't really have an opinion. You have only hatred...and it controls
your life.
You really need help. You're fighting a battle you lost long ago.
Everyone else has been celebrating victory while you continue to stab at
windmills.
Get some help, or continue making a fool out of yourself on a daily basis.
Frank

Alright, who are you and what have you done with Tie?

All are strong and valid points, I'm just surprised you'd be the one to post
it.

It is from an other source, right?

rtk

"Tie Various" <> wrote in message
news:...
> http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=166334
>
>
> #1 A truly multithreaded explorer. In Windows XP, if you opened a file
> dialog or a window that had to connect to the CD/DVD drive or to the
> network the whole shell would hang while it did its thing. Not so in
> Windows Vista. In Windows Vista, that all is done in a background thread.
> Getting around the OS is always a very fluid experience.
>
> #2 Wireless networking is much improved. The built in wireless networking
> in XP was pretty awful. Most users ended up having to a user a kludgy or
> bloated third-part wireless network manager instead. The one in Windows
> Vista is not only better looking, it "just works".
>
> #3 Incredibly good plug & play. While it is true that video driver support
> for Vista at launch was spotty (and not to say "I told you so!" but...read
> this article from over a year ago). The reality is that most things do
> work and work extremely well. If I buy a brand new device today and plug
> it in, odds are it'll work without me having to do anything. And Vista has
> a nice little progress dialog that you can check to see how your new
> device is working. On XP, you just got little pop up messages during every
> stage. And how many times on XP did you run into something just not
> working when you plugged it in with no real explanation? That won't happen
> on Vista. At the very worst case, you'll be able to see where things went
> wrong in the progress dialog that you can look at.
>
> #4 More polish. Polish matters. If it didn't, we wouldn't be talking about
> the iPhone all the time. A good user experience matters. Look at the
> screenshot to the right here. Don't be afraid. This is one of the
> reasons why Jenny Lam is my hero (her team at Microsoft really did a great
> job on this). This kind of improved experience throughout the OS makes
> Windows Vista much more pleasurable. While there are plenty of people who
> use our software to make XP look a lot like Vista, there's no substitute
> for the real thing.
>
> #5 More information about your system. A lot of us have big giant cases
> under our desk. In fact, in the age of the monitor having the USB ports,
> the case is getting farther and farther away from us. So the days of being
> able to simply listen to the hard drive crunching are long over. On
> Windows XP, if my system was slow, I'd bring up the task manager and check
> CPU. And if the CPU meter wasn't pegged then I'd go and look at the case
> to see if I could hear the hard drive crunching. On Vista, the task
> manager will tell you how much of your hard drive bandwidth you're using
> up and tell you what process is accessing the disk.
>
> #6 Much higher tolerance for handles. On Windows XP, if your system runs
> out of handles, programs won't launch and weird things start to happen.
> There's no warning message about it. Almost nobody knows what a user
> handle is. On Windows XP, users would just reboot their machine. People
> who know what handles know how to kill them off. I wrote an article "How
> to keep Windows XP stable" that goes into this. On Windows Vista, the
> system seems to do just fine with high handles so far. This means a much
> more stable experience.
>
> #7 Assessments. If you're reading this, you're probably the person who
> people call with computer questions. On Windows XP, you might ask them
> "What kind of computer do you have?" and the likely response was "It's a
> Dell." or HP or Gateway or Toshiba or whatever. On Windows Vista, you
> instead ask them what their performance index is which they can get to
> very easily. This instantly lets people see how fast their computers
> really are.
>
> #8 Better thumbnails. Windows Vista has "Windows Photo Gallery". But 99%
> of the time I'm going through photos in Explorer. In Windows XP, my
> choice was "thumbnails" which topped out at 128x128 thumbnails. In
> Windows Vista, I can have them as large or small as I'd like which can
> make for very handy viewing of lots of pictures at once.
>
> #9 Better Laptop experience. In Windows XP, I didn't ever know for sure if
> my laptop was really going to come back from sleep or hibernation. Some of
> my laptops still run XP and it's a difference between XP and Vista I am
> constantly reminded of. In Windows Vista, my PC is definitely coming back
> from sleep. I know there are still people who complain, I'm not saying
> it's perfect but it's a lot more reliable for me than XP was (or OS X
> Tiger was) in this regard.
>
> #10 Usability improvements. There are so many tiny touches in Windows
> Vista that you won't see mentioned anywhere. For instance, in Windows
> Vista, if you click on the system tray clock, you get a nice calendar
> dialog. By contrast, in Windows XP, I would double-click to get the date
> and time properties and it was slow (the Vista calendar pops up
> instantly). It's just a nice small but useful touch. The home folder is a
> really nice touch that wasn't in XP in a meaningful way
>

"Tie Various" <> wrote in message
news:47275253$...
> Jerry Atricks... (nice nick)
>
> vista promotes dementia.. I subscribe that you should keep away from it
> while you still have some marbles up there.

At least I still have my marbles. You are just an idiot.
>
>
> "Jerry Atricks" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> You should be critisized for alot more. You probably don't have anything
>> else to do. You under house arrest and can't go outside?
>>
>>
>> "Tie Various" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> lol..... for once I posted something positive about the worst OS ever
>>> made and I get crtitisized for doing so.
>>> GET LOST BIRDBRAIN!
>>>
>>> Apparently you dont know anything about my opinion
>>>
>>>
>>> "Not Me" <> wrote in message
>>> news:Ouq$...
>>>> Those are your top 10.
>>>> I happen to disagree with most of them.
>>>> No matter how hard I try, I just can't force myself to like what they
>>>> have done with Vista.
>>>> I can make it all work, I just don't like the extra hoops which they
>>>> claim is security.
>>>> Even if you have 6 deadbolts on your front door, a true thief will
>>>> crawl in the window, or use the back door anyway.
>>>> The 6 deadbolts just give you a false sense of security....like UAC.
>>>> To me, it's a step backwards.
>>>> I'm glad some people like it, but I can't count myself among them.
>>>> Whenever someone calls to ask how to fix Vista....I say, you bought
>>>> WHAT?
>>>> --
>>>> A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!
>>>>
>>>> Change Alpha to Numeric to reply
>>>> "Tie Various" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:...
>>>>> http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=166334
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> #1 A truly multithreaded explorer. In Windows XP, if you opened a
>>>>> file dialog or a window that had to connect to the CD/DVD drive or to
>>>>> the network the whole shell would hang while it did its thing. Not so
>>>>> in Windows Vista. In Windows Vista, that all is done in a background
>>>>> thread. Getting around the OS is always a very fluid experience.
>>>>>
>>>>> #2 Wireless networking is much improved. The built in wireless
>>>>> networking in XP was pretty awful. Most users ended up having to a
>>>>> user a kludgy or bloated third-part wireless network manager instead.
>>>>> The one in Windows Vista is not only better looking, it "just works".
>>>>>
>>>>> #3 Incredibly good plug & play. While it is true that video driver
>>>>> support for Vista at launch was spotty (and not to say "I told you
>>>>> so!" but...read this article from over a year ago). The reality is
>>>>> that most things do work and work extremely well. If I buy a brand new
>>>>> device today and plug it in, odds are it'll work without me having to
>>>>> do anything. And Vista has a nice little progress dialog that you can
>>>>> check to see how your new device is working. On XP, you just got
>>>>> little pop up messages during every stage. And how many times on XP
>>>>> did you run into something just not working when you plugged it in
>>>>> with no real explanation? That won't happen on Vista. At the very
>>>>> worst case, you'll be able to see where things went wrong in the
>>>>> progress dialog that you can look at.
>>>>>
>>>>> #4 More polish. Polish matters. If it didn't, we wouldn't be talking
>>>>> about the iPhone all the time. A good user experience matters. Look
>>>>> at the screenshot to the right here. Don't be afraid. This is one of
>>>>> the reasons why Jenny Lam is my hero (her team at Microsoft really did
>>>>> a great job on this). This kind of improved experience throughout the
>>>>> OS makes Windows Vista much more pleasurable. While there are plenty
>>>>> of people who use our software to make XP look a lot like Vista,
>>>>> there's no substitute for the real thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> #5 More information about your system. A lot of us have big giant
>>>>> cases under our desk. In fact, in the age of the monitor having the
>>>>> USB ports, the case is getting farther and farther away from us. So
>>>>> the days of being able to simply listen to the hard drive crunching
>>>>> are long over. On Windows XP, if my system was slow, I'd bring up the
>>>>> task manager and check CPU. And if the CPU meter wasn't pegged then
>>>>> I'd go and look at the case to see if I could hear the hard drive
>>>>> crunching. On Vista, the task manager will tell you how much of your
>>>>> hard drive bandwidth you're using up and tell you what process is
>>>>> accessing the disk.
>>>>>
>>>>> #6 Much higher tolerance for handles. On Windows XP, if your system
>>>>> runs out of handles, programs won't launch and weird things start to
>>>>> happen. There's no warning message about it. Almost nobody knows what
>>>>> a user handle is. On Windows XP, users would just reboot their
>>>>> machine. People who know what handles know how to kill them off. I
>>>>> wrote an article "How to keep Windows XP stable" that goes into this.
>>>>> On Windows Vista, the system seems to do just fine with high handles
>>>>> so far. This means a much more stable experience.
>>>>>
>>>>> #7 Assessments. If you're reading this, you're probably the person who
>>>>> people call with computer questions. On Windows XP, you might ask them
>>>>> "What kind of computer do you have?" and the likely response was "It's
>>>>> a Dell." or HP or Gateway or Toshiba or whatever. On Windows Vista,
>>>>> you instead ask them what their performance index is which they can
>>>>> get to very easily. This instantly lets people see how fast their
>>>>> computers really are.
>>>>>
>>>>> #8 Better thumbnails. Windows Vista has "Windows Photo Gallery". But
>>>>> 99% of the time I'm going through photos in Explorer. In Windows XP,
>>>>> my choice was "thumbnails" which topped out at 128x128 thumbnails. In
>>>>> Windows Vista, I can have them as large or small as I'd like which can
>>>>> make for very handy viewing of lots of pictures at once.
>>>>>
>>>>> #9 Better Laptop experience. In Windows XP, I didn't ever know for
>>>>> sure if my laptop was really going to come back from sleep or
>>>>> hibernation. Some of my laptops still run XP and it's a difference
>>>>> between XP and Vista I am constantly reminded of. In Windows Vista, my
>>>>> PC is definitely coming back from sleep. I know there are still people
>>>>> who complain, I'm not saying it's perfect but it's a lot more reliable
>>>>> for me than XP was (or OS X Tiger was) in this regard.
>>>>>
>>>>> #10 Usability improvements. There are so many tiny touches in Windows
>>>>> Vista that you won't see mentioned anywhere. For instance, in Windows
>>>>> Vista, if you click on the system tray clock, you get a nice calendar
>>>>> dialog. By contrast, in Windows XP, I would double-click to get the
>>>>> date and time properties and it was slow (the Vista calendar pops up
>>>>> instantly). It's just a nice small but useful touch. The home folder
>>>>> is a really nice touch that wasn't in XP in a meaningful way
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Frank wrote:
>
> I don't really have an opinion. I have only hatred...and it controls
> my life.
> I really need help. I'm fighting a battle I lost long ago.
> Everyone else has been celebrating victory while I continue to stab at
> windmills.
> I should get some help, or continue making a fool out of myself on a daily basis.
> Frank

Recognizing the problem is the first step ...

--
Alias

To email me, remove shoes

"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:fg7l0u$4vf$...
> Frank wrote:
>>
>> I don't really have an opinion. I have only hatred...and it controls my
>> life.
>> I really need help. I'm fighting a battle I lost long ago. Everyone else
>> has been celebrating victory while I continue to stab at windmills.
>> I should get some help, or continue making a fool out of myself on a
>> daily basis.
>> Frank
>
> Recognizing the problem is the first step ...

Recognize that Ubuntu is just not ready for prime time and you will not have
to preach day after day here in the vista group, trying to get converts to
bail on Vista and move to Ubuntu. From what I've read, when people are sick
of Vista, they want to go back to XP, not Ubuntu or another TOY flavor of
Linux. Just won't happen.


>
> --
> Alias
>
> To email me, remove shoes