jdhurst wrote:My Vista experience is going downhill.
1. I put a Vista hard drive in my ultabay and tried to boot it. Vista broke. When I put it back in drive C, it said the hardware had changed so I had to rebuild the startup process from the DVD. That negated all my changes and settings to that point. Vista has become anal about hardware.
2. I tried some of the most recent T41 drivers (ATI Display, Intel Ethernet, UltraNav, and a couple of others). They all failed, even in compatibility mode. That means video is dog-slow and both the real mouse (track point) and the track pad are active at the same time. The combination is unuseable.
3. The built-in power manager says my battery is dead even though fully charged and plugged in.
4. The system try icon decrying that no AV has been installed stays glaring red in the system tray even though I unchecked the settings to warn me. Unchecking the setting only prevents the information ballon from popping up; it doesn't get rid of the icon.
5. In my opinion, Microsoft has ruthlessly and grotesquely butchered Windows Explorer. It opens in a bunch of document folders I don't use, but won't open in the C Drive folder view (like explorer.scf will). The little Plus signs beside folders in XP, 2000 (and earlier operating systems) to open a folder have turned into teeny weeny triangles that are difficult to pick right on. The result is that clicking on a folder may or may not open it. If it doesn't open, it hangs for a while. It has a Favourites section in the Folder view on the left side that I cannot get rid of. I did try classic settings, but in general, Windows Explorer has been dumbed down to the point where it is pretty much useless.
I understand that Vista is beta, and I understand that it will need more modern hardware. That should solve the display and the mouse issues, but the other issues belong to Vista and what I see so far says it will be less friendly than XP or 2000 for the things I do.
Early days yet (beta and all) so I'll see what happens in the first production version on a certified laptop.
... JD Hurst
1- All MS OS's are anal about hardware...
2- I agree 100%...Driver support for Vista is very lacking right now..Maybe because it's a Beta,maybe MS don't give a $hit about older hardware. We'll see..
3- Thats surprising..My power manager works well on this T23 under Vista.
4-Yep.I installed an AV(AVAST) but I still get the warning because 'my computer is at risk because I changed the security settings'..Useless!!
5- Honestly I haven't paid that much attention to Explorer...I've mostly been playing around in the classic view control panel,which seems pretty much the same to me.... Next time I'm using Vista I am going to look around more..Thx
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