Vista go-go

WindowsXp was the best OS ever, after a few registry patches (e.g. notorious
failing Search by file contents), a few tweaks, and in my case total COLORS
customization, and in Classic mode, in the end it wasd the best.
it took several days to customize, and done.

With Vista, it's a dead end.
Explorer forgets views.
Mail needs a fix before it can open doc, pdf, etc attachments form within
mail instead of saving first
Black background or COlorSchemes in egenral is a problem if you dare to
select it.
WL PhotoGallery & many new applications force white background which I can't
stand, ignoring syste,m-wide color setting
You need to experiemnt with GPOE Editor (Group Policy) before it allows you
to run/modify things as an Administrator similar to WinXP.
Well that might not be bad, for security, bad it should be known and visible
instead of me Googiling whole day about why i can't delete or run certain
programs.
Sidebar gadget... shove it up......
Search function is a joke. It fails 80% time when searching arbitrary file
CONTENTS for a string. Don't tell me my settings are wrong, you don't know
who I am.
Been doing computers for almost quarter of century, degreed engineer. Dont
worry abou tmy "settings" Worry about your algorithm that is designed for
speed, not quality.
I was forced to buy FindFilePro and download Agentransack - first time in
history I had to go thru trouble of BUYING a search tool which used to be
part of Operating System in WinXP, Win2000.
I kno wVistae includes search... but it finds music & pictures! LOL. This
qualifies it for kids and retired people I guess. Not for serious business.
I am a scientist/engineer, these gadgets to me are as worthy as fried rat's
tail.

I often seatrch binaries and hex files for certain strings, thsi Vista
search is a disaster.

Degreed engineer.

Doesn't know sentence structure or paragraphs! Can't implement spell check.

Where did you get your degree? University of the street?

Search is fine for me. All I did was tweak it so it looked in the locations
I wanted it to look in. Being an engineer you, of course, know that this
must be done.

Then again, many people I met at Bell Labs were functionally stupid. They
couldn't even turn on a copy machine if it was off. They had to call a
secretary (baby sitter) to do it for them.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Mark Levitski" <> wrote in message
news:...
> WindowsXp was the best OS ever, after a few registry patches (e.g.
> notorious failing Search by file contents), a few tweaks, and in my case
> total COLORS customization, and in Classic mode, in the end it wasd the
> best.
> it took several days to customize, and done.
>
> With Vista, it's a dead end.
> Explorer forgets views.
> Mail needs a fix before it can open doc, pdf, etc attachments form within
> mail instead of saving first
> Black background or COlorSchemes in egenral is a problem if you dare to
> select it.
> WL PhotoGallery & many new applications force white background which I
> can't stand, ignoring syste,m-wide color setting
> You need to experiemnt with GPOE Editor (Group Policy) before it allows
> you to run/modify things as an Administrator similar to WinXP.
> Well that might not be bad, for security, bad it should be known and
> visible instead of me Googiling whole day about why i can't delete or run
> certain programs.
> Sidebar gadget... shove it up......
> Search function is a joke. It fails 80% time when searching arbitrary
> file CONTENTS for a string. Don't tell me my settings are wrong, you
> don't know who I am.
> Been doing computers for almost quarter of century, degreed engineer.
> Dont worry abou tmy "settings" Worry about your algorithm that is
> designed for speed, not quality.
> I was forced to buy FindFilePro and download Agentransack - first time in
> history I had to go thru trouble of BUYING a search tool which used to be
> part of Operating System in WinXP, Win2000.
> I kno wVistae includes search... but it finds music & pictures! LOL.
> This qualifies it for kids and retired people I guess. Not for serious
> business.
> I am a scientist/engineer, these gadgets to me are as worthy as fried
> rat's tail.
>
> I often seatrch binaries and hex files for certain strings, thsi Vista
> search is a disaster.

Don't tell me my settings are wrong, you don't know
> who I am.


I am very glad I don't know you.

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 04:59:28 -0400, "Richard Urban"
<> wrote:

>Degreed engineer.
>
>Doesn't know sentence structure or paragraphs! Can't implement spell check.

That would verify that he's an engineer. Apparently you don't work
with many.

>Where did you get your degree? University of the street?
>
>Search is fine for me. All I did was tweak it so it looked in the locations
>I wanted it to look in. Being an engineer you, of course, know that this
>must be done.

Vista search is the most convoluted, worthless POS MS has ever
"designed" (note the quotes).

>Then again, many people I met at Bell Labs were functionally stupid. They
>couldn't even turn on a copy machine if it was off. They had to call a
>secretary (baby sitter) to do it for them.

There's a difference between "difficulty communicating" and "stupid".
Perhaps you're ignorant of the difference. (Psst - there's also a
difference between ignorant and stupid, you may need to look that up
first).

