Vista :evil:

[RStu]

Bought the missus a laptop for Christmas.
Its got vista home premium on it, why does it open things you leave your pointer on too long? VERY annoying opening things you don't want, can it be stopped?.
Also other annoying things, "are you sure you want to do this/that" VERY annoying.
Anyone with experience with vista, to turning off these annoying things would be much appreciated.
I'm sticking to xp corp http://www.diynot.com/forums/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[lefty940]

My pc died now got one with vista i cant get half of my old progs to work not used to it yet but it is pi**ing me off :mad:

[graham John]

My pc died now got one with vista i cant get half of my old progs to work not used to it yet but it is pi**ing me off :mad:



same here :mad:



cheeRS

[Tim]

Bought the missus a laptop for Christmas.
Its got vista home premium on it, why does it open things you leave your pointer on too long? VERY annoying opening things you don't want, can it be stopped?.
Also other annoying things, "are you sure you want to do this/that" VERY annoying.
Anyone with experience with vista, to turning off these annoying things would be much appreciated.
I'm sticking to xp corp http://www.diynot.com/forums/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif


are you sure thats VERY annoying :D

[wozzy]

VISTA
mines shite aswell, going to get my old laptop mended and give this one to the kids

[topaz]

rubbish, especially the cleartype fonts (fuzzytype for me)

yes you can turn them off, but you cant turn ALL of them off

XP it is for me !

[mr freeze]

i put vista pro on my lappy & because it's a 64 bit computor theres no bloody drivers out for it yet so i'm back to the trusty xp...:D

[taffr]

vista on mine too not easy to use if you have used windows xp or an earlier edition , there seems to be loads missing , i hate it :mad:

[Frosticles]

Vista here also and considering going back to XP.

[hally]

vista here too but think its ok as had no problems yet!

[Northern Bloke]

Vista Ultimate here but it's still a ball ache - had to reset all ownership and permissions on all files through all additional hard discs to be able to use it properly which took hhoooooouuuuuurrrrs

[GAZ W]

vista here too but think its ok as had no problems yet!


Same here but i never used XP, last OS i was using was windows 98 , so im finding this vista thing the bollocks:D

[RStu]

Vista Ultimate here but it's still a ball ache - had to reset all ownership and permissions on all files through all additional hard discs to be able to use it properly which took hhoooooouuuuuurrrrs

oh no, :(
I'm not doing that, she will have to live with it, never had a pc before, so she will think its the norm.
I got to install some stuff on it, and I have to walk away now and again to cool off :o

[Frosticles]

Does anyones using Vista keep crashing??? Mine does. :mad:

[GAZ W]

Does anyones using Vista keep crashing??? Mine does. :mad:

Not as yet , finding it very stable , been using it since october no probs

[jimmer]

Same here but i never used XP, last OS i was using was windows 98 , so im finding this vista thing the bollocks:D

Loaded Vista onto my PC what a load of shite,its bollocks.Too slow and nothing will work on it.Will be keeping XP on my laptop.

[Aled]

Loaded Vista onto my PC what a load of shite,its bollocks.Too slow and nothing will work on it.Will be keeping XP on my laptop.

My m8 is a PC Engineer. Says if you have a suitable PC system that can run Vista then it's the business. The bugs allegedly are fixable. :confused:

[Lord Lucan]

My pc is vista compatable but I will stick with XP as it is very stable and does what it says on the tin and thats fine.

If I ever need another new pc i will get a mac and have done with it they are soooooo gooooood

[Aled]

If I ever need another new pc i will get a mac and have done with it they are soooooo gooooood

In what way?....sell it to me.....:confused: :)

[pushrod]

Running Vista and loving it. My photos were a complete mess on XP and vista has automatically sorted everything into year and month. Hibernate is an excellent alternative to shutdown and it runs a dream with firefox were I can channge fontsize using ctrl+ if I see something worth reading :)

No crashes, haven't seen a popup in years, happy bunny.

[9928ZK]

Bought the missus a laptop for Christmas.
Its got vista home premium on it, why does it open things you leave your pointer on too long? VERY annoying opening things you don't want, can it be stopped?.
Also other annoying things, "are you sure you want to do this/that" VERY annoying.
Anyone with experience with vista, to turning off these annoying things would be much appreciated.
I'm sticking to xp corp http://www.diynot.com/forums/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif


To turn off the "are you sure", go to user accounts, its in there

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/useraccountcontrol.mspx

Vista was designed to run with a min of 2GB of RAM. Anything less than this and you will find it painfully slow. Hope this helps

[9928ZK]

For everybody else with vista , have a look at this ...................

http://www.windowsvistauserguide.com/windows_vista_tips/

[lefty940]

Thanks for that very useful

[RStu]

Thanks for that, have saved those for future reference ;)

[9928ZK]

Thanks for that, have saved those for future reference ;)


No bother, any more Q's just ask :D