I was born/raised in a foreign country, understand?
Second, I am have SO MANY TASK Sto deal with that typing a long article with
exquisite grammar, spelling and frills is OUT OF QUESTION.

I simply have no time to sit around and write 2 volumes of facts proving
Vista is a piuece of childish crap unfit for busienss.

End of conversation

I did Suse Linux, backed by a serious busienss - Novell.
My problem is majority of users now are home users, teenagers, etc who
unfortunately have overtaken Microsoft with their "playful" interest.

This makes it a world's dominant OS. It's very difficult to insist on Linux
when much of the world was force dinto Windows, such as drivers, GUI, etc
problems.
I can't come to a workplace and force everyone to switch to a "real"
functional OS.

So like most i am forced into Windows, but I influenced several big
companies to change their products, which has nothing todo with software,
and I hope by wiritng to MS they may slightly change Windows7

If you see Appalachian or some other Spring water bottles made from PETE
plastic and not HDPE, it's because I wrote several times to their corporate
parents - Nestle Corp of Switzerland. They listened! I can't believe they
agreed with my emals, it felt great. HDPE produces a cancer-causing agent
in its manufacturing by-product, while PETE seems to be the safest
alternative.
PETE is costlies, that's why many cheap water companies resort to that
semi-toxic material.
America is a great country, because manufacturers may sometime slisten to
your wishes, so I can't insist on Linux.

I have to live with Windows and try to modify it by keepin gin touch with
their development team.

I've researched the matter and it's NOT because I need to learn Vista
search. I am a pretty smart guy.
What we need is to FORGET it when it comes to serious search within file
CONTENTS.

First off, waiting for a search to go thru tedious filename search, JUST
because it"s impossible to INITIATE CONTENTS SEARCH BEFORE FILENAME is DONE
is RETARDED & TIME CONSUMING.
You could start Contents search immediately in WinXP.
Second, I ceated 4 test files, Vista found one. XP found all 4. They
contained an ASCII string within txt, log, ipt and doc files.
Don't worry about IPT files, it's a 3D MCAD files, you probably never heard
of.
WinXP doesn't care, it just finds it. I don't mind waiting, listen if you
get tired waiting get a better computer.
Don'tr try to circumvent quality search and call it "Vista" just because it
finished quick, and found no sh....

And the solution is here:
MYTHICSOFT's "FILE LOCATOR PRO"
It costs a few dollars, they also let you download stripped down free
version AgentRansack but its development stopped in 2003.

This company's clients include FBI, CIA, US Dept of Defense, many Scientific
institutions.
It actually does search file's contents, unlike Vista's empty claims.

Dont tell I haven't enetered query strings properly, i told you don't know
who I am. It's too long to explain, I've been doing it longer than you've
been alive.

Also Indexing is not a solution.
Indexing is off and shall remain off on my computers forever.
This is been the case in WinXP and search worked perfectly, indexing
disrupts datalogs egenerated by our scientific insutrments at the company i
work for, indexing is also not welcome on my home computers as I always kill
memory hogues and nonessential processes after buying a new commputer (which
nowadays come loaded with trial/bloat/crapware like games and players).

So I set Visat search to search w/o relying on Indexing. it doesn't change
anything, it still fails.

Solution is Mythicsoft "File Locator Pro".
Everything has to be bought now for this stupid Operating System

Mark,

I've read your entire rant, but I won't be buying Mythicsoft no matter how
hard you have tried to push it.

I work on both Vista and XP machines daily. Give me the Vista search on an
indexed system any time.

"Mark Levitski" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Also Indexing is not a solution.
> Indexing is off and shall remain off on my computers forever.
> This is been the case in WinXP and search worked perfectly, indexing
> disrupts datalogs egenerated by our scientific insutrments at the company
> i work for, indexing is also not welcome on my home computers as I always
> kill memory hogues and nonessential processes after buying a new commputer
> (which nowadays come loaded with trial/bloat/crapware like games and
> players).
>
> So I set Visat search to search w/o relying on Indexing. it doesn't
> change anything, it still fails.
>
> Solution is Mythicsoft "File Locator Pro".
> Everything has to be bought now for this stupid Operating System

Richard Urban (University of the Streets?),

My friend, sometimes stupidity does not warrant an answer but I will make an
exception:
I SAID I CONFIGURED IT TO LOOK INA CERTAIN FOLDER OK?? Did I say I 've been
doing computers and Vista long enough to learn things, especially for
someone with PhD in Electronics Engineering?

Get this:
Vista search is a piece of you know what, and our company is now using
FileLocator pro made by Mythicsoft.
End of conversation.

I just wanted to deliver facts to this Public Newgroups